Oliver Cromwell was born in 1599 to a middle class family. At the age of seventeen, he entered Cambridge, but it is assumed that he only spent one year in attendance there. At the age of twenty-nine, he entered Parliament, and maintained an active and outspoken roll in both the Short and Long Parliaments. ... A small country gentleman by origin, descendent of the younger branch of a family that derived its fortunes from the dissolution of the monasteries in the time of King Henry VIII, he had been converted to Puritanism at about the age of thirty. ... "As history had shown, on the earlier oc...

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In the book, Colley traces the construction of a British identity in the period between the Act of Union joining Scotland to England and Wales in 1707 and the formal beginning of the Victorian age in 1837. ... The early nineteenth century allowed women to come to terms with the meanings and demands of Britishness. ... The middle class in Britain was composed of the majority of the population. The opinions of the middle class were created in response to the actions of the elite. The end result is that by dressing more like the middle class society, the elites were able to change the opin...

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Basic aspects of the brain's visual capacity have been shown to be innate, such as a newborn baby's ability to recognize the structure of a face, but most are learned during the visual stimulation received during early development" (Haughton 230). History of culture were not as globalized in the early age as they are now and it was creating a specific culture and definition of what truly is beautiful at the specific culture. ... In sixteenth and early seventeenth century in England women's attractiveness were played by the "practical visibility and erotic half-concealment"(Korh...

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Progression in the middle ages led to "watchmen", in cities in Europe. ... In the early middle ages England created the keepers of the peace were established and these men were knights assigned to protect the king. ...

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By the middle of the 12th century almost all of these bodies had adopted the Rule of St Augustine. ... The first 12 Benedictine monasteries were founded early in the 6th century at Subiaco, near Rome, by Benedict, who later founded the famous abbey at Monte Cassino and there established the rule that organized and revitalized Western monasticism and gave it its particular characteristics. ... As early as 1354 the order had provided 24 popes, 200 cardinals, 7,000 archbishops, 15,000 bishops, 1,560 canonized saints, and 5,000 holy people worthy of canonization, a number since increased to 40,00...

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