TTC - Ideas in Western Culture - the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment OPP course (1995) taught by Ori Z. Soltes, Georgetown University, Ph.D., Union Institute and University The seventeenth and eighteenth century were a time of a dramatic and accelerating change in European politics, economy, and culture.Secularization constituted, perhaps, the dominant trend of the age, despite the persistence into the seventeenth century the superstitions such as fear of witchcraft and of efforts of clerics and princes to impose uniform belief.
Vermeer's Hat - The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
In the hands of an award-winning historian, Vermeer’s dazzling paintings become windows that reveal how daily life and thought—from Delft to Beijing—were transformed in the seventeenth century, when the world first became global.
Do you believe in ghosts? Jerry doesn't. He's a 19-year-old American, who just wants a good holiday with his friend, Brad. They are travelling around the north of England by bicycle. But strange things begin to happen in a small hotel where they are staying. First, Brad seems to think that he has been there before. And then a girl called Ellen appears. The first of these three orginal plays is set in the seventeenth century, and the other two take place in modern times. In each play a ghost comes back from the dead to change the lives of living people.
Focussing on Chen Jiru's writings, this study explores the various ways that Chen advertised himself to prospective readers, and the way that commercial and political interests used his personae for their own ends, from the seventeenth century to the present.
The Renaissance and Seventeenth Century Rationalism
This fourth volume traces the history of Renaissance philosophy and seventeenth century rationalism, covering Descartes and the birth of modern philosophy.
