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Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century British History and Authors

as one author states, "The medieval church was defeated and the educated classes embraced scientific rationalism. Art, architectu...

Holland, Surrounding Countries, and Seventeenth Century Art

land and the pastimes of the Dutch people who were an increasingly prosperous merchant middle class" (Anonymous Dutch Baroque Peri...

Seventeenth Century Love in Poetry

celebration of Gods love, as well as a poet that addressed the purity of a love for a woman. In better understanding this we discu...

Seventeenth Century Courtly Culture of France and Women

as well as what occurred at other levels of the social scale. For example, literature and the arts represented a great part of Fr...

François de La Rochefoucauld and Blaise Pascal

pessimistic about human beings and their propensity toward self-love. He thinks of virtually all human relationships as being driv...

Everyday Life in Traditional Japan by Charles J. Dunn

alone could carry the long swords (Dunn, 1977, Sellen, 2002). Dunns appreciation of some of the key elements of the classes explai...

John Donne's Seventeenth Century Love Poetry

in thine eye, thine in mine appears, And true plain hearts do in the faces rest ;...

Christopher Hill's Century of Revolution, 1603-1714

of the text we can see that Hill is taking the reader on a very structured journey which examines the turmoil in 17th century Euro...

Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Battles According to George Lefebvre and Roland Mousnier

In five pages Lefebvre's and Mousnier's views on what contributed to the French uprisings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centur...

Belshazzar's Feast by Rembrandt Van Rijn

on the boundaries between the Christian world and the largest Jewish community in Holland (Internet source). Kren and Marx (2002) ...

Female Independence and Seventeenth Century Restoration Comedies

up every day / Some new unheard-of fool for us to play" (Internet source). The prologue alone suggests that Etherege was offering ...

Underwear Since the Seventeenth Century

wear. There is obviously no physical reason why anyone needs to wear a girdle so the point of the girdle then, is for the woman t...

British Literature of the Seventeenth Century Examined

and women to enjoy each other. The Philosophical Viewpoints We want to relate the conflict and the writings to various philosop...

Early Modern Europe as Portrayed by Theodore Rabb in The Struggle for Stability in Early Modern Europe

Modern Europe, 2001). Religious belief went hand in hand with nationalism and politics, with the result that war ensued (Early Mo...

A Fictional Accounting of a Seventeenth Century Immagrant's Experiences

experienced world traveler. With the knowledge of what had happened to the native peoples of the Barbados, the native peoples tha...

New England in the Seventeenth Century and Environmental History

native population because "by the marvelous goodness & providence of God not one of the English was so much as sick."3 This sent...

France and England During the 16th and Seventeenth Centuries

of other lands and consequently the subjugation or at least the exploitation of the indigenous peoples in Africa, Asia and the Ame...

Seventeenth Century French Absolutism

monarchy reinforced its monitoring of printing, totally strangling the emerging press" (The Library of Congress, 2005). Even the F...

Gunther/Death Be Not Proud

A 3 page book review of John Gunther's memoir of his son's illness and death. The title of this book is drawn from John Donne's Me...

Transformation and Seventeenth Century England

In 4 pages, this research paper considers the rapid changes England underwent in terms of religion, economics, and politics, citin...

Seventeenth Century French Absolutism

Clearly, Louis defended his form of absolutism because of the accomplishments it allegedly produced. Under Louis, in many ways Fr...

Looking at Empiricism and Rationalism

also believed in one realm. Spinoza writes: "By God, I mean a Being absolutely infinite -- that is, a substance consisting in inf...

Calculus and Sir Isaac Newton

of modern mathematics. The purpose here is to explore Newtons approach to developing calculus. Foundational Work The state...

17th Century America and Black Slavery

no sunlight and been fed only enough to keep them alive. This journey, however, was likely just the beginning of the trials and t...

Review of the Seventeenth Century Text A Narrative of the Captivity & Removal of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

her experience offers rare insight into the feelings of Puritans regarding the Native Americans and their relationship with the wh...

Change Through War

Years War, the French Wars of Religion and the Thirty Years War (Cunningham and Grell, 2000). The fact that warfare was such a p...

Past Preconceptions Rejected by the Scientific Revolution

In five pages this essay argues that ancient principles were rejected by seventeenth and eighteenth century scientific breakthroug...

European Changes 1600 - 1700

In 5 pages the changing attitudes of people in seventeenth century Europe is considered including increased individual decision ma...

US Lutheran Church and its History

Church (Royce 05B). The history of the conventional Lutheran Church date back to the sixteenth century when Protestant reformer M...

Protestantism of the Seventeenth Century and John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress

down. This was a time when the divine right of kings was undisputed, yet here was a group of individuals openly defying their mona...