The Dying Child in Seventeenth-Century England.

Imagining Insurrection in Seventeenth-Century England: Representations of the Midland Rising of 1607*

Language surrounding poverty in early modern England : constructing seventeenth - century beggars and vagrants 9

Trends and Determinants of Adult Mortality in Early New England: Reconciling Old and New Evidence from the Long Eighteenth Century

Despite decades of research, demographic historians are still uncertain about mortality trends and determinants in early New England. Although researchers agree that New England mortality was low relative to other regions of early America in the seventeenth century, they disagree about the direction of mortality trends over the course of the eighteenth century. Community-based reconstitution st...

The Role of Language in Accusations of Witchcraft in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain

Linguistic factors played a significant role in the origin and spread of accusations of witchcraft in Early Modern Spain. The preoccupation with witches’ words is at its root a preoccupation about the power of speech and, to a great extent, of female speech. Studies in some Early European countries have connected aggressive female speech styles with accusations of witchcraft, and this article o...

The custom of tea drinking spread to many adjacent countries during the Tang Dynasty (618~907AD) and was introduced into Europe and America by the seventeenth-century. "Afternoon tea" in England was a special social activity in the early nineteenth century,