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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]
Education was once considered a privilege for only the upper class. However, during the 17th and 18th centuries, “education, literacy and learning” were gradually provided to “rich and poor alike”. [10] The literacy rate in Europe from the 17th century to the 18th century grew significantly.
As music spread, the religious hymns were still just as popular. The first New England School, Shakers, and Quakers, which were all music and dance groups inspired by religion, rose to fame. In 1776, St. Cecilia Music Society opened in the Province of South Carolina and led to many more societies opening in the Northern United States.
In late 17th-century Maryland, the Jesuits operated some schools for Catholic students. [28] In the deep south (Georgia and South Carolina), schooling was carried out primarily by private venture teachers, [29] in "old field schools, [30] and in a hodgepodge of publicly funded projects. In the colony of Georgia, at least ten grammar schools ...
The First Half of the Seventeenth Century (1906) by Herbert J. C. Grierson. Periods of European Literature series, vol. 7. George Edward Bateman Saintsbury , ed. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons.
Education in the Thirteen Colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries varied considerably. Public school systems existed only in New England. In the 18th Century, the Puritan emphasis on literacy largely influenced the significantly higher literacy rate (70 percent of men) of the Thirteen Colonies, mainly New England, in comparison to Britain (40 percent of men) and France (29 percent of men).
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.
The Republic of Letters (Res Publica Litterarum or Res Publica Literaria) was the long-distance intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the Americas. [ clarification needed ] It fostered communication among the intellectuals of the Age of Enlightenment , or philosophes as they were called in France.