Kenelm Digby (and Margaret Cavendish) on Motion by Daniel Whiting

“…In developing and defending my reading, I consider to what extent the Digbean account of motion and the arguments for it accord with the ideals of the mechanical philosophy emerging in the early modern period.…”
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"Avløypet" og "Avløysa/Avløysinga" – same tanke på to måtar, med dialektflytting? by Eldar Heide

“…The distribution of Avløysa in Northern Norway suggests it was borrowed from southern areas in the Early Modern period, likely via fisheries in Lofoten and then Eastern Finnmark. …”
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Testamenty urozených žen doby baroka. Několik poznámek k tématu by Kristina Swiderová

“…Particular attention is paid to the matter of servants, for the testament could have meant a complete change of their existence. In the early modern period, however, last will was the document standing on the very edge of one’s life, dealing with both the past and the future – the afterlife. …”
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Korutanský nastolovací obřad a přemyslovský mýtus by Michal Téra

“…Another aim is to point out the connection between Carinthian setting ritual and a legend (or myth) about the origin of princely power in Bohemia where a similar ritual, apparently inspired by this myth, was proved in the early modern period. In the end, the study, in accordance with the current research, attempts to suggest a possible interpretation of the individual elements that are a part of both the setting ceremony and the myth of the royal power. …”
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Zadání architektonického a uměleckého díla v raném novověku. Mezi hospodářskými dějinami a dějinami umění by Tomáš Knoz

“…Historians of social and economic history must take into account in their research that the commissioning of an architectural or artistic work (not only) in the early modern period is not merely one type of economic investment, but that it represents a distinctive type of human action characterized by its artistic and spiritual value. …”
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“What a Handsome Family We Are!”: Feral Children and Kin-Making in Abbie Farwell Brown’s The Book of Saints and Friendly Beasts (1900) by Julia Helena Wilde

“…From the early modern period onwards, the phenomenon of feral children has led to ontological confusion and thus, has engendered both fascination and repulsion. …”
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Pirates and Gallows at Execution Dock : Nautical Justice in Early Modern England by Samantha Frénée

“…A representative of the Lord Admiral led the condemned to the gallows at low tide and their bodies remained on public display.This paper looks at the representation of such pirate justice in a number of the literary and non-literary texts of the early modern period in England; when piracy itself was a very fluid and inexact term. …”
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La pratique du ṣulḥ dans les oasis du Grand Touat : justice consensuelle et juridiction islamique dans une société saharienne du xviiie siècle by Ismail Warscheid

“…During the early modern period (fifteenth-eighteenth centuries), the oasis of Tuwāt in present-day southern Algeria became one of the most important centers of Islamic learning in the Sahara. …”
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The NW German Heathland: A Threatened Landscape? by Norbert Fischer, Hansjörg Küster

“…The term heath generally means wasteland. In the early modern period, extensive areas of heathland were created in north-west Germany, mainly through deforestation and subsequent grazing. …”
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Wartime Volatility in Coastal Flanders: The Roosewalle Case by Sander Berghmans

“… Warfare in the early modern period almost always coincided with large price shocks. …”
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Privileges in Printmaking by Marlise Rijks

“… The Low Countries became a centre of printmaking in the early modern period. Printmaking was a disruptive image-technology because it produced images as multiples on an unprecedented scale. …”
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What Remains of Manhood by Eleonora Belligni

“…Between the late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period, the emergence of the European territorial state was accompanied by a change in the gender balance, as women gained new and increased opportunities for leadership. …”
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‘Voices’ in the Courtroom. The role of notaries in the ‘Inquisitorial autobiography’ by José Luis Loriente Torres

“… Little is known about the workings of Inquisitorial notaries during the early modern period, particularly regarding their documentation methods within the courtroom. …”
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National Rivalry among Hospitallers? by Karl Borchardt

“…But when the Habsburg rulers became kings of Bohemia and Hungary in 1526, they ceased to be interested in splitting up the Hospitaller priory of Bohemia. In the early modern period this proved to be more important for the future of the priory than “proto-national” identities.…”
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L’art médiéval dans la construction de l’histoire dominicaine à l’époque moderne by Haude Morvan

“…The Early modern period was a time when history was becoming a true science, based on archival and material sources that scholars must prove as being authentic. …”
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Debating Balkan commonalities: Is there a common Balkan culture? by Markovich Slobodan G.

“…Paschalis Kitromilides provided the most convincing arguments for a Balkan mentality but did not go beyond the early modern period and Balkan Orthodox Christians. In the paper the evolution of the term Balkanism has been analysed to retrace the change of focus in Balkan studies, which lost some its original drive from the 1930s for finding commonalities, instead growing more focused on political and cultural contexts. …”
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Ukončení poručenské správy nezletilých osob v raně novověkém městském prostředí by Pavla Slavíčková

“… According to municipal law of the Early Modern Period a tutelage of an orphanu- sually ended in two ways: when the orphan reached the full-age or died before. …”
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Connection and disconnection by Fruzsina Alexandra Németh

“… Rania Plain lies on the eastern side of Iraqi Kurdistan, at the foot of the seemingly impenetrable Zagros Mountains. During the Early Modern Period, this microregion was on the fringe of the two major powers of the Middle East, the Ottoman and Persian Empires, but it was also part of the Soran Emirate, one of the semi-autonomous vassal states that existed for hundreds of years. …”
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РERSONAL PHILOSOPHIZING MOTIVES: DESCARTES AND KIERKEGAARD by A. M. Malivskyi

“…The author believes that it is quite right to refer to the philosophy of the early modern period as a form of its demand fulfillment for human development. …”
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Crimean-Ottoman Factor in the Socio-Cultural System of Russia in Early Modern Times by T. V. Chernikova

“…Abstract: The article gives a description of the sociocultural organization of Russia and the peculiarities of its geopolitical position in the system of international relations of the early modern period. Questions were raised about the reasons for the rapid territorial expansion of the Russian state in the second half of the 15-17 centuries, as well as its high competitiveness in foreign policy both in relations with its western neighbors and in the eastern direction.For the states of Western Europe with the beginning of their modernization, modern age has come, however “Muscovy” in the 15-17 centuries remained a medieval country. …”
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