... unreasonable standards for future monarchs. The insecurity caused by this led to dramatic changes in government, and the fluctuation between power and privilege of aristocrats in both countries. 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 ... deserted him, so he fled the country (McK, 554). The Glorious Revolution finalized the ascension of the English aristocracy to a position of great authority and status. Throughout t...

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... portrayal of Apollo as he danced the lead in the Ballet de la Nuit (1653). From the clarity, balance, proportion, and studied technique of the French ballet masters of the seventeenth century, came the basis of classical dance. In 1700 choreographer Raoul Auget Feuillet introduced a new type of ballet, the comédie-ballet, to which Lully wrote the music and directed ... . This age of French absolutism and aristocratic lifestyle of the seventeenth century greatly influenced the arts of music and dance performance of that time. Louis' high standards of personal glorification by performance...

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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. To the authors ... 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 America" (Wrightson, 1982, p.101) ...

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Through much of the first half of the nineteenth century, relatively few English-speaking Americans considered moving into the vast lands west of the Mississippi River. For some the obstacle was distance; for others it was lack of money; for ... the public's fascination with the "frontier" when he published a four-volume history, The Winning of the West. The figure of the cowboy was romanticized by many Americans in the nineteenth-century. Those who admired the cowboy seldom thought about the many dismal aspects of the cowboy's life: the tedium, the loneliness, the physical discomforts, and ...

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... to the day he died, Louis XIV ate with his fingers and acted like God. The opening account of Louis' XIV private life and loves sets the scene for this century, which was a time of transition. Louis XIV was born in 1638 and raised by two people, dare I say parents, who hated each other. Like his father Louis loved music and ... origin of power. He was obviously of a rank superior to all other men."" W.H. Lewis emphasizes that Versailles is not all of France and, "Magnificence was what was aimed at in a seventeenth-century house, not comfort.""p.38. To be in the Sun-King's court, one had...

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... state identity categorized by significant freedom. France's population approximately 31 million was virtually only Catholic, with full membership of the country refused to Protestant and also Jewish minorities. In the seventeenth century in France, being French citizen was equivalent to being Catholic. But, by 1794, Churches in France and also religious orders were abolished and religious and spiritual worship was also eradicated ... ...

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... text. 1640 appears to be a turning point in the development cantata form. Strophic variation in the cantata dies away in the mid seventeenth century and ostinato basses took its place. In Bologna, composers were writing cantatas and improving the form. One of the most important composers was ... talked about composer of the area. In Venice the composers did not make a great presence in the cantata of the mid and late seventeenth century, because of opera. Barbara Strozzi did not write opera and was one the great composer of the cantata. The next major composer ... of cantatas in Venice ...

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... certificates, baptism and contracts. • Other important sources include newspapers, broadsides, almanacs, popular novels, poems, plays, architectural plans, folk tales and popular art such as caricatures. • A seventeenth century family included all people living under the same Roof. • A family unit included parents, children, grandparents, aunts, uncles as well as servants, boarders, apprentices or anyone else living in the ... of self-control at the village level. • The father usually kept control over the potentially unruly young people in the family. Family Trends • Marriage ...

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... the afflicted; those who said that spirits of witches tormented them, and the evidence shown within the court itself convinced many who were present. In a formal trial during the seventeenth century, the accused were not represented by lawyers but could question accusers and witnesses. Most could not defend themselves against a hanging court and over forty people confessed to being witches. ... witchcraft. This supposedly made the confessions more reliable. Each paragraph above demonstrates that superstitious evidence was used to render a conviction in 1692, and that there is a major d...

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... was in turmoil, the Scientific Revolution coupled with the Enlightenment caused a great stir, challenging authority and tradition. Over the course of the seventeenth century, scientific method changed and evolved into a more complex and involved process. The scientific method defied the tradition of medieval science of logic and physical sight by using experimentation as a basis ... were infested with fly larva, but the sealed ones were not. This proved his point indisputably using scientific method. Now, lets examine what Copernicus did at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Cop...

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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. Bradstreet's upbringing had a vast amount to do with the way she was educated. Her father gave her the advantage ... " 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 ... She wrote her poems while rear...

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... . He instead had to opt for acting cautiously to avoid alienating smokers, which comprised many members in parliament. This issue represents a political shift that was prominent in seventeenth century London: The transformation from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy. In retrospect, James's wariness of parliamentarians was perhaps forewarning of the events to come: The Civil War, the ... and the drafting of the Bill of Rights, which sealed the political change in this period. Towards the end of the seventeenth century, London underwent further transformation, this time socially...

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... as a whole. 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. As with its nature, the type of indenture varied but as a rule, it could be described as a legal contract between two ... would become free from their contract and be given land, tools or money to enable them to start a new life in the colony. The seventeenth century saw the beginning of the use of migration through indenture as a pawn in the game of national affairs. The period saw th...

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During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries literature became a part if life to many people. The whole Renaissance period opened up a life to Europe that had never before been in existence. New themes in art, better ... happened to be much younger than he for whatever reason he had (http://www.incompetech.com/authors/milton/). Miguel De Cervantes wrote mainly in the early seventeenth century while John Milton wrote mostly in the mid seventeenth century. This could explain the differences in their works seeing as there is about two decades between the two. The novel Don Quixote takes plac...

