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Hace 1 día · 18th century. After taking the throne at the end of the 17th century, Peter the Great's influence on the Russian culture would extend far into the 18th century. Peter's reign during the beginning of the 18th century initiated a series of modernizing changes in Russian literature.
Hace 3 días · Atheism was first used to describe a self-avowed belief in late 18th-century Europe, specifically denoting disbelief in the monotheistic Abrahamic god. [b] In the 20th century, globalization contributed to the expansion of the term to refer to disbelief in all deities, though it remains common in Western society to describe atheism as "disbelief in God".
Hace 1 día · Although the 18th century was a period of increasing prosperity, the benefits were distributed unevenly across regions and social groups. Those whose income derived from agriculture, rents, interest and trade in goods from France's slave colonies benefited most, while the living standards of wage labourers and farmers on rented land fell.
Hace 5 días · These concerns shifted over the course of the 18th century, against a backdrop of wider cultural arguments about the relationship between gender and the sexed body. In a compelling narrative encompassing the years between 1689 and 1815, Banister discusses the competing versions of masculinity circulating during this period.
Hace 1 día · Although Blake has become better known for his relief etching, his commercial work largely consisted of intaglio engraving, the standard process of engraving in the 18th century in which the artist incised an image into the copper plate, a complex and laborious process, with plates taking months or years to complete, but as Blake's contemporary, John Boydell, realised, such engraving offered a ...
Hace 2 días · Island of Gorée, Senegal Portrait of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (Job ben Solomon), painted by William Hoare in the 18th century. By the 1690s, the English were shipping the most slaves from West Africa. By the 18th century, Portuguese Angola had become again one of the principal sources of the Atlantic slave trade.
Hace 2 días · Three earls. Ralph de Gael. Roger de Breteuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford. Waltheof, 1st Earl of Northumberland. Internal Conflict, William was Victorious. Waltheof was beheaded in 1076. Roger lost his lands and earldom, imprisoned, and beheaded in 1087. Ralph lost his lands and earldom, and was expelled from England. 1096.
