Counting the population. The multiplier method in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Critical Study of Right to be wrong From the point of view ofcollectivists, utilitarians, and virtuosos

circuit right discourse is one of the most common theories in the contemporary period about regulating human social relations. The formation of this course of thought and the exhibition of a unidimensional understanding of the concept of right in the West is the result of socio-political changes in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It was during this period that thinkers’ response to th...

From the Seventeenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century: the Emergence of Social Policy in Ireland

This chapter sketches the key features of the emergence of social policy in Ireland. This spans early state and charitable activity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through to the more extensive social policy measures and provisions which emerged during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, before Ireland gained independence in 1921. The chapter documents the themes of care ...

"La femminil pazienza": Women Painters and Natural History in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries

Strategic voices of care and compassion. Describing the mad, their afflictions and situations in Amsterdam and Utrecht in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Painting a picture of the lives of the early modern mad outside institutions has not yet been done in the Netherlands. However, by looking at notarial documents and admission requests, we can learn more about how the mad were cared for outside the institutions, and the impact their behaviour had on the people close to them. Investigating these sources for both Amsterdam and Utrecht in the seven...

Literary responses to animal experimentation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain.

The fact that British men of letters in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries commented on the subject of animal experimentation is well known. Apart from anti-vivisectionists and modern advocates of animal rights, who have been keen to cite the most critical of these responses, ' scholars have considered them in three main areas of research. In the history of ideas some of those literary so...