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The Seventeenth Century is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the 17th century published by Taylor & Francis. It is abstracted and indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index. [1]
1605–1615 – Miguel de Cervantes writes the two parts of Don Quixote. 1616: April – Death of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes.; 1630-1651: William Bradford writes Of Plymouth Plantation, journals that are considered the most authoritative account of the Pilgrims and their government.
Years of the 17th century in literature (100 C, 100 P) Library buildings completed in the 17th century (5 P). 17th-century books (19 C, 29 P) 17th-century essays (6 C ...
The Puritan culture of the New England colonies of the seventeenth century was influenced by Calvinist theology, which believed in a "just, almighty God," [1] and a lifestyle of pious, consecrated actions. The Puritans participated in their own forms of recreational activity, including visual arts, literature, and music.
Henri Joutel – Journal historique du dernier voyage que feu M. de La Sale fit dans le golfe de Mexique (Joutel's journal of La Salle's last voyage, 1684–1687) Thomas Parnell – An Essay on the Different Stiles of Poetry; Charles-Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre – Projet pour rendre la paix perpétuelle en Europe; Jonathan Swift
The Tatler was a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709 and published for two years. It represented a new approach to journalism, featuring cultivated essays on contemporary manners, and established the pattern that would be copied in such British classics as Addison and Steele's The Spectator, Samuel Johnson's The Rambler and The Idler, and Goldsmith's Citizen of ...
John Walsh was the name of a father and son, two printers and publishers of music, active in London from the late 17th Century, and through the first half of the 18th Century. They published much important Baroque music , including works by William Babell and George Frideric Handel .
January 5 – Journal des sçavans, the first scientific journal, begins publication in France. [1]February 15 – Molière's comedy Dom Juan is first presented, at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris, in its original prose version with the playwright playing Sganarelle; it is withdrawn after 15 performances after attacks on its morality.