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	Essential Vermeer
		Johannes Vermeer's The Kitchen Maid, also affectionately known as The Milkmaid, is being loaned temporarily to The National Art Center in Tokyo, Japan, where it will be on display from 26 September until 17 December 2007 as part of the exhibition 'Milkmaid by Vermeer and Dutch Genre Painting'.
		Dutch Genre Painting from the 17-19 century introduced with 116 masterworks from the Rjksmuseum Amsterdam, featuring Vermeer's Milkmaid as a centerpiece.
		Unfortunately, the recently opened Vermeer Center of Delft is for the moment closed to the public, it would seem, for economic motives.
	essentialvermeer.20m.com (878 words)

	Seventeenth-Century Timber Framing
		In the seventeenth century, dressing such timbers with an adze would also have been done, but in that case to remove cut marks made by the broad axe used to shape the piece.
		The rough clapboard would be held firm in a shaving horse, a long wooden frame slanted in such a way that a worker could sit at one end and smooth the board by pulling the knife toward him with the sharp edge facing him.
		The house was whitewashed on the inside, and there was a dirt floor that in the seventeenth century would have been covered with rushes, and the roof was thatched.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /users/deetz/Plymouth/framing.html (2070 words)

	Seventeenth Century Enlightenment Thought
		When the writers, philosophers and scientists of the eighteenth century referred to their activities as the "Enlightenment," they meant that they were breaking from the past and replacing the obscurity, darkness, and ignorance of European thought with the "light" of truth.
		In theories of personality, human development, and social mechanics, seventeenth century thinkers moved away from religious and moral explanations of human behavior and interactions and towards an empirical analysis and mechanistic explanation of the laws of human behavior and interaction.
		The first major thinker of the seventeenth century to apply new methods to the human sciences was Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) whose book Leviathan is one of the most revolutionary and influential works on political theory in European history.
	www.wsu.edu /~dee/ENLIGHT/PREPHIL.HTM (2275 words)

	Seventeenth Century Philosophy (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But while it is true that the intellectual revolution of the late seventeenth century was primarily a crisis of elite'‑courtiers, officials, scholars, patricians, and clergy, it was precisely these elite' which moulded, supervised, and fixed the contours of popular culture.
		Their structure in part represents a seventeenth century perspective, reflecting a time when the ‘philosopher’ was as likely to be peering through a microscope or preaching on divine justice as discussing skepticism, consciousness, or the concepts of good and evil.
		The great advances made in mathematics and the science of dynamics during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries seemed to confirm the view that every action and reaction in the physical world could be explained exclusively in terms of matter and motion.
	www.sirreadalot.org /philosophy/philosophy/philosophy17thcentR.htm (4128 words)

	Pre-Seventeenth Century (Site not responding. Last check: )
		With the exception of princely chronicles, most of this written legacy until the 17th century was religious in nature.
		The gradual disintegration of Kyivan Rus', the Mongol invasions of the mid-13th century, and the absorption of most Ukrainian lands into the Grand Duchy of Lithuania were followed by a hiatus in major literary activity in the 14th and 15th centuries.
		The literary activities of the late 16th century were closely connected with the bitter struggle that developed between defenders of Eastern Orthodoxy and proponents of union of the Eastern Church with Rome.
	www.huri.harvard.edu /ucrainica/pre17_sum.html (508 words)

	TCS: Tech Central Station - Living in the Seventeenth Century (Site not responding. Last check: )
		And that's interesting, because the seventeenth century has always been a bit of an also-ran as centuries go: too late to be part of the age of knights and chivalry, too early for the age of steam-engines and Napoleonic warfare.
		But though books about Isaac Newton tend to focus on scientific developments, one of the biggest changes brought about by the seventeenth century -- and one of the most ignored, especially by Americans -- was the wave of political change that it produced.
		Despite the passage of, well, centuries -- or perhaps because the passage of centuries has made it easy to forget them -- the lessons of the seventeenth century, and the experiences of the intellectuals who learned them are likely to have special relevance today.
	www.techcentralstation.com /100103A.html (661 words)

	M. C. Meijer's "Misunderstanding Natives in the Seventeenth Century"
		The world's first anthropological society was established in 1799: "La Société des observateurs de l'homme."[2] Despite the fact that this professionalization of the discipline occurred in France, the reign of Louis XIV is passed over as a murky prehistory out of which the Enlightenment raw data mysteriously arose.
		Noahide ancestors were still being eagerly sought for the Amerindians in the seventeenth century, but it was the discovery of the Chinese imperial annals that made a real impact in Europe.
		As with the Chinese, the Africans themselves otherwise remained unknown to the Europeans throughout the century, but their enslaved members were subject to a peculiar double standard by the Europeans.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Chateau/6110/NewFrance.htm (5830 words)

