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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"King Richard"”.
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The Causes of Tyranny as a Guide to Political Reform: St. Thomas More's History of King Richard III of England
… a basis for interpreting Moreâ s History of King Richard III. Chapter One inquires into its genre, concluding it is a â rhetorical historyâ like the histories composed by Thucydides, Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus, a genre similar to drama which aims to reveal fundamental moral and political …
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The Fortunes of a King: Images of Edward the Confessor in 12th to 14th Century England
This thesis is an iconographic study of Saint-King Edward the Confessor. It focuses on the political and devotional functions of his images in twelfth to fourteenth century England. The images are not concerned with the historical Anglo-Saxon King, but rather depict an idealized and simplified …
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A study of the characters in Richard III.
… ages, historians find dependable authority lacking. Those whose writings are extant were swayed by violent prejudice and strong antipathy natural to a people who had long been the victims of civil discord. Practically all of the records that were available in Shakespeare's day were those …
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Devotion to St John the Baptist in England in the Middle Ages.
… are discussed: Godric of Finchale, the Lollards, King Richard II and the Company of Merchant Taylors. The difficulties of establishing an idea of the popularity of the saint are considered, and the disparate evidence available, including guild and church dedications, prayers to the Baptist and …
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The Lancastrian Bias in Shakespeare's Richard the Second
The life of King Richard II of England offers an interesting challenge to anyone who desires to read and interpret history in a period of civil war which often clouds and at times even obscures fact by propaganda. | It is necessary for the winning faction in most civil wars to justify its actions; …
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Unkept measures : a study of imagery in Shakespeare's Henriade
… order, and power in William Shakespeare's Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, and Henry V in order to demonstrate that the dramatist's use of imagery both emphasizes the themes of the plays and frequently develops the characterization of those who people the stage: Shakespeare's skillful …
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Temperature regulation in the sand goanna Varanus gouldii (Gray) / by Richard Dennis King.
128 leaves : graphs, tables ; 27 cm.
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Sergei Kirov and the Struggle for Soviet Power in the Terek Region, 1917-1918
Western historiography of the Russian Revolution of 1917 contains few monographic studies of the outlying provinces of the Russian Empire. This dissertation examines revolutionary politics in the multi-national Terek Region, in the Northern Caucasus, from the February Revolution to the …
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Periodic and Reducible Nonlinear Differential Systems
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An analysis of the development and administration of Section 314(d) of the Public Health Service Act, as amended.
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, 1973
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PDP/11 LISP and its use to teach automatic computation concepts.
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering, 1972
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History, Hollywood, and the Crusades
This thesis discusses the relationship between film and history in the depiction of the Crusades. It proposes that film is a valuable historical tool for teaching about the past on several levels, namely the film’s contemporaneous views of the Crusades, and the history Crusades themselves. This …
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The paradoxical exemplar : the image of Saladin in Don Juan Manuel's El conde lucanor
Don Juan Manuel’s laudatory portrayal of Saladin, the Muslim Sultan of Babylon, in Exempla 25 and 50 of El Conde Lucanor presents an interesting paradox, particularly when considering that the fourteenth-century text was intended as moral instruction for a Christian audience. This report addresses …