... License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Major advanced economies, including Japan, began to experience accelerated productivity growth in the early modern period...

... water and of changing attitudes and practices over the course of the early modern period. printed health regimens early modern period water consumption practices attitudes to water Social historians have too often assumed that in pre-modern Europe, people did not drink the water; it was too unsafe...

..., please e-mail: [email protected] 2012 philology early modern period This anthology, the product primarily of philologists in Finland, attempts to chart early modern English medical writing from a linguistic point of view. Given the dramatic shifts in medical theory and thought from 1500...

... of women's ageing in prose written by two Spanish women of the early modern period: María de Zayas and Mariana de Carvajal. Older women (namely widows) are key members of Zayas' frame-narrative community. Ultimately, Zayas' female protagonists succeed in creating a matria, a space dominated by older...