Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"English chronicles"”.
-
The Literary Lives of Intention in Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century England
… self in late medieval England. Late medieval English writers often identified intention, as opposed to action, as the site of moral identity. Drawing on medieval legal distinctions between intended and unintended wrongdoings, penitential and confessional definitions of sin as intention (as …
-
A brief chronicle of the time : staging Shakespeare's English histories, 2000-2010
… the place of Shakespeare’s history plays on the English stage during the first ten years of the twentyfirst century. Although there have been numerous productions of Shakespeare’s tragedies and comedies during this period also, the history plays opened the decade in Stratford as the Royal …
-
Contested identities in discourses of colonialism and civil war: Race, gender, and the human/animal in twelfth-century England and Wales
… Malmesbury’s Gesta regum Anglorum (Deeds of the English Kings), finished in 1127, and the anonymous Gesta Stephani (Deeds of Stephen). Indeed, each chapter illuminates how the historiographical genre seeks to rhetorically create an ethnically unified, patriarchal image of Britain. Drawing …
-
The Winchester chronicle
… As a vernacular history, it antedates all other English chronicles by at least a century, and it has no continental counterpart for over two centuries. The manuscript as it now exists covers the years 1 to 1070. Up to 755, the entries are for the most part short. From 755 to about 925 the entries …