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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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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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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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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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‘More Beastliness Than Beauty’: Gendering Pica in Seventeenth‐Century English Medicine and Culture
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Today, defined as the ‘persistent eating of non‐nutritive substances’, pica is a lesser‐known eating disorder with a long history. Defined in early modern England as the ‘desire to eat absurd things’, pica was explicitly gendered, associated with pregnant women and pubescent girls.
Helena C. Aeberli
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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 +1 more
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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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Vendetta in the Seventeenth-Century Midi
, 2015 This paper discusses a previously unknown but potentially significant vendetta in the seventeenth-century French Midi. On 15 July 1674, François de Nogaret, vicomte de Trelans, was abducted by forty men from the parish church of La Bastide during mass; his killers subsequently murdered him.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In 1955, two female factory workers and trade union leaders, Tan Lee Eng and Kwek Tai Eng, established the Singapore Women's Federation (SWF) to unite women regardless of race, religion or class for the anti‐colonial nationalist struggle. Singapore Chinese left‐wing feminism emerged at the confluence of the nationalist interest in mobilising ...
Yee‐Ting Leong
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Working life of women in the seventeenth Century
Revista de História, 1991 CLARK, Alice. Working life of women in the seventeenth Century.
Lina Gorenstein Ferreira da Silva
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