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Biology of plagues evidence from historical populations / by Scott, Susan, 1953-

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The language of defendants in the 17th-century English courtroom a socio-pragmatic analysis of the prisoners' interactional role and representation / by Cecconi, Elisabetta

Table of Contents: “…The 17th-century English courtroom -- Defendants and professionals : verbal duelling in the arraignment section -- Defence construction in the evidence phase -- Representation of defendants as a form of political propaganda.…”
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Memory's library medieval books in early modern England / by Summit, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Edmunds, and The fall of princes -- The lost libraries of English humanism : More, Starkey, Elyot -- Reading Reformation : the libraries of Matthew Parker and Edmund Spenser -- A library of evidence : Robert Cotton's medieval manuscripts and the generation of seventeenth-century prose -- "Cogitation against libraries" : Bacon, the Bodleian, and the weight of the medieval past -- Coda : memories of libraries.…”
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From Jamestown to Jefferson the evolution of religious freedom in Virginia /

Table of Contents: “…Evidence of religion in seventeenth-century Virginia / Brent Tarter -- Lived religion in colonial Virginia / Edward L. …”
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Newton and the origin of civilization by Buchwald, Jed Z.

Table of Contents: “…Troubled Senses -- Troubled Numbers -- Erudition and Chronology in Seventeenth-Century England -- Isaac Newton on Prophecies and Idolatry -- Aberrant Numbers : The Propagation of Mankind before and after the Deluge -- Newtonian History -- Text and Testimony -- Interpreting Words -- Publication and Reaction -- The War on Newton in England -- The War on Newton in France -- The Demise of Chronology -- Evidence and History -- Appendix A: Signs, Conventions, Dating, and Definitions -- Appendix B: Newton's Computational Methods -- Appendix C: Commented Extracts from Newton's MS Calculations -- Appendix D: Placing Colures on the Original Star Globe -- Appendix E: Hesiod, Thales, and Stellar Risings and Settings.…”
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Learning and the market place essays in the history of the early modern book / by Maclean, Ian, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…The market for scholarly books and conceptions of genre in Northern Europe, 1570-1630 -- The readership of philosophical fictions in France in the sixteenth century : the bibliographical evidence -- Mediations of Zabarella in northern Germany, 1586-1623 -- The diffusion of learned medicine in the sixteenth century through the printed book -- The reception of medieval practical medicine in the sixteenth century : the case of Arnau de Vilanova -- Melanchthon at the book fairs, 1560-1601 : editors, markets and religious strife -- Cardano and his publishers, 1534-1663 -- André Wechel at Frankfurt, 1572-1581 -- Murder, debt and retribution in the Italico-Franco-Spanish book trade : the Beraud-Michel-Ruiz affair, 1586-1591 -- Competitors or collaborators? …”
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British and Irish emigrants and exiles in Europe, 1603-1688

Table of Contents: “…Trim -- Scottish Catholics abroad, 1603-1688: evidence derived from the archives of the Scots colleges / Tom McInally -- Irish Franciscan networks at home and abroad, 1607-1640 / Thomas O'Connor -- The English convents in exile and questions of national identity, c. 1600-1688 / Caroline Bowden -- Perceptions of the British Isles and Ireland among the Catholic exiles: the case of Robert Corbington SJ / Peter Davidson.…”
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Gaming the Stage Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater / by Bloom, Gina

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Gaming the Stage : Playable Media and the Rise of English Commercial Theater / by Bloom, Gina

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