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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Gaul"”.
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The Human Image in the Iron Age Iconography of Gaul
… of anthropomorphic iconography in Iron Age Gaul, up to the beginning of the Roman period. The principal focus is on freestanding human imagery. Art, and in particular religious art, is for many societies a critical feature in the definition of cultural identity. It is the contention of this …
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Ausonius’ cities: perception of the urban space in fourth-century Gaul
This thesis aimed at studying fourth-century Gallic cities throught he lens of one of its most gifted poet, Ausonius. Born in 310, Ausonius was an Aquitanian nobleman who rose in the service of emperors Valentinian I and Gratian. First of all, it was demonstrated that the poet’s ideal city was …
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The residences of Potentiores in Gaul and Germania in the fifth to mid-ninth centuries
No abstract available
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Social and Literary Aspects of Gaul in the Sixth Century, As Chronicled by Gregory of Tours
University of Minnesota Masters thesis. June 1920. Major: Literature. 1 computer file (PDF); 63 pages.
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The prose lives of Venantius Fortunatus: Hagiography, lay piety and pastoral care in sixth-century Gaul
… promotion of saints’ cults in sixth-century Gaul. Hagiography, however, was also becoming increasingly instrumental in bishops’ religious instruction of the laity and in the laity’s own efforts to achieve salvation. This study uses stylistic, semiotic and intertextual analysis to examine the …
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Romans and Goths in late antique Gaul: asepcts of political and cultural assimilation in the Fifth Century AD
… Gallo-Romans and barbarians in fifth century Gaul. Its aim is to investigate how both Romans and barbarians, particularly the Gothic people, shared a common living space within imperial territory, how this space was created, and to which extent both sides assimilated with each other in terms …
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The Consolidation of Empire: The Augustan Plan for Administrating the Provinces
… along with recently discovered inscriptions from Gaul, Spain and Syria reveal the component parts of Augustus' administrative framework and his use of the census as the primary vehicle for imperial control. His use of these allowed the first Roman emperor to knit together widely separated and …
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Studies in fourth and fifth century Latin literature with particular reference to Ausonius
… and of the prevailing conditions in Gaul during his lifetime.<br/>Particular attention will be paid to the use made of nature in his works,<br/>especially the Mosella. The poem by Rutilius Namatianus known as the<br/>De reditu suo will be examined both from an historical and from …
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Exercising Obedience: John Cassian and the Creation of Early Monastic Subjectivity
… years. Much later, he would go to the region of Gaul to help establish a monastery there by writing monastic manuals, the <em>Institutes</em> and the <em>Conferences</em>. These seminal writings represent the first known attempt to bring the idealized monastic traditions from Egypt, long …
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The Relationship of the So-Called Semi-Pelagians and Eastern Greek Theology on the Doctrine of Original Sin: An Historical-Systematic Analysis and its Relevance for 21st Century Protestantism.
… monks hailing from the southern portion of Roman Gaul were the first critical respondents to Augustine’s doctrine of grace, providing an important perspective for those that had concern over some of his positions, specifically with regard to free will and predestination. This study builds upon the …
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New progress towards three open conjectures in geometric analysis
This thesis, like all of Gaul, is divided into three parts. In Chapter One, I study minimal surfaces in R⁴ with quadratic area growth. I give the first partial result towards a conjecture of Meeks and Wolf on asymptotic behavior of such surfaces at infinity. In particular, I prove that under mild …
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Resurrecting the martyrs: the role of the Cult of the Saints, A.D. 370-430
… describes the controversy over the cult in Gaul, where some clergy resisted its development.
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A translation and commentary on Claudius Marius Victor's Alethia 3.1-326
… Alethia, a poem based on Genesis and written in Gaul in the fifth century, is one of the more obscure and difficult. The poem was never part of the medieval curriculum and has attracted little interest until recently. This dissertation focuses on Alethia 3.1-326. In this part of the Alethia, …
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