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Showing 1 to 20 of 25 for “"Early Modern era."”.
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Interart Studies from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Era: Stylistic Parallels between English Poetry and the Visual Arts
This dissertation develops and applies interart studies, an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of literature. The four chapters are unified by an interart analytic methodology intended either to bring a new insight to an unresolved topic in literary interpretation or to offer a new …
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'What are ye, little mannie?': the Persistence of Fairy Culture in Scotland,1572-1703 and 1811-1927
… comparative study of fairy culture and belief in early modern and Victorian Scotland. Using fairy culture as a case study, I examine the adaptability of folk culture by exploring whether beliefs and legends surrounding fairies in the early modern era continued into the nineteenth and early …
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Germans in the Dutch Cape Colony, 1652-1806
… as integral to Dutch imperial ventures of the early modern era, and questions to what extent the European dimension of Dutch colonialism was Dutch in composition and character. German labour underpinned the operation, governance and expansion of the Dutch empire. During the seventeenth and …
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“I Stand for Sovereignty”: Reading Portia in Shakespeare’s <em>The Merchant of Venice</em>
… or perhaps Catholic threat to England during the early modern era. Moreover, by examining Portia's language in the trial scene, the play invites audiences to read her as a representative of the learned Renaissance woman, placing special emphasis on the dialectical and rhetorical elements of the …
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Ars Audax: The Myth of the Flight of Icarus and Its Reception Since Antiquity
… of poetry, visual art, and music from the Early Modern era to the twenty-first century, and conclude that the narratological and linguistic nuances used by Ovid and Horace are traceable in both literature and art, and that each reception is responding to one ancient telling more than the …
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Voyage and Discovery: Myth and Memory of the Canadian New World
… of the west, for the French explorers of the early 16th century, are filled with strange and new peoples, unknown customs and seemingly incomprehensible savagery. When Jacques Cartier, André Thevet and François Rabelais' Pantagruel set sail from France towards the new continent, whether to …
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ECOLOGY OF A KŌAN: HAKUIN’S ZEN AS A MORAL MODEL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ENGAGEMENT
… that similarly extols the virtue of generating a kind of environmental mindfulness. Buddhist traditions have long developed the concept of mindfulness as well as compassion, the transformation of suffering, and the notion of interconnectedness. There is a confluence of ideas between …
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Daughter of Bird and Earth
… draws its inspiration from my own long poem in modern Chinese, The Resurrection of Poems, which narrates an imaginary woman’s life journey, both internally and externally, in an abstract poetic language. Beginning with the low woodwinds and low strings that represent the “earth,” with a variety …
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Flowers for the Book-binder's Wife: An Investigation of Florilegia and Early Modern Women's Writing
… the presumed tutelage of ancient Roman scholars, early modern writers embraced the notion of florilegia, passages or quotations, which once deemed pleasing or insightful were extracted for use in the writer’s own work. The category of florilegia, or flowers, particularly included the subcategory …
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Freedom, Society, And The Individual In Early Modern Women's Thought
This dissertation describes and analyses several different approaches to the relation between individuals and wider social groupings in the work of Margaret Cavendish, Sophie de Grouchy, Gabrielle Suchon, Mary Wollstonecraft, and other women of the early modern period in Europe. From these …
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RIFORMA PROFETICA E POTERE POLITICO. IL MONASTERO AGOSTINIANO DI SANTA MARTA E LE SUE MISTICHE NEL DUCATO DI MILANO FRA QUATTRO E CINQUECENTO
… flourished between the late Quattrocento and early Cinquecento within the Augustinian monastery of Santa Marta in Milan, eventually extending to other local regular institutions, in light of recent scholarship on early modern female prophetism and Italian religious life during this period. The …
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The Work of the Magi: Adoration Images and Visions of Globalization in Early Modern Europe
… dissertation investigates the extent to which early modern depictions of the three magi of the biblical Adoration story can be understood within a representational "economy," that is, an economy defined by ideas and ways of knowing that circulate through the visual innovations and re-imaginings …
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The local origins of industrialisation : the case of the Derbyshire lead industry, c.1700-1830
… in Derbyshire during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Using a series of closely examined archival sources linked mainly to the local lead industry, it endeavours to provide new insights into the way in which households and communities operated, and contributed to processes …
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Against the Backdrop of Sovereignty and Absolutism: The Theology of God's Power and Its Bearing on the Western Legal Tradition, 1100-1600
… it attempts to determine the degree to which the modern fate of this field depended on the dialectic of the distinction between two separate types of God's power. To this end, I explore employments and embodiments of this power over a number of centuries. The mediaeval investigation into God's …
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The narrative of the Scottish nation and its late medieval readers: non-textual reader scribal activity in the MSS of Fordun, Bower and their derivatives
… the narrative of the Scottish nation from its early origins up to (in the later works) the minority of James II. The extant MSS of Fordun, Bower and their derivatives, dateable ca 1440 to ca 1500, are therefore invaluable sources for studies of late-medieval Scotland. The popularity of these …
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Black Catholicism: The Formation of Local Religion in Colonial Mexico
… My research studies the intricate, generational process of Catholic conversion among Mexico’s black population and how that process affected the formation of local religion. Previous scholars have largely overlooked early Catholic efforts of African conversion in Latin America and …
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The medieval Miles Christi and the Anabaptist knight : chivalric imagination in the Radical Reformation.
… writing. This translation expanded into the early modern era, as humanist emphases on lay devotion gave everyday Christians fresh access to the spiritual knightly identity. The popularization of the religious knighthood motif made inroads into Reformation texts, particularly texts that …
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The English in America: National Identity and the Transatlantic Book Trade, 1620--1688
… division between English and American literatures by illuminating the ways the transatlantic book trade accelerated the production of fantasies of Englishness in the early modern era. Literary scholarship has tended to divide English and American literature too sharply at this early …
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An examination of women's piety as depicted in medieval and early modern stained glass.
… of women's agency in Late Medieval and Early Modern England. Chapter One introduces Oxfordshire stained glass as the area of inquiry, with the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) database serving as the primary source reference. Both the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of …
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The Wittelsbach Court in Munich: history and authority in the visual arts (1460-1508)
… in the dukes’ artistic, architectural and literary patronage. Apart from examining the orthodox means of aristocratic self-aggrandizement like jousting, clothes, decorative arts and precious, exotic objects, this thesis discusses ‘innovative’ tendencies like the forward-looking application of …
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