Dissertations / Theses: 'Seventeenth century England'

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Henderson, Felicity 1973. "Erudite satire in seventeenth-century England." Monash University, School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies, 2002. http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/7999.

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Hailwood, Mark. "Alehouses and sociability in seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/35261/.

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Bird, Kirsten. "Changing attitudes towards Jews in seventeenth-century England /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arb618.pdf.

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Lumbers, Alexandra C. "The discourses of whoredom in seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416652.

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Carrington, Charlotte Victoria. "Dissent and identity in seventeenth-century New England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609724.

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Pearse, Harry John. "Natural philosophy and theology in seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2016. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/263362.

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This thesis explores the disciplinary relationship between natural philosophy (the study of nature or body) and theology (the study of the divine) in seventeenth-century England. Early modern disciplines had two essential functions. First, they set the rules and boundaries of argument – knowledge was therefore legitimised and made intelligible within disciplinary contexts. And second, disciplines structured pedagogy, parcelling knowledge so it could be studied and taught. This dual role meant disciplines were epistemic and social structures. They were composed of various elements, and consequently, they related to one another in a variety of complex ways. As such, the contestability of early modern knowledge was reflected in contestability of disciplines – their content and boundaries. Francis Bacon, Thomas White, Henry More and John Locke are the focus of the four chapters respectively, with Joseph Glanvill, Thomas Hobbes, other Cambridge divines, and a variety of medieval scholastic authors providing context, comparison and reinforcement. These case studies offer a cross-section of seventeenth-century thought and belief; they embody different professional and institutional interests, and represent an array of philosophical, theological and religious positions. Nevertheless, each of them, in different ways, and to different effect, put the relationship between natural philosophy and theology at the heart of their intellectual endeavours. Together, they demonstrate that, in seventeenth-century England, natural philosophy and theology were in flux, and that their disciplinary relationship was complex, entailing degrees of overlap and alienation. Primarily, natural philosophy and theology investigated the nature and constitution of the world, and, together, determined the relationship between its constituent parts – natural and divine. However, they also reflected the scope of man’s cognitive faculties, establishing which bits of the world were knowable, and outlining the grounds for, and appropriate degrees of, certainty and belief. Thus, both disciplines, and their relationship with one another, contributed to broad discussions about, truth, certainty and opinion. This, in turn, established normative guidelines. To some extent, the rightness or wrongness of belief and behaviour was determined by particular definitions of, and relationship between, natural philosophy and theology. Consequently, man’s place in the world – his relationship with nature, God and his fellow man – was triangulated through these disciplines.

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Serjeantson, Richard William. "Testimony, authority and proof in seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272416.

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Klodt, Lindsay M. "Courtship and Marriage Rituals in Seventeenth Century England." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1207872854.

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Toulalan, Sarah Diane. "Writing the erotic : pornography in seventeenth century England." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.397941.

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Mortimer, Sarah. "The challenge of Socinianism in mid seventeenth century England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.440722.

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Dalivalle, Margaret. "Borrowed comlinesse : copying from pictures in seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.571619.

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The prolific professional practice of copying from pictures in seventeenth-century England has come to define the artistic climate of the period. The dominance and advancement of foreign-born painters in working in London: Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Sir Peter Lely, and Sir Godfrey Kneller; the comprehensive influence of the portrait- types they developed for the English market, and the campaign since the last decades of the seventeenth century for an 'English School of Painting', focussed on the promotion of history or subject painting, have contributed to a characterisation of the period as a time when native artists, detached from the artistic innovations of mainland Europe, slavishly adhered to the patterns set by leading foreigners. Because copies are now seen as secondary to originals in fine art, as in other categories, copied pictures have been considered an inferior class of object, not worthy of critical attention. As a result of the confluence of all these factors, the period has been marginalised as derivative and inconsequential in art-historical terms. This thesis argues that modem attitudes are at variance with the reception of copies and the professional practice of copying in seventeenth-century England, therefore the artistic production of the period is currently fundamentally misunderstood. It investigates the status of copies and originals over the course of the century, linking shifts in their intellectual and economic values to the origins of the secondary market for art at the outset of the century, the sale of the Royal Collection during the Interregnum, and market saturation in the 1690s. The roles and functions of copies in collections are demonstrated from material in inventories, diaries and letters. Techniques and tools for copying are reconstructed and re-enacted, and compared to a little-known class of intermediary drawings. This study pinpoints the first enunciation of the concept of artistic originality in the nexus of the major secondary art markets of London and the Low Countries during the 1690s. Noting that artists of all nationalities and classes in England engaged in copying, the study aligns contemporary commentary about the studio production of replicas and copies, artists' creative use of copying and copies, and re-evaluates artistic intent in seventeenth- century England.

