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'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...

Material Substance and G.W. Leibniz

8. In order to distinguish between the activities of God and the activities of created things, we must explain the conception of a...

English Literature of the 17th Century

In A Modest Proposal, also, he looks at the way in which dehumanisation results in a situation where the logical next step is one ...

'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...

Oroonoko by Aphra Behn and Historical Background

In 5 pages this paper examines the depiction of slavery in the 17th century novel by Aphra Behn in terms of historical accuracy. ...

New World Huguenots

In six pages this paper examines the French Huguenots and considers why they left for America in a discussion of their 17th centur...

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...

Three Artistic Masterpieces Compared

However, the light strikes each man in varying degrees of intensity. This becomes the means by which Caravaggio penetrates the "su...

Adult Literacy Since the 17th Century

copies so that reading materials could be distributed more widely. One aspect that affected the United States when printed materi...

The Princess of Cleves by Marie de Lafayette

the end of her days, the Princess abided by societal expectations. For example, when the young heroine first comes to the court,...

Hamlet's Dilemma and the Audience's Response

three types of characters - one who to be killed, one to kill, and one to avenge the killer (89). For audiences during the early ...

Concept of the Divine Right Of Kings

to Grotius more humane perspective was that of Jacques-Benigne Bossuets, who "reinforced medieval notions of kingship in his theor...

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...

17th Century World History

Ghana, Dahomey on the Ivory Coast, and Shama on the Ghana coast, were locked into a complex cultural and economic exchange which g...

Scientific Management in the UK

been able to cope with the expansive growth seen over the last fifty years. In order to consider this we need to look at the compa...

Does Science Have All the Answers?

of penetrating into the natural world; but there is no objective, certain or scientific method for setting or testing them " (Rave...

The Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and Scientific Revolution

to by separate from Catholicism is a significant development in human history. The Counter-Reformation, as its name implies, was ...

Social Paradigm for Change Represented by the Scientific Revolution

1991). This invention meant that new ideas could be readily shared, and also, that it was much more difficult to the Church to c...

Online Researching of John Donne's 17th Century Poetry

In eight pages this paper discusses how to conduct Internet research on this topic with a consideration of the websites to be used...

Gangraena by Thomas Edwards is a Window into 17th Century Life

This essay explores this famous work from the perspective of what it reveals to the reader about the seventeenth century. Edwards...

17th Century Puritan Clergyman Ralph Josselin and His Family Life

In five pages this paper discusses the family life of Puritan moderate minister Ralph Josselin as chronicled in his diaries....

Why China Did Not Have a Scientific Revolution and Europe Did

both "accepted and encouraged the natural philosophy that evolved into early modern science" (Bekar and Lipsey, 2001). Study has...

Radical Aspects of the Scientific Revolution

the sun around which our planet revolved, not the sun around the earth as was held by the Church (Meeks, 1997). This assertion al...

Contributions of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo to the Scientific Revolution

Robertson, 2004). Johannes Kepler was another important scientist responsible for the Scientific Revolution (Field, 200...

Scientific Revolution and the Connection Between Science and Religion

great interest and considerable depth. His ongoing quest was not only to determine the role of religion within social confines bu...

Western Civilization Historical Periods

was an incredibly powerful and influential time in mankinds history and in the development of Western civilization. Prior to the R...

Fur Trade and Iroquois' Fur Trade Wars of the 17th Century

warfare. Complicated system of alliances Political alliances among the Iroquois were divided into two categories: historical and ...

17th and 18th Century America and White Slaves

German child sold as a mulatto" (Talty, 2000). There was even a case...