• A seventeenth century family included all people living under the same Roof. ... • Since in the seventeenth century, police were non-existent, the family unit was an important agent of self-control at the village level. ... Family Trends • Marriage in the seventeenth century had three purposes. ... • The seventeenth century saw a flood of marriageable young women many of which would have spent their adult life in a nunnery. As a result, the number of woman who were married rose to 10% and then 25% by the end of the seventeenth century. ...

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Discuss the representation of domestic interiors in the work of at least two seventeenth century artists. ... In the Sixteenth century in Holland, the reformation of the church saw a revolutionary change in the depiction of women in painting. It saw the departure from the ethereal and The territory of the household and family is the subject of much artwork in seventeenth century Dutch genre art. ... The theme of clandestine goings-on in the household has particular resonance for Dutch culture because it suggests the potential breakdown of the domestic order, an issue that dominated the d...

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How far can the rise in witch trials in the late sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth century be explained by economic factors? There are many explanations for the rise of witch trials in the first half of the seventeenth century one of which can be explained by economic factors. ... Recent estimates have suggested that the total number of prosecutions for witchcraft during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was in the region of 111,000, about half of which took place within the Holy Roman Empire. ... There were many events that occurred in the late sixteenth and early sevente...

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Rural Life Comparison: 16th Century France vs. 17th Century China Natalie Zemon Davis' book The Return Of Martin Guerre is an excellently detailed, understandable and well-researched account of the famous Martin Guerre and his impostor, Arnauld du Tilh. ... Spence concentrated his novel on county of T"an-ch"eng in the seventeenth century, and referred to examine the Chinese social structure from the bottom, rather than at the top. ... Woman Wang's husband, Jen (or Chen) was a typical seventeenth-century spouse, occasionally resorting to physical violence in order to maintain his...

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The seventeenth century was a period of war and instability in Europe. ... The seventeenth century saw the decline of the French aristocracy's power and the retention of its privilege, whilst the English aristocracy, specifically the House of Commons in parliament, maintained its economic dominance and privileges. ... England's aristocrats showed a great arrogance during the seventeenth century due to the massive financial power they held. ... Throughout the seventeenth century the French aristocracy lost political influence and power while retaining its privileges, which consisted o...

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The composers and publishers accepted the word cantata around the early seventeenth century. ... Rome was the center of cantata composition in the seventeenth century. ... The next major composer of cantatas in Venice was Legrenzi, in they late seventeenth century. ... In the seventeenth century there was a tendency to standardize musical forms. ... Cantata ending with a recitative arioso were common in the seventeenth century but became rare after eighteenth century. ...

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From the clarity, balance, proportion, and studied technique of the French ballet masters of the seventeenth century, came the basis of classical dance. ... This age of French absolutism and aristocratic lifestyle of the seventeenth century greatly influenced the arts of music and dance performance of that time. ...

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Ireland had never been simply "conquered" by England, though certain English or rather Anglo-Norman families had carved out estates there since the twelfth century. ... Ireland therefore by the close of the seventeenth century was a very mixed country. ...

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Anne Bradstreet was one of the few extraordinary females who earned a place with the male writers of the seventeenth century. ... Anne Bradstreet's "The Prologue" depicts Bradstreet's opinion on the role women played in a male-ridden society during the seventeenth century and reveals her feelings about being one of the first female writers during a time where they were scarce. During the seventeenth century, the place for women was at home, in the kitchen or doing some sort of domestic work. ... Being a woman in the seventeenth century causes Bradstreet to become overly critically o...

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The following demonstrates that superstitious evidence was used to render a conviction in 1692, and that there is a major difference between seventeenth century British Law and the Law today. ... In a formal trial during the seventeenth century, the accused were not represented by lawyers but could question accusers and witnesses. ... English law of the seventeenth century was not as well developed as law is today. These days we might think the 1692 trials were unfair but the people of the seventeenth century would have looked at it as the norm in their society. ... The seventeenth centu...

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The Origins of Empire, British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Nicholas Canny PhD, MIRA, vol.i, pg.271. ... The Origins of Empire, British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Nicholas Canny PhD, MIRA, vol.i, pg.272. ... The Origins of Empire, British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Nicholas Canny PhD, MIRA, vol.i, pg.272. ...

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Discuss the positive and negative arguments in the use if indenture as a means of Scottish migration in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ... There were many push and pull factors for indenting through migration: social, economic, political, and religious all had varying influences throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ... The seventeenth century saw the beginning of the use of migration through indenture as a pawn in the game of national affairs. ... A lucrative trade grew up from the seventeenth and continued in to the eighteenth century of the transportation of beg...