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Meadows, Anne. "Collecting seventeenth-century Dutch painting in England 1689-1760." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 1988. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1382491/.

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This thesis examines the collecting of seventeenth century Dutch painting in England from 1689 marking the beginning of auction sales in England to 1760, Just prior to the beginning of the Royal Academy and the rising patronage for British art. An examination of the composition of English collections centred around the period 1694 when William end Mary passed a law permitting paintings to be imported for public sale for the first time in the history of collecting. Before this date paintings were only permitted entry into English ports for private use and enjoyment. The analysis of sales catalogues examined the periods before and after the 1694 change in the law to determine how political circumstances such as Continental wars and changes in fiscal policy affected the composition of collecting paintings with particular reference to the propensity for acquiring seventeenth century Dutch painting in England. Chapter Two examines the notion that paintings were Imported for public sale before 1694, and argues that there had been essentially no change In the law. It considered also Charles It's seizure of the City's Charters relaxing laws protecting freemen of the Guilds from outside competition, and the growth of entrepreneurauctioneers against the declining power of the Outroper, the official auctioneer elected by the Corporation of City of London. An investigation into the Poll Tax concluded that the boom in auction sales was part of the highly speculative activity which attended Parliament's need to borrow public funds to continue the war with France. Chapter Three discusses some of the economic circumstances In the Dutch-English alliance in 1689 which helped to establish the financial infrastructure supporting the importation and acquisition of paintings. A comparative analysis of subject matter in Dutch collections showed en increase in the production of landscape painting in particular which was In turn reflected fri English collections. The experimental procedure in Chapter Four Involved a detailed analysis of auction sales for the period 1689-1694 and drawing on the evidence provided in the previous chapters showed that the propensity to collect seventeenth century Dutch painting dominated collecting, and it was available in large numbers by Dutch artists working in England and by Dutch artists abroad. Chapter Five covers the period after 1695 to 1760 using random sampling of annotated sales catalogues (1711 to 1759) illustrating the effect of increased trade on the composition of collecting, demonstrating that marginally cheaper prices for Dutch landscapes, portraiture and genre painting challenged the growing taste for Italian or French landcapes, genre and religious and classical history painting. Dutch painting as an Investment Is also considered. This thesis contributes to the knowledge of prices paid for paintings for the period 1711-1759 through statistical analysis. Summaries of the average price paid for seventeenth century Dutch and other European paintings provide a scale to analyse prices often quoted In eighteenth century art historical studies. These summaries illustrate more precisely that paintings at auction sales were generally low in price providing a benchmark figure, which manipulated the market to the extent that paintings by living British artists were unable to compete.

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Everest, James. "Practical optics and polemical purposes in seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2017. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1570442/.

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What follows is a study of the prevalence and value of practical work in seventeenth-century English optics. I argue, firstly, that practical work – involving instruments and experiments – was a major aspect of the discipline at this time and, secondly, that a major purpose of this work was what I call ‘polemical’ in character. The first claim is directed at histories of seventeenth-century optics, which have tended to focus on the development of theories about light and vision, at the expense of the practical work that was such a prominent feature of the field. The second claim is directed at works on the ‘rhetoric of science’, which have tended to focus on a scientist’s deployment of various means, such as practical work, in a bid to persuade an audience that he or she is right about an aspect of the natural world, whereas my take on seventeenth-century natural philosophy is that practical work could serve another important function: it could act to persuade an audience that the ideas of a rival were wrong. The four chapters take the form of case-studies, examining in detail the practical work of Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton, each man the leading English optical philosopher of his generation. Each chapter supports the first claim of the thesis, by emphasising its subject’s practical work in optics; each supports the second, by highlighting the polemical purposes to which that practical work was turned. In addition, each chapter identifies the audiences before whom practical work was deployed, with the result that the four chapters can be read as a narrative, one that charts the expanding audiences for practical work in the seventeenth century. A prominent take on the increasingly public character of natural philosophy in this period stresses the quest for assent and the desire to manage dissent. The story told here, by contrast, emphasises the ongoing presence of a disorderly spirit of dispute.

