An historical account of the plantation in Ulster at the commencement of the seventeenth century, 1608–1620. By George Hill. Belfast, 1877 Reprinted, with an introduction by John G. Barry pp ix. xi. 623. Shannon: Irish University Press. 1970. £9.50.

1972 ◽  
Vol 18 (70) ◽  
pp. 260-262
Author(s):  
R.J. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Historical Account

scholarly journals Nicolas Sanson and his Map: The Course of the Amazon River

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-365 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Pimentel Cintra ◽  
Rafael Henrique de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Scientific Work ◽  
Amazon Region ◽  
Amazon River ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Prime Meridian ◽  
A Current

One of the first scientific maps of the Amazon region, The Course of the Amazon River (Le Cours de La Rivière des Amazones), was constructed by Nicolas Sanson, a French cartographer of the seventeenth century, and served as the prototype for many others. The evaluation of this chart, until now, has been that it is a very defective map, a sketch based on a historical account, according to the opinion of La Condamine. Thus, the aim of the present work was to prove that the map of the Amazon River traced by Nicolas Sanson is a scientific work, a map that presents precise geographic coordinates considering its time, shows a well-determined prime meridian, and also employs a creative methodology to deduce longitudes from latitudes and distances that had been covered. To show such characteristics, an analysis of the accuracy of the map was made by comparing its latitudes and longitudes with those of a current map. We determined the prime meridian of this map and analyzed the methodology used for the calculation of longitudes. The conclusion is that it is actually a good map for the time, particularly considering the technology and the limited information that Sanson had at his disposal. This proves that the negative assertion of La Condamine is unfounded.

scholarly journals Seventeenth-Century Pamphlets as Constituents of a Public Communications Space: A Historical Critique of Public Sphere Theory

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-62
Author(s):  
Pascal Verhoest
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Building Block ◽  
Parliamentary Democracy ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
The Public Sphere

A public sphere in which people can freely discuss worldly affairs is arguably an essential building block of deliberative democracies. As a theoretical and historical concept, however, the public sphere concept is far from unequivocal. This article reviews Habermasian public sphere theory and particularly his failure, according to critics, to establish the ‘bourgeois public sphere’ as an historical category. It provides a more realistic historical account that helps to reframe contemporary conceptions of the public sphere. It argues that the 17th century’s culture of pamphleteering created the space for a proto-public sphere, characterized as a complex network of discursive practices mixing commercial doggerel, state-sponsored propaganda and reasoned argument. These practices were part of contradictory but mutually constitutive processes in the context of religious and political struggles that coincided with the gestation of parliamentary democracy.

A socio-historical account of the formation of the creole language of Antigua

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 288-315
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Galarza Ballester
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Slave Labor ◽  
Divergent Form ◽  
Plantation Economy ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Language Variety ◽  
Linguistic Groups

The present paper constructs a socio-historically oriented account of Antiguan Creole (hereafter AC) formation based on the chronology, demographics, economy, and origin and distribution of the population groups of colonial Antigua. During the first decades after the establishment of the colony in the mid seventeenth century until the end of that century, Antigua based its economy on small holdings not dependent on slave labor, where contact among different linguistic groups was so close and direct as to create a second language variety (hereafter L2). By the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, the demographic make-up changed radically as sugar became the dominant crop, enslaved peoples were massively imported, and a plantation economy dominated the island’s affairs. It is during this period that segregation increased, creating a gap between groups of European and African origin, which resulted in a process of restructuring that created a more divergent form of the earlier L2. Thus I argue that AC formation involved both the pre-plantation and the plantation phases, so the creolization process was not completed until the importation of slaves stopped and the balance between the locally-born and the foreign-born population shifted in favor of the former. Furthermore, I survey the language groups that may have been available during both phases and argue that AC formation was modeled on its lexifier during the first decades of its existence but its formation continued afterwards adopting more substrate traits. Therefore, moderate superstrate and substrate positions account for AC formation.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Episcopal Church ◽  
Port Royal

This Introduction briefly describes the work’s principal actors, namely the seventeenth-century Jansenists of Port-Royal and those contemporary English Protestant theologians committed to the defence of the episcopal Church of England, and its central intellectual themes, relating to the theology of grace and moral theology. It lays out the twofold aims of the work: in the first place, to provide a historical account of English knowledge of continental debates surrounding Jansenism in the seventeenth century; and, in the second, to explore the two very different theological sensibilities thus juxtaposed in a comparative perspective, of which the theme of moral rigorism constitutes the point of focus. The manner in which contested early modern labels are used in the text is explained in a note on terms.

scholarly journals zeitgenössische Perzeption des Niedergangs der Hansekontore in den 'Hanseatica' (1674) des Danziger Syndikus Wenzel Mittendorp

