Sentences with phrase «early modern»

The history of early modern science is of a tremendous effort to establish exactly this principle.

They emphasize not the critical retrieval of the sources of the faith but recent traditions formed in earlier modern contexts.

To illustrate this last point, a line can be drawn through examples from early Modern art to the present.

It allows artwork across a wide range of media, traditions and time periods — from early modern to the contemporary — to appear together in one room.

Her research combines media studies, theory of globalization, and critical race discourse with early modern, modern, and contemporary art history.

This is how the word was used from medieval to early modern times.

The model that informed much of early modern science, and is still influential today, was the medieval clock, complete with moving figures.

As a graduate student, she studied book history with a focus on Early Modern printed medical and domestic manuals that concerned pregnancy, birth, and infant care.

The same is undoubtedly said about many earlier modern works as well.

For medieval and early modern people the breast was anything but an abstract symbol.

Early modern economists thought that near - starvation was an inevitable aspect of any economy, and should not be fought against.

Early modern theory is the period after classical theory.

After visiting a number of different galleries last week, I was struck by a few young artists whose paintings would indicate that they are responding to early modern art but not with irony.

For more than twenty - five years, Hollis Taggart Galleries has specialized in fine American art of the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly that of early modern period and Post-War art.

Set in a small English village struck by the bubonic plague, it's a masterful depiction of everyday life in early modern Europe.

A review of recent research on dispersals by early modern humans from Africa to Asia by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Hawai'i at Manoa confirms that the traditional view of a single dispersal of anatomically modern humans out of Africa around 60,000 years ago can no longer be seen as the full story.

He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem after completing his English Literature thesis: «The Sky in Early Modern English Literature: A Study of Allusions to Celestial Events in Elizabethan and Jacobean Writing, 1572 - 1620.»

During that trip, a slew of Old Master and early Modern paintings in European museums made a strong impression on the young artist.

His obsessive paintings are replete with references to textiles, outsider art and the work of early modern masters (Tal R, Christoph Ruckhaberle and other contemporary painters also come to mind).

Her areas of ongoing research include all aspects of ancient Greek culture, the witchcraze era of early modern European history, and a particular and highly focused aspect of Nazi Germany.

The Binchester head is African in appearance, but Dr Petts, who is also Associate Director of Durham University's Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, said experts were unsure whether these features were deliberate or coincidental.

Sommers studied early modern history at the University of Virginia, where she was able to legitimize a lifelong love of the historical narratives and themes of the Old World, much of which continue to inform her work.

The short answer is that changes in society and religion in early modern Western Europe secularized the breast.

Students can only benefit, linguistically and in other ways, by looking at some of the writing in publications like Early Modern Catholicism: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Miola2007).

AQA GCSE History: Britain: Health and the People: c1000 to the Present Day - The Beginnings of Change Describe medical progress during Early Modern...

Eire is one of America's most distinguished historians of early modern religion, and his absorption of the newer historiography is proclaimed in the fact that his book is entitled Reformations, in the plural.

About Blog Shakespeare in Ireland blog is designed to draw together academic events, plays and research in early modern literature across the island of Ireland.

Stemming from early modern philosophy Plessas finds inspiration from idleness from his unconscious utopia to everyday reality, reading, browsing, escaping, dreaming, and psychoanalysing he brings together poetic themes, and combines them with an anthropomorphic fusion of computer animation and self - made percussive sound effects.

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The exhibition combines a chronological display with a thematic approach, structured in a series of major chapters in the artist's career, with emphasis on two key moments: the period from 1923 to 1933, when Torres - García participated in various European early modern avant - garde movements while establishing his own signature pictographic / Constructivist style; and 1935 to 1943, when, having returned to Uruguay, he produced one of the most striking repertoires of synthetic abstraction.

It also confirms that saber - toothed cats were roaming northern Europe at the same time as early modern humans.

Wilson is displaying how Third World culture becomes a First World stereotype, just as with primitivism for early modern art.

Conservatives (who are often early modern liberals in outlook and temperament) sometimes look fondly at the purifying effects of «severe struggle,» substituting economic for natural battle.

Early modern thinkers rightly saw that this preoccupation with teleology had misdirected much thought and research.

They interpreted this as evidence that the two species interbred around 45,000 years ago, shortly after early modern humans left Africa.

Now, researchers reporting April 21 in Current Biology suggest that abrupt ecological changes following a meteor impact may have been more detrimental to carnivorous bird - like dinosaurs, and early modern birds with toothless beaks were able to survive on seeds when other food sources declined.

(Early modern sculptors like Brancusi moved, conversely, from representation to abstraction.)

Cavanaugh points out that the Fall had been dropped from early Modern thought not for any scientific reasons but for political expediency — to protect civil authority from interference by the Church.

One can not say with certainty that as an interpreter of Judaism Mendelssohn was covertly implementing a purely philosophical agenda, any more than one can prove that» as many scholars have contended» John Locke and some other early modern Christian thinkers were pursuing a similar strategy with respect to their own religion.

Even more intriguing, the remains were found near bones of Neanderthals, not early modern humans, suggesting that it was our big - boned cousins who were hunting the big - boned camels.

«Mapping Edo: The Social and Political Geography of Early Modern Japan.»

It need hardly be pointed out that the evaporation of meaning from this crucial term has occurred, not as a function of that theology which is the expression or articulation of faith, but as a function of that cosmology which has destroyed the horizons within which early Christian, medieval, and early modern man understood his existence.

Dr Claire Breay, Head of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts at the British Library, said: «The British Library's medieval collections are world - renowned and it's very exciting to be opening up the Library's collections of early literary history to young learners through Discovering Literature.