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Showing 1 to 20 of 52 for “"English history"”.
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The lioness roared: The problems of female rule in English history
… and examine their careers within the context of English kingship. The analysis offered here combines gender analysis with political history to explain how female kings were able to perform a male gendered role. The introduction surveys secondary literature concerned with European kingship and …
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Perceptions of an Irish dimension and its significance for the English history curriculum
… reflects approaches towards diversity within the English History Curriculum. An Irish dimension is explored within the context of Multicultural Britain, debates over ways in which the past has been constructed and changes in the history curriculum. A series of ‘fuzzy generalisations’ of an Irish …
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Competing to succeed: Monarchy and succession in English history plays and tracts, 1559-1607
… sixteenth century British non-dramatic texts and history plays use medieval and early modern English history to interrogate the Elizabethan succession crisis. By doing so, they publicize the manifold problems that plague hereditary monarchy during the Tudor reign. Despite the Elizabethan law …
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Histories of Liberty in Scottish Thought, 1747-1787
… jurists, historians, and philosophers turned to history in order to understand the parliamentary monarchy to which Scotland had attached itself in the Anglo-Scottish Union of 1707. In doing so, they stumbled upon the fraught and contested historiography of England’s ‘ancient constitution’—the …
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The Character and Military Abilities of the First Duke of Buckingham
… 1624 to 1628, perhaps his role in shaping the history of the English nation in the seventeenth century has not been properly appreciated. Buckingham is important in English history because it is in him that all the symptoms of the ills of Stuart absolutism are present.
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Witchcraft, rebellion, and misrule : a study of Shakespeare's first tetralogy
… most studies of Shakespeare's first tetralogy of English history plays concern themselves with the structure of power, the roles of witchcraft and diabolism, elements central to 1 Henry VI and Richard III--the first and last plays of the tetralogy--have not been fully analyzed. Witchcraft, …
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The warhorse and military service under Edward III
… introduction]: There are few aspects of medieval English history as important, yet as neglected, as military service. This is not to suggest that the study of war has been eschewed by scholars of the Middle Ages, for this is very far from being the case. A great deal of attention has been devoted …
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Inventing the Sacred Nation: Saint Edmund of East Anglia and English Identity in Medieval Text and Image
… Sacred Nation combines the disciplines of art history and literary study to explore how 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, …
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The Trade of Agricultural Horses in Late Medieval England
This thesis explores how the medieval English economy was supplied with horse power during the period of 1250-1349. The diffusion of horse power is recognised to have been a major factor in the development of the medieval English economy, increasing labour productivity in farming and the efficiency …
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A study of the characters in Richard III.
… complex, and the least authenticated portion of English history. Preceding this time historians have been guided by a series of trustworthy chroniclers who have made research comparatively easy. But as they near the close of the middle ages, historians find dependable authority lacking. Those …
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The origins of the lordship of Leinster and the role of William Marshal: perceptions and reality
… investigation of the way Marshal –whose role in English history was always relatively well understood by English writers– was perceived by Irish chroniclers and antiquarian scholars writing from the mid-thirteenth century to the 1800s. After this the thesis returns to the origins of the lordship …
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"It's street theatre really!" A history of Cotswold Morris Dancing in the twentieth century.
This study investigates the history of Morris Dancing in the twentieth century through written sources detailing the development of the dance, but more importantly, through the oral testimony of some of those dancers who began their dancing careers after the second world war. Three particular …
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“Þe Inglis in seruage”: Textual Englishness, 1175 – 1330
For some time, scholars who study English identity formation in the literature produced between the Norman Conquest and the Hundred Years War have addressed the manifold ways English writers imagined and reconstructed the Anglo-Saxon past as a golden era free of the taint of foreign domination. I …
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Malory, Chivalric Medievalism, and New Imperialist Masculinity
… as a national epic with a central place in the English canon. This shift in Malory’s status coincided with the rise of an increasingly competitive and unabashedly aggressive model of imperialism in the 1870s, which historians conventionally term New Imperialism. At the same time, a new model of …
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VIRGINIA WOOLF'S USE OF THE PAST: THE EARLY CRITICISM TO "TO THE LIGHTHOUSE" (HISTORY, MODERNISM, WORLD WAR I)
… she, alone among British novelists, combined history and modernist technique, most obviously in her last five novels. Orlando and Flush are mock biographies; The Waves appears against vast cycles of history and prehistory; The Years is a modernist rendering of the three generation novel; …
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A veritable revolution: the Court of Criminal Appeal in English criminal history 1908-1958
… was to be the first court of criminal appeal in English history. Such a court had been debated, but ultimately rejected, by successive governments for over half a century. In each debate, members of the judiciary declared that a court for appeals in criminal cases held the potential of destroying …
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An historiographical landscape of the late fifteenth century: The metamorphic era of medieval England and its transformation into the age of the English Renaissance
… an earlier date for the beginning of English Renaissance by giving credit where credit is deserved, to the Yorkist Kings and their fellow countryman, William Caxton. With the end of the reign of Richard III in 1485, the Yorkists' claim to the throne, as well as the dynasty ended in …
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Teaching the Voices of History Through Primary Sources and Historical Fiction: A Case Study of Teacher and Librarian Roles
… <p>The case study was conducted in an English/history humanities block and the school library in a New York City secondary school. Data were collected through classroom observations, interviews with the classroom teachers and librarian, and samples of student work. On the use of primary …
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A Study of Former Negro High School Students, Teachers, and Administrators in the Piedmont Area of North Carolina.
… of courses in their senior years, including English, history, mathematics (algebra and trigonometry), science (biology, chemistry and physics), foreign languages (French and Spanish), home economics, and several secretarial or business courses. Responses were mixed about how well the students …
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'Lawrels for the Conquered' : the dilemmas of William Davenant and Abraham Cowley in the revolutionary decades of the seventeenth century.
… neglected works dating from the period of the English republic might fruitfully be read. It focuses on the work Davenant and Cowley published in the middle decades of the seventeenth century and attempts to trace the course of their artistic and political waverings in the face of republican …
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