2020 ◽  
Vol 132 ◽  
pp. 79-104
Author(s):  
Magnus Ressel
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Political ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Ultimate Failure ◽  
Unique Source ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Active Membership

The Decay of the Hanseatic Kontors in the „Hanseatica“ (1674)of the Danzig Syndic Wenzel MittendorpIn the second half of the seventeenth Century, no one could dispute the decay of the Hanse. Yet the ultimate dissolution of this once famous and powerful alliance of cities and towns was not inevitable. Influential politicians in the principal Hanse towns and cities endeavored valiantly throughout the seventeenth Century to keep the league’s members together. One of these pro-Hanse politicians was the Danzig Syndic Wenzel Mittendorp, a Senator who had been active in the city for the better part of the first half of the seventeenth Century. Around mid-century he wrote a manuscript of roughly 1000 pages, the „Hanseatica“ (,Hanseatic affairs'), intended as a monument to his decades of service as a Hanse politician and containing his principal thoughts, ideas and arguments on and for the league. The manuscript is a unique source for historians since it gives us a detailed view on the perception of the forces of decay in the league. Moreover, since it is principally a historical account of the league, the manuscript can be judged to have been one of the first scholarly attempts to provide a coherent narrative of the league and thus to instill a sense of tradition into its readers. Regarding matters from the perspective of midseventeenth Century Danzig, Mittendorp looked mostly at the Kontors and identified their tribulations as the root of the crisis of the Hanse. Originally based on the economic success of the Kontors, the league was now decaying parallel to their decline. Mittendorp’s contribution was addressed to his fellow politicians in Danzig, in whom he wanted to inculcate a conviction of the value of continuing active membership in the Hanse; regardless of the problems of the Kontors. Tradition and advantages beyond the mere commercial constituted his principal arguments in favor of Danzig’s continuing membership in the Hanse. Notwithstanding his ultimate failure to achieve this goal, Mittendorp’s arguments give us an illuminating insight into the self-perception of the Hanse at one of its formerly principal centers at a time when the fundamental questions on the continuation or dissolution of the league forced its adherents to bring their most compelling arguments to the fore. The result was the „Hanseatica“, a unique source for any historian interested in the political mindset of Hanse politicians in the decades preceding the end of the league.

The Manuscript Tradition of Isidore of Pelusium

1954 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morton Smith
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Manuscript Tradition ◽  
New Period ◽  
History Of

The study of Isidore falls roughly into three periods, mediaeval, when the text was used principally for catenae and florilegia, sixteenth-and-seventeenth-century, when it was published and a rudimentary historical account of Isidore worked out from it and from the better-known testimonia, and modern. Of the modern period the outstanding works have been H. Niemeyer's account of Isidore's life and writings, Capo's, Turner's and Lake's studies establishing the relationships of the major western MSS, and the recent work of Dom Andreas Schmid, Die Christologie Isidors von Pelusium, which, by its account of the history of the text, marks a new period in the study. Besides these works, the past fifty years have seen considerable collection of parallels between Isidore's letters and passages in classical or early Christian authors, as well as several detailed discussions of the content of the letters. These discussions have uniformly been undistinguished expositions of the obvious, and the largest collection of parallels, that of L. Bayer, merited the crushing review it was given by K. Fuhr and has since been considerably supplemented by articles which individually, however, are minor.

Uncertainty in Post-Reformation Catholicism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefania Tutino
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Moral Theology ◽  
Society Of Jesus ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Intellectual System ◽  
Moral System ◽  
Catholic Theological

This book provides a historical account of the development and implications of early modern probabilism. First elaborated in the sixteenth century, probabilism represented a significant and controversial novelty in Catholic moral theology. Against a deep-seated tradition defending the strict application of moral rules, probabilist theologians maintained that in situations of uncertainty, the agent can legitimately follow any course of action supported by a probable opinion, no matter how disputable. By the second half of the seventeenth century, and thanks in part to Pascal’s influential antiprobabilist stances, probabilism had become inextricably linked to the Society of Jesus and to a lax and excessively forgiving moral system. To this day, most historians either ignore probabilism, or they associate it with moral duplicity and intellectual and cultural decadence. By contrast, this book argues that probabilism was instrumental for addressing the challenges created by a geographically and intellectually expanding world. Early modern probabilist theologians saw that these challenges provoked an exponential growth of uncertainties, doubts, and dilemmas of conscience, and they realized that traditional theology was not equipped to deal with them. Therefore, they used probabilism to integrate changes and novelties within the post-Reformation Catholic theological and intellectual system. Seen in this light, probabilism represented the result of their attempts to appreciate, come to terms with, and manage uncertainty. Uncertainty continues to play a central role even today. Thus, learning how early modern probabilists engaged with uncertainty might be useful for us as we try to cope with our own moral and epistemological doubts.

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