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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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The Saline chymistry of color in seventeenth-century English natural history [PDF]
, 2015 Before Newton’s seminal work on the spectrum, seventeenth-century English natural philosophers such as Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, Nehemiah Grew and Robert Plot attributed the phenomenon of color in the natural world to salts and saline chymistry.
Roos, Anna Marie
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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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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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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Marion most bold : feminine transgression in the greenwood [PDF]
, 2018 In my project, I focus on the role and depiction of women found in the Robin Hood greenwood: specifically, those of Maid Marian. Maid Marian rarely appears in early Robin Hood texts, and especially not in a capacity in which she herself speaks, so it is ...
Harring, Emily Adeline
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Historia Universitatis Carolinae PragensisThomas 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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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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