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2 days ago · He instead focuses on the history of ideas in the period from 1650 to the end of the 18th century and claims that it was the ideas themselves that caused the change that eventually led to the revolutions of the latter half of the 18th century and the early 19th century.
1 day ago · Extract. We are living in an autobiographical era, as readers all over America can readily attest. Jay Parini, in his introduction to the Norton Book of American Autobiography (1999), deduces that “the immense interest in this form of writing owes something to a moment when our culture as a whole has turned introspective, interested in (some might say obsessed by) self-definition” (p. 19).
5 days ago · Best known of these was that very prince among adventurers, G. J. Casanova de Seingalt, a man who in the latter half of the eighteenth century played the part of adventurer... His autobiography, Memoires écrits por lui-même, has been described as ‘unmatched as a self-revelation of scoundrelism.’
5 days ago · The Autobiography of a Seventeenth-Century Venetian Rabbi: Leon Modena’s Life of Judah (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988); Debra Kaplan, “The Self in Social Context: Asher Ha-Levi of Reichshofen’s Sefer Zikhronot,” Jewish Quarterly Review 97, no. 2 (2007): 210–36; Alexander Marx, “A Seventeenth-Century Autobiography: A Picture of Jewish Life in Bohemia and Moravia.
6 days ago · It includes volumes devoted to Early Modern Theatre, Edmund Spenser, English Prose 1500-1640, Holinshed's Chronicles, John Donne, Literature and the English Revolution, Milton, Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Poetry, the Early Modern Sermon, Thomas Middleton, Tudor Drama, and Tudor Literature 1485-1603.
- Nina Mamikunian
- 2014
2 days ago · It shows that records prior to 1680 are fragmentary. For the final two decades of the seventeenth century, pay ledgers are available for nearly half of the outgoing voyages, supplemented by data from request books. Starting from the early eighteenth century until 1780, an almost complete collection of pay ledgers is available.
2 days ago · But early 18th-century Britain also had its weaknesses. Its Celtic fringe—Wales, Ireland, and Scotland—had been barely assimilated. The vast majority of Welsh men and women could neither speak nor understand the English language.