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Southard, Elizabeth. "Property, identity and place in seventeenth-century New England." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2013. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/47929/.

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This thesis presents a study of the construction and defence of English settler-colonies in New England during the seventeenth century, focusing upon the relationship between ordinary people and their environment. This work initially examines the preexploration reports and the first few decades of settlement and how commodification and naming practices helped in translating the landscape into a familiar, useful and, most importantly, English place. This continues in Chapter Two with a study of the distribution and construction of towns, boundaries and familiar patterns of agricultural usage. This patterning reveals how early settlers perceived their world, and how they secured traditional English customs and patterns onto this uncultivated landscape. The final two chapters will examine challenges to this system, from within New England and across the Atlantic. Chapter Three focuses on the challenge of native land rights, which threatened to undermine the initial basis of conquest and discovery as claims to the land. However, this was overcome due the flexibility of narratives of ownership and possession and the addition of native land rights to English property regimes. Chapter Four examines the network of authority and ownership which crossed the Atlantic and throughout New England, and what happened when these systems and ideas were challenged by the creation of a new government under the Dominion of New England. This final chapter reveals how all of these concepts and themes about property wove together to re-create the relationship between English settlers and their land, albeit through new concepts and methods.

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Foyster, Elizabeth Ann. "The concept of male honour in seventeenth century England." Thesis, Durham University, 1996. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1491/.

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Cummins, Alexander. "Magical approaches to the Passions in seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.683696.

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This dissertation studies how seventeenth-century English occult philosophy and magical practice approached, apprehended, and attempted to affect the emotions. It analyses how these early modern people used magic to map, manipulate, and manage emotionality: how the classical elements and humoural theory were used to build up profiles of temperament and emotional proclivities; how divination was used to diagnose particular passional states, relationships, and processes; how ritual and sorcery was used to provoke and galvanise these imbalances and their consequent effects on body, mind, soul, and personal volition; and how magical objects, regimen, and regulatory practices were deployed to constrain and ameliorate passional imbalances.

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Bolander, Alisa Curtis. "Margaret Cavendish and Scientific Discourse in Seventeenth-Century England." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2004. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd422.pdf.

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Strahle, Graham. "Fantasy and music in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1987. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phs896.pdf.

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Gilsdorf, Joy. "The Puritan apocalypse New England eschatology in the seventeenth century /." New York : Garland Pub, 1989. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/19589831.html.

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Parker, Shannon Kathleen. "The honourable estate : marital advice in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26895.

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze advice about marriage written in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The first chapter focuses on marital counsel contained in letters, the second on advice offered by Protestant clergymen, and the third on various kinds of popular literature which discussed marriage and women. The contents of the works are described, as is the historical and literary context in which they were written. Although the form, purpose, and significance of the marital counsel varies, the advice itself is remarkably consistent. The central concern of the authors is how a man can select a good wife and how the woman should comport herself after marriage; only the works written by clerics describe the husband's marital responsibilities to any significant extent. The implication is that a successful marriage would result if the man chose his wife wisely and if, once chosen, the woman conformed to his and society's expectations. However, advice tells us only what people were saying, not what they were doing; it is prescriptive, not descriptive. Moreover, when examining works which dealt with wedlock, one becomes aware of the essentially literary nature of much of the counsel—many authors simply repeated or expanded on clichés. Their words do not provide us with insight into their own thoughts or matrimonial relations, but inform us as to the accepted, conventional mode of discussing marriage during this period.
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Withington, Philip John. "Urban political culture in later-seventeenth-century England : York, 1649-1688." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/251471.

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McCrystal, John. "For God or Man: Notions of Women in Seventeenth Century England." Thesis, University of Auckland, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/2083.

