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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Hapsburg"”.
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Pierre de Manchicourt (c.1510-1564): His life in context of the 16th-century Hapsburg Empire, his contributions to choral literature, and his compositional style as reflected in representative works
… Tournai, and Madrid. During the rule of the Hapsburg kings (Charles V & Philip II), Manchicourt’s prominence spread through highly visible posts and publications. In order to advocate for the inclusion of Manchicourt in the canon of virtuosic Renaissance composers, this document explores his …
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Sacred Vocal Compositions Including Trumpet Parts by Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky (c.1639--1693)
… musical style, like the other composers in the Hapsburg territories, is grounded in the principles of rhetoric and based on Italian models. Yet, he is able to inject a refreshing and individual approach to his compositions, particularly in his use of color and harmonic style. His expressive use …
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We too shall be mothers : her story, our story, history: feminism and postmodernism in the contemporary historical novel
… of Avignon and in Vienna, the capital of the Hapsburg Empire. WTSBM tells the story of a fictional nun, Marie-France, who leaves her Carmelite convent and embarks on a journey towards motherhood and fully sexualised adulthood. The exegesis contains three main strands of theorisation. First, it …
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Pilgrimage through the pages: pilgrim's badges in late medieval devotional manuscripts
… fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Burgundian and Hapsburg families and their associates. The second half addresses the artists and workshops behind the production of Flemish manuscript illumination, specifically the development of the trompe l’oeil borders and the likely use of models and copying. …
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Revolutions in the Republican Imagination: American Perceptions of the 1848--1849 Revolutions in Europe
… the Hungarian struggle for independence from the Hapsburg Empire, and Louis Kossuth's 1851--52 tour of the U.S. were of especial interest, and this work focuses on the ways in which Americans perceived and responded to these events. In attempting to explain why Americans were so fascinated by …
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In Defense of Empire: Habsburg Sociology and the European Nation-State, 1870-1920
… regions of the Dual Monarchy, and especially Hapsburg Jews, successfully challenged this discursive construction of multinational states as abnormal, archaic, and “imperial.” The redefinition of Austria as an “empire,” that is, an association of nations with historic rights to territory, posed …
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, handschriften-Inkunabelsammlung, Musica Ms F (1509-1525): an examination of the repertorial, codicological, and political significance of a unique source of parody masses, with a modern edition of the manuscript and its models
… as a family tree of the Burgundian and early Hapsburg dynasties. Part II of the dissertation consists of a modern edition of the manuscript and its models, preceded by a full critical report and followed by the bibliography.
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Space, place, and nationalism: Constituting, transmitting, and contesting national identity in the urban landscape of Zagreb, Croatia from 1850 to 1940
… and militarily through the 1848 crisis in the Hapsburg Empire. A key element of the Ban Jelačić Square micro space is the Ban Jelačić Monument, erected in 1866, which clearly placed a key contemporary Croatian national here at the center of the city of Zagreb and transformed the city’s main …