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Shetland Vernacular Boats 1500-2000
This thesis provides a more accurate narrative of the origin and development of the Shetland vernacular boat in all its forms. Shetland, being treeless, imported boats from Norway, described as ‘kits,’ implying that they were quick and easy to assemble. New evidence suggests that this is incorrect; …
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Italian Stage Machinery, 1500-1700
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Scottish church music and musicians, 1500-1700
Abstract available: p 3-4.
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The design of a 1500 curie Co60 teletherapy unit
… Hospital, Saskatoon, was designed to use 1500 curies of Co60 as its source. The following is a complete description of the unit. It includes photographs of detail drawings and verbal descriptions of all components. Blue prints of the drawings are available at the Physics Department. A …
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"I Believe": The Credo in Music, 1300 to 1500
… settings of the creed between the years 1300 and 1500. These musical and liturgical phenomena have been noted but little studied; furthermore, the reasons underlying these changes have not been explained or studied. This dissertation analyzes the musical features of the Credo in monophony and …
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Praise, Politics, and Language: South Indian Murals, 1500-1800
This study of mural painting in southern India aims to change the received narrative of painting in South Asia not only by bringing to light a body of work previously understudied and in many cases undocumented, but by showing how that corpus contributes vitally to the study of South Indian art and …
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The Motet as a Representation of Sociocultural Value Circa 1500
… a conceptual idea of the motet about the year 1500. Starting with terms and categories expressed in the only known definition of the genre that survives from that period, it applies an anthropological distinction between use and function, as embodied in a structuralist-derived, comparative …
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The diffusion of public banking initiatives in Europe, 1500–1650
In this thesis I present a human history of the diffusion of the phenomenon of public banking in late-medieval and early modern Europe (1350–1650), with a focus on the sixteenth and early-seventeenth century. The adjective ‘human’ symbolizes a shift away from a canon composed solely of a selection …
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A Tropical Flour: Manioc in the Afro-Brazilian World, 1500-1800
… throughout the Afro-Portuguese world between ca. 1500 to ca.1800. In addition to tracing the spatial movement of the plant, this thesis will also show how manioc was culturally redefined as an African crop and how this effected its reception and meaning upon returning to the New World from Africa. …
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Freilas, seroras y beatas vascas: personalidad y caracterización (c. 1500-1650)
RESUMEN DE LA TESIS La tesis comienza con una alusión a las beatas, freilas y seroras de la actualidad, a modo de reconocimiento a todas aquellas que he tenido ocasión de conocer. La primera fue la difunta Felicitas Ibáñez de Garayo ermitaña de Nuestra Señora de Aiala de Alegría-Dulantzi …
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Aus Rostocker Werkstätten? Vergleichende kunsttechnologische Untersuchungen an sieben Flügelretabeln um 1500
… die nach ihrer Entstehung um das Jahr 1500 als Hauptaltarretabel in Dorfkirchen im Umkreis der Hansestadt Rostock sowie auf der schwedischen Insel Gotland fungierten. Ausgangspunkt der Dissertation ist die These, dass diese Retabel, die heute sehr unterschiedliche, teils …
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Shropshire Deer Parks c.1500 - c.1914 Recreation, Status and Husbandry
… The remit of the thesis covers the period c.1500 - c.1900. However, the opening chapter concerns the Middle Ages, providing the context essential to an understanding of the proliferation of deer parks following the Norman Conquest, which reached a peak in the thirteenth century. It serves to …
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Vanished comforts: locating roles of domestic furnishings in Scotland 1500-1650
Household inventories record objects that can be compared with surviving artefacts contributing to the study of material culture and social history. However, this thesis shows how heterogeneous inventories found in early modern Scottish sources resist quantification and aggregation. Instead, …
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Teaching natural philosophy and mathematics at Oxford and Cambridge 1500-1570
… Following sweeping syllabus reform around 1500, the Cambridge Master of Arts course was heavily slanted towards humanism. The old scholastic textbooks were rejected and replaced with modern authors. The purpose of natural philosophy was explicitly to illuminate the providential work of the …
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