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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Franciscans"”.
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About snails, Franciscans, homelessness, and the city : a contribution to the culture of "college thinking"
Four fragments constitute the focus of analysis of this study; at the same time they are used as objects in the experimental set up of the thesis. This set up investigates the possibilities of a collage as a model for a research. The Vitruvian notion of the architect as a person standing between a …
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Institutionalizing Urban Agriculture Can Provide More Than Hope for Poor San Franciscans: An analysis of the Urban Agriculture Incentive Zone Act (UAIZ)
<p>Cities have turned to urban agriculture (UA) as a means of revitalizing neighborhoods and addressing unmet food needs of urbanites. Farming the city has gained momentum and has become an important force in urban social landscapes and economics. UA has also sparked debates about the appropriate …
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Native Subordination Through The Franciscan Institutions During The Sixteenth Century
… the institutional systems implemented by the Franciscans between the years of 1523 and 1572.</p> <p>This thesis will discuss the desire of the Franciscan administration to establish a moral order, defined by leading scholar of Globalization Christopher Chase-Dunn as, people’s agreements about …
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Control of Violence, Control of Fear: The Progression of Gun Control in San Francisco, 1847-1923
… to the first concealed weapons ban, San Franciscans examined their relationship with firearms in the rapidly growing city. As the Chinese population increased, the gun control discourse shifted to include the perceived threat of the Chinese “highbinder,” generated by local newspapers. The …
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The Artistic Patronage of the Augustinian Friars in Central Italy (1256-c. 1370)
… the mendicant orders of friars – above all the Franciscans – have been considered pivotal for the artistic and urban renewal underway in Italy from the 1200s onwards. This dissertation provides the first comprehensive study of the ‘third’ mendicant order: the Hermits of St Augustine, long …
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Inspired Invention: Cristóbal de Villalpando's Paintings of the Life of Saint Francis
… Franciscan patrons, tells us something about the Franciscans conception of their mission in the Spanish colonies. I posit that these works offered the Franciscan brothers in Antigua a carefully constructed visual model of their founder’s life, which they could aspire to imitate and which …
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The Career of John Steven McGroarty
… California's early history and the work of the Franciscans was well known: it was his favorite topic as a lecturer.</p> <p> His career reflects his personal devotion to both Church and State and serves to illustrate some of the features of California’s twentieth-century history. It is hoped that …
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The evolution of pilgrimage practice in early modern Ireland
… century the religious event was reshaped by the Franciscans. Pilgrims were provided with written instructions and encouraged to meditate on their actions, turning the ritual into an example of Tridentine spirituality. This study attempts to compare the significant shifts in the nature of the …
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Religious Sculpture of the Chiloé Archipelago, From the 17th to the 21st Century
… by religious orders – the Jesuits and Franciscans – as well as influences on artistic style and religious culture throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. I will focus in particular on three works generally considered to be from the 17th and 18th centuries – the Virgin of Loreto at …
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Implementation of a Fruit and Vegetable Voucher Program in San Francisco
… voucher program designed for low-income San Franciscans living in the Tenderloin, South of Market and Bayview Hunter’s Point neighborhoods, the neighborhoods with the highest health disparities, poverty rates, and greatest food accessibility challenges in the city. EatSF is part of the UCSF …
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The Western Religious Orders in Medieval Greece
… are the Benedictines, the Cistercians, the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Crociferi, and the Augustinians as well as other orders, with a smaller involvement in medieval Greece, like the Servites, the Carmelites and the Canons Regular. Each of the thesis's chapters focuses on one …
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San Francisco rock posters, 1965-1971
… youthful emulation across the country. The San Franciscans organized get-togethers where experimental music, dance movement, color, and the effects of psychotropic drugs were celebrated. Even before the term "hippie" had been coined, the San Francisco dance concerts were the cradle of hippie …
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The contribution of the religious orders to education in Glasgow during the period 1847 -1918
… that the work of five religious orders, the Franciscans, the Sisters of Mercy, the Marists, the Jesuits and The Sisters of Notre Dame in Catholic education in Glasgow, made it feasible for Catholic schools to remain outside the state system after the 1872 Education (Scotland) Act and until …
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Oriental Contributions to Franciscan Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
… before the Sultan and The Martyrdom of the Franciscans, demonstrating how depictions of “infidel rulers” established a visual rhetoric of Franciscan martyrdom and sanctity. Chapter Two explores Armenia under Mongol rule as a pivotal node where Armenian craftsmen and Franciscan patrons …
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Ringers of Bells and Teachers of Civilization : the Work of the California Franciscan Missionaries, 1769-1821
<p>In 1769 Spain took active and decisive actions to settle the vast region of her empire known as California. To accomplish the feat she turned to the willing hands of the Franciscan missionaries. The friars willingly answered their call and through their labors assured Spanish hegemony over the …
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Essays in Health Care and Public Economics
… In March 2011, about 54,500 uninsured San Franciscans between the ages of 18 and 64 (or roughly two thirds of the city's non-elderly adults without any medical coverage) were enrolled in HSF to take advantage of affordable and well-coordinated primary and preventive health care. In the …
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Em desagravo do santíssimo sacramento: o "Conventinho Novo": devoção, memória e património religioso
Erigido num período bem pouco afecto à instituição de casas regrais, o Conventinho de Lisboa cedo se veria ameaçado pelas crescentes restrições que decretariam o definhar da existência congreganista. Ao breve e espinhoso percurso deste cenóbio poria termo, não muito tempo transcorrido sobre a sua …
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Choir Screens and Digital Technologies: Reconstructing Church Interiors and Mendicant Altarpieces in Medieval Pisa
This thesis reconstructs the interior spaces of mendicant churches from medieval Pisa, particularly utilising digital technologies to study destroyed choir screens. Known as *tramezzo* screens, they played a fundamental role in the formation of sacred space, serving to articulate various liturgical …