Search Results - "The Seventeenth century"

Edward Herbert’s A Dialogue between a Tutor and his Pupil , and Karl Ludwig, Elector of the Palatinate by Doelman, James

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Il natal di Amore by Giulio Strozzi: interactions and echoes with the early modern literary and operatic world and Monteverdi by Bosi, Carlo

“…As many scholars of early modern musical theatre certainly know, a careful perusal of literature not specifically meant for music may at times hold pleasant…”
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'Christian notes sound sweetest suffering': birds, books and textual circulation in Sir John Gibson's commonplace book (BL Add 37719) by Chenovick, Clarissa

“…A growing body of scholarship has worked to recover the vocal dimensions of early modern reading and the effects of aural reading cultures on literary…”
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Englishing Paolo Sarpi and gelding the Pope in England, 1606−1620 by Kern, Darcy

“…An important reason for the success of the Venetian Paolo Sarpi's ideas in England is found in the 'Englishing' of his printed works, that is, their adaptation…”
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The Synod of Dort in Arabic: Bodleian MS Marsh 268 by Matar, Nabil

“…Bodleian MS Marsh 268 is a translation of the Heidelberg Confession, the Belgic Catechism, and a selection from the Standards of the Reformed Church. Completed…”
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A 'more precise definition of the soul' from the flights of the soul in The Blazing World and Primero sueño by Lee, Siyeon

“…This study investigates Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World and Sor Juana's Primero sueño (First Dream) in relation to Elisabeth of Bohemia's inquiry about…”
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Blind lives: the sightless and society in early modern England by Capp, Bernard

“…The historiography on blindness in the early modern period has focused almost entirely on the condition itself, rather than the lived experiences of the blind…”
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Testimonies of Temple Lane: memory, perjury, and the landscape in a seventeenth-century West Yorkshire dispute by Jackson, Zoë

“…In the later seventeenth century, a path passing through the Temple Newsam estate in West Yorkshire became the subject of intense and prolonged litigation. The…”
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Politics, Patronage, and Poetics in Hobbes's Homer by Raylor, Timothy

“…Taking issue with the new orthodoxy that Hobbes set about his late-career translations of Homer in order to ventriloquize political opinions he was prevented…”
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'A fool upon record': the redefinition of the Caroline stage fool by Roulo, Nikki

“…In the 1630s, two central cultural arbiters sought to eliminate the figure of the fool from English culture. Both the city and court decried fools as figures…”
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'Darkness Visible': Modes of Coal Smoke in Milton's Hell by Rosario, Deborah

“…There has been a current of literary criticism that approaches Milton's Paradise Lost from an environmental and ecological perspective. Such criticism has…”
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'Instructive types' or mere 'fancies': assessing French fashion prints in the library of Samuel Pepys by Avidon, Marlo

“…Within the library of the famed diarist Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) at Magdalene College, Cambridge sits one of the largest surviving bound collections of…”
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Gaspard de Monconys' Defence against the Charge of Imposture: Criminal Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Personal Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century France by Greengrass, Mark, Hamilton, Tom

“…This article analyses a remarkable criminal trial which took place in early seventeenth-century France. In 1617, Gaspard de Monconys, son of a prominent judge…”
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Hiding in plain view: religiosity and patronage in the works of William Dugdale by Harris, Oliver D.

“…This paper considers the religious sympathies and motivations of the antiquary William Dugdale, and of some of those who helped support the publication of his…”
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'Oliver Cromwell is a Devil!' Religious Radicalism and Political Turmoil in Geneva during the English Civil Wars by Cumming, Nicholas A.

“…When King Charles I was beheaded in 1649 it incited a series of events in the Reformed city of Geneva. The Civil Wars and Regicide uncovered the political and…”
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John Milton, Catholic by Keeble, N. H.

“…That Milton was fiercely anti-Catholic is a commonplace, yet he never refers to those he opposed as 'Catholics' nor to their religion as 'Catholicism', and…”
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Puritanism and Natural Philosophy revisited: the case of Ralph Austen (c. 1612-1676) by Austen, D.C.R.

“…Twentieth-century historians of science emphasised the apparent connection between puritanism and experimental natural philosophy in mid-seventeenth-century…”
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Words Turned Upside Down by Beeton, Alex

“…Review article of Words at War: The Contested Language of the English Civil War, edited by Andrew Hadfield and Paul Hammond, Oxford, Oxford University Press,…”
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The Legal Writing of Sir Edward Coke, the Anglo-Saxons, and Lex Terrae by King, Ian

“…This article examines the treatises and law reports of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), the Attorney General under Elizabeth I and later, Chief Justice of the…”
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New light on the strolling performers Thomas Peadle and Thomas Cosby, 1639-1650 by Vander Motten, J. P.

“…The present article brings to light new information about Thomas Peadle, a representative of the younger generation of a late 16th- and early 17th-century…”
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