His work provides a comprehensive guide to these documents, exploring both church and civil covenantal texts from the early seventeenth to the eighteenth centuries.
Despite the many fine and compelling papers addressing seventeenth-century topics, this report will treat primarily the eighteenth-century content.
She pours herself into the music in a manner reminiscent of many seventeenth- and eighteenth-century virtuosos; it was compelling then and remains so now.
However, this is not an easy task in view of the scarceness and opacity of relevant sources from the period before the seventeenth/eighteenth centuries.
The second phase, the late seventeenth and eighteenth century, sees decorum isolated and codified.
Representations of feminine desire abound in seventeenth-century music and then disappear with the eighteenth-century insistence on patriarchal values.
The register of burials is fragmentary for the turn of the seventeenth century, surviving only as a late seventeenth-century transcription.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries methods were still to be discovered, and the conflict between different practices is suggestive and instructive.