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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Intellectual Culture"”.
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Political thought and Protestant intellectual culture in the Scottish Revolution, 1637-1651
This thesis examines how ecclesiological debates informed the languages of political legitimacy advanced by royalist and Covenanter leaders during the Scottish Revolution (1637-1651). During King Charles I’s reign, Scottish Presbyterians faced a Protestant king who attempted to secure supremacy …
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A Department of the Modern University: Discipline, Manliness, and Football in American Intellectual Culture, 1869--1929
… that accompanied the growing divergence of ""intellectual culture"" and popular culture in modern America. This dissertation shows how professional academic psychologists and social scientists, along with coaches, muckrakers, students, and university leaders, contested the future of football …
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The Invisibility of Juvenal
… poems constitute a critique of aspects of Roman intellectual culture in the reigns of Trajan and Hadrian.
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Dúngal: A Study of his Life and Works
… investigate broader questions about Carolingian intellectual history in the ninth century: what texts were they reading, what questions were they asking, or how were manuscripts being constructed, used, and reused? In sum, it examines Dúngal in order to contribute to our understanding of …
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The Doctor of Ministry: The Impact of Martyn Lloyd-Jones' Medical Training on His Homiletical Methodology
… the course forward. Chapter 2 reconstructs the intellectual culture of Lloyd-Jones' youth, both at home and at school. It also introduces the most significant intellectual influence in Lloyd-Jones' early life, his medical chief Thomas Horder. Chapter 3 reconstructs the decade that Lloyd-Jones …
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An Aesthetics of Exclusion: Konstantin Vaginov's Kozlinaia pesn'
… pesn΄ within the meta-text of post-Revolutionary culture, challenging the long accepted view that Vaginov maps out a programme of exclusion from Bolshevik reality in an attempt to preserve the classical ideals of pre-Revolutionary Russian culture from ruin. Vaginov’s ambivalent treatment of such …
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Si' come dice lo Filosofo: Translating Philosophy in the Early Italian Lyric
… the impulse to distill the highest levels of intellectual culture into the vernacular love lyric was present from the very inception of the poetic vernacular. I aim to nuance our understanding of the divide between the early schools of poetry as determined by Dante in his role as a literary …
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Echoes of Insidious Geographies: The Life History and Object Biography of a Carved Elephant Tusk from the Medieval Mediterranean to the Metropolitan Museum, circa 750 CE to Present
… assemblages of material, visual, textual, and intellectual culture entangled with a variety of cultural, political, and economic regimes that perpetuate themselves through naturalizing and aestheticizing the violence they deploy towards pernicious ends. Using a combination of object biography …
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The survival of the mandarin tradition in German universities
… roots which influenced thinking about intellectual culture and university reform, including the latter's content and pace. But it is also because the context in which change in higher education spheres occurred - the political exigencies, the efficacy of implementation and the capacity …
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From “Total Destruction” to “Total Dictatorship”: The Influence of Ernst Jünger’s Visionary Fascism
… illuminate the development of fascist ideas, culture, politics, and power across Europe from 1920-1945? The components of that question are: what were the core elements of Jünger’s aesthetics, morality, and politics? How did he synthesize these elements to create his influential vision of …
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Colonialism and the Dialectics of Islamic Reform in a Malay State: Pengasoh and the Making of a Muslim Public Sphere in Kelantan, 1915 - 1925
… a particularly important centre for Islamic culture and learning, attracting teachers and students from across the region. The Majlis itself was established by some of the leading ulama on the Peninsula at the time. Many were educated in the Middle East and had close associations with some of …
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Theorising the will in early modern English literature
… to be a vital and essential part of early modern intellectual culture.
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'Erewhon; Or, Over the Range' by Samuel Butler: A Scholarly Edition
… the traditions of Menippean satire and British intellectual culture; this edition situates 'Erewhon' in its colonial context for the first time, stressing its debt to Butler’s movement between the centre and margin of Britain’s expanding empire. The General Introduction argues that Erewhon is a …
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The Maritime Revival: Antimodernity, class, and culture, 1870--1940
… and used it to participate in a culture cast as essentially American and patriotically important. Popular art, literature, historic ships, and museums celebrated square-riggers, and the romance and sublimity of the oceans. A variety of cultural forms, from fine arts to kitsch and …
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Lignes, an intellectual revue: twenty-five years of politics, philosophy, art and literature
… of study to provide a new account of French intellectual culture over the last twenty-five years. Whilst there are now many studies covering the role of such revues throughout the twentieth-century, the majority of such monographs extend no further than the mid-1980s: the major novelty of …
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Flawed Masculinities: “Rupturing” 1950s/60s/70s British TV Sitcom via a Performance-led Interdisciplinary Arts Practice
… methods from other disciplines.” (History of Intellectual Culture, 2003). Disciplines and fields include: comedy studies, performance art studies, television studies, gender studies and cultural studies. The selected sitcom examples were hugely popular and influential in the eras in which they …
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Picturing the Writing Woman: The Representation of Three Early Vernacular Female Poets in Fifteenth-Century Italy
… visually document this newly emergent figure in intellectual culture. These developments in female portraiture are further situated within the humanistic redefinition of female virtue as well as the poetic output of these writing women. A close analysis of these portraits suggests that they …
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William Cave (1637-1713) and the Fortunes of Historia Literaria in England
… the context of late seventeenth-century European intellectual culture, Cave decided to write a work of literary history. To do so it makes extensive use of the handwritten drafts, annotations, notebooks, and letters that he left behind, giving a comprehensive account of his reading and scholarly …
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Diasporic Reasoning: The Idea of Africa and the Production of Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century America
… or symbolic space) in 19th century American intellectual and literary culture. I argue that when nineteenth-century intellectuals grappled with the institution of slavery, the significance of slave revolt, and the extent of black intellectual capacities, they dealt not only with a set of …
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Sir John Marsham (1602-1685) and the History of Scholarship
… and lawyer Sir John Marsham (1602-85) and his intellectual world. It is principally concerned with the origins, development, and impact of his last, largest, and most elaborate book, the $\textit{Chronicus canon Ægyptiacus Ebraicus Græcus et Disquisitiones}$. It offered a new model for the way …
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