5. The Rise of English Parliamentary Government (1603-1789)
, 1958 The century in which Richelieu and Louis XIV fashioned an absolute dynastic state in France is noteworthy in English history for a very different reason.
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Dangerous Woman: Elizabeth Key\u27s Freedom Suit - Subjecthood and Racialized Identity in Seventheenth Century Colonial Virginia [PDF]
, 2008 Elizabeth Key, an African-Anglo woman living in seventeenth century colonial Virginia sued for her freedom after being classified as a negro by the overseers of her late master’s estate.
Banks, Taunya Lovell
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Baroque Flair: Seventeenth-century European Sapphic Poetry
Humanist Studies & The Digital Age, 2011 Early modern women poets across Europe and at least one colony enlisted Petrarchist terms, often with a self-aware, parodic twist. Some examples, considered here, include (first) self-portrait poems that serve to critique not only the lyric speaker ...
Amanda Powell
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"Rusticall chymistry": Alchemy, saltpeter projects, and experimental fertilizers in seventeenth-century English agriculture. [PDF]
Hist Sci, 2022 Niermeier-Dohoney J.
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Vitalistic Approaches to Life in Early Modern England [PDF]
, 2015 Vitalism has been given different definitions and diverse figures have been labelled as vitalists throughout the history of ideas. Concentrating on the seventeenth century, we find that scholars identify as vitalists authors who endorse notions that are ...
Szanto, Veronika
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The Noctambuli: tales of sleepwalkers and secrets of the body in seventeenth-century England. [PDF]
Seventeenth Century, 2022 Hunter E.
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The medicinal recipes of Hannah Woolley: everyday practice and female authority in seventeenth-century England. [PDF]
Hist Cienc Saude Manguinhos, 2023 Soares MJO.
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Robert Barclay\u27s Christology
, 2018 Robert Barclay (1648-1690) was arguably the most influential Quaker theologian of the seventeenth century, but his legacy has been controversial. This article will assess this legacy through an examination of his changing Christology over time.
Ward, Madeleine
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Looking into the flora of Dutch Brazil: botanical identifications of seventeenth century plant illustrations in the Libri Picturati. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Alcàntara-Rodríguez M +2 more
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Natural law, natural philosophy, natural rights [PDF]
, 2008 Who or what is the creator (and how is that we can presume to read his mind and know his intentions) and how do we know there are inalienable rights? As will become clear in the pages below, the idea of the creator is a powerful concept that permeates ...
Stein, Joshua B.
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