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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: French Literature
Hence the fondness of the literature of the seventeenth century for general ideas and for sentiments that are common to mankind, and its success in those kinds of literature which are based on the general study of the human heart.
Hence the contempt of the seventeenth century literature for all that is relative, individual and mutable; in lyric poetry, which appeals primarily to the individual sentiment, in the description of material phenomena, and the external manifestations of nature, it falls short of success.
For thorough understanding of the development of French literature in the seventeenth century, we must consider it in three periods: (1) from the year 1600 to 1659, the period of preparation; (2) 1659-1688, the Golden Age of classicism; (3) 1688-1715, the period of transition between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06190a.htm   (14968 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained - Secret Societies
On the other hand, some authorities claim that the name was invented by European settlers and applied to the native insurrectionists in Kenya.
The citizens of Paris awoke one morning in 1622 to find that their city had been ornamented with posters which the Brethren of the Rosy Cross (Rosicrucians) had scattered to announce that their secret order was now moving among the Parisians to save them from the error of death.
In the seventeenth century, the Rosicrucians were rumored to have accomplished the transmutation of metals, the means of prolonging life, the knowledge to see and to hear what was occurring in distant places, and the ability to detect secret and hidden objects.
www.unexplainedstuff.com /Secret-Societies/index.html   (914 words)

  
 The Medieval Academy
While the editorial focus of the journal is on representations of London in literature, articles in cognate disciplines that will contribute to readings of London are very much encouraged.
These subject areas might include readings of London in history, drama, film, geography, art history, architecture, urban sociology, painting and engraving, etc. The journal is mutually supportive of the annual conference of the same name with which is shares a common web address (http://www.literarylondon.org).
Submissions may be on any subject matter of medieval medicine, health, or healing as well as the interrelationships between disciplines, such as medieval medicine and literature, law, politics, or religion.
www.medievalacademy.org /calendar/calendar_notices.htm   (4206 words)

  
 Shakespeare Authorship
Tom looks critically at Roger Stritmatter's Ph.D. dissertation in comparative literature, which took as its starting point the assumption that the Earl of Oxford really wrote Shakespeare's works.
Alan Nelson has put up a great deal of information about the 17th earl of Oxford including transcriptions of his letters and memoranda, an analysis of his spelling habits, and information about his trip to Italy.
Diana Price argues in her new book Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography that he was not a writer.
www.shakespeareauthorship.com   (6376 words)

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