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John Locke and personal identity immortality and bodily resurrection in 17th-century philosophy / by Forstrom, Joanna K.

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Public offices, personal demands capability in governance in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic /

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Naturalization of the soul self and personal identity in the eighteenth century / by Martin, Raymond, 1941-

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Orpheus in the marketplace : Jacopo Peri and the economy of late renaissance Florence / by Carter, Tim, 1954-

Subjects: “…Peri, Jacopo, 1561-1633 Finance, Personal.…”
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Law, politics and society in early modern England by Brooks, C. W.

Table of Contents: “…English history and the history of English law 1485-1642 -- Courts, lawyers and legal thought under the early Tudors -- The initiatives of the crown and the break from Rome -- Political realities and legal discourse in the later sixteenth century -- The politics of jurisdiction I: the liberty of the subject and the ecclesiastical polity 1560--c. 1610 -- The politics of jurisdiction II: multiple kingdoms and questions about royal authority -- The absoluta potestas of a sovereign and the liberty of the subject: law and political controversy in the 1620s -- The degeneration of civil society into a state of war 1629--1642 -- Law and 'community' -- The aristocracy, the gentry and the rule of law -- Economic and tenurial relationships -- The household and its members -- The person, the community and the state.…”
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John Donne's performances sermons, poems, letters and devotions / by Fetzer, Margret

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : beginning Donne -- Pulpit performances : sermons -- Promethean and protean performances : worldly poems -- Passionate performances : poems erotic and divine -- Patronage performances : letters -- (Inter)personal performances : devotions -- Conclusion : being Don(n)e -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Everyday life in the early English Caribbean : Irish, Africans, and the construction of difference / by Shaw, Jenny, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…"An heathen brutish, and an uncertaine and dangerous kind of people" : figuring difference in the early English Atlantic -- "An exact account of the number of persons upon the island" : enumeration, improvement, and control -- "To live in perpetuall noise and hurry" : creating communities on Caribbean plantations -- "Doing their prayers and worshipping god in their hearts" : ritual, practice, and keeping the faith -- "Endeavouring to raise mutinie and sedition" : the challenge to English -- Domination -- "As quietly and happily as the English subjects" : property, prosperity, and the power of emulation.…”
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Literature, satire and the early Stuart state by McRae, Andrew

Table of Contents: “…Pt. I. Personal Politics -- 1. The culture of early Stuart libelling -- 2. …”
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Warrior pursuits : noble culture and civil conflict in early modern France / by Sandberg, Brian, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Culture of revolt -- The call to arms from all quarters : rituals of arming -- A great multitude of soldiers : personal armies -- The zeal of this nobility : violent performances.…”
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Catholic culture in early modern England

Table of Contents: “…Myers -- The English colleges and the English nation : Allen, Persons, Verstegan, and diasporic nationalism / Mark Netzloff -- The lives of women saints of our contrie of England : gender and nationalism in recusant hagiography / Catherine Sanok -- Anthony Munday's translations of Iberian chivalric romances : Palmerin of England, part 1 as exemplar / Donna B. …”
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The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678) : Painter, Writer, and Courtier /

Table of Contents: “…Preface: approaches to a multifaceted master -- Prolog: Samuel van Hoogstraten and the golden age of Dutch art, literature, and science: the present book and future research -- Van Hoogstraten's theory of theory of art / Jan Blanc -- Paradoxical passages: the work of framing in the art of Samuel van Hoogstraten / Celeste Brusati -- The young Samuel van Hoogstraten, corrected by Rembrandt / Ben Broos -- "Zwierich van sprong": Samuel van Hoogstraten's Night watch / Paul Taylor -- Samuel van Hoogstraten's personal letter-rack paintings: tributes with a message / Michiel Roscam Abbing -- A pledge of marital domestic bliss: Samuel van Hoogstraten's Perspective box in the National Gallery, London / Herman Colenbrander -- Van Hoogstraten's success in Britain / Fatma Yalcin -- Samuel van Hoogstraten, the first Dutch novelist? …”
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English women, religion, and textual production, 1500-1625

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : women, religious communities, prose genres, and textual production / Micheline White -- Living stones : Lady Elizabeth Russell and the art of sacred conversation / Patricia Phillippy -- Theise dearest offrings of my heart : the sacrifice of praise in Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke's Psalmes / Mary Trull -- Anne Dacre Howard, Countess of Arundel, and Catholic patronage / Susannah Brietz Monta -- Ensigne-bearers of Saint Clare : Elizabeth Evelinge's early translations and the restoration of England franciscanism / Jaime Goodrich -- Lady Anne Clifford and the uses of Christian warfare / Julie Crawford -- Prospecting for common ground in devotion : Queen Katherine Parr's personal prayerbook / Janel Mueller -- "Halff a scrypture woman" : heteroglossia and female authorial agency in prayers by Lady Elizabeth Tyrwhit, Anne Lock, and Anne Wheathill / Susan M. …”
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Forging urban solidarities Ottoman Aleppo, 1640-1700 / by Wilkins, Charles L.

Table of Contents: “…Extraordinary taxes ('avariz) and local administration -- The 'avariz tax regime and the conduct of tax surveys -- The mechanics of local tax administration : land use, personal liability, and apportionment -- The responsibilities and compensation of quarter tax officials -- A fiscal demography of Aleppo -- Urban responses to the Imposition of extraordinary taxes -- The frequency and level of extraordinary tax levies -- Popular strategies for tax relief : tax exemption -- Other individual strategies for tax relief -- Collective action and mutual assistance -- Residential quarters and the question of "positive loyalties" -- pt. 2. …”
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Early modern overseas trade and entrepreneurship : Nordic trading companies in the seventeenth century / by Wirta, Kaarle

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Hajj to the Heart : Sufi Journeys across the Indian Ocean / by Kugle, Scott Alan, 1969-

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