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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Bodleian Library"”.
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An edition of the cartulary of Alvingham Priory (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 642)
The subject of this thesis is an edition of the cartulary of Alvingham Priory, a Gilbertine house of nuns and canons situated in the Lindsey district of Lincolnshire. The documents, written in Latin with a few Anglo-Norman or English exceptions and with one line of Hebrew, have been edited in full …
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Women’s Voices in a Fourteenth-Century Chansonnier: Representation and Performance in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308
The chansonnier, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Douce 308, contains over 500 Old French lyrics, many unica, and numerous chansons de femme. Scholars of medieval lyric have associated the female voice with repetition and simplicity, but I demonstrate that representations of women in the Douce 308 …
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‘Synge we now alle and sum’: three Fifteenth-Century collections of communal song: a study of British Library, Sloane MS 2593; Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. e.1; and St John’s College, Cambridge, MS S.54
The manuscripts British Library, Sloane MS 2593, Bodleian Library, MS Eng. poet. e.1, and St John’s College, Cambridge, MS S.54 are compact collections of song lyrics written during the fifteenth century, largely without notation. My thesis seeks to develop responsive ways of reading these …
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The Old English Bede: Transmission and Textual History in Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts.
… The manuscripts examined are: Oxford, Bodleian Library Tanner 10 (T) Oxford, Corpus Christi College 279B (O) Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 41 (B) Cambridge, University Library Kk.3.18 (Ca) Each chapter analyses a particular scribal performance. O’s scribe created a Mischsprache …
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Compilation and Creativity in Medieval Fíanaigecht: a Case-Study of 'Three Men and the Dog of Irúath'
… embedded tales is presented, based on Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 610 (s. xv) and Dublin, University College Franciscan A 4 (s. xv–xvi), and including significant variants from the other manuscript witnesses in the apparatus criticus. Further insights into the textual tradition of …
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Frankenstein: a monstrous romanticism
… explication of the original that exists in the Bodleian Library. The conclusion of this chapter solidifies the argument of the first chapter, and as close attention is paid throughout both chapters to the novel as a primary source of confirmation, the complex navigations and articulations of …
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The People of Qayrawan: the demographic and social composition of the population of a maghribi city during the first 250 years of its existence, on the basis of medieval arabic chronicles and inscriptions
… In Rabat, Morocco I visited both the public library (al-Khizänah al-'Ammah) and the Royal Library (al-Maktabah al-Malakiyyah), which both contain thousands of mediaeval manuscripts. In England I have paid frequent visits to the Oriental Room of the British Library and the Bodleian Library in …
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The Self-Destructive Book and The Library: Agrippa (a book of the dead) (1992-)
… Award and undertaken in partnership with the Bodleian Library, which holds the publisher’s archive for Agrippa and two copies of the book, this thesis uses Agrippa as a case study with which to explore an iconoclastic bibliographical category, ‘the self-destructive book’, and how it resonates …
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Creative Imagination in Joyce Cary's Trilogies
… reading philosophy, religion, and history in the Bodleian Library, and honing his writing techniques. In his last twenty five years Cary completed sixteen novels dealing with Africa, childhood, art, politics, religion, and women. He also published many essays and several non-fictional books. He …
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Introduction to the life of St. Clement
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