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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"14th century"”.
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The Fortunes of a King: Images of Edward the Confessor in 12th to 14th Century England
… functions of his images in twelfth to fourteenth century England. The images are not concerned with the historical Anglo-Saxon King, but rather depict an idealized and simplified version of Edward. The discrepancies between Edward, the Anglo-Saxon monarch, and his representation in the twelfth to …
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Relics and artifacts: The materiality of holy bodies in Italian culture from 14th century novella to modern film
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-12-01
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Origin of cultural plants in Lithuania in the context of Eastern Baltic (based on archaeobotanical material dated up to 14th century AD) /
Dispersal of domesticated plants is among the most widely studied archaeological topics in the world. However, these processes have been poorly studied in Lithuania, Eastern Baltic and Northeastern Europe. This dissertation is based on new archaeobotanical material from 13 settlements in Lithuania …
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The Canterbury tales : a study of certain of the characters and their tales as an expression of Chaucer's concern regarding abuses among the priesthood and religious orders during the 14th century
… motivated by the fact that, in the fourteenth century at any rate, only a pilgrimage could have provided a socially acceptable dimension for keeping so diverse a group of people together for long enough to tell their tales. However, the fact that a pilgrimage was fundamentally a religious act …
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The Gawain-Poet and the Textual Environment of Fourteenth-Century English Anticlericalism
<p>The 14th-century Middle English poems <em>Cleanness</em> and <em>Patience</em>, homiletic retellings of biblical stories which appear in the same manuscript as <em>Pearl</em> and <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</em>, offer moral lessons to a general Christian audience, but the introduction …
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Le 'Chiose Cagliaritane' alla 'Commedia': edizione critica e commento
… of Cagliari, produced toward the end of the 14th century by an author from eastern Tuscany. In addition to preparing a new critical text that can surpass the commendable edition prepared by Enrico Carrara in 1902, the thesis aims to explore the relationships between the Chiose Cagliaritane …
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Biskop och stad : aspekter av urbanisering och sociala rum i medeltidens Linköping
… of the new kingdom to come. During the 13th century the church was consolidated, a period that saw an immense building programme at the cathedral, the bishop’s palace as well as the foundation of the chapter, but still nothing that could be interpreted as an urban settlement. Not until the …
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The Medieval Borderland: Geophysical Analysis of a Later Medieval Deserted Settlement and Cultural Landscape from Western Ireland
… the archaeological remnants of an early 14th century settlement at Ballintober, Roscommon County, Ireland. An innovative methodology combining ground-penetrating radar, magnetic gradiometry, and archaeological excavations is utilized to reconstruct the medieval built environment, which …
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Shame in the Fabliaux
… in manuscript examples from the 12th to the 14th century. The stories involve simple characters, word play and idiomatic expressions. I argue that literary mechanisms are used in these texts in a conscious effort to augment the characters shame while explicitly implicating the audience in …
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"If We Shadows Have Offended": Reflections of Social Attitudes Toward Reform in Late Medieval and Reformation Dream Visions
14th-century dream visions feature intensely personal narrators with attitudes and desires, who agonize over difficult situations, who make errors in judgment. Deeply characterized narrators contribute thematically to these poems, which explore personal subjects like grief and faith. By the 16th …
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A study of a late thirteenth-century composite Office book (Cape Town, National Library of South Africa,MS Grey 4b5) with reference to selected manuscript sources from the diocese of Münster in Westphalia
… It is dated in the late 13th to early 14th century and is from the city of Münster, Westphalia. The notation of the melodies makes use of Hufnagelschrift and the texts show various stages of Textualis Gothica throughout the entirety of the book. This manuscript gives an indication of …
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Ancient Art, Modern Tech: Experiencing the Digital Reinvention of the Mogao Grottoes
Built from the 4th to 14th century, the Mogao Grottoes in the deserts of northwestern China is the greatest repository of Buddhist art in the world. It has long faced a range of threats from natural disasters to imperialistic plunder. But now it must confront the greatest challenge to its continued …
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Logic and Flesh: Richard Hooker’s Sacramental Social Body
… or Calvinism themselves but of their 14th-century nominalist roots. Whereas recent scholarship has focused on the extent of Hooker’s consistency with the magisterial reformers, I aim to situate Hooker within the broader intellectual developments, beyond merely doctrinal-confessional …
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Vertical Village : towards a new typology of high-density low-income urban housing
… its roots in village models as early as the 14th century. The foundational components of communal living have not changed significantly in the last 800 years, remaining concretized in the defensibility, production and sociability of the collective. It is the aim of this body of research to …
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El que toma candela del fuego ajeno. Don Juan Manuel y la refundación castellana del mundo cortesano en el siglo XIV
… nobility during the first decades of the 14th century and that announced the crystallization of this phenomenon in the aristocratic humanism of the 15th century. Índice
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Ibn Khaldun and the Modern Social Sciences: A Comparative Theoretical Inquiry into Society, the State, and Revolution
… to bring the work of Ibn Khaldun, the late 14th century Tunisian jurist and historian, into the mainstream of historiographic, political, and sociological learning. Why Ibn Khaldun? What makes his work stand out among the classics of pre-modern and early-modern political and social theory? …
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Transforming space in the Old City of Beijing
… transformed since the Yuan Dynasty (13th - 14th century); thus, it holds a strong identity and memory of Beijing. This thesis will deal with the challenge of preserving identity and memory in a fast-changing environment.
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An analysis of György Ligeti's Nonsense Madrigals
… parodying of compositional techniques from the 14th century as well as the rhythmic provocativeness of jazz. The use of parody in these works is compatible with Ligeti’s choice of texts which includes literary parodies by Lewis Carroll. In Chapter One, the monograph provides a brief biography …
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ΣΥΜΒΟΛΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΑΙΤΩΛΟΑΚΑΡΝΑΝΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΤΩΝ ΝΗΣΙΩΝ ΤΟΥ ΝΟΤΙΟΥ ΙΟΝΙΟΥ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΣΑΡΤΗΣΗ ΤΗΣ ΚΟΜΗΤΕΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΕΦΑΛΛΗΝΙΑΣ ΣΤΟ ΠΡΙΓΚΗΠΑΤΟ ΤΗΣ ΑΧΑΙΑΣ ΜΕΧΡΙ ΤΟΘΑΝΑΤΟ ΤΟΥ ΚΑΡΟΛΟΥ Α' ΤΟΚΚΟΥ (1325-1429)
… ELEMENT IN AETOLOAKARNANIA IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 14TH CENTURY. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE TOCCO SOVEREIGNTY IN THE COUNTRYOF KEPHALLENIA IS PRESENTED IN RELATION TO THE AMBITION OF NIKEPHOROS II ORSINI TO RE- ESTABLISH THE PATERNAL DOMAIN. THE STRUGGLE OF THE PETTY RULERS OF THE STATES ADJACENT TO …
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