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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"HUMANITIES and RELIGION::History and philosophy subjects"”.
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A War of Words: Jacobitism as a Language of Dissent in England during the Reign of William III, 1688-1702
… settlement following the Glorious Revolution and how this movement functioned as a language of dissent utilized by those opposed to the new Williamite regime. In doing so, this thesis challenges the Whiggish historical narrative that William III’s Glorious Revolution enjoyed overwhelming …
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Critiquing the teaching of history in Zambian secondary schools through Basil Bernstein's lens: a study of selected schools in Lusaka district.
This study sought to critique the teaching of history in Zambian secondary schools. The study used Basil Bernstein’s theoretical framework on power and control. This study used a mixed-method approach in order to get a deeper insight into understanding the teaching of history in Zambian secondary …
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The Figures of Crisis: The Reflections of the 2008 Financial Crisis as Ideological Discourse of Capitalism
… crisis by Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke are read as literary texts with formal features that perform an ideological function. Their memoirs of the financial crisis contain a set of figures and formal elements that create the narrative of crisis which acts as an apology …
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The personalism of Denis de Rougemont: spirituality and politics in 1930s Europe
… relation}$ to others – as the foundation and aim of society. Yet, because of the impossibility of subjecting the human person to a systematic definition, personalism remains complex and multifaceted, to the extent that it might be best to speak of ‘personalisms’ in the plural. The various …
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Improving instruments: equatoria, astrolabes, and the practices of monastic astronomy in late medieval England
… to light a rich textual tradition, of treatises and tables composed and computed, transmitted and translated across Europe and beyond. These have been supplemented by fruitful inquiry into the material culture of astronomy, especially the instruments that served as models of the heavens, for …
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Children and child burial in medieval England
… an investigation into children in medieval England through burial, the most archaeologically-visible evidence for the treatment and conceptualisation of children in life. It examines whether children were distinguished in burial from adults in parish cemeteries of the 10th-16th centuries. …
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Patronage and social mobility in the aristocracies of the Principate
The dissertation is entitled "Patronage and social mobility in the aristocracies of the Principate". Patronage is defined as a reciprocal exchange relationship between men of unequal social status (municipal patronage is excluded). The work falls into three parts. In the first the language of …
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Contextualising deviancy: a regional approach to decapitated inhumation in late Roman Britain
… which was practiced predominantly in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD in Britain. Previous studies have often involved the accumulation of data on decapitated inhumations themselves and cross analysis of examples. Conclusions drawn on the meaning of the rite almost invariably place it in …
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Lignes, an intellectual revue: twenty-five years of politics, philosophy, art and literature
… assumed that a reaction against the Marxist and structuralist theories of the 1960s and 1970s led to embrace of liberalism and an intellectual drift to the right in France from the 1980s onwards: whilst largely supporting this account, the thesis attempts to nuance this narrative of the fate …