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5 giorni fa · Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN: 198208189X; 304pp.; Price: £45.00. The explosion of research on early modern gender in England has focused primarily on the experience or perceptions of women. Alexandra Shepard's excellent new book forms part of a new wave directing our attention equally ...
31 mag 2024 · But this dominance is at risk of compromising a more thorough and rounded understanding of the comprehensive ‘delight’ in portraiture present in the English psyche, as suggested by Steele at the beginning of the 18th century; the court’s tastes and activities might have been influential, but surely cannot represent the totality of experiences and preferences of the nation in relation to ...
31 mag 2024 · Hiberno-English (/ h aɪ ˈ b ɜːr n oʊ, h ɪ-/ hy-BUR-noh, hih-; from Latin: Hibernia "Ireland") or Irish English (IrE), also formerly sometimes called Anglo-Irish, is the set of English dialects native to the island of Ireland, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
16 mag 2024 · That is the general meaning of this English proverb. In other words, if people work together, the work is easier and is completed more quickly. 2. Strike while the iron is hot. This proverb means that you should take advantage of a favorable situation before it changes. 3. Honesty is the best policy.
30 mag 2024 · Undergraduate Course: Early Modern English Witchcraft (HIST10261) This course looks at the phenomenon of witchcraft in England between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries from a variety of perspectives. We look at what witchcraft meant for contemporaries from differing backgrounds, at the sort of stories that were likely to believed and ...
31 mag 2024 · Alchemy (from Arabic: al-kīmiyā; from Ancient Greek: χυμεία, khumeía) [1] is an ancient branch of natural philosophy, a philosophical and protoscientific tradition that was historically practised in China, India, the Muslim world, and Europe. [2] In its Western form, alchemy is first attested in a number of pseudepigraphical texts ...
3 giorni fa · English Presbyterianism,1590-1640. Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2011, ISBN: 9780804759878; 320pp.; Price: £53.50. Early modern English Presbyterianism found its expression in two bursts of activity: during the Elizabethan period as a movement to perfect the Reformation from the Elizabethan compromise and during the mid 17th-century ...
