Some difficult confinements in Seventeenth-Century Yorkshire.

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...

PATTERNS OF TRANSFORMATION IN SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY MECHANICS' Introduction The seventeenth century witnessed striking transformations in the science of mechanics: whereas Renaissance authors of the previous century were primarily concemed with restoring and extending the achievements

The seventeenth century witnessed striking transformations in the science of mechanics: whereas Renaissance authors of the previous century were primarily concemed with restoring and extending the achievements of Antiquity, following largely in the same track, seventeenth-century practitioners brought meehanics to radically new domains, such as the mathematical investigation of motion in its ma...

Fertility, infant mortality, and breast feeding in the seventeenth century.

A positive correlation between fertility and infant mortality is generally accepted under certain conditions. The investigation of population change in two parishes in south Oxfordshire during the Stuart period was carried out as part of a Ph.D. thesis. It became apparent that there was a clear link between the death of an infant and the reduction of the subsequent intergenesic interval. It als...

Some aspects of mortality in three Shropshire parishes in the mid-seventeenth century.

After relatively rapid population growth in the later sixteenth century and slower growth in the first four decades of the seventeenth century, the midseventeenth century nationally saw growth change to stagnation and even loss. Falling fertility, changes in nuptiality or worsening mortality, or a combination of all these, could have caused this phenomenon. The aim of this article is to examine...

Une forme frondeuse: the function of discontinuity in La Rochefoucauld's maximes.