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This study argues that 'new' ways of speaking about the nature and status of women are evident in the literary record of late seventeenth century England, particularly in the writings of Mary Astell (1666-1731). Writing to oppose the natural rights-based political theory of the 'Father of Modern Liberalism', John Locke, Astell employed the secular, rationalist, individualistic language which Locke himself used to argue the equal human dignity of women with men. Hers was the first unequivocal plea made by an English writer. The subject of this study is the provenance of these new modes of thinking about women. The result of a survey of primary sources, dating primarily from the period 1600-1700, it first seeks to show that seventeenth century England inherited a 'traditional' notion of women and their status from antiquity; scriptural, philosophical and empirical evidence of women's moral and intellectual equality with men coexisted uneasily with the consensual notion that they were men's subordinates. This notion survived the Continental and English Reformations to be incorporated into the theology of both the Church of England and the Puritans alike. Thinking and writing about women took place in the context of an 'ideology of order', wherein individuals were considered solely in relation to society and in terms of their obligations and status. It is then argued that the paradox of women's equal humanity and subordinate status first received serious interrogation during the political crises of 1640-1660. Radical Protestants, who placed the individual believer - male or female - at the centre of religious life, allowed women to participate to an unprecedented degree in worship. The potential of radical Protestantism to challenge the traditional subordination of women was obvious in the political theory of the 'Levellers', who secularised religious individualism to produce a programme of democratic reform. The invisibility of women in this proto-liberal programme is given special attention here. The paradox inherent in the traditional notion of woman was thrown into sharp relief, furthermore, in the course of the political debates between royalists and parliamentarians during the Civil War; both sides attempted to liken the relationship between king and people to that between husband and wife. The marriage analogue served to highlight the gap which was opening between political analysis and the justifications for the subordination for women. Finally, it is argued that renewed political crisis in the last two decades of the century saw the introduction of secular individualism to English political thought, reinforced with the 'new' metaphysics of Descartes. John Locke considered that since individuals constructed society for their own ends, they could resist government where these were not being served. Yet as Astell pointed out, Locke fell back upon the traditional assumption that women ought to be subordinated in this society to men. She adopted the new metaphysics to show not only that Locke's political conclusions were wrong and dangerous, but also to show that women, their subordinate social status notwithstanding, were of equal dignity and worth to men.
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Hill, Kathryn Anne. "Midwifery in seventeenth-century England : male and female perceptions of childbirth /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1989. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arh6463.pdf.

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Wardhaugh, Benjamin. "Mathematical and mechanical studies of music in late seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.439685.

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Leong, Elaine. "Medical recipe collections in seventeenth-century England : knowledge, text and gender." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432177.

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Lord, Alexandra Mary. "Four Perceptions of Suicide in Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century England." W&M ScholarWorks, 1990. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625619.

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Staffell, Clare Elizabeth. "Lion and dog fight : images of the Anglo-Dutch wars of the seventeenth century." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2001. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272297.

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Kelly, John T. "Practical astronomy during the seventeenth century almanac-makers in America and England /." New York : Garland Pub, 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/22909220.html.

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Mattfeld, Monica. ""The noblest act of vertue" : horsemanship and honour in seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31987.

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The competent use of horses was essential to the seventeenth century English gentleman; however, scholarly analysis of human-horse interactions for this time period has been relatively slim. While historians of honour and masculinity have examined various aspects of gentlemanly honour, such as politics, religion, and gender division, horses and horsemanship have remained unexplored. This study, through the reading of seventeenth-century horsemanship manuals, will place horses and the art of horsemanship into the historians' perception of how gentlemen created, maintained, or lost honour for themselves, for their families, and for the English commonwealth. Horses and horsemanship, other than being pleasant pastimes or symbols of man's domination over nature, were central to gentlemanly honour. The breeding and importing of "great horses" was undertaken according to specific aesthetic and practical criteria which, if the requirements were followed, improved individual and commonwealth honour. While mounted on a "great horse" a gentleman, along with displaying perfected riding skills, needed to showcase emotional and bodily action bridling to avoid charges of ignorance, ineptness, bestiality, or effeminacy. Horses were a central means of creating gentlemanly honour both for individual advancement and for England's honourable reputation as a strong and defended kingdom.
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Jeffries, Tania. "The influence of religion on ideas on poverty in seventeenth century England /." Title page, contents and introduction only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arj47.pdf.

