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The Synod of Dort in Arabic: Bodleian MS Marsh 268 The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-03 Nabil Matar
Bodleian MS Marsh 268 is a translation of the Heidelberg Confession, the Belgic Catechism, and a selection from the Standards of the Reformed Church. Completed in May 1619 at the conclusions of the...
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Descartes: the renewal of philosophy The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Hugh Roberts
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Milton and the resources of the line The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Tom Lockwood
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A ‘more precise definition of the soul’ from the flights of the soul in The Blazing World and Primero sueño The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-12 Siyeon Lee
This study investigates Margaret Cavendish’s The Blazing World and Sor Juana’s Primero sueño (First Dream) in relation to Elisabeth of Bohemia’s inquiry about the soul-body union in her corresponde...
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Blind lives: the sightless and society in early modern England The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Bernard Capp
The historiography on blindness in the early modern period has focused almost entirely on the condition itself, rather than the lived experiences of the blind. It is often suggested that before the...
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In the kitchen, 1550–1800: reading English cooking at home and abroad The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Deborah L. Krohn
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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‘A fool upon record’: the redefinition of the Caroline stage fool The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Nikki Roulo
In the 1630s, two central cultural arbiters sought to eliminate the figure of the fool from English culture. Both the city and court decried fools as figures of past barbarism. Yet, as this article...
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Materiality and devotion in the poetry of George Herbert The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Sophie Read
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Hiding in plain view: religiosity and patronage in the works of William Dugdale The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-25 Oliver D. Harris
This paper considers the religious sympathies and motivations of the antiquary William Dugdale, and of some of those who helped support the publication of his works through patronage of their engra...
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‘Instructive types’ or mere ‘fancies’: assessing French fashion prints in the library of Samuel Pepys The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Marlo Avidon
Within the library of the famed diarist Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) at Magdalene College, Cambridge sits one of the largest surviving bound collections of seventeenth-century French fashion prints. Co...
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‘Darkness Visible’: Modes of Coal Smoke in Milton’s Hell The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-12 Deborah Rosario
There has been a current of literary criticism that approaches Milton’s Paradise Lost from an environmental and ecological perspective. Such criticism has connected images of sulphur and smoke in H...
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Gaspard de Monconys’ Defence against the Charge of Imposture: Criminal Justice, Social Hierarchy, and Personal Identity in Early Seventeenth-Century France The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 Mark Greengrass, Tom Hamilton
This article analyses a remarkable criminal trial which took place in early seventeenth-century France. In 1617, Gaspard de Monconys, son of a prominent judge in Lyon, was accused of committing sac...
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Politics, Patronage, and Poetics in Hobbes’s Homer The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Timothy Raylor
Taking issue with the new orthodoxy that Hobbes set about his late-career translations of Homer in order to ventriloquize political opinions he was prevented by the processes of Restoration censors...
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Editiones Rariores, nos. 1 and 2, Edited by William Poole, Oxford, 2021-23 The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Richard Maber
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)
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Words Turned Upside Down The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Alex Beeton
Review article of Words at War: The Contested Language of the English Civil War, edited by Andrew Hadfield and Paul Hammond, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2024, xi + 342 pp., £90 (hardback), ISB...
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‘Oliver Cromwell is a Devil!’ Religious Radicalism and Political Turmoil in Geneva during the English Civil Wars The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Nicholas A. Cumming
When King Charles I was beheaded in 1649 it incited a series of events in the Reformed city of Geneva. The Civil Wars and Regicide uncovered the political and religious tensions within Geneva durin...
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‘A Late Court-Poet’ Revisited: Milton, Cleveland, and The Readie and Easie Way The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 James Loxley
This essay makes a case for identifying the ‘late court-Poet’ to whom Milton alludes in both editions of The Readie and Easie Way to Establish a Free Common-wealth as the royalist poet John Clevela...
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John Milton, Catholic The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-19 N. H. Keeble
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)
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English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: the paper revolution The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Tom Lockwood
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)
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Sir Oliver Style, his Verse, and the Smyrna Earthquake of 1688 The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Oliver Pickering
Oliver Style, the son of a Kentish baronet, was working in Smyrna, Turkey, when in 1688 the port city was devastated by an earthquake. Thousands were killed. Style survived (though apparently serio...