	BBC - History - Diaries of the Seventeenth Century (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The variety of motives outlined by Beadle for keeping a diary suggests that we should not look for one single factor explaining the rise of diary-keeping over the seventeenth century.
		The most common reason for keeping a diary in the seventeenth century was to keep an account of providence or God's ordering of the world and of individual lives.
		In short, they reflected the intensely introspective and anxious, self-examining religiosity of the seventeenth century, particularly (though by no means exclusively) among the 'hotter sort' of protestants, such as the presbyterians, independents, baptists and quakers.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/society_culture/society/diaries_01.shtml (505 words)

	Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music \| Vol. 2 No. 1 \| Silbiger: Passacaglia and Ciaccona: Genre Pairing and Ambiguity ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The eighteenth century saw a gradual decline, but there have been occasional revivals in the works of late nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers, which form a third phase in the history of these genres.
		Nevertheless, almost from the time of Frescobaldi's 1637 publication until at least a century later, several of the distinctions outlined in Table 1 continue to recur in one form or another, both in Italy and elsewhere.
		Whether in the seventeenth century unnotated nuances of performance contributed to the distinction, will have to remain a matter of speculation.
	sscm-jscm.press.uiuc.edu /jscm/v2/no1/Silbiger.html (5731 words)

	The Digital Mirror - Archives - Witchcraft in Flintshire (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For centuries the concept of magic has fascinated society.
		By the end of the fifteenth century, witchcraft and religious heresy were seen as objects of fear and sporadic persecutions at a local level were transformed in some areas into a determined campaign to eliminate every trace of witchcraft.
		Organised "hunts", primarily the persecution of women, were common during the seventeenth-century and fuelled accusations of witchcraft, torture and execution throughout much of Europe.
	www.llgc.org.uk /drych/drych_s029.htm (502 words)

	Seventeenth Century (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The early 17th century in Ukraine and Belarus was dominated by the struggle over the Union.
		While most of the bishops adhered to the Union, the Orthodox were left without a hierarchy until 1620, when a new hierarchy was consecrated.
		This area was subject to the Hungarian crown since the early 11th century.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~huri/ucrainica/17_sum.html (504 words)

	Seventeenth Century
		Subject: Seventeenth Century Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:01:01 -0400 (EDT) The Seventeenth Century http://www.man.ac.uk/mup ISSN 0268-117X The Seventeenth Century is the leading English-language journal in its field.
		It covers all aspects of the seventeenth century, and particularly aims to encourage the study of the period in a way that transcends national and disciplinary boundaries.
		The Seventeenth Century can be accessed now by visiting the Manchester University Press website at http://www.man.ac.uk/mup Editor: Richard Maber on behalf of the Centre for Seventeenth-Century Studies, University of Durham Contact: Marketing Controller: Elizabeth Stirk Email: e.stirk@man.ac.uk
	gort.ucsd.edu /newjour/s/msg02638.html (131 words)

	Lois Scozzari, The Significance of Wampum to Seventeenth Century Indians in New England
		The significance of wampum to seventeenth century Indians in New England
		For the land, people, and animals of pre-colonial New England, the seventeenth century was a tumultuous one.
		In the sixteenth and early seventeenth century, European traders plied the coasts of New England from northern Maine southward around Cape Cod to the Long Island Sound and westward to New York and the Hudson River Valley.
	www.hartford-hwp.com /archives/41/037.html (4864 words)

	H-Net Review: Lucinda McCray Beier on The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London
		Enhancing the work of scholars including Jean Donnison and Adrian Wilson, who relied mainly on contemporary or secondary published literature, Evenden uses primary data to document the licensing of midwives, which was the responsibility of the Church of England throughout the seventeenth century.
		Evenden clearly illustrates the concerns and expectations of seventeenth century ecclesiastical authorities, midwives, and patients regarding midwives' skill and competence.
		Similarly, her argument that development of lying-in hospitals in the eighteenth century was a successful strategy concocted by male practitioners to destroy the practices of London midwives and take over their patients ignores both increasing institutionalization of medicine and growth of interest in "scientific" medicine in the period.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=3202997380760 (974 words)

	The History of Costume - Index #10
		Plate #56 - First Third of the Seventeenth Century - Holland
		Plate #57 - First Third of the Seventeenth Century - Norway and Denmark
		Plate #60 - Second Third of the Seventeenth Century
	www.siue.edu /COSTUMES/COSTUME10_INDEX.HTML (99 words)

	Keeping Catholics Catholic Page XXV-The Timeline-The Seventeenth Century
		This century was marred by the bloodshed of the Thirty Years War.
		This century bore witness to the confusion of the Galileo affair, another case of barefaced bribery and forgery.
		In this century we see The New World becoming established and the exploration of the Catholic priest, Jacques Marquette and the beginning of the longest Monarchy in the history of France.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Ithaca/6461/17cent.html (3345 words)

