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Author : Vivian Little
Release : 1932
Genre : French drama (Tragedy)
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Book Synopsis The Use of Maxims in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century French Tragedy (1550-1650) ... by : Vivian Little
Download or read book The Use of Maxims in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century French Tragedy (1550-1650) ... written by Vivian Little. This book was released on 1932. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Bastide
Release : 1914
Genre : Comparative literature
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Book Synopsis The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by : Charles Bastide
Download or read book The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century written by Charles Bastide. This book was released on 1914. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lyndal Roper
Release : 2006-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Witch Craze by : Lyndal Roper
Download or read book Witch Craze written by Lyndal Roper. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful account of witches, crones, and the societies that make them From the gruesome ogress in Hansel and Gretel to the hags at the sabbath in Faust, the witch has been a powerful figure of the Western imagination. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries thousands of women confessed to being witches--of making pacts with the Devil, causing babies to sicken, and killing animals and crops--and were put to death. This book is a gripping account of the pursuit, interrogation, torture, and burning of witches during this period and beyond. Drawing on hundreds of original trial transcripts and other rare sources in four areas of Southern Germany, where most of the witches were executed, Lyndal Roper paints a vivid picture of their lives, families, and tribulations. She also explores the psychology of witch-hunting, explaining why it was mostly older women that were the victims of witch crazes, why they confessed to crimes, and how the depiction of witches in art and literature has influenced the characterization of elderly women in our own culture.
Author : David Freedberg
Release : 1996-07-11
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis Art in History/History in Art by : David Freedberg
Download or read book Art in History/History in Art written by David Freedberg. This book was released on 1996-07-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians and art historians provide a critique of existing methodologies and an interdisciplinary inquiry into seventeenth-century Dutch art and culture.
Author : Bentley B. Allan
Release : 2018-04-19
Genre : Political Science
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Book Synopsis Scientific Cosmology and International Orders by : Bentley B. Allan
Download or read book Scientific Cosmology and International Orders written by Bentley B. Allan. This book was released on 2018-04-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scientific Cosmology and International Orders shows how scientific ideas have transformed international politics since 1550. Allan argues that cosmological concepts arising from Western science made possible the shift from a sixteenth century order premised upon divine providence to the present order centred on economic growth. As states and other international associations used scientific ideas to solve problems, they slowly reconfigured ideas about how the world works, humanity's place in the universe, and the meaning of progress. The book demonstrates the rise of scientific ideas across three cases: natural philosophy in balance of power politics, 1550–1815; geology and Darwinism in British colonial policy and international colonial orders, 1860–1950; and cybernetic-systems thinking and economics in the World Bank and American liberal order, 1945–2015. Together, the cases trace the emergence of economic growth as a central end of states from its origins in colonial doctrines of development and balance of power thinking about improvement.
