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The Yoke of Isabella: the women's section of the Spanish Falange 1934-1959
The Women's Section (Seccion Femenina) of the Franco regime's bureaucratic framework was founded in 1934 as an offshoot of the small fascist party, the Falange. Its leader, Pilar Primo de Rivera, was the sister of the Falange's founder, Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera and remained in post throughout …
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"And a sad ditty of this story born": Regeneration through Decay in John Keats's Isabella
<p>John Keats’s <em>Isabella; or the Pot of Basil </em>(1818) has been read, like many of Keats’s of works, as an allegory for the death that surrounded the poet and his life’s tragic circumstances. <em>Isabella</em> has also been studied in regard to its gothic horror elements. Such previous …
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‘On account of high merits’: The portrait medals of Isabella d’Este and the image of the female collector
Isabella d’Este was among the most prominent female collectors in early modern Italy. While her collection of art and antiquities was quite large and diverse, this thesis focuses on a particularly unique object—her opulently embellished personal portrait medal. This gold and diamond encrusted medal …
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A Feminist-Psychoanalysis of Measure For Measure's Isabella and Hamlet's Title Character: Their Nontraditional Travels Between Stoicism and Skepticism
… women - merits further study, as do "thinking" Isabella and "feeling" Hamlet. By targeting for discussion not only "strong women" but also male characters who display "feminine" characteristics, we strengthen our stand against the literary, historical and societal oppression and repression of …
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The Army of The Catholic Kings: Spanish Military Organization and Administration in the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, 1474-1516
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T21:21:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6200679.pdf: 16989619 bytes, checksum: ed72b5c566174a874d734ce9b3401e8e (MD5) Previous issue date: 1961
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Effects of photoperiod, temperature, and diet on the development of the banded woollybear, Pyrrharctia (Isia) isabella (J. E. Smith) (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae).
The banded woollybear, Pyrrharctia isabella (J. E. Smith) was reared under laboratory conditions from egg to adult. Groups of individually reared larvae were kept at one of 8 photoperiods and in combination with one of 4 temperatures and were fed one of 6 artificial diets and fresh plantain. The …
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From One Woman to Another: The Role of Spanish Women in the Catholic Education of Indigenous Girls in Sixteenth Century New Spain
… great support of their work from Spain's Queen Isabella of Portugal. Through Isabella's writings in the 1530s, her support for the spread of Catholicism and her respect for the women carrying out God's instructions to convert the world is evident. Isabella favored the "soft imperialistic" …
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British Quaker women and peace, 1880s to 1920s
… explores the lives of four British Quaker women—Isabella Ford, Isabel Fry, Margery Fry, and Ruth Fry—focusing on the way they engaged in peace issues in the early twentieth century. In order to examine the complexity and diversity of their experiences, this thesis investigates the characteristics …
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Seismic imaging of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary with a dense broadband array in central California
Lithospheric attachment to the high-velocity Isabella anomaly (IA) in central California was tested by mapping the lateral extent of interruption of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary (LAB). The study area spans the location of two plausible origins for the anomaly, the Monterey microplate …
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The Administration of Spain Under Charles V, Spain's New Charlemagne
… predecessors in Spain, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. He strove to strengthen his power and unify Spain and his empire using Castilian strength, a Castilian model of government, Roman law, religion, his strong personality, and a loyal and talented bureaucracy. Charles desired to be …
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Joan
… War. Joan's themes, "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" and "He is Born," are both familiar French carols. In addition to these two themes, the piece begins with a solo offstage horn (God), which is then joined by the brass section in a triumphant clarion call. Thematic material changes and …
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Women and the American Wilderness: Responses to Landscape and Myth
… Temple in the novel The Pioneers (1823), Isabella Bird's published letters entitled A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains (1873), and Muriel Rukeyser's reaction to the Gauley Bridge Tragedy of the 1930s in her book of poems The Book of the Dead (1939), I show that women's responses to the …
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Deciphering the Real through Artifice: A Study of the Gaze in Victorian Art
… Specifically, Millais' 1849 oil Isabella and his 1850 oil Christ in the House of His Parents demonstrate that the inner character of person can be designated phrenologically; critics, however, disparaged the hyper-realism of the Brotherhood for being ugly and artless. Differing …
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Shangri La : architecture as collection
… Prominent American collectors, such as Isabella Stewart Gardner, exhibited an interest in Eastern art long before Doris Duke planned her honeymoon trip to the Muslim world in 1935. Still, there is very little hard evidence of the Duke's interacting with such people during Doris' …
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The origins of the lordship of Leinster and the role of William Marshal: perceptions and reality
… by marrying Strongbow’s daughter and heir, Isabella de Clare. Marshal would ultimately rise to the top of Angevian politics but this was only after surviving a series of crises which would engulf the Leinster Lordship. As well as his political and military legacy this study will also look at …
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"Th' offense pardons itself": Sex and the Church in <em>Othello</em> and <em>Measure for Measure</em>
… his newly awakened lust threatens the virtue of Isabella. Both Othello and Angelo, through their self-government and sexual management, put those around them at risk. My study uses the techniques of New Historicism to contextualize Othello and Measure for Measure in terms of both sexuality and …
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In the Footsteps of: The Challenge of Recreating and Reflecting on the Writings and Achievements of Historic Women Travellers.
… Isabela Godin, Mary Kingsley, Kate Marsden and Isabella Bird. Recreating their journeys enabled reflection on their achievements and experiences at a time when their aspirations were disdained, they struggled to find sympathetic publishers, and had to use various literary devices to gain an …
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Take heed what ye hear : Shakespeare's "Measure for measure" and the Bible.
… chapters) in Angelo’s conversations with Isabella and elsewhere. Chapter Seven looks at the play’s references to Romans 13’s “sword,” particularly its embodiment in Abhorson the executioner. And finally, Chapter Eight concludes the dissertation with a reading of the Duke as figuring Christ.
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Elite women's household management: Yorkshire, 1680-1810
… being studied, particular attention is given to Isabella Dowager Countess of Carlisle's authorship of a work of conduct literature intended for a female readership. Hence, the permanence of household management as a theme in this literary tradition is explored as well as its gendered dimensions …
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