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Puritanism and Natural Philosophy revisited: the case of Ralph Austen (c. 1612–1676) The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 D.C.R. Austen
Twentieth-century historians of science emphasised the apparent connection between puritanism and experimental natural philosophy in mid-seventeenth-century England, but revisionist scholarship exp...
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In the Service of the Shogun: The Real Story of William Adams The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Michael Laver
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)
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Shakespeare Beyond the Green World: Drama and Ecopolitics in Jacobean Britain The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Stewart Mottram
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)
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Books received 2023 The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Richard Maber
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2024)
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The Legal Writing of Sir Edward Coke, the Anglo-Saxons, and Lex Terrae The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ian King
This article examines the treatises and law reports of Sir Edward Coke (1552–1634), the Attorney General under Elizabeth I and later, Chief Justice of the courts of Common Pleas and King’s Bench. T...
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‘Epiques chang’d to Doleful Elegies’: The Poems on the Death of Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 John West
This article examines the elegies written in 1660 in response to the death of Henry Stuart, Duke of Gloucester. It analyses the elegies to show how Henry’s death meant the joys of the Restoration s...
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Restoration Playbooks and Receivers’ Stamps: James Magnes, Richard Bentley, and ‘the Post-Office in Russel-street in Covent-Garden’ The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Emma Koch, David McInnis
This article examines the surprisingly prevalent incidence of contemporary handstamps impressed upon the final leaf of Restoration playbooks. These are all circular and contain either individual le...
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Charles I, the ‘Protestant Party,’ the Palatinate and a Franco-Stuart Alliance – 1636-9 The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Fraser J. Dickinson
This article considers the foreign policy of Charles I towards France between 1636 and 1639. Against the backdrop of the Thirty Years War, Robert Sidney, second earl of Leicester, was dispatched to...
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The ambassador and the press: printed diplomatic letters and the entanglement of public and private news provision in the late seventeenth-century Dutch Republic The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Basil Bowdler, Arthur der Weduwen
In 1669, the regents of the States General, the federal assembly of the Dutch Republic, instructed their printer (Statendrukker) henceforth to print all documents that they required in at least fiv...
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Hospitality towards European travellers in Latin America in the colonial middle The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Sarah Albiez-Wieck, Raquel Gil Montero
Hospitality was considered a Christian and humanitarian virtue in the early modern period. This article studies hospitality in eight travel reports by Europeans who travelled Latin America in the c...
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The Devil from over the Sea: remembering and forgetting Oliver Cromwell in Ireland The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Alan Ford
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Editorial The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Richard Maber
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Rhetoric and scepticism: Thomas Browne’s Amphibium mind in Religio Medici The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Seung Cho
This article explores Thomas Browne’s figuration of the Amphibium mind in Religio Medici as the hallmark of the seventeenth-century literary mind, oriented toward intellectual flexibility, generosi...
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Trace of Stoic logic in Descartes: Stoic axiōma and Descartes’s pronuntiatum in the Second Meditation The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Ayumu Tamura
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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New light on the strolling performers Thomas Peadle and Thomas Cosby, 1639–1650 The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 J. P. Vander Motten
The present article brings to light new information about Thomas Peadle, a representative of the younger generation of a late 16th- and early 17th-century family of strolling entertainers, whose ca...
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John Donne and English Puritanism, 1650–1700 The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Katherine Calloway
In recent decades, it has become clear that John Donne’s seventeenth-century readership is larger and more varied than was once believed. One audience that has not been given much scholarly attenti...
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“Will doe all in her power”: the role of women in the contested will of Henry Cavendish The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Laura Charles
When the 2nd Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Henry Cavendish died in 1691, he left behind one of the wealthiest estates in England. Having no male heir, he chose to leave his fortune to his favourite ...
