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Willis’s Circle? Exploring the Conflict Between Galenic and Harveian Physicians Through Treatises on Respiration

Acta Universitatis Carolinae Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis
Thomas Willis was one of the most influential physicians of seventeenth-century England, yet his career has received less scholarly scrutiny than many of his contemporaries.
Carter Patton
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Pressing Metal, Pressing Politics: Papal Annual Medals, 1605–1700

Religions, 2016
This article surveys images depicted on the reverses of papal annual medals in the seventeenth century, beginning in 1605 under Paul V (r. 1605–21) with the first confirmed annual medal, and ending in 1700 at the conclusion of the papacy of Innocent XII (
Matthew Knox Averett
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Review of "Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth���Century French Fairy Tales" by Bronwyn Reddan.

, 2022
Bronwyn Reddan. Love, Power, and Gender in Seventeenth Century French Fairy Tales. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2021. xvii + 242 pp. $65.00.
Bloom, Rori
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Den obarocka fabeln – eller den barocka?

Lychnos, 2021
As a contribution to the discussion on the relevance of the baroque concept in Swedish literary history, the article conducts a case study by testing the concept on the history of a specific genre: the Aesopic fable.
Erik Zillén
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Bread provision in seventeenth century Madrid

Studia Historica: Historia Moderna, 2012
Bread market was the most important provision markets, so the complexity of intervention system. The aim of provision policy was to guarantee the continuous supply of bread at moderate and stable prices.
José Ignacio ANDRÉS UCENDO, Ramón LANZA GARCÍA   +1 more
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William Basse’s Polyhymnia and the Poetry of Service

Journal of Early Modern Studies, 2015
The career of the little-known seventeenth-century poet William Basse (c. 1583-1653?) combined two distinctive elements. He served, in the first instance, as a ‘retainer’ to the Wenman family of Thame Park in Oxfordshire for a period of more than forty ...
Ben Crabstick
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Violencia y mujer en Granada en la primera mitad del siglo xvii

Les Cahiers de Framespa, 2012
The seventeenth-century urban chronicles are full of dramatic events that reflect the existence of a structural violence. Regarding the city of Granada the Anales written by Henríquez de Jorquera show many cases of violence.
Miguel Luis López-Guadalupe Muñoz
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The Image of Guru Nanak in Dadu-Panthi Sources

Religions, 2020
This essay examines the issue of Guru Nanak’s inclusion in the mid-to-late seventeenth-century devotional text prepared by the Dadu-panthi savant, Raghavdas, the Bhakt-māl or Garland of Devotees.
Louis E. Fenech
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The ambassadors of the Republic of Venice as agents in the circulation of knowledge

Cuadernos del Instituto Antonio de Nebrija de Estudios sobre la Universidad
The dispatches to the Senate from the Venetian ambassador in Rome, Alvise Contarini, recount in 1633 the successful diplomatic career of a Polish student from the University of Padua: Count Jerzy Ossoliński.
Massimo Galtarossa
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‘Met diamanten omset’: Hoop Rings in the Northern Netherlands (1600-1700)

The Rijksmuseum Bulletin, 2023
In 2018 the Rijksmuseum acquired a gold ring from the first half of the seventeenth century set with nineteen table-cut diamonds. Although this type of ring appears in several pendant portraits from the Northern Netherlands, physical examples are ...
Suzanne van Leeuwen
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