...OF PORT-ROYAL After the remarkable works of Scaliger and Ramus, the language studies that appeared at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries seem to have little scope. These books were meant for pedagogical purposes and brought no theoretical...

...Others expressed that anxiety in a less sublimated manner. Witch hunts, programs, and heresy trials at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries exposed the cracks developing in what, despite confessional divisions, had remained a homogeneously...

...trade which the city lacked.10 Understandings reached between the Jews and the Christian authorities at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries made it clear that no Jews were to become public charges. This caused no initial concern on the part...

...harvest as far as Dutchmen are concerned. As for the studies of Dutch students at Scottish universities at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, recent research leads to the provisional conclusion that few Dutchmen in this period put Scotland on...

...particularly in Slovakia's case, were the divisions and wars caused by the Reformation and Counter-Reformation at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries. The religious civil war dragged on and, in a sense, never ended, even if the bloodletting did finally...

...favorite, the earl of Leicester, and her secretary William Cecil, Lord Burleigh. Over a twentyyear period at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries there were 80 dedications to the Sidney and Herbert families, the most generous literary patrons of...

...know if any of those offering non-divine explanations of the activities of Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, had arrived at what we might now call an atheistical point of view. There is much discussion going...

...The later Kurdish qasida The Kurdish qasida, whose foundations were apparently laid by Malaye la/in at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries, later went through a cycle of development, initially flourishing, then declining in the subsequent...

...is not arbitrary. It is part of an ideological devaluation of motherhood that apparently intensified at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries (Aries 130, with a remarkable example from Montaigne). 24 Motherhood is rejected precisely on the grounds...

...materials and made little use of the short-fiber wool. Matthew Ricci writes of the Chinese wool industry at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth centuries as follows : They shear sheep, but in the use of sheep's wool they are not nearly as adept as the people...