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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Crusaders"”.
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"Imagined crusaders: the ""Livre d'Eracles"" in fifteenth century Burgundian collections"
"The following study analyzes the conception and reception of the illuminated volumes of the crusade history the ""Livre d’Eracles"" (hereafter ""Eracles"") as it was conceived and collected in the fifteenth-century court of Burgundy, centered in the Burgundian Netherlands. It considers four …
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The Evolution of Hedge Fund Activism: From Corporate Raiders to Sustainability Crusaders?
The prevailing rhetoric associated with hedge fund activism is almost universally negative. This thesis provides new evidence of activist hedge fund behavior that contradicts this dominant narrative. The principal idea underpinning the thesis is that the conventional picture of hedge fund activism …
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Cape crusaders : an ethnography investigating the surfing subculture of Cape Naturaliste, Western Australia
… Australia, Cape Naturaliste is home to the Cape Crusaders.
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The merchant of Genoa : the Crusades, the Genoese and the Latin East, 1187-1220s
… travellers who explored the Mediterranean Sea, crusaders and the Genoese who settled in the crusader states, far away from Genoa. What these people had in common, apart from being Genoese, is that they left records of their activities in the form of notarial documents. This is probably the …
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The Great Men of Christendom: The Failure of the Third Crusade
… any desire to remain in the Levant. Although the Crusaders did score some short-term victories over their Muslim adversaries, the Christian presence in the Holy Land was unsustainable, for the Crusades—from the European perspective—were a religious movement without a tangible, long-term political …
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The Anti-Crusade Voice of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
… is to indirectly denounce crusading and mock crusaders. The fifth chapter revisits Chaucer's bibliography and uses it to explain why his critique of crusading is indirect. Finally, this study concludes that Chaucer is an anti-crusade poet, but his heavy reliance on the English court as a main …
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Romanticism in Hubert Aquin's Prochain Episode : an intertextual reading
… on the invasion and subjugation of Jerusalem by crusaders is intertwined in his mind with the FLQ Patriots' mission to reconquer Quebec. The author and narrator are convinced that eventually someone else will take their place, avenge Quebec and fight for the country's next episode. There is no …
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Shakespeare studies in Colonial Bengal : The early phase.
… inspiring teaching made his students not only crusaders against orthodoxy but also fighters for freedom thereby igniting the flame of the Bengal Renaissance. A poet like Derozio, Richardson, besides teaching Shakespeare's plays and promoting their performance, emerged as the first major …
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Connections between New Hampshire superintendents' leadership orientations and their perceptions of selected issues associated with politics in education
… struggle for public schooling by common school crusaders like Horace Mann and Henry Barnard and continuing in the twentieth century with adoption of Frederick Taylor's scientific management principles. Despite commonly held notions of the separateness and distance between politics and education, …
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Localizing the Holy Land: The Visual Culture of Crusade in England, circa 1140-1307
… sacred and secular commissions made for crusaders and affiliates of chivalric culture. It also analyzes art for those, like monks, who would never physically experience Jerusalem. My study considers the role of crusade in the construction of personal and institutional identity in England, …
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A historical study of Muslim treatment of Christians in Islamic Jerusalem at the time of 'Umar Ibn al-Khattab and Salah al-Din with special reference to Islamic value of justice
… the communication between Salah al-Din and the Crusaders and analytically discusses the peace negotiations between Salah al-Din and Richard, the Lion-Heart King of England. Finally, the study concludes with a final discussion and summary of the findings, together with some critical remarks and …
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Open hearts, closed doors : native Protestants, pluralism, and the "foreigner" in America, 1924-1965.
… more conservative Christians and anti-communist crusaders. Immigration reform eventually came to fruition in 1965 when President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Hart-Celler Act that overturned the national origins quota system. Though not cognizant of it at the time, Protestant leaders helped pave …
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Painting life in extremes Charles Maturin and the Gothic genre
… between the outlaws and the supposedly holy Crusaders. Maturin took the Catholic church so often as his subject, not simply because it provided a colourful, stereotyped background (as some have suggested), but because it was a context in which he could seriously investigate the psychological …
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Cypriot Donor Portraiture: Constructing the Ideal Family
… been a stopping place for pilgrims and, later, crusaders on their way to the Holy Land. By the time Cyprus came under Venetian rule, it had grown as a stopping place for merchants as part of their trade route to the East. This exposure to cross cultural trade, migrations, and differing reigning …
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Rethinking Secular and Sacred. On the Role of Secular Thought in Religious Conflicts.
… World Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders.1 Many analysts now see it as one of the founding documents of al Qaeda, the amorphous terrorist umbrella group. The purpose of the declaration was to issue a fatwa that, because United States troops were stationed in the holy Arabian …
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History, Hollywood, and the Crusades
This thesis discusses the relationship between film and history in the depiction of the Crusades. It proposes that film is a valuable historical tool for teaching about the past on several levels, namely the film’s contemporaneous views of the Crusades, and the history Crusades themselves. This …