They serve to contradict a popular notion that the Comedie merely repeats, as accurately as possible, the techniques of acting the classics that prevailed in the 17th century.

The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; ;

The speaking of the lines seemed excessively slow and stately, possibly in an effort to capture the spirit of 17th century elegance.

In the late 17th century, Guru Gobind Singh Ji ( the tenth guru in Sikhism ), was in war with the Moghul rulers to protect the people of different faiths, when a fellow Sikh, Bhai Kanhaiya, attended the troops of the enemy.

In Canada, Jesuit missionaries such as Fathers LeClercq, Le Jeune and Sagard, in the 17th century, provide the oldest ethnographic records of native tribes in what was then the Dominion of Canada.

During the 17th century, practical alchemy started to evolve into modern chemistry, as it was renamed by Robert Boyle, the " father of modern chemistry ".< ref name =" Deem, Rich 2005 ">

Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences, but in modern usage the fine arts, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, are distinguished from acquired skills in general, and the decorative or applied arts.

Anton van Leeuwenhoek, the famous 17th century microscopist, discovered living organisms ( living, because they were motile ) in deposits on the teeth ( what we now call dental plaque ).

The Mitanni appeared in the 17th century BC and spoke an Indo-Aryan language related to the Indo-European languages eventually to be found in India.

It was established to be an element around the 17th century.

Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

A novel called Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, based on Avicenna's story, was later written by Ibn Tufail ( Abubacer ) in the 12th century and translated into Latin and English as Philosophus Autodidactus in the 17th and 18th centuries respectively.

For example, paintings glorified aristocracy in the early 17th century when leadership was needed to nationalize small political groupings, but later as leadership became oppressive, satirization increased and subjects were less concerned with leaders and more with more common plights of mankind.

It was in the age of absolute monarchy launched by Louix XIV in the 17th century that the likes of Poussin and Le Brun put France in the forefront of European art.

Many Christian denominations have been influenced by Arminian views, notably the Baptists ( See A History of the Baptists Third Edition by Robert G. Torbet ) in the 16th century, the Methodists, the Congregationalists of the early New England colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries and the Universalists and Unitarians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

Ever since Arminius and his followers revolted against Calvinism in the early 17th century, Protestant soteriology has been largely divided between Calvinism and Arminianism.

The Bolivian Andes produce principally tin although historically silver mining had a huge impact on the economy of 17th century Europe.

The rules were not completely fixed in the 17th century.

When it comes to the 17th century and anagrams in English or other languages, there is a great deal of documented evidence of learned interest.

Natural philosophers ( astronomers and others ) of the 17th century transposed their discoveries into Latin anagrams, to establish their priority.

The fort was partially destroyed by the Dutch in the mid 17th century, rebuilt, then destroyed again in 1776 by an earthquake.

Aachen became attractive as a spa by the middle of the 17th century, not so much because of the effects of the hot springs on the health of its visitors but because Aachen was then — and remained well into the 19th century — a place of high-level prostitution in Europe.

It was introduced to Europe at the close of the 17th century as a handsome greenhouse plant, and is hardy outdoors in the south of England and Ireland if protected from severe frosts.

The first assembly of the estates-general convened at Lamego ( wherein he would have been given the crown from the Archbishop of Braga, to confirm his independence ) is a 17th century embellishment of Portuguese history.

Fernando de Alva Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl, a Mestizo historian and descendant of Coanacoch, wrote an account of the executions in the 17th century partly based on Texcocan oral tradition.

A historian from Slesvig, Ulrik Petersen ( 1656 – 1735 ), wrote in the late 17th century that the flag hung in Slesvig cathedral till about 1660 until it simply crumbled away, thus ending its more than 400-year-old story.

Having already acculturated various aspects of Hellenic culture, ancient writers and up through the 17th century such as Francis Bacon and other Renaissance writers called them " Gallo-Graeci ", " Gauls settled among the Greeks " and the country " Gallo-Graecia ", as had the 3rd century AD Latin historian Justin.

