...the Purmer, and the Wormer, and along the river Vecht. The urbanization of the district of Holland at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century was of considerable influence on the migration of townsfolk to country estates. In 1622, 54 percent...

...professional poets. This is reflected in a poem by Feargal 6g Mac an Bhaird, an Ulster poet who flourished at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. In his Dursan mh'eachtra go hAlbuin ('Hard is my journey to Alba'), Feargal laments his exile in Scotland,...

...visiting Scottish universities. Professor James K. Cameron has stated in various publications that at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century Scotland was not such a complete terra incognita as is often thought152. But information about Dutchmen...

...icon-painting manner (the representation of the Tsar Ivan the Terrible and Prince MV Skopin Shuisky at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, and in the second quarter of the seventeenth century), then in a more realistic spirit (the portraits...

...'Thus we saie that the poor are made for the good of the ritche',1 declares an anonymous English writer at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century, and he could be sure that many of his contemporaries still agreed with him, seeing the poor as an integral...

...297-312. In England, the term "enthusiasm" in the sense of poetic inspiration was first introduced at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. See Peter Spoo, "Enthusiasm", in Europäische Schlüssehvörier, Band II: Kurzmonographien I: Worter...

...eighteenth century, and that if there was a revolution at all, it must be seen in an earlier period, at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. At the other extreme, JH Clapham has argued that the revolution was far from complete in the nineteenth...

...of the baroque man of affairs. (In general, it was via the curricula established by Jesuit pedagogy at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century that the new innovations in literature found their way into the hearts and minds of the colonial intelligentsia.)...

...transformation. Those powers were not without aesthetic consequence in the delicate political contexts evident at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century. As part of a "new" and potentially subversive fashion, the elitist nature of the ayre cannot be discounted:...

...Provinces, the majority of artists in Amsterdam were former Flemings. Haarlem, the center of Dutch art at the end of the sixteenth and the beginning of the seventeenth century and the city in which van Mander settled, also had a determinative Flemish contingent. The locus of...