Most writers were not interested in (pre)history per se, but rather in rationalising seventeenth-century concerns with governance, commerce, property and law.
The commonplace subjects and plots of seventeenth-century serious drama (opera included) are such as to make application virtually impossible to avoid.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries these bands of pastoralists began to form more cen%!
During the early seventeenth century the term functioned essentially as an adjective - as in recitativo arioso - rather than a noun.
The enthusiasts, who claimed to prophesy and to have direct divine inspiration, were increasingly seen in the seventeenth century as melancholies.
In the early seventeenth century, however, the family's fortunes began to improve.
Abundant preliminary evidence has already been marshaled for the participation of gold in the seventeenth-century money transfer from west to east.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries methods were still to be discovered, and the conflict between different practices is suggestive and instructive.
