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French and British Political Development Contrasted

in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertain...

Literacy and Religion

their function was only to labour. As Wood (2002) points out, historians tend to measure levels of literacy by the percentage of a...

Petrarchan Love Poetry of Lady Mary Wroth and John Donne

The first lines of "The Canonization" read: "For Gods sake hold your tongue and leg me love/ Or chide my palsy, or my gout,/ My fi...

Treatment of Women/17th Century New England

sanctioned as proper for women, Bradstreets work did not go against the norms of Puritan society. However, they do often emphasize...

Settlements in North America: Spain, France, England and Holland

Spain in the mid-1500s, privately owned French ships - pirates in the eyes of the Spanish - attacked Spanish ships and ports in th...

Dutch and Italian: Art and Culture

the Church to be displayed or created in the Church (Albany Institute of History and Art, 2007). 2) How does the Dutch...

How Women Lived in the 17th and 18th Centuries

essentially the same as they were in the colonies, aside from the fact that slaves were far more important in the colonies, or bec...

Woman Holding a Balance Painting by Jan Vermeer

to hearth and home. Her expression is one of serenity, and reminds one of the Madonnas expression. In this respect, then, women we...

Comedy Ballet Le Bougeois Gentilhomme by Moliere

outburst which has done much to mould French genius of more recent times. The latter part of the century, which has been called t...

17th Century Heroic Scientists

assumptions came to predominate Western cultural thought (Olson 18). Prior to this era, during the medieval period, the proper a...

Windows of G.W. Leibniz

that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...

Interaction Between the Body and the Mind According to Baruch Spinoza

also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...

Colonial America's Indentured Servitude During the Seventeenth Century

of a servant who has been deemed unruly and insubordinate. The oversight by the Virginia Company was doomed from the beginning b...

17th Century Great Britain and the Navigation Acts

use British chops and increase their costs. It was this Act that subsequently led to the Anglo-Dutch war. In 1660 there was a tig...

Scientific Quest and Realism

In five pages this paper discusses the quest for scientific knowledge that began during the 17th century and considers the develop...

'Ardo e scoprir' Madrigal by Claudio Monteverdi

tonal. However, there is also no denying that this tonality differed from what would come later (Chafe xv). A mode is a specific p...

Chinese Painters of the 17th Century Shi T'ao and Kung Hsien

In five pages this paper examines these two Chinese individualist painters of the 17th century in terms of how life and artistic s...

German Composer Heinrich Schutz and His Music

In five pages this research paper considers the music of Heinrich Schutz, often regarded as the greatest 17th century German Baroq...

Studying Gases in Terms of Nature and Experimentation

In five pages vacuums and gases and how they have been studied since the 17th century are the focus of this paper that includes ex...

Massachusetts Bay Colony and Puritanism

In five pages this paper examines the Massachusetts Bay Colony of the 17th century and the religious influence exerted by Puritani...

Errand Into the Wilderness by Samuel Danforth

In five pages this sermon of the 17th century is examined in terms of its complexity of function as both an allegory and Jeremiad....

The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton

was discussing the other. No one would readily accuse him of slandering them because to do so would be admitting that the descript...

Time, Conflict, and Pleasure in the Poetry of the 17th Century Poetry

really being asked here is who made the Devil the way he is. This actually is a theological question, and the answer to it depends...

Nation States' Rice and Military Revolution's Influence

military power as significant to the subsequent position of these countries as world powers. France The history of the French mi...

2 Poems by Robert Herrick Analyzed

of the seasons, which have been going on their course throughout all of history. "And Titan on the eastern hill / Retires himself,...

The Flea vs. To a Coy Mistress

Donne takes a similar view in that he feels the ladys insistence on being concerned about honor is highly illogical, but he goes a...

Seventeenth Century Comedy

Moliere and Restoration theatre are two of the main examples of comedy in the 17th century. This paper examines what purpose comed...

Aphra Behn's Poetry of Rebellion

In three pages this paper examines Restoration poet Aphra Behn and how her prose rebelled not only against Puritanism but also aga...

'Prayer' by George Herbert, Structure and Metaphor

In 5 pages this paper examines the sonnet structure of this 17th century poem and considers its use of religious metaphor. There ...

Late 17th Century Puritan Jeremiad Sermons

In five pages this research paper examines the Puritan jeremiad sermons of the late 17th century in a consideration of the reasons...