	Scandinavian Studies: British Officers in Seventeenth-Century Sweden.@ HighBeam Research
		The article discusses the social aspects of 17th century British soldiers who served as mercenaries for Sweden and later settled in the country.
		Topics discussed include marriage partners of British soldiers and their descendents, land donations to British soldiers and the military careers of the immigrant soldiers.
		THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY HAS BEEN characterized as a period of state building throughout Europe.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:55553495&refid=holomed_1 (160 words)

	The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 17th Century: Introduction
		The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The 17th Century: Introduction
		The earlier seventeenth century, and especially the period of the English Revolution (1640–60), was a time of intense ferment in all areas of life — religion, science, politics, domestic relations, culture.
		That ferment was reflected in the literature of the era, which also registered a heightened focus on and analysis of the self and the personal life.
	www.wwnorton.com /nael/17century/welcome.htm (582 words)

	NGA - Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century
		NGA - Spanish Painting in the Seventeenth Century
		In the 1500s, Spain had been enriched by treasure from the Americas, and the next century saw the Golden Age of Spanish painting.
		Most of the painters who made this such an outstanding period are represented.
	www.nga.gov /collection/gallery/gg30/gg30-main1.html (107 words)

	The History of Costume - Index #9
		Plate #50 - Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - England
		Plate #51 - Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries - Ecclesiastical Vestments
		Plate #53 - First Third of the Seventeenth Century - Germany
	www.siue.edu /COSTUMES/COSTUME9_INDEX.HTML (124 words)

	Seventeenth century church events (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Protestant Reformation begun in the last century continues to affect the religious and political life of Europe.
		Driven from his homeland because of his faith, this 17th century Christian hero is a testimony of the persistence of Christian courage.
		Comenius, commonly hailed as the "Father of Modern Education," was stripped of everything but hopeÄand a vision for the kingdom of God.
	chi.gospelcom.net /centuries/cnt17.shtml (436 words)

	18th Century Resources: Theatre History on the Web (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Florimène An overview of the 17th century English court masque, developed by students in the School of Drama, University of Washington.
		The Development of Scenic Spectacle in the 16th and 17th centuries.
		The site is not affiliated with any institution, is sponsored by no-one, nor does it generate any profit." See also the full listing of 17th Century authors.
	www.videoccasions-nw.com /history/jw17th.html (250 words)

	17th Century Costume Links at The Costumer's Manifesto
		MaraRiley.net dedicated to 17th and 18th century costume in Europe and the American colonies.
		Chasuble, late 17th century French, silk, silver-gilt and silk thread, couching, satin stitch, 98 x 89 cm, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
		17th Century Style Russian Costumes worn by the Russian Nobility to the Romanov Anniversary Ball held at the Winter Palace, February 1903.
	costumes.org /history/100pages/17thlinks.htm (1391 words)

	Special Collections in the Library of Congress: Seventeenth Century (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Special Collections in the Library of Congress: Seventeenth Century
		Portuguese Manuscript Collection: Manuscripts relating to Portuguese history and literature (188)
		Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection: The illustrated book, fifteenth through twentieth centuries (211)
	www.loc.gov /spcoll/clist17.html (87 words)

	"Absolutism in the Seventeenth Century", essay by Tyler Jones
		In England, during the first half of the 17th century, two monarches came to power that attempted to develop royal absolutism in that country.
		Both James I (James VI of Scotland) and Charles I tried to rule without consenting Parliament, but Parliament had so much control at the time that neither James nor Charles successfully decreased the role of Parliament in English government.
		In France, around the middle of the 17th century, a revolution against the current monarch, Cardinal Mazarin, by the various and scattered parlements, who wanted the right to claim royal edicts unconstitutional, and nobility, who hoped to gain power by sanctioning the monarch or removing him from office, threw France into disarray.
	www.june29.com /Tyler/nonfiction/absolute.html (833 words)

	Descartes in Seventeenth-Century England (Site not responding. Last check: )
		From Descartes’s central arguments in logic, metaphysics and physics came the subsequent enquiries of Locke, Leibniz and Newton, and from this all modern scientific and philosophical thought followed.
		This ten-volume collection examines the reception of Descartes’s philosophy in England during the seventeenth century, illustrating the multiplicity of English philosophical reaction.
		This set collects together rare and largely inaccessible works and is a unique resource for all scholars wishing to assess the enormous impact of Descartes’s philosophy in the seventeenth century on the history of ideas.
	www.thoemmes.com /17thcphil/descartes.htm (526 words)

	UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies
		The UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies
		The Center, a member of the UCLA Humanities Consortium, provides a forum for the discussion of central issues in the field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century studies.
		It organizes academic programs, bringing together scholars from the area, the nation, and the world, with the goal of encouraging research in the period from 1600 to 1800.
	www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/c1718cs (165 words)

	17TH Cen Reenacting & Living History Resources
		This site contains 17th century, Thirty Years War and English Civil War pamphlets, news sheets and other documents in full text format.
		I have just added some political and civilian ballads of the first half of the century.
		While you are there take a look at the others there are some interesting texts.
	www.lukehistory.com /resources (96 words)

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