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to Grotius more humane perspective was that of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who "reinforced medieval notions of kingship in his theor...
their function was only to labour. As Wood (2002) points out, historians tend to measure levels of literacy by the percentage of a...
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...
The sole reason for a colony (in the eyes of the sponsoring Nation at least) was to provide greater wealth to the mother country. ...
a storehouse (Lane 9). In contrast to the shrinking forest of Europe where timber was already scarce, North America abounded wit...
With this pronouncement, this group adjured to the woods to start their own settlement; however, it failed. This attempt at indepe...
in the reign of Louis XIV. Referred to as pays detat, they had their own nobility, as well as unwritten constitutions that pertain...
View of Delft (c. 1658), an oil canvas in the Mauritshuis collection, The Hague, Vermeer carries the eye of the viewer from the pe...
situation is shown through the inclusion of some element out of place, in Beyerens case, a small mouse. Beyerens use of th...
of understanding into a cultures ideals and belief systems. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of art, an...
This essay present a biography of Sir Isaac Newton, renown 17th century mathematician and scientist. Three pages in length, two so...
also saw mind and body as two separate substance. The Descartes position on the mind-body problem combines the idea of substance d...
to hearth and home. Her expression is one of serenity, and reminds one of the Madonnas expression. In this respect, then, women we...
of a servant who has been deemed unruly and insubordinate. The oversight by the Virginia Company was doomed from the beginning b...
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...
This paper discusses the 17th century origins of Lloyd's Coffee House and how it evolved into the Lloyd's of London insurance inst...
In five pages paintings by artists de Hooch and Rembrandt are analyzed to explore the importance of portraiture to life in Flemish...
These two 17th century poems by Andrew Marvell are compared and contrasted in a research paper consisting of ten pages. Five sour...
Armande and Henriette, sisters and daughters to Chrysale and his wife Philaminte. In this scene, Moliere presents both sides of th...
and against what was perceived as the lavish and licentious nature of the Catholics, paintings with religious subjects were forbid...
trader exchanged his cargo of Africans for food in 1619. The Africans became indentured servants, similar in legal position to man...
In fifteen pages this paper discusses how Russia was affected by the growing 17th century power of Sweden. Ten sources are cited ...
that requires the transmission or transposition of the parts of those beings (1998). However, substances are simple unextended ent...
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...
In five pages this paper discusses the quest for scientific knowledge that began during the 17th century and considers the develop...
tonal. However, there is also no denying that this tonality differed from what would come later (Chafe xv). A mode is a specific p...
In five pages this paper examines these two Chinese individualist painters of the 17th century in terms of how life and artistic s...
In five pages this research paper considers the music of Heinrich Schutz, often regarded as the greatest 17th century German Baroq...
outburst which has done much to mould French genius of more recent times. The latter part of the century, which has been called t...
assumptions came to predominate Western cultural thought (Olson 18). Prior to this era, during the medieval period, the proper a...