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Showing 1 to 20 of 1508 for “"East Anglia"”.
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Performing piety: preachers and players in East Anglia, 1400-1520
… medieval sermons and plays in late-medieval East Anglia, arguing that the mutual use of thematic divisions and exempla (moral tales) evinces the reciprocal interaction of preacher and playwright. By focusing on these common rhetorical strategies, I stress the medieval play’s confluence with …
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Objective forecasting in East Anglia by use of weather types
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Meteorology, 1953
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English Sub-Regional Planning: Governance, Institutions and Outcomes in East Anglia
… ambitions of local actors. The research focus is Eastern England, specifically the three major urban areas of Ipswich, Norwich and Cambridge. Eastern England had the lowest level of regional identity during the New Labour period of regional governance, and has a long history of defying efforts to …
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"The chiefest wealth of our country" : the foldcourse in East Anglia
… sheep-corn husbandry, was apparently confined to East Anglia. It will explore the foldcourse through its complex interactions with the environment, social structures and agrarian practices of the region and use these factors to establish the pre-conditions for the presence or absence of the …
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Sokemen and freemen in late Anglo-Saxon East Anglia in comparative context
… status peasants, in tenth- and eleventh-century East Anglia (hereafter and throughout the dissertation referred to as less dependent tenants). The study considers four themes. The first concerns the socio-economic condition of less dependent tenants. Previous commentators have focused on, for …
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"A Certain Portion of the Whole." Inspectors, Guardians and Anatomists in East Anglia : 1832-1908
… the workings of the Anatomy Act (1832) in East Anglia throughout the nineteenth century. Underpinning the practice of medical education was the need to acquire human corpses to permit the essential study of anatomy. Over the course of the century the source of anatomical material moved from …
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Elite Landscapes in Late Medieval and Early Modern East Anglia: Families, Residences and the Development of Exclusivity
Abstract This thesis examines the changing boundaries between the elite and the vernacular landscape during the fifteenth, sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The study takes an explicitly individualistic approach, considering the careers, allegiances, relationships and ambitions of the …
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Inventing the Sacred Nation: Saint Edmund of East Anglia and English Identity in Medieval Text and Image
… the visual and textual vitae of St. Edmund of East Anglia, ninth-century royal martyr, contribute to a medieval discourse of English national identity. By utilizing St. Edmund as the project's primary lens, I go beyond solely focusing on early nationalism to determine how constructions of this …
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A quantitative risk assessment of exposure to nitrates in drinking water and thyroid disorders in East Anglia, United Kingdom
… lifetime excess risk of thyroid cancer in East Anglia given widespread nitrate contamination of drinking water sources in the region. Thyroid cancer was used as a proxy for goitre given that malignancy can result from goitre which is usually benign and there is no register for goitre and/or …
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A social life for later lithics : a technological and contextual analysis of later Bronze and Earliest Iron Age flintworking in East Anglia, England
… Earliest Iron Age (c.800-600 BC) communities in East Anglia, England. It is argued that current understandings of intra- and inter-site variability in British later Bronze and Iron Age chipped stone assemblages remain seriously underdevelepedd~e to both the scale of previous research and common …
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Vernacular literacy in late-medieval England: the example of East Anglian medical manuscripts
… of vernacular literacy in late-medieval East Anglia, using the evidence supplied by English medical texts datable to between 1350-1500- It addresses not only the texts, but also the manuscripts in which they survive and the people who wrote, owned and read them. By this means I have been …
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A comparative study of Corynephorus canescens (L.) P.Beauv. communities of inland sand dunes in England and Poland
… they are confined to a handful of sites in East Anglia and the West Midlands. This study investigated the relationships of the British populations to each other and to populations on five sites in Poland, where C. canescens is still widespread. It also conducted exploratory investigations …
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Studies towards the synthesis of the guaianolide and pseudoguaianolide skeleton
… in Professor Page’s group at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, Norfolk). I would like to thank my supervisor, Professor Phil Page for his welcome in his laboratory and the confidence Phil granted me for carrying on a subject started years ago. Of course, I can’t forget my fiancée for her …
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Fantastic hillforts and where to find them: a region-based landscape analysis of the Iron Age in Britain and the methods we use to assess the past
… of these approaches in two regions, Cornwall and East Anglia. These two methods are rooted in different theoretical approaches in archaeology – processualism and post-processualism respectively, and as such are often posed in opposition to each other. In this sense this thesis is divided into two …
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Nonlinear Acoustics and an Inverse Scattering Problem
… Transfer Partner- ship between the University of East Anglia (UEA) and Cobham Technical Services (CTS) organised through the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN). This partnership took the form of a six month internship with work undertaken afterwards to publish the �ndings of the internship. 2
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