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Spicksley, Judith Mary. "The early modern demographic dynamic : celibates and celibacy in seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University of Hull, 2001. http://hydra.hull.ac.uk/resources/hull:5409.

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By interpreting marriage as a life-cycle phenomenon with procreative sex as its ultimate aim, historians have given primacy - whether wittingly or unwittingly - to the act of intercourse between man and a woman, and relegated a range of other sexual activities to a position of lower value. In contrast, this chapter argues not only for the presence of other forms of sexual gratification within Tudor and Stuart society, but suggests in addition that rather than view them as the precursor to full penetrative intercourse, they should be understood as satisfactory and fulfilling expressions of sexuality in their own right. The final chapter examines the role of the marriage discourse in directing the employment opportunities, social status and cultural identity of single people in seventeenth century England. Here the effects of the discourse, which sought to promote the inevitability of entry into marriage as a general truth, are revealed in a gendered approach to training and employment, differential levels of access of men and women to land and property, and a concept of personal and social identity that for women was linked almost exclusively to marriage as a lifecycle phenomenon. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the extensive social and cultural ramifications of a rise in the proportion of lifelong celibate females, a situation that, regardless of its causes, required single women to reassess the image of themselves as wives and mothers and construct an alternative personal and social identity outside the standard marital paradigm.

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Kawczak, Steven M. "Beliefs and Approaches to Death and Dying in Late Seventeenth-Century England." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1320179487.

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Sullivan, Molly R. "Beyond the Household: Women, Space, and Mobility in Seventeenth-Century New England." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1323191554.

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Crowley, Lara M. "Manuscript context and literary interpretation John Donne's poetry in seventeenth-century England /." College Park, Md.: University of Maryland, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1903/7666.

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Thesis (Ph. D.) -- University of Maryland, College Park, 2007.
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Stivers, George Spencer. "A most grievous and insupportable vexation billeting in early seventeenth century England /." Diss., [Riverside, Calif.] : University of California, Riverside, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1957340891&SrchMode=5&Fmt=2&retrieveGroup=0&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1269450997&clientId=48051.

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Issa, Christine. "Obligation and choice : aspects of family and kinship in seventeenth century County Durham." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2948.

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The thesis seeks to explore alleged differences in kinship and family relations within County Durham, an area of wide geographical, social and economic diversity. A study of recognition that reveals that kinship ties were narrow and fell into a distinctly English pattern, a pattern which appears independent of considerations of wealth. Only the life cycle appears to have influenced patterns of recognition. Wider kin also appear to have been of limited importance as a source of support, with individuals preferring to rely upon the aid of neighbours and members of the nuclear family. This relatively narrow 9attern of recognition and support stands in sharp contrast to the strong ties formed within and through the nuclear family. The detailed study of inheritance, marriage and conflict not only reinforces the earlier findings concerning the limited importance of wider kin but also suggests that strong and specific ties of obligation and expectation governed relationships formed within the nuclear family. Such findings suggest the need to revise the assumption which regard English society as being highly 'individualistic'.

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Jeffries, Tania. "Ladies of quality : the role of women in elite families in seventeenth century England /." Title page, table of contents and summary only, 1991. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armj472.pdf.

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Raymond, Stuart A. "Seventeenth-century Week St. Mary, Cornwall : including an edition of the probate records, 1598 to 1699 /." Title page, abstract and contents only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09armr272.pdf.

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Howson, Barry. "The question of orthodoxy in the theology of Hanserd Knollys (c. 1599-1691) : a seventeenth-century English Calvinistic Baptist." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=36607.

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Mid-seventeenth-century England saw numerous religious sects come into existence, one of which was the Calvinistic Baptist group. During the upheaveal of the revolutionary years this group was often accused of heresy by their orthodox/reformed contemporaries. At that time Hanserd Knollys, one of their London pastors, was personally charged with holding heterodox beliefs, in particular, Antinomianism, Anabaptism and Fifth Monarchism. In addition, Knollys has been accused of hyper-Calvinism. This version of Calvinism was held by some eighteenth-century English Calvinistic Baptists. Some Baptist historians have suspected Knollys of holding this teaching in the seventeenth-century, or at least they have felt it necessary to defend him against it. All of these charges are serious, and consequently bring into question Knollys' orthodoxy. This thesis will systematically examine each charge made against Knollys in its context, and comprehensively from Knollys' writings seek to determine if they were valid. Furthermore, this thesis will elucidate Knollys theology, particularly his soteriology, ecclesiology and eschatology.

