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Tavern of two oceans: Alcohol, taxes and leases in the seventeenth-century Dutch world

open access: yesContree, 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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Review of "Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Thought, edited by Elizabeth S. Dodd and Cassandra Gormans.

open access: yes, 2017
Elizabeth S. Dodd and Cassandra Gorman eds. Thomas Traherne and Seventeenth-Century Thought. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2016. xx + 220 pp. $99.00.
Kuchar, Gary
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Review of "Absolutist Attachments: Emotion, Media, and Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century France" by Ivy Dyckman.

open access: yes, 2020
Chlo Hogg. Absolutist Attachments: Emotion, Media, and Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century France. Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2019. xii + 276 pp. + 14 illus. $34.95.
Dyckman, Ivy
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The English translation of seventeenth-century French lyric poetry and epigrams during the Caroline period [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
This doctoral thesis is the first comprehensive study of contemporary English translations of French lyric poetry during the Caroline period. While there has been extensive study of translations from French literature of other genres, notably drama ...
Cameron, Anne Louise
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Working life of women in the seventeenth Century

open access: yesRevista de História, 1991
CLARK, Alice. Working life of women in the seventeenth Century.
Lina Gorenstein Ferreira da Silva
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Vendetta in the Seventeenth-Century Midi

open access: yes, 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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Hedelmöittymisestä vanhemmuuteen. Monitieteisiä näkökulmia syntymän historiaan

open access: yesJ@rgonia, 2018
Arvio teoksesta Evans, Jennifer & Ciara Meehan (eds.) Perceptions of Pregnancy from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century. Genders and Sexualities in History. Palgrave, MacMillan. 2017. 251 s. ISBN 978-3-31944167-2.
Pasi Saarimäki
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Preserving Purity: Cultural Exchange and Contamination in Late Seventeenth Century Portuguese India

open access: yesLer História, 2010
This essay examines several measures taken to regulate Hindu marriages and bailadeiras in order to control cultural exchanges between Catholics and non-Christians in the late seventeenth century. Despite such regulations, Catholics continually interacted
Nandini Chaturvedula
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THE SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY CRISIS REVISITED. THE CASE OF THE SOUTHERN ITALIAN SILK INDUSTRY: REGGIO CALABRIA, 1547-1686

open access: yesEssays in Economic and Business History, 2001
This essay examines the silk trade in Southern Italy through a quantitative study of exports from the dry-customs port of Reggio Calabria. It traces the experience of Reggio’s silk industry from its heyday in the sixteenth century to its collapse in the ...
Antonio Calabria
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Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh (1615-91): science and medicine in a seventeenth-century Englishwoman’s writing [PDF]

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Katherine Jones, better known to scholars as Lady Ranelagh, was one of the most eminent, politically influential and intellectually respected women in seventeenth-century England.
DiMeo, Michelle Marie
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