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... portraits of a wealthy Bostonian and his wife and daughter (the youngest of their eight children) are among the most important of the relatively small number that survive from the late seventeenth century in New England. A half-dozen portraits painted in Boston during the 1670s can be attributed to the same anonymous artist, who gave greater attention to costume than to the characterization ... of the sitters' personalities in these portraits, their personal effects do denote the social and economic status of a prominent merchant and attorney and his family. This painting is the only se...

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Chapter two in Nancy Woloch's Women and the American Experience tells of the lifestyles endured by women in the seventeenth century, the roles and struggles of courageous, brave, and strong women in the frontier society. The author begins with ... Women were often poorly treated as servants, while black women were usually forced to do more fieldwork than white women. Some women of the seventeenth century lived under different circumstances than the average colonial women. Native American women played much more active roles in society than those of white women. ... the support given to fema...

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... which the contemporary audience can relate to. Hamlet was a tragedy by definition, containing definite stages of development, with the expectation of resolution. It paralleled the social context of the Seventeenth Century, where the general belief was that things occurred for distinct reasons, and the eventual -right-turning of the hierarchy triangle would set things back to normal. Stoppard broke the Shakespearean ... people who have wronged him. He knows there is correct protocol in his position, and he makes sure he does the right thing, when he strikes. This is the Seventeenth Century...

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... , however as time progressed the status of these two groups changed drastically. The cause of this change is ultimately more complex than those in the seventeenth century could have ever imagined. During the greater part of this century, the colonists relied on other Europeans for labor and service. These people were labeled "indentured servants" which meant that they were to serve anywhere between ... also have to understand that slavery was not a monolithic institution; it varied across time and space. First we examine how European labor steadily declined throughout the latter part of ...

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... , however as time progressed the status of these two groups changed drastically. The cause of this change is ultimately more complex than those in the seventeenth century could have ever imagined. During the greater part of this century, the colonists relied on other Europeans for labor and service. These people were labeled "indentured servants" which meant that they were to serve anywhere between ... also have to understand that slavery was not a monolithic institution; it varied across time and space. First we examine how European labor steadily declined throughout the latter part of ...

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... , but servants and eventually the slaves were considered a part of the plantation family, whose care was entrusted to the owner, which is the head of the household. During the seventeenth century, the attractions of cheap land encouraged children to move away from the homesite to try their fortunes elsewhere. As a result, the families were usually reduced in size. This development ... . If a town lacked a workman with skills the conventional practice was to advertise for such a person. They offered either a house or land. Scattered settlements in the Chesapeake colonies during the sevent...

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... explanations, this essay attempts to answer why women accused one another during the witch trials, and also why people were accused. This is crucial to know because women of the seventeenth century were under social and religious pressure that left women in a vulnerable position, which consequently led to a search for power, sense of their own potency, and social reward.1 Many people have ... explanations, such as the idea encephalitis, also fail to elaborate on the sex-biased ratio.4 Therefore, there are a few facts that one must take into consideration with respect to the seventeenth ...

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... for one third of the crops. This made the trade completely unprofitable and not worthwhile for the English. The Origins of Empire, British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century, Nicholas Canny PhD, MIRA, vol.i, pg.271. This and other events made trading extremely difficult especially dealing with political aspects. Permission to establish a trade was nearly impossible because the Surat ... , which were well established along the coast of India, and they would resist any intrusion by other Europeans. . The Origins of Empire, British Overseas Enterprise to the Close o...

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... in New England The views and living arrangements in the Chesapeake Bay and New England in the 1600s were very different from each other. Compared to the Chesapeake in the seventeenth century, people in New England were healthier physically, had more stable religion and better family values. Health conditions overwhelmed the Chesapeake colonies with infections, diseases, and deaths. "Plagued by horrendous ... mortality, the Chesapeake remained, for most of the seventeenth century, a land of immigrants rather than of settled families." (Nash pg. 39) Grandparents were almost unheard of bec...

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... person, which seems (though the calculation is doubtful) to have been the annual consumption in Venice at the beginning of the seven- teenth century.116 However, other indications suggest that the Venetian working class was both well paid and demanding, and that the better-off had the extrava- ... turing animals, and even in later times its agriculture left plenty of room for livestock. But Europe's advantage declined after the seventeenth century. The general rule of vegetable supremacy seemed to be re-asserting itself with the increase in population in Europe up to at least the ... th...

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... Will to Knowledge: The History of Sexuality, Volume 1," is part one of a trilogy of works, which examines the evolution of discourse about sex and sexuality from the seventeenth century onwards. It explores the way in which theological, pedagogical, social, economic and political forces have shaped our understanding and attitudes towards sex and sexuality. Foucault proposes that, rather than ... his reasoning in a clear and logical historical time line, in order to demonstrate evolution of the discourse about sex. Foucault reasons that on first glance, the beginning of the seventeenth ce...

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