The alleged story of the crown and papal legate authority given to Stephen I of Hungary by Sylvester in the year 1000 ( hence the reign title ' Apostolic King ') is noted by the 19th century historian Lewis L. Kropf as a possible forgery of the 17th century.

Geoffrey Keating, an Irish historian of the late 17th century, equates Spain with the Land of the Dead.

They were refugees from former Byzantine or Venetian territories that were occupied by the Ottomans in the late 15th and 16th c. The first Greek community was established in Ancona early in the 16th c. Natalucci, the 17th c. historian of the city, notes the existence of 200 Greek families in Ancona at the opening of the 16th c. Most of them came from northwestern Greece, i. e. the Ionian islands and Epirus.

Trieste in the 17th century, in a contemporary image by the Carniola n historian Johann Weikhard von Valvasor

" Though the first French and British colonizers of Canada interpreted the hereditary nature of some indigenous North American chieftainships as a form of monarchy, it is generally accepted that Canada has been a territory of a monarch or a monarchy in its own right only since the establishment of New France in the early 17th century ; according to historian Jacques Monet, the Canadian Crown is one of the few that have survived through uninterrupted succession since before its inception.

The Dictionary of Canadian Biography says: " In the 17th century Champlain fixed its present orthography, with the ' r ' omitted, and ( the Canadian historian ) W. F. Ganong has shown its gradual progress northwards, in a succession of maps, to its resting place in the Atlantic Provinces.

In his book History of the Worthies of England, the 17th century historian Thomas Fuller refers to Carshalton for its walnuts and trout.

As 17th century historian Thomas Fuller remarked more succinctly, Baldwin " caught many fish, and his death in eating them.

According to the Codes of Bishopy of Philippoupolis and the Czech historian and slavist Konstantin Josef Jireček in the middle of 17th century, the Pomak provosts agreed to become Muslim en masse.

No printed account of Cabrillo's voyage appeared before historian Antonio de Herrera's account early in the 17th century.

The importance of this trade made Chilean historian Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna label the 17th century the century of suet ( Spanish: Siglo del sebo ).

Former members of the college include the political and military leader Oliver Cromwell, the noted early historian Thomas Fuller and the 17th century poet and dramatist Thomas May.

In the late 18th century he was named the best violin composer of the 17th century by music historian Charles Burney.

Thirty-four coronations with the Iron Crown were counted by the historian Bartolomeo Zucchi from the 9th to the 17th century ( beginning with Charlemagne ).

Sir Paul Meernaa Caedwalla Hasluck KG GCMG GCVO KStJ ( 1 April 1905 – 9 January 1993 ) was an Australian historian, poet, public servant and politician, and the 17th Governor-General of Australia.

A roll of arms painted by John Rous ( historian ) | John Rous around 1483 – 1485 for the Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick | Earl of Warwick.

As a historian, Kogălniceanu notably introduced several more or less influential Romantic nationalist theses: after 1840, he was noted for stressing the image of the 17th-century Wallachian Prince Michael the Brave as a unifier of Romania, although this view had not been at all present in his earlier essays ; he proposed that the Romanian folk was among the first European peoples to record history in their national language, although the earliest Romanian-language chronicles date back to the 17th century ; additionally, he argued that the Second Bulgarian Empire was a Romanian state.

In the book The Folk Songs of North America, folk music historian Alan Lomax suggests that the song originated in the 17th century, and ( based on plot similarities ) that John Gay's 1728 The Beggar's Opera was inspired by Gay hearing an Irish ballad-monger singing " Whiskey in the Jar ".

The 17th century Muslim historian Al-Maqqari wrote that upon landing, Tariq burned his ships.

His younger son, the fifth Earl ( who succeeded his half-brother in 1987 ), was a noted historian of 17th century England.

In the 17th century, the historian Henri de Boulainvilliers ( 1658 – 1722 ) divided the French as two races: ( i ) the aristocratic " French race " descended from the invader Germanic Franks, and ( ii ) the indigenous Gallo-Roman race ( the political Third Estate populace ).