Seventeenth century

was painted in the early seventeenth century in Italy, at the beginning of the Baroque era. By contorting Magdalene’s body, bathing her in light and encompassing her in darkness, Galli was able to present the viewer with an image representative of her divided identity. Galli likely chose to paint the Magdalene because she was one of the most popular saints in Baroque Italy. As Susan Haskins (author of Mary Magdalen: Myth and Metaphor) notes, “from the thirteenth century, the penitent Magdalene became

role of Japanese foreign policy in relation to the 17th Century crisis Research Question Did the foreign policy adopted by the Tokugawa Bakufu help Japan to cope with the challenges of the ‘general crisis’ during the 17th Century, or did it worsen the problems faced by Japan? Hypothesis Hypothesis: The foreign policy adopted by the Tokugawa Bakufu served to help Japan to cope with the challenges of the ‘general crisis’ during the 17th Century. Null Hypothesis: The foreign policy adopted by the Tokugawa

reworked and widely accepted in the seventeenth century. Whilst these studies turned the spotlight on a fundamental tradition disregarded or rejected by the previous works, they still cannot explain how a theological idea, clearly shaped four centuries before the emergence of modern science, became so dominant during the seventeenth century. In Henry’s view, Oakley and Milton cannot answer why the appeal to laws of nature took place in the seventeenth century and not before, bearing in mind that

Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) was a Dutch painter from Delft who came into prominence during the Dutch Golden Age. His painting of A Girl Asleep is a “genre” painting. He brings the genre art to life in this painting by exploring the effects of atmosphere, color, compositional structure, light, and perspective in relation to its intimate interior scene. The painting tells the story of a young woman, occasionally with a male companion, asleep while seated on a table in a domestic interior. The format

The stark differences between men and women seem to have existed for as long as men and women have existed. In early seventeenth century Virginia, men migrated for the rugged independence of the New World, and women avoided the same path due to the illness, danger, and isolation. A severe gender imbalance quickly emerged. To remedy this issue, women were essentially imported into the colony to marry the excess of single men. This pattern of marital immigration developed in deep contrast to contemporary

• Social: In 17th century large numbers of artists traveled to Rome to develop themselves, to work and study and Nicolas Poussin born in French spend significant time I Rome as well. Rome attracted the young artists not only with the many regulations that being extended by the Church but with the opportunity to learn from the past masters I art. Most of the 17th century was dominated by the baroque style, whose expressive power was well appropriate to the needs of the Counter-Reformation Church for

to rethink the nature, or even existence of God and his role in the universe. Several philosophers claimed that the universe’s laws could be quantified mathematically. This position, which thinkers known as deist adopted in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, denied the Christian belief that God was constantly active in the operation of the world. More directly, it rejected the possibility of miracles. Rene Descartes and others rejected the ideas that God could intervene into the matters

the picture. Humanism, the Reformation and nationalism all appear as subheadings in your reading on the sixteenth century, but are not referred to in the introduction to the early seventeenth century (although humanism and nationalism existed at that time as well). I believe it is because the intial impact of humanism, the Reformation and nationalism was felt during the sixteenth century. In the discussion of humanism on page 396, your text lists the educational goals of scholars who studied and

In this critical review I will compare the two texts by Peter Earle and Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk. The articles are about woman’s work in the 17th and early 18th century respectively about women’s work in the Dutch textile industry and female labour marked in London. The article by Earle (in 1989) is released before Meerkerk’s article (2006) and there are in Meerkerk analysis some pointing to Earle’s article. I will start with a short presentation of each of the two articles, how and from

significance and relevance of Potosi in the colonial society? Discuss the importance of Potosí as a mining center, large urban setting, and a land of opportunities for Europeans and Amerindians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. During the colonial period sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Potosi was one of the most important and relevant regions in Latin America. Its importance was based on the great opportunities of mining, economic grow, land and jobs, etc that Potosí offered at the colonial