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In the seventeenth century, London experienced radical changes in its socio-political structure. ... This issue represents a political shift that was prominent in seventeenth century London: The transformation from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy. ... Towards the end of the seventeenth century, London underwent further transformation, this time socially, following a change in tobacco intake. By mid century, smoking had become extremely popular. ... London experienced significant transformation in the seventeenth century such as the conception of early colonial policy, the shift i...

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Compared to the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century, people in New England were healthier physically, had more stable religion and better family values. ... "Plagued by horrendous mortality, the Chesapeake remained, for most of the seventeenth century, a land of immigrants rather than of settled families." ... There was no separation of church and state in the seventeenth century in New England society. ...

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There were many difficulties and challenges dealt with in the seventeenth century, some which have many similarities to difficulties and challenges in today's society. During the 17th Century; also known as the Baroque Period, many investigations and discoveries formed and changed the way society viewed the world. ... Today's art does not take on the same propagandistic function as it did in the seventeenth century. The church in the 17th century used art to "encourage piety among the faithful and to persuade those it regarded as heretics to return to the fold." ...

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There were many difficulties and challenges dealt with in the seventeenth century, some which have many similarities to difficulties and challenges in today's society. During the 17th Century; also known as the Baroque Period, many investigations and discoveries formed and changed the way society viewed the world. ... Today's art does not take on the same propagandistic function as it did in the seventeenth century. The church in the 17th century used art to "encourage piety among the faithful and to persuade those it regarded as heretics to return to the fold." ...

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Everyday Life In Early America Philosopher Thomas Hobbes describes the lives of the average, seventeenth-century inhabitant of the British Isles and Northern Europe as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." ... Seventeenth-century English America was not fertile territory for Hobbesian "absolutism."" ... Instead, the seventeenth-century Americans were Independent, intrepid, and willing. The lives of seventeenth-century Americans were greatly affected by Independence. ... Seventeenth-century English America was in now way fertile territory for Hobbesian "absolutism."" ...

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Seventeenth century Puritans' objective and hope were to form a society devoted to God. ... Therefore, it can be said that seventeenth century Puritans' ethic had both practical and religious value (Reef, 2013). ... Both seventeenth and eighteenth century immigrants were hard workers. Seventeenth century Puritans worked hard because they needed to depend on themselves to improve their lot in the American wilderness while still looking after their soul and qualifying to receive the salvation of an angry God. ... It changed between the seventeenth and the eighteenth century, and will...

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Unification of the New World Colonies As the seventeenth century dawned, much of the New World was being intensely transformed. ... In the middle of the seventeenth century, the fast-growing populations of New England settlements were driving people away from the Puritan church. ... In colonial churches, it became apparent that religion was losing its appeal as the eighteenth century commenced. Churchgoers were becoming less interested, which was beginning to break apart the unity that had been created in the past century. ... From William Penn and the Half-Way Covenant in the 17th century...

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2 Usual gender rolls in the 16th century The gender rolls in the 16th century were "well-established rolls defined by a traditional culture" (Wrightson, 1982, p.90), so that the roll-relationships of each new couple were an unproblematic matter in this period. ... A divorce was very difficult in this time and so the divorce came only with the death of one partner - "though it can be remarked that death rates were such that it has been suggested that a greater proportion of marriages were prematurely broken by death in the seventeenth century than by divorce in mid twentieth century in Ameri...

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During the seventeenth century, the attractions of cheap land encouraged children to move away from the homesite to try their fortunes elsewhere. ... Scattered settlements in the Chesapeake colonies during the seventeenth century created conditions that made it impossible for the skilled workman to practice his trade. ... In the seventeenth century, the transplanted Englishmen in America lived in a society whose social framework resembled what he had known at home. ...

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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries literature became a part if life to many people. ... Miguel De Cervantes wrote mainly in the early seventeenth century while John Milton wrote mostly in the mid seventeenth century. ... During the seventeenth century many things were going on. ...

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This is much the same for sugar and spice, which became important and so desperately required in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries because it provided people with aspects of life they previously never had. ... In conclusion, sugar and spice in the seventeenth and eighteenth century held the same significance to people of that era as does oil to today's generation. ...

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In the late sixteenth century and early seventeenth century the Baroque style of music started in Italy. ... As the seventeenth century progressed base parts in music became increasingly more important as the new basso continuo, idea formed. ... Towards the end of the century, music became more fluid and "romanticized". ... During the mid eighteenth century there was a reaction to the Baroque style of music. ...

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In the book, Women on the Margins by Natalie Zemon Davis, she writes about three women in different locations across Europe in the 17th century. ... Also known as Glikl, lived in seventeenth century Germany. ... All three of these women provide insight into a new horizon for women to achieve in the seventeenth century. ... These women in the seventeenth century had the opportunity to have a marginal experience for many reasons. ... Each one of these women represents the breakdown of the traditional European hierarchy; the social stratification with had limited women centuries before. ...

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