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  • Women and Economic Activities in Late Medieval Ghent

    by S. Hutton ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Contrary to the widespread view that women exercised economic autonomy only in widowhood, Hutton argues that marital status was not the chief determinant of women's economic activities in the mid-fourteenth century and that women managed their own wealth to a far greater extent than previously recognized. ... Read more

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  • Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art, 1500-Present

    Place plays a fundamental role in the structuring of the discipline of Art History. And yet, place also limits the questions art historians can ask and impairs analysis of objects and locations in the interstices of established, ossified categories. The chapters in this interdisciplinary volume investigate place in all of its dynamism and complexity: several call into question traditional ... Read more

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  • Henry More (1614–1687) Tercentenary Studies

    with a biography and bibliography by Robert Crocker

    Edited by S. Hutton ...
    Series Book 127 - International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
    Of all the Cambridge Platonists, Henry More has attracted the most scholar ly interest in recent years, as the nature and significance of his contribution to the history of thought has come to be better understood. This revival of interest is in marked contrast to the neglect of More's writings lamented even by his first biographer, Richard Ward, a regret echoed two centuries after his 1 death. ... Read more

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  • The Life of Henry More

    Parts 1 and 2

    by Richard Ward ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This edition of the Life of Henry More by Richard Ward is the outcome of twin initiatives: from Rupert Hall and from delegates at the conference on the Cambridge Platonists held at Nantes in 1993. The project took shape at a meeting of the editorial team at Christ's College in 1994. The editors wish to express their thanks to the Master and Fellows of Christ's College for permission to print the ... Read more

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