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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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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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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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Beauty and lack thereof in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century travelogues [PDF]

, 2013
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Malta attracted several travellers, eager to discover this small State in the Mediterranean. In spite of the harsh travelling conditions, the traveller did not lose heart and bravely undertook the discovery
Micallef, Patricia
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The Embodiment of Teaching the Regulation of Emotions in Early Modern Europe [PDF]

, 2018
Teaching the regulation of emotions to support parents in educating their children to come of age properly was part of a missionary movement in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.
Dekker, Jeroen J.H., Wichgers, Inge
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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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‘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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What do the servants know? [PDF]

, 2010
English theatre of the Long Restoration (1660–1737) developed a distinctive stage presentation of servant roles, and attributed to servants aptitude and knowledge far beyond contemporary social codes and conventions.
Lyons, P.
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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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