early-modern

But she's added to her intensively researched image repertoire an interest in visionary female predecessors such as the Manchester-born founder of the Shakers, Ann Lee and the subjects of early-modern witch trials.

Linder, the artist with the hex factor 2011

Before they died—short of cash—they were able to sell many of their Matisses to good friends, who then gave the works to the San Francisco museum, where they form the core of its early-modern collection today.

Souvenirs From Paris David Littlejohn 2011

Sustainability may be a 21st-century buzzword, he explained, but it's also a 300-year-old German invention, rooted in early-modern anxiety over mines running out of timber.

Sustainable Symbolism of German Trees J. S. Marcus 2011

Does she think we should return to an early-modern economy based on credit (in the Ben Franklin sense, "The most trifling Actions that affect a Man's Credit, are to be regarded. ... [etc.]")?

A chicken for every doc 2010

The museum's five tons of early-modern type were capable of printing books in everything from Dutch to Aramaic.

The Many Changing Faces of Antwerp J. S. Marcus 2011

These cellular chambers and limited-function rooms furthered the early-modern drive toward the display of luxury items that made visible the householder's social and political standing. 4 Collectively, the presence chamber, privy chamber, private chapel, and bedchamber contained many of the elaborate tapestries, cloths of estate, ornate beds, and sumptuous cushions that displayed the wealth of the householder to the guests that they wished to impress.

From Heads of Household to Heads of State: The Preaccession Households of Mary and Elizabeth Tudor, 1516-1558 2008

On the other hand, the Houses of Parliament aren 't currently held in the highest of esteem either, so a certain rosy fondness attaches itself to early-modern plots to blow them up.

The Real Meaning of Bonfire Night Sam Leith 2010

Sabean similarly argues for the importance of women in anchoring kin networks in early-modern Germany, Kinship in Neckarhausen, 379 – 97. back

Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

To Powers, the table is an example of a then-new technology that made the most of an older one -- handwriting -- to help users manage the early-modern equivalent of information overload.

Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows" and William Powers's "Hamlet's Blackberry" 2010

To Powers, the table is an example of a then-new technology that made the most of an older one -- handwriting -- to help users manage the early-modern equivalent of information overload.

Nicholas Carr's "The Shallows" and William Powers's "Hamlet's Blackberry" 2010