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Fallacy/The Sophister (c. 1614), a Wykehamist play The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Adrian Streete
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Literature and Natural Theology in Early Modern England The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Mingna Cheng
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Annals of the War in the Low Countries The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Helmer Helmers
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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The political thought of the English free state, 1649–1653 The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Alice Hunt
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726: The Private and Public Worlds of the English Revolution and Restoration The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Alex Beeton
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 1, 2024)
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Waltoniana Extensa: A Previously Unidentified Political Pamphlet by Izaak Walton The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Benjamin M. Guyer
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 2, 2024)
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The Precious Summary: a history of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing dynasty The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 David Sneath
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)
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Urban Aesthetics in Early Modern London: The Invention of the Metaphysical The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Adrian Green
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 39, No. 3, 2024)
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Philosophical reflections on Japan’s Sakoku policy: seventeenth-century English perspectives The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-12 J.K. Numao
After the expulsion of the Portuguese from Japan in 1639, European trade with Japan was restricted to the Dutch. Doors were closed to other Western nations for the next 215 years. This isolationist...
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The Impact of Milton’s Of Education on the Hartlib Circle’s Understanding of Public and Private The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Anthony Bromley
Milton’s Of Education was an influential contribution to the Hartlibian philosophy of advancing knowledge in the 1640s. This article proposes that Milton’s blueprint for an aristocratic academy enj...
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Contributors The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 6, 2023)
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‘Decisions, Decisions!’ The Cromwellian clergy navigate the restoration of the church, c.1660–1663 The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Rebecca Warren
Much attention has been paid to the ‘puritan’ clergy who refused to conform to the Act of Uniformity in 1662 but far less has been focused on those ministers of the revolution who chose to remain w...
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Contesting the Church of England 1640-70: the European Dimension The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Anthony Milton
The contest over the identity of the Church of England in the mid-seventeenth century is often conceived from a purely English perspective. This article suggests that considering its neglected Euro...
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Introduction The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Kenneth Fincham, Andrew Foster
Published in The Seventeenth Century (Vol. 38, No. 6, 2023)
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The godly lives of Samuel Clarke and the ‘national church’ in the 1650s The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Peter Lake
The godly lives of Samuel Clarke have traditionally been consulted by historians of early Stuart puritanism for biographical information, particularly anecdotal information, about many of the most ...
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‘The wall and glory of Jerusalem’: the sermons preached before the Lord Mayor and City of London during in the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration (1649-1662) The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Elliot Vernon
This paper examines the sermons preached before the Lord Mayor and leadership of the City of London during the Commonwealth, Protectorate and early Restoration. It explores the locations and admini...
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The English Presbyterian Conundrum of 1660-1 The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Kenneth Fincham, Stephen Taylor
This article aims to explain the failure of the English presbyterian programme to reform the church at the Restoration. Specifically, it analyses the period between March 1660, when the Long Parlia...
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After 1662: ejected ministers and the support for nonconformity, the first decade revisited The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 David L. Wykes
This study reviews the development of Dissent during the first decade after the 1662 Act of Uniformity. It focuses on the laity as well as the ministers who were silenced, and on the Presbyterians ...
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The minister is much disheartened: clergy and their communities in Interregnum legal records The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Fiona McCall
Many questions remain to be answered about the parish clergy who served in England’s churches between 1640 and 1660, due to the difficulties of interrogating the complex, ever-changing, singular an...
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Loss and Survival: The Episcopalian Spiritual Vocation, 1646-62 The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Sarah Ward Clavier
This article outlines a forthcoming project on the episcopalian spiritual vocation in the period c.1640 to 1662. It explains the rationale for the project and its place within the historiography. T...
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Diversity, complexity and compromise: first thoughts from the House of Commons 1640–1660 project on the reshaping of the church The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Vivienne Larminie
The enactment of religious change through Parliament during the Reformation gave it a central role in shaping the church in England; this role deepened in the mid-seventeenth century. The House of ...
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Catholics in the Interregnum The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Eilish Gregory
This essay examines how Catholics experienced changes to the religious and political landscape during the Interregnum. Since the later sixteenth century, Catholics had faced legal sanctions because...
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Regional Book Distribution and Political Participation in the English Civil War The Seventeenth Century (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Niall Allsopp
Regional book distribution was central to political mobilization in the localities during the English Civil Wars. A contextual approach, building up a picture from print and manuscript sources such...