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Five views of an age : a selection of late seventeenth century pamphlets from Ellis Library's rare book room [PDF]
, 1987 Foreword by Thomas W. Shaughnessy; introduction by Margaret A. Howell.Trials of the Seventeenth Century / Mireya del Castillo -- Women of Seventeenth Century England / Alla Barabtarlo -- Restoration satire / Catherine Seago -- Broadsides / Martha Shirky -
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract In the years immediately following the Spanish Civil War, the political culture of Falangism developed a deeply gendered regenerationist discourse, which proposed that regeneration would only be possible if the nation recovered its virile attributes.
Zira Box
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Faithful men and false women: Love‐suicide in early modern English popular print
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the representation of suicide committed for love in English popular print in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. It shows how, within ballads and pamphlets, suicide resulting from failed courtship was often portrayed as romantic and an expression of devotion.
Imogen Knox
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Replicating a seventeenth century sword
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2019 Making a good “copy” of an ancient weapon means to reach different targets, not only regarding the final product of the making process but also the process itself.
Giovanni Sartori
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XVII-XVIIIThis article sets out to re-assess the importance and implications for seventeenth-century Transatlantic studies of William Penn’s nineteen manuscript draft constitutions (1681-82) for colonial Pennsylvania.
Anna Hellier-Lloyd
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Tavern of two oceans: Alcohol, taxes and leases in the seventeenth-century Dutch world
Contree, 2015 The retail of alcohol was so central to the economy and society of the Cape of Good Hope during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that it earned the nickname “tavern of two oceans”.
Gerald Groenewald
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores the marmalade machine, a mechanical device designed to slice orange peel. These niche objects were manufactured between roughly 1870 and 1938 in Britain. As a so‐called ‘labour‐saving’ gadget, the marmalade machine sliced orange peel quickly and effectively, removing the tedious process of slicing orange peel by hand ...
Katie Carpenter
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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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Two seventeenth-century translations of two dark Roman satires: John Knyvett’s Juvenal 1 and J.H.’s In Eutropium 1 [PDF]
, 2012 This article consists of a transcription of the texts of two previously unprinted seventeenth-century verse translations, with accompanying editorial matter.
Gillespie, Stuart
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Civility, honour and male aggression in early modern English jestbooks
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the comical representation of inter‐male violence within early modern English jestbooks. It is based on a rigorous survey of the genre, picking out common themes and anecdotes, as well as discussing their reception and sociable functions. Previous scholarship has focused on patriarchs, subversive youths and impoliteness.
Tim Somers
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