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Smith, Lisa Wynne. "Medical knowledge and medical power, control of women's bodies in seventeenth-century England." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/mq22555.pdf.

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Labuzetta, Evan Steven. "Empathy for the Devil : writing, authority and rebellion in mid-seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612394.

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Schneck, Christie. "Between Words: Popular Culture and the Rise of Print in Seventeenth Century England." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5485.

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Seventeenth century England was forced to come to terms with events such as the Civil War and the regicide of King Charles I, in the midst of contending with the cultural changes brought upon by print culture, the effects of which appeared throughout all aspects of English society. These changes helped form a relationship between print and oral culture, one of negotiation among the producers and regulators of work and the society consuming the works. The discussion of this negotiation has led to varying conclusions concerning the true impact of printed materials on English society and culture, all of which tend to see the relationship in one of two ways: print's undeniable and unprecedented influence on culture, or its function as supplement to oral and visual communication. The latter conclusion helped form the foundation of this study, which aims to further understand the negotiation between print and English society. The close analysis of recurring themes of the supernatural, specifically prophecy, witchcraft, regicide, and the natural world, will show unmistakable similarities between popular entertainment and written works. Through the examination of these themes, this thesis will illustrate the extent to which common imagery and wording appeared in newsbooks and what this says about oral communication and culture in early modern England.
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Edwards, Jesse R. "'Marveilous newtrality'/'strange participation' : mathematics and the colonial attitude in seventeenth-century England." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360605.

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Stanley, Alison. "Language and identity in the literature of the seventeenth-century New England Puritans." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2012. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/language-and-identity-in-the-literature-of-the-seventeenthcentury-new-england-puritans(e8dcb8d8-a634-494f-80e3-d8dbd6078c69).html.

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Seventeenth-century migrants to New England found themselves in a new and unsettling situation, surrounded by alien European and indigenous groups, whose different languages, cultures and religious beliefs questioned and sometimes threatened the beliefs of the settlers. This thesis examines the points at which the colonists came into contact with other cultures, and analyses what these interactions can tell us about how identity was constructed and displayed in the period. I do this largely through analysis of the ways language was used and discussed in contemporary texts printed in London and Massachusetts which aimed to influence readers’ views of colonial identities. By looking at a series of specific challenges when language or issues relating to it became contentious or important, as detailed below, I argue that language was intrinsically connected to English Puritan identity in the period. My first chapter discusses contemporary language textbooks by Williams and Eliot, analysing the ways in which different presentations of similar Native American languages offer insights into the ways contemporary thought linked language to culture and identity. The next two chapters examine the ways language was linked to Puritan religious identity by discussing colonial responses to two new challenges to their beliefs in the 1650s: firstly, the request of the Praying Indians to be accepted into the colonial churches; and secondly, the denunciations of the colonial churches made by visiting Quakers. The final two chapters discuss questions of language and translation during the traumatic events of King Philip’s War. Chapter four analyses war writing which used Old Testament narratives to re-interpret early defeats, and to excuse acts of violence and destruction perpetrated by colonial forces. The final chapter examines depictions of Indian language during the war, and argues that refusals to discuss the problems of intercultural translation and descriptions of Indians speaking broken English are two manifestations of the same changing attitude to language and identity.

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Bancroft, V. "'Cross-over' comedy in seventeenth-century England : from Michaelmas Term to the Roundheads." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2012. http://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/ff69bc66-2db1-a0fe-d6d7-187e88d76338/1.

