Some articles on century, seventeenth century:
... in producing a large and formidable force, but there is evidence that by the mid-sixteenth century the authorities were experiencing increasing difficulty in recruitment ... of castle architecture from the mid-fifteenth century ... In the early seventeenth century relatively large numbers of Scots took service in foreign armies involved in the Thirty Years War ...
... seventeenth century, indicates, British Romani was itself a dialect of the northern branch of Romani sharing a close similarity to Welsh Romani ... the Indic based vocabulary, morphology, and influences from Greek and other Balkan languages of seventeenth century to a Para-Romani dialect typical ... the Romani communities arrival in the sixteenth century, in a similar development to the Pidgin or Creol languages ...
... built in hundreds by local lords since the fourteenth century, particularly in the borders ... way to the grander English forms associated with Inigo Jones in the later seventeenth century ... rectangles, a style that continued to be built into the seventeenth century ...
... The closing decade of the seventeenth century saw the generally favourable economic conditions that had dominated since the Restoration come to an end ...
Famous quotes related to seventeenth century:
“It is as if, to every period of history, there corresponded a privileged age and a particular division of human life: ‘youth’ is the privileged age of the seventeenth century, childhood of the nineteenth, adolescence of the twentieth.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)
“The general feeling was, and for a long time remained, that one had several children in order to keep just a few. As late as the seventeenth century . . . people could not allow themselves to become too attached to something that was regarded as a probable loss. This is the reason for certain remarks which shock our present-day sensibility, such as Montaigne’s observation, ‘I have lost two or three children in their infancy, not without regret, but without great sorrow.’”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)
“Nothing in medieval dress distinguished the child from the adult. In the seventeenth century, however, the child, or at least the child of quality, whether noble or middle-class, ceased to be dressed like the grown-up. This is the essential point: henceforth he had an outfit reserved for his age group, which set him apart from the adults. These can be seen from the first glance at any of the numerous child portraits painted at the beginning of the seventeenth century.”
—Philippe Ariés (20th century)