But she's added to her intensively researched image repertoire an interest in visionary female predecessors such as the Manchester-born founder of the Shakers, Ann Lee and the subjects of early-modern witch trials. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The museum's five tons of early-modern type were capable of printing books in everything from Dutch to Aramaic. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2011)
Sustainability may be a 21st-century buzzword, he explained, but it's also a 300-year-old German invention, rooted in early-modern anxiety over mines running out of timber. ❋ J. S. Marcus (2011)
Before they died—short of cash—they were able to sell many of their Matisses to good friends, who then gave the works to the San Francisco museum, where they form the core of its early-modern collection today. ❋ David Littlejohn (2011)
Does she think we should return to an early-modern economy based on credit (in the Ben Franklin sense, "The most trifling Actions that affect a Man's Credit, are to be regarded. ... [etc.]")? ❋ Unknown (2010)
These cellular chambers and limited-function rooms furthered the early-modern drive toward the display of luxury items that made visible the householder's social and political standing. 4 Collectively, the presence chamber, privy chamber, private chapel, and bedchamber contained many of the elaborate tapestries, cloths of estate, ornate beds, and sumptuous cushions that displayed the wealth of the householder to the guests that they wished to impress. ❋ Unknown (2008)
On the other hand, the Houses of Parliament aren 't currently held in the highest of esteem either, so a certain rosy fondness attaches itself to early-modern plots to blow them up. ❋ Sam Leith (2010)
Sabean similarly argues for the importance of women in anchoring kin networks in early-modern Germany, Kinship in Neckarhausen, 379 – 97. back ❋ Unknown (2008)
At UCLA I benefited tremendously from the knowledge, generosity, and scholarly examples of Bill Worger, Ned Alpers, and Chris Ehret, who encouraged me to sustain my interest in early-modern history while pursuing specialist training as an Africanist. ❋ Unknown (2008)
To Powers, the table is an example of a then-new technology that made the most of an older one -- handwriting -- to help users manage the early-modern equivalent of information overload. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Life in the early-modern Italian Jewish household can be gleaned from the literature of rebuke, such as sermons, commentaries, and polemics, which contained admonitions for the behavior of Jewish women. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The study of women in early-modern Italian Jewish history leads to a new sense of the nature of Jewish society itself at this time. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I wonder if medieval and early-modern scholars, and scholars of other cultures, could cite examples of acceptable fanfic too. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The focus of this article is on legal-economic institutions that organized early-modern Eurasian trade. ❋ Mary L. Dudziak (2009)
Indeed, one must note that, as with the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream and the ghost in Hamlet, Shakespeare's use of witches matched the worldview of his early-modern audience. ❋ Jack Of Kent (2009)
So what you are suggesting is that present-day Immigrants to the UK should do to the British what early-modern Immigrants did to the Native Americans. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In fact, her literary accomplishments seem to have enhanced Jewish standing in early-modern Italy. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In a fascinating record of the critique of women assuming activities supposed to be confined to males in early-modern Italian Jewish spirituality, Yagel explicitly singled out for rebuke women involved in religious, mostly ascetic, practices such as daily prayer, fasting, placing ashes on their heads, wearing sackcloth and denying themselves enjoyment of even the smallest earthly matters, especially pleasure. ❋ Unknown (2009)
There, during the early-modern period, having been granted charters, local Jews, joined by refugees from Europe, including waves from French, German, and Iberian lands, provided valuable services as moneylenders and merchants. ❋ Unknown (2009)