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This thesis discusses the significance of those comedies written and performed in the years immediately prior to and during the English Civil War, which were (re)written and (re)performed at the Restoration of the English monarchy in the 1660s. The “cross-over” comedies have been dismissed as leftovers from the last days of the playhouses before their closure in 1642, their revival in the Restoration seen as dictated by the scarcity of available new texts. This thesis argues instead that these comedies were carefully selected and revised in order to appeal to Charles II and new Restoration audiences. The genesis of “cross-over” comedy is initially analysed in a general discussion of examples by authors such as John Fletcher, Thomas Middleton, and Richard Brome. Abraham Cowley‟s Cutter of Coleman Street is closely compared with his earlier version The Guardian, identifying revisions with resonance for the Restoration. The huge influence of Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant on the development of English comedy is reflected in analyses of Killigrew‟s self-reflexivity in The Parson’s Wedding, and of Davenant‟s revisions to William Shakespeare‟s plays. Davenant‟s depiction of Wit in his “cross-over” comedy The Wits is compared with John Fletcher‟s “cross-over” comedy Wit Without Money. Reference is made to comedies by Sir Robert Howard and John Wilson which did not themselves “cross over” but which nevertheless comment on “cross-over” themes, particularly those of inheritance. The thesis concludes with a discussion of John Tatham‟s topical satire, The Rump, which “crosses over” as Aphra Behn‟s adaptation The Roundheads. ii The “cross-over” comedies had a significant impact on the development of English comedy in the Restoration and even into the early eighteenth century. Thomas Jordan‟s The Walks of Islington and Hogsdon, licensed for first performance in 1641, printed in 1657, re-performed in the years surrounding the Restoration, and subsequently re-printed in 1663, is shown to influence William Wycherley, Thomas Shadwell, and John Gay. Although the “cross-over” comedies flourished only briefly, then, their importance as a cultural and dramatic phenomenon has been underestimated.

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Yamamoto, Koji. "Distrust, innovations and public service : 'projecting' in seventeenth and early eighteenth-century England." Thesis, University of York, 2009. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14211/.

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Rivière, Janine. "The distinction of dreams : dream-life, belief and reform in seventeenth-century England /." [St. Lucia, Qld.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16740.pdf.

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Kunkel, Caroline Beth. "Psalms to Plainchant: Seventeenth-Century Sacred Music in New England and New France." W&M ScholarWorks, 1989. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539625537.

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Oliver, Ryan. "Aliens and atheists: The Plurality of Worlds and Natural Theology in Seventeenth-Century England." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2007. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc5134/.

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The plurality of worlds has had a long history in England, which has not gone unnoticed by scholars. Historians have tended to view this English pluralist tradition as similar to those found on the continent, and in doing so have failed to fully understand the religious significance that the plurality of worlds had on English thought and society. This religious significance is discovered through a thorough investigation of plurality as presented by English natural philosophers and theologians, and in so doing reveals much about England in the seventeenth century. As natural philosophers incorporated plurality within the larger framework of natural theology, it became a weapon of science and reason to be used against the unreasonable atheists of late seventeenth-century England.

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Zekonyte, Kristina. "Projectors in seventeenth century England and their relevance to the field of project management." Thesis, University of Brighton, 2018. https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/studentTheses/b5d4ae88-7cef-4d52-9cf7-dacb0485f418.

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The current established historiography of the field of project management dates back to the 1950s and there is little known about the development of this field prior to the Second World War. Critical scholars within this field have challenged the timeline for project management. This historical research provides evidence of project practices prior to the twentieth century by introducing the activities of projectors, who are currently unacknowledged within the field of project management. The title of projector was assigned to initiators and/or promoters of the idiosyncratic activities that combined elements of public and private gain and were known in the period as projects. The research investigates the genesis of the ‘projector' name and maps out the activities of projectors and their involvement within English industrial and economic development. Projectors and their schemes are explored through three different foci. The first focus is archival, exploring a seventeenth-century project within the textiles industry carried out by the projector Walter Morrell. This analysis highlights a number of practices within Morrell's project similar to modern project management, and potentially informs the history of project management. The second focus is through the lens of the late seventeenth-century writer and projector Daniel Defoe, whose seminal publication on projects was reprinted multiple times and consequently shaped public opinion on projectors and the undertaking of projects, this focus was socio-historical. The third focus relates to public-private interest, which played an important role in projectors’ undertakings and strongly influenced the connotation of the title ‘projector’. This theme is examined through existing PhD theses of scholars who studied the activities of projectors in seventeenth-century England. These three foci inform the contribution this thesis makes to project management history. The originality of this work is in acknowledging the activities of projectors within seventeenth century England, which has implications for project management histories.

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