Article: Tristan and Isolde: a Casebook.(Book Review)

Article: adstratum
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics;      31 words ...adstratum. A language which has influenced one spoken by a neighbouring population. Thus in the modern period French has been an adstratum in the development of English. Cf. substratum ; superstratum .

Article: Translating investments: the metaphoricity of language, 2 Henry IV, and Hamlet.
Texas Studies in Literature and Language;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......and their application to the early modern period. Ultimately it treats Shakespeare's...of Renaissance meaning. In the early modern period, metaphor was also called translatio...metaphor such as those of the early modern period. (4) The force of the term translation...

Article: What Happened to the Renaissance in the German Academy? A Report on German "Renaissance" Institutes.
Renaissance Quarterly;  December 22, 1999 ;     700+ words ......modern era, using instead the term early modern period (Fruhe Neuzeit), a term whose perimeters...distinct from the Middle Ages and the modern period, in favor of the traditional terms...Neuzeit, argues that during the early modern period the ancient and medieval traditions...

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute;  March 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......China's development during the early modern period in the context of global developments...Hostetler argues that during the early modern period China was not a passive recipient...further, she suggests that in the early modern period there was no sharp dichotomy between...

Article: How to look at a hermaphrodite in early modern England.(Critical essay)
Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......monsters and natural wonders in the early modern period, a number of literary and medical texts...the production of gender in the early modern period, the figure of the hermaphrodite still...surrounding hermaphrodites in the early modern period (as well as today) is generated by...

Article: Maternal Measures: Figuring Caregiving in the Early Modern Period.(Book Review)
Shakespeare Studies;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......motherhood and/or gender in the early modern period. Editors Miller and Yavneh wisely have...worse, female caregivers in the early modern period participated in a spectrum of spectacles...mothers and others, both in the early modern period and our own (p. 19). The editors never...

Article: The Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
World Literature Today;  September 1, 2005 ;     267 words ......11129-0 paper) A NUMBER OF NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES from the modern period, particularly from the last two decades, have been translated...now a major collection of poetry from the beginnings of the modern period up to (but not including) the contemporary period. Within...

Article: Gardening: Try a drop of the hard stuff; Hannah Stephenson looks at using concrete to achieve a modernist feel.(Features)
Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  October 23, 2004 ;     434 words ......looking at stunning period gardens. Owen's favourite era is the modern period, when concrete came into its own and became an ideal material...fluid shapes favoured by a new generation of designers. ``The modern period is totally fascinating for me. When it was first introduced...

Article: Tradition, Heterodoxy and Religious Culture: Judaism and Christianity in the Early Modern Period.(Book review)
Renaissance Quarterly;  June 22, 2008 ;     700+ words ......Religious Culture: Judaism and Christianity in the Early Modern Period. The Goldstein-Goren Library of Jewish Thought 6. Beer-Sheva...under review investigate religious cultures during the early modern period. The large variety of essays covers almost all issues prevailing...

Article: Conspiracy Theories.(Brief Article)
History Today;  May 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......most compelling images of the early modern period. The cloak and dagger world of plots...politics and government in the early modern period certainly contributed to the popularity...less powerful at the end of the early modern period than they had been at its beginning...

Article: Neiman, Susan. Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy.(Book Review)
The Review of Metaphysics;  March 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......traditional accounts of philosophy in the modern period that divide philosophers into two groups...undergone a fundamental change during the modern period, a change that is illustrated by the...this period. At the beginning of the modern period, philosophers took the Lisbon ...

Article: Ludwig Bechstein und die literarische Rezeption frühneuzeitlicher Hexenverfolgung im 19. Jahrhundert
German Quarterly;  July 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......mostly) women as witches in the Early Modern Period continues to produce a flood of publications...historical and literary context of the Early Modern Period and the 19th century, Schmidt examines...superstitions that stemmed from the Early Modern Period, but were still virulent in ...

Article: Drang Nach Osten: Bernard Bailyn, the world-island, and the idea of Atlantic history.
Journal of World History;  March 22, 2002 ;     700+ words ......scholarship on Europe and America during the early modern period and the early, modern period. Thus far only one example of the design...even unitary in character during the early modern period, and that this world, ipso facto, can best...

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History Today;  July 1, 1995 ;     700+ words ......language general histories of France have, for the Early Modern period at least. been remarkable for their scarcity in recent decades...lineaments of French political culture, high and low, of the early modern period generally. He has much to say about the power of language...