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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Age of Enlightenment"”.
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Advancements in arch analysis and design during the Age of Enlightenment
Prior to the Age of Enlightenment, arches were designed by empirical rules based off of previous successes or failures. The Age of Enlightenment brought about the emergence of statics and mechanics, which scholars promptly applied to masonry arch analysis and design. Masonry was assumed to be …
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Managing Nature in the Age of Enlightenment: The Practice of Natural History in Britain, 1760-1820
… manuscripts and specimens dominated the practice of natural history during the late eighteenth century. This dissertation explores the complex connections between these materials and shows how they were used to apply systematic structure to nature on a global scale. Central to shaping a variety of …
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A mother of light in the age of Enlightenment: Heterodoxy, interiority, and epistemology in eighteenth-century New Spain
… those arising locally. Into this Marian Zodiac of New Spain, Madre Santísima de la Luz entered in the early 18th century, and her devotion swiftly proliferated. The cult and image of this Most Holy Mother serve as an excellent case study to examine certain contentions in the age of …
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Remember the Country and the Age in Which We Live": The British Gothic Novel in the Age of Enlightenment, 1764-1798
<p>Remember the Country and the Age in Which We Live” argues that the British Gothic novels produced in the late eighteenth century were not, as has traditionally been assumed, written in reaction against Enlightenment values in the face of rising political and social discord. Instead, I contend …
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The Rise and Fall of Organised Political Freethought, 1870-1880
This thesis charts the rise and fall of organised political freethought from 1870 to 1880, and in so doing seeks to revise the historiographies on radical movements during the era of Reconstruction. In particular, the thesis also seeks to detail the influence of some of the most radical thinkers …
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Upstairs-Downstairs: The Life of Women in England's Country Homes During the Regency Era, 1775-1837
<p>This thesis focuses on the role of women during the Regency Era in England, from 1775 to 1837, centered on the lives of women who were servants or women who had servants. Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Nelly Weeton, and Agnes Porter are featured. Similarities and differences among these women …
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From Irritants to Satisfaction: A Model of a Theory of Meaning Applied to Reading the‘Sabbath of the LORD’ Motif In Exodus 16
The shift in biblical studies since the Age of Enlightenment from the so-called positivist (i.e. modernist) paradigm to the postpositivist (i.e. postmodern) paradigm has become a matter of (de)centralisation of meaning and interpretation. To contribute to the topic, I argue that there is a need for …
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Some Controversial Problems Regarding Censorship
… one goes as far as to suggest prohibition of the publication of anything,” writes Walter Daniels, the editor of an anthology published in 1954 concerned with The Censorship of Books. In the same volume an editor of the Washington Post asserts emphatically: "There is not such a thing as good …
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Digital Storytelling: The Application of Vichian Theory
Storytelling is often looked at as something archaic or something that simpler cultures engage in. However, in our sophisticated and highly technological world storytelling swirls about us though we may not always recognize it. This thesis looks at the phenomenon of digital storytelling that …
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The influence of religion on the survival of the Welsh language 1801-2011 : a tale of two centuries.
The Welsh language is derived from what has been termed “Common Celtic”, itself a derivative from an Indio-European root. In the outer regions of the Roman Empire, two branches of Celtic emerged – Brittonic (P Celtic), spoken throughout most of Britain including lowland Scotland, and Goidelic (Q …