Two female archetypes influencing early-modern women who were active in the arts & sciences — such as Jane Barker, who compares herself to Semiramis in her poem, “On the Apothecary’s Filing my Bills amongst the Doctors” — are described in the IN BRIEF biographies of Hypatia and Semiramis...
The next chapter analyzes descriptions of walks through Londondoi:10.1086/663310M. SmutsThe University of Chicago PressChicago, ILModern Philology
Adopting the network as a way of conceptualising early modern news allows us to follow flows in precisely this way, while at the same time enabling us to maintain an understanding of news that respects its conceptual integrity; in other words, that does not compel us to view it in strictly ...
Modern scholarship on the rise of the Manchu emphasizes the contributions of Chinese collaborators to the Manchu cause. The Manchu offered rewards and high positions to these Chinese, who not only brought military skills and technical knowledge with them but also encouraged the adoption of Chinese in...
The languages they spoke are the basis of modern-day English. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Saxon_settlement_of_Britain Grubenhaus Battles were fought against these invaders but, by about AD 600, Anglo-Saxon kingdoms were established in Britain. These kingdoms were mainly in what is ...
in many ways the reception history of theSumma theologiaeis decidedly early modern. Although Aquinas himself seems to have designed the text in part to suit the needs of his own teaching in Dominican formational context, the widespread use of Peter Lombard’sSentencesin universities throughout Euro...
Having thus reduced the pretended modern discovery of the phonetic system to its real value, the road is clear for deciding between the rival pretensions of Dr. Young and Champollion, as to which of them was the first to apply the system to the interpretation of sculptured proper names. On...
photographs of the party held at the opening of the Penguin Book Exhibition in November 1950; 'The Works of Evelyn Waugh' by Douglas Woodruff;The Odyssey; 'The Present Condition of Poetry' by Stephen Spender; 'Book-Breeders' Show'; 'Modern Swedish Architecture' by J.M. Richards; 'Once Upo...
One is that the stories recreate the entire 19th-century world before modern technology changed it, a world lost and suffused with nostalgia: the London fog (though that is not often referred to in the stories), the gaslights, the hansom cabs, the interplay between the urban set...
“discovered” by voyaging researchers in the early modern period, this process continued into the 20th century in the case of the German colonial empire, for example. In addition to temporal variations, the geographical centres of science transfer also changed; for example, in the 19th ce...