Essays Tagged: "17th centuries"

The Bubonic Plague (this essay is about the bubonic plague outreak in the history of the world. it gives important facts and interesting information.)

The Plague or Black Death was an epidemic disease that occured in the 6th, 14th, and 17th centuries that killed a total of 137 million people. At it's worst, during the middle ages, it ...

(2 pages) 103 1 4.6 Apr/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Religious Intolerance as Policy During the Reformation

physically - over matters of religion and culture. However, the Reformation era of the 15th through 17th Centuries brought about an historic and unique kind of discrimination, because Roman Catholicis ...

(2 pages) 80 0 3.0 Apr/2002

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Ladscape and the enlightenment in Renaissance period of the 13th to 17th centuries

any European countries underwent major transformations during the Renaissance period of the 13th to 17th centuries, it had a specific impact on each nation politically, cultural, and environmentally. ... nerally had a dissimilar result, in respect to landscape design, than the French Renaissance of the 17th century. More specifically, the Renaissance led to alterations in the culture of these two Euro ...

(4 pages) 56 0 4.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Landscape and the enlightenment

any European countries underwent major transformations during the Renaissance period of the 13th to 17th centuries, it had a specific impact on each nation politically, cultural, and environmentally. ... nerally had a dissimilar result, in respect to landscape design, than the French Renaissance of the 17th century. More specifically, the Renaissance led to alterations in the culture of these two Euro ...

(4 pages) 70 0 4.0 Oct/1996

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Renaissance, a period that developed a renewed interest in arts

arts. The renaissance began in 14th century Italy, and spread to the rest of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. In this period, the society of the middle ages, which had an agricultural economy an ...

(5 pages) 145 0 2.5 Mar/1996

Subjects: Art Essays

The role of Black Slavery in the United States and its progression. The resistance. The underground railroad to Canada.

a bordering a 3000 mile stretch on the West Coast of Africa." (1997). Many Negroes, in the 16th and 17th centuries who were also brought back from Africa for their skills in growing different types of ...

(4 pages) 104 0 4.5 Nov/2002

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism

Identify the Codes and Conventions used by the Performers and the Audience in Commedia Dell"Arte

obatics. Commedia del'Arte performances and techniques spread throughout Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries, with offshoots in France, Spain and England. The scenarios involved in Commedia aros ...

(7 pages) 67 0 4.0 Apr/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Performing Arts

Commedia Del'Arte.

obatics. Commedia del'arte performances and techniques spread throughout Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries, with offshoots in France, Spain and England.A del'arte company consisted of 10 or 12 ...

(2 pages) 31 0 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

"Utopia" by Thomas More.

in French and was used to denote a phase in the cultural development of Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries.Thomas More, the first English humanist of the Renaissance, was born in London in 147 ...

(8 pages) 129 0 4.6 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

"Bubonic Plague".

infection to death was less than one week. There were three major epidemics- in the 6th, 14th, and 17th centuries. All together the death toll was about 137 million victims. Although this reason seem ...

(2 pages) 47 1 5.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Biographical account of the life and works of the 16th-century composer Thomas Campion.

erarytheorist, physician, and one of the outstanding English songwriters of the late 16th and early 17thcenturies. His poetry, with its musical intonations of rhythm and melody, also reflects his outs ...

(2 pages) 37 1 4.2 Oct/2003

Subjects: Art Essays > Music History & Studies

The Satire of 18th Century England presented by Lilliput.

th the monarchy and the absolute power of the Roman Catholic Church were in decline in the 16th and 17th centuries, during and after the European Enlightenment. On the other hand, the power of the upp ...

(10 pages) 94 1 3.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The puritans

handle it? The Puritans were a group of Englishman that journeyed to the Americans in the 16th and 17th centuries in search of religious freedom from the Church of England. They believed strictly upo ...

(6 pages) 92 0 3.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

European Silver trade

As trade intensified leading into the 16th and 17th centuries, in the individual regions of the globe, the trade of silver greatly ascended and bec ...

(2 pages) 30 0 5.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

Ben Jonson's comedy "Volpone"

in French and was used to denote a phase in the cultural development of Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries.The wave of progress reached the shores of England only in the 16th century. The idea ...

(8 pages) 52 0 4.2 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Audiences can better appreciate an artist's work by understanding their social and historical context. (Exam essay - 40mins)

art of Artemesia Gentileschi provide a unique insight into the male-dominated world of the 16th and 17th centuries. Gentileschi's personal experience of this is reflected in her paintings, particularl ... ects how she constantly had to prove herself + it also reflects her experiences of the art world in 17th Century Italy. In the self-portrait, Gentileschi challenges the notion of women being unintelle ...

(3 pages) 65 0 5.0 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Powerful rulers during the age of the monarchy: Queen Elizabeth I and Czarina Catherine the Great

Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries saw a development of many strong and powerful monarchs. Most of these monarchs were d ...

(4 pages) 60 2 4.8 Jun/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > European History

WitchCraft and Wicca

In the 16th and 17th centuries, witchcraft was seen everywhere, or at least people though it was everywhere. People ...

(3 pages) 430 15 4.5 Aug/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies

Racism.

se of the term 'racism' on the attitudes of European towards Jews and non-Europeans in the 16th and 17th centuries using evidences from extracts of various documents from that period.First of all, "no ...

(2 pages) 32 1 3.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Manifestation of Renaissance traditions in Michel Montaigne's "Essays" (with quatations in Russian)

The cultural development of Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries was named after a French word "renaissance" meaning "rebirth". This time came after t ...

(8 pages) 47 0 3.4 Sep/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers