The Social Impacts of War: Agency and Everyday Life in the Borderlands during the Early Seventeenth Century
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DOI: 10.1007/s10761-017-0408-3
Abstract: In this paper, we address some of the social impacts of war, including issues of negotiating identity during displacement caused by war. What it meant to be Swedish or Danish-Norwegian in a town where there… read more here.
Keywords: social impacts; seventeenth century; war; impacts war ... See more keywords
Ore Dressing Technics in the Andes During the Seventeenth Century: The Case of San Antonio del Nuevo Mundo, Lípez, Present-day Bolivia
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DOI: 10.1007/s10761-020-00547-7
Abstract: The aim of this article is to analyze the ore dressing technics present during the peak production period of a silver mine in the Seventeenth-Century Andes, from an archaeological and historical perspective. It is not… read more here.
Keywords: ore dressing; seventeenth century; dressing technics; technics andes ... See more keywords
Imitating Authors: Plato to Futurity. Colin Burrow. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xii + 470 pp. $45.
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DOI: 10.1017/rqx.2021.74
Abstract: formal musical instruction of the daughters of London’s merchants who comprised the city’s middling classes. Of special interest are the musical theater productions of a Chelsea boarding school staged between 1676 and 1688 (most famously… read more here.
Keywords: seventeenth century; oxford; guitar; guitar playing ... See more keywords
Expanding the Narrative: The Reception of Ignatius of Antioch in Britain, ca. 1200–1700
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640720000049
Abstract: Recent studies of the letters of Ignatius of Antioch have helpfully located seventeenth-century Ignatian scholarship in its ecclesial and political context. Of particular importance, these new works have demonstrated that seventeenth-century British analysis of the… read more here.
Keywords: ignatius; britain; seventeenth century; reception ... See more keywords
Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France. By Karen E. Carter. Studies in the History of Religion 2.84. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019. xiv + 312 pp. $32.95 paper.
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DOI: 10.1017/s000964072000102x
Abstract: Chinese culture was not tenable. The implicit argument was that China was so diverse that it was impossible to categorically distinguish between the Chinese and the non-Chinese world” (110). This was not a majority view… read more here.
Keywords: priests parishioners; seventeenth century; history; scandal parish ... See more keywords
Puritans Behaving Badly: Gender, Punishment, and Religion in Early America. By Monica D. Fitzgerald. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiv + 177 pp. $49.99 cloth.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0009640721001840
Abstract: early American historians who get that seasonal call to describe the event and its significance. Here once again the discussion of the Pilgrims has moved far beyond the documentary evidence and immediate seventeenth-century context. In… read more here.
Keywords: cambridge; puritans behaving; seventeenth century; history ... See more keywords
Educating physicians in seventeenth-century England - ADDENDUM
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DOI: 10.1017/s026988971900022x
Abstract: Argument The tension between theoretical and practical knowledge was particularly problematic for trainee physicians. Unlike civic apprenticeships in surgery and pharmacy, in early modern England there was no standard procedure for obtaining education in the… read more here.
Keywords: century england; england addendum; educating physicians; seventeenth century ... See more keywords
How seventeenth-century sisters broke the mould on scientific illustration
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-018-06944-7
Abstract: Beth Fowkes Tobin applauds a book on Martin Lister and his brilliant daughters Anna and Susanna. Beth Fowkes Tobin applauds a book on Martin Lister and his brilliant daughters Anna and Susanna. read more here.
Keywords: century sisters; seventeenth century; scientific illustration; mould scientific ... See more keywords
Kabbalah, education, and prayer: Jewish learning in the seventeenth century
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DOI: 10.1080/00131857.2017.1373344
Abstract: Abstract In the seventeenth century, the Jewish mystical tradition which is known as Kabbalah was integrated into the curriculum of studying the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud. Kabbalah became popular in these times in the… read more here.
Keywords: kabbalah education; century; seventeenth century; prayer ... See more keywords
Orpiment on Seventeenth-Century Blue-Coloured Textblock Edges
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DOI: 10.1080/00393630.2025.2450977
Abstract: ABSTRACT Orpiment (arsenic trisulfide) was identified on blue textblock edges of six books with imprints dating between 1647–1712 from cities in Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. This is theorized to be evidence of originally green… read more here.
Keywords: textblock edges; century blue; blue coloured; textblock ... See more keywords
Synchrotron X-ray Fluorescence Microscopy for Characterising Pigments in Seventeenth-century Persian Illuminated Manuscripts
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DOI: 10.1080/00393630.2025.2457905
Abstract: ABSTRACT Identifying materials and techniques is an essential aspect of research related to the historical, artistic, and conservation issues in illuminated manuscripts. This study used synchrotron-based scanning X-ray fluorescence microscopy (SXFM) to investigate three seventeenth-century… read more here.
Keywords: ray fluorescence; illuminated manuscripts; fluorescence microscopy; seventeenth century ... See more keywords