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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Commoners"”.
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Musicians and Commoners in Late Medieval London
… in late medieval London (c.1300-c.1550) from the commoners’ perspective, and with this emphasis, does not discuss royal or monastic musical ensembles or music in aristocratic households, nor does it examine the music of St Paul’s Cathedral in detail. This shifts the focus from mensurally notated, …
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Aristocrats and Commoners in Rural Northern Thailand
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Clergy and Commoners: Interactions between medieval clergy and laity in a regional context
This thesis examines the interactions between medieval clergy and laity, which were complex, and its findings trouble dominant models for understanding the relationships between official and popular religions. In the context of an examination of these interactions in the Humber Region Lowlands …
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'Wheat and Tares Together Grow': Common Whites in a North Carolina Slave Society, 1740--1840
… Applications from social theory explain why commoners supported slavery. Study of nineteenth century rural consumer culture indicates consumer purchasing was a consistent support for the common white perception of an egalitarian society.
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A vehicle of social mobility: utilitarian factors in the rise of Neo-Confucianism in the early Tokugawa period
… role models like Razan stimulated the mind of commoners and rōnin, both of whom had lost vehicles of social mobility after Hideyoshi’s separation of peasants and samurai. With the ambition to enhance their social status, commoners found Neo-Confucian scholarship a useful vehicle for social …
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Diet and Behavior of Ancient Maya: Using Dental Wear Patterns
… molars from royals (n=7), sub-royals (n=9), and commoners (n=5) from the urban center of Buenavista del Cayo. We predicted that royals and sub-royals would show wear patterns associated with a tough food diet while commoners would show features associated with a soft food diet. Standard scoring …
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Tokusei: The Causes and Motivations of Rural Unrest in Fifteenth Century Japan
… the genesis of Japan’, the revolt culminated in commoners storming the temple of Daigoji, seizing debt records and other conveyance documents, and ceremoniously burning them while chanting for tokusei (lit. ‘virtuous governance’). Scholars have traditionally interpreted the revolt’s origins …
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The transformation of land tenure in Lesotho
… in its structure have led to a strengthening of commoners' usufruct land rights. In turn, by examining how commoners' land rights have been expressed over time, this study demonstrates the contemporary significance of kinship ties in a rural Lesotho community. The significance of kinship is seen …
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Rhythms of Power: Royal Drumming in Aburi -Akuapem, Ghana
… and considers the manner in which chiefs and commoners alike use fontomfrom to achieve specific social goals.
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A Ceramic Vessel Function Analysis and Foodways Approach to the Late Woodland/Mississippian Interface in Kershaw County, South Carolina
… from that recovered from the Mississippian commoners' villages and Late Woodland villages. As evidence for foodways practices, I completed a vessel function analysis for ceramic sherds recovered from the Belmont Neck site's mound and village precincts as well as from the Concrete Block, V. …
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Segmented and ascendant chiefdom polity as viewed from the Divers site
… and political autonomy largely remained with the commoners who occupied small villages like Divers.
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The Nature of the Wind: Myth, Fact, and Faith in the Development of Wind Knowledge in Early Modern England
… what I call an intellectual commons that enabled commoners as well as elites to shape and briefly control the contours of wind knowledge in early Modern Britain and its expanding empire.</p>
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Reinventing Poetry: Popular Audiences And Polyphonic Space During The Song-Jin-Yuan Transition (1050–1300)
… revolutionized conventional writing ideals, and commoners, who purchased household ware inscribed with performed verses to create a space reminiscent of the theatergoing experience. The percolation of poetry in quotidian life brought about an unexpected political consequence. When entertainers …
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Eating Edo, sensing Japan: food branding and market culture in late Tokugawa Japan, 1780-1868
… other powerful officials, luxury foods to which commoners did not have access, and foods, eating of which was considered taboo. From the early eighteenth century, wholesalers in Edo formed trade associations to secure the shipments of various commodities from origins of production. They paid fees …
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From borders to topographies: identities and expansion in British literature, 1620-1750
… it is the monarchy and developers versus commoners struggling to rule London’s expanding suburbs, or Royalists versus Puritans clashing to signify land in the Americas, or Europeans versus other Europeans attempting to gain control of contested regions in the Levant and the Far East—lay …
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Legacy of Betrayal: A Trans-Atlantic Comparison of the Cherokee Removal and the Highland Clearances
… led to a growing distance between the chiefs and commoners of Gaelic and Cherokee societies. In turn, this increasing distance and loss of traditional obligation between chief and clan informed and influenced the role that these indigenous elite played in the ultimate dislocation of their people. …
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Improvement and environmental conflict in the northern fens, 1560-1665
… firma and promised manifold benefits for crown, commoners, and commonwealth alike. In practice, however, improvement schemes generated friction between the political and fiscal agendas of governors and projectors and local communities’ customary ways of knowing and using wetland commons, …
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Negotiating the border in Song China: foreign policy, border management, and border-crossings, 1005-1122
… by generals and officials as well as commoners. By focusing on these border-crossing incidents and their repercussions in government, sometimes at decision-making level, this thesis tries to portray a more detailed and accurate of the Song-Liao border, and explore the importance impact …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… is a collective biography of three uncommon commoners in the early American republic: Richard O’Brien (1758–1824), James Cathcart (1767–1843) and James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the …
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Opportunities of Empire: Three Barbary captives and American nation-building, 1770-1840
… is a collective biography of three uncommon commoners in the early American republic: Richard O’Brien (1758–1824), James Cathcart (1767–1843) and James Riley (1777-1840). As a biographical microhistory, this study explores how these three ordinary citizens engaged in self-making on the …
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