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Reconstructing whiteness in Ambrose Bierce
… of American author, journalist, and satirist Ambrose Bierce through the lens of whiteness studies. It compares Bierce's work to the popular literature. Its primary investigation is into the ideological project of white-identity and national reunion as it is played out in sentimentalist war …
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Ambrose Bierce: Between politics and philosophy
This study examines the political thought of Ambrose Bierce. Because of his aversion to Gilded Age politics, Bierce did not participate in the political process. As a result, his political thought must be considered from an ideological or philosophical perspective; Examination of his views suggests …
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Saint Ambrose and the Temporal Powers as Shown in His Letters
… century. The remaining six chapters show how St. Ambrose in the fourth century determined the role the Christian Emperor was to play within the Church.
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Reading Reverence: Literate Practice in Ambrose of Milan's Expositio evangelii secundum Lucam
Ambrose of Milan has long been heralded as the political mind behind the dramatic change in power play between the Church and the imperial seat of Late Roman government. However, after years of producing text, championing the cause against pagan strongholds in Roman culture, and instructing the …
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Virginity Discourse and Ascetic Politics in the Writings of Ambrose of Milan
<p>Ambrose, bishop of Milan, was one of the most outspoken advocates of Christian female virginity in the fourth century C.E. This dissertation examines his writings on virginity in the interest of illuminating the historical and social contexts of his teachings. Considering Ambrose's treatises on …
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The Relations of Ambrose and the Emperors as Evidenced in his Letters
… is to determine which one of these theories Ambrose favored and to prove it by his actions as recorded in his known letters. These actions are fully described for us in his Letters. Where there is an absence of material in the Letters one could go to the other published works of Ambrose to …
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The poetics of perception: a semantic analysis of the short fiction of Ambrose Bierce
… of literature, specifically to the fiction of Ambrose Bierce.</p><p>"A Semantic Analysis of the Short Fiction of Ambrose Bierce" is therefore justified because literary criticism has not dealt comprehensively with Bierce, because literary criticism has not dealt comprehensively with general …
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Soul Recreation: Spiritual Marriage and Ravishment in the Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Isaac Ambrose
… in the Contemplative-Mystical Piety of Isaac Ambrose This thesis examines the theology and piety of Isaac Ambrose (1604-1664), a moderate Lancashire Puritan minister. More specifically it raises the question about the nature of his spiritual practices and whether they reflect what Bernard …
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The Metaphysics of Light in the Hexaemeral Literature: From Philo of Alexandria to Ambrose of Milan
… account its historical development from Philo to Ambrose, with Origen, Basil and Nyssen as the main protagonists. It shows that, from a premodern perspective, the rational account of the nature of light leads through the study of the physical properties to the grasp of the logos or intelligible …
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Factors affecting youth partcipation in skills training programs in Kafue District: A case of St. Ambrose Trade Centre.
The study was conducted to investigate the factors affecting youth participation in skills training programmes at a selected skills institutions in Kafue. The objective of the study was to asses the factors that affects youth participation in skills training and attitudes that motivate them. The …
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Literary Activity and Ecclesiastical Authority in Medieval Iceland: The Old Norse Reception of St Ambrose of Milan and his Exemplary Role in Bishops’ Sagas
… As a case study, I focus on the reception of St Ambrose of Milan (374–97), a fundamental theologian in Western Christianity and a skilful diplomat who promoted the superiority of the Late Antique Church over secular interference while simultaneously securing for the Church the support of the …
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A community of preachers: The north Italian episcopacy, 397-451
… and influence within the church as a whole. Ambrose of Milan is the best-known Italian bishop of this period, but this study focuses mainly on the contributions of figures who are less famous. Chromatius of Aquileia, Vigilius of Trent, Gaudentius of Brescia, Maximus of Turin, and Peter …
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A Garden Locked, A Fountain Sealed: Female Virginity as a Model for Holiness in the Fourth Century
… an entrenched misogyny in the writings of Ambrose, Jerome, and Augustine, close examination of their work on its own terms and in its own time reveals that, in fact, they did not hold women in lesser esteem than men. Rather, time and again, in the writings of these Latin Doctors of the …
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Aunthood and Narrative Voice: Virginia Woolf’s Materteral Form
… work, whether it manifests in character (Helen Ambrose, Eleanor Pargiter, and Lucy Swithin to name a few of Woolf’s aunts) or, as this work argues is particularly pertinent for Woolf studies, in narrative voice.
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Mystical Relations: A Study of Feminine Relationships with Christ in the High Middle Ages and Beyond
… notably in the writings of figures such as St. Ambrose, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Brabant, Julian of Norwich, and Catherine of Siena. Not only do these writers draw a picture of a feminized Christ, they often draw a motherly Christ. The following pages explore the …
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Resurrecting the martyrs: the role of the Cult of the Saints, A.D. 370-430
… cult's relationship to three notable bishops: Ambrose of Milan (d. 397), John Chrysostom (d. 407), and Augustine of Hippo (d. 430). Though contemporary with one another, these three men all viewed the cult of the martyrs as fulfilling somewhat different needs for their congregations. The last …
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Yhteistoiminnallinen menetelmä ja oikeudenmukaisuus : Kuntatyöntekijöiden kokemuksia työkonferenssimenetelmästä
… kategorioinnin näkökulma oikeudenmukaisuuteen (Ambrose & Kulik, 2001), moraalisen vastuun näkökulma (Folger, 2001) ja yleinen oikeudenmukaisuusteoria (Folger & Cropanzano, 1998) ja tutkimusnäkökulmana retorinen asenneteoria (Billig, 1987/1996). Asennoitumista tarkastellaan laadullisen …
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The Religious world of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus
… Christian establishment specifically with Bishop Ambrose of Milan over the Altar of Victory Affair. The last chapter, although still thematic, looks at Late Antique Paganism through a series of personal events in Symmachus’ life; but is also chronological in the sense that it covers the last …
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Viewing Zimbabwean literature through an Africana womanist lens: a critical reading of selected texts to investigate Charles Mungoshi’s treatment of African women in Ndiko Kupindana Kwamazuwa and Waiting for the Rain
… in response to colonialism and evangelism. Ambrose, a colonial administrator, and Eugene, a Christian missionary are the two antagonists. The novel, Zwi is set in the late nineteenth century after the establishment of small British settlements and their first conflict with the indigenous …
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Orbit discontinuities and topological models for Borel semiflows
… probability measure on $X$, we show that the Ambrose-Kakutani theorem can be adapted to find both an extension and a factor of the semiflow which are conjugate to the original semiflow except on a set of measure zero. Both the factor and extension are characterized by a Polish space called the …
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