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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"First Empire"”.
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Cyprianic Ecclesiology: Redefining the Office of the Christian Bishop
… to 258, the Roman emperor Decius ignited the first empire-wide persecution of the Christian Church. The problems that resulted from this persecution were unprecedented. This thesis will analyze the letters and treatises of Cyprian and will illustrate how Cyprian solidified certain powers of …
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Competing with Cremona: Violin Making Innovation and Tradition in Paris (1802-1851)
… making into three periods: 1) Revolutionary and First Empire: 1789-1814); 2) Restoration: 1814-1830); and 3) Fourth Period: 1830-1895), with this study concluding in 1851. Based on these sources, this study considers innovative and traditional violin-making practices and their reception for each …
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Forms of Enclosure: The Convent Plays of the French Revolution
… playhouses with the return of censorship in the First Empire, convent plays remained constant if controversial staples of most playhouses during their brief but prolific existence. Despite their differences, farces, dramas, tragedies, comedies, and operettas about convent life constitute, in my …
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New World Drugs in England's Early Empire
… England? In the seventeenth century, England’s first empire was being established and an increasing abundance of medicinal plants arrived in London from across the Atlantic. In this thesis, I argue that commercial and political imperatives drove the production, trade and consumption of New World …
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The state of the clear-sighted ruler as envisioned by Han Fei and his predecessors
… the governing philosophies of rulers from the First Emperor (d. 210 BCE) to Xi Jinping. This dissertation challenges our prevailing scholarly understanding of Han Fei as the “great synthesizer” of the Legalist intellectual tradition and its supposed core ideas: (1) laws that govern the reward …
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The image of art spoliation in France, 1796–1830
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01