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This paper aims to take the measure of the strand of early modern anti-clericalism that was conveyed by the term “priestcraft.” Priestcraft amounted to the claim that priests had illegitimately usurped civil power and...

anti-clericalism early modern enlightenment fraud kingcraft priestcraft the Reformation Scientific knowledge

The discourse surrounding Luke 15.11-32 — commonly titled ‘the parable of the prodigal son’ — in early modern England is a major site of convergence for Aristotelian and Christian ethics. During the sixteenth and seventeenth...

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Abstract: The paper presents new research on an assemblage of metallurgical crucibles used in the assay of minerals at colonial Jamestown. The aim of the study is to explore the range of chemical operations carried out at the...

Original Paper archaeometallurgy Jamestown Fire assay Colonial archaeology early modern

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Shakespeare's Measure for Measure poses questions about sexual coercion and governmental corruption that resonate today. Recent scholarship has examined sexual abstinence in Measure for Measure in terms of its historical...

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