... 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...

.... It also makes a clear differentiation the two laws by reconstructing events during the medieval and early-modern periods. Moreover, it evaluates several internal conflicts of law, extra-legal practices, and non-contentious forms of litigation. law legal realism Pound Roscoe constitutional fictions...

...This chapter sets out the stakes of the book's argument, situating the English East India Company with respect to some of the larger processes of transition and change in the early modern period and the dawn of modernity in the nineteenth century. The issues addressed are large-scale macro...

...The Introduction places the study of Ava and Pegu in a broader historiographic context by addressing several issues: 1) the significance of the history of Ava and Pegu on the history of Myanmar and Southeast Asia, 2) the place of Ava and Pegu in the historiography of the “Early Modern Period,” 3...

... främmande rätt i Sverige under den yngre landslagens tid (Almqvist & Wiksell 1963 ) Korpiola, Mia (ed), The Svea Court of Appeal in the Early Modern Period: Historical Reinterpretations and New Perspectives (Institutet för rättshistorisk forskning 2014 ) Kouri...

... Hannah Mende Käthe Reichmann Eva Weiss Rosmarin Trude Jewish women Central Europe early modern period Reform Judaism modernity Central European Jews Christian conversions During the course of the 19th century, a tolerated Jewish minority made up of elite Court Jews and lower-class traders...

...References to the economy are ubiquitous in modern life, and virtually every facet of human activity has capitulated to market mechanisms. In the early modern period, however, there was no common perception of the economy, and discourses on money, trade, and commerce treated economic phenomena...

...This article discusses letter writing in the early modern period. After face-to-face conversation, the letter served as the second form of communication between people, and was the principal means of contact between parties at any distance. Information was passed on, trade facilitated, orders given...

...This chapter focuses on the mutual exchanges and influences that resulted from Dutch participation in the global orbit of goods, peoples, and texts in the early modern period. It describes personnel employed by the trading companies and a number of settlers who interacted directly with a wide range...

...This chapter treats the lexical consequences of contact, for the most part outside the Iberian Peninsula, between varieties of Hispano- and Italo-Romance. Although some Spanish Italianisms appear in late medieval texts, most such loanwords go back to the early modern period (1500–1700...

...As the book is concerned with Anglo-American communities in the early modern period, this chapter provides a basic, selective snapshot of England in the late sixteenth century. General topics are briefly covered: the social structure, constitution, religion (including Puritanism), and science...

... survived into the early modern period and became one of the cornerstones of criminal procedure in both Continental and Anglo-American law in the nineteenth century. The third principle deserving mention here is the privilege against self-incrimination (nemo tenetur prodere seipsum...

... of language, justify some separate treatment of verbal and epistolary civility. This chapter deals with the particular importance which was increasingly accorded to skill in the use of language as a mark of gentlemanly ‘civility’ during the early modern period, a development which highlights the intellectual...

...This article examines the transition from causes to laws in research during the early modern period in Europe. It discusses Stillman Drake's claim that the search for causes of events in nature that guided science from the time of Aristotle was superseded at the dawn of modern science starting...

...This article examines the history of ideas during the early modern period. René Descartes extended the term idea to include sensation, imagination, and memory and located ideas in the human intellect. Not all philosophers agreed with him, and among the most prominent resistors were Baruch Spinoza...

...This article examines how aesthetics became a branch of psychology during the early modern period in which new references to taste, perfection, and harmony reinforced the emphasis on personal experience and judgement that was common to the natural and the human sciences of the period. During...

...This article examines the conception of scepticism during the early modern period. It describes how the writings of Pierre Charron and Michel de Montaigne inspired authors to search for a balance between extreme scepticism and what was often described as the dogmatism of the Schools. It discusses...