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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"King of England"”.
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When We Were Monsters: Ethnogenesis in Medieval Ireland 800-1366
<p>Ethnogenesis, or the process of identity construction occurred in medieval Ireland as a reaction to laws passed by the first centralized government on the island. This thesis tracks ethnogenesis through documents relating to change in language, custom, and law. This argument provides insight …
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The English aristocracy at war, 1272-1314
In the closing decades of the thirteenth century, the king of England, Edward I, embarked upon a series of wars in Wales, France and Scotland that placed unprecedented demands on the community of the realm. Although the Crown's war aims varied depending on whether the campaigns were being fought …
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The <i>Imaginaire</i> of Capital Punishment in England, France, and Italy, 1250-1350
… addresses this question by exploring five facets of the imaginaire of capital punishment between 1250 and 1350, in France, Italy, and England. This dissertation aims to demonstrate that capital punishment was an experience governed by a collective mental landscape, or imaginaire, which structured …
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Restoring a Neglected Queen: Re-Examining Catherine of Braganza's Role in the Restoration Period
… reign as Queen Consort, issues with Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705) brought up questions of power between the Church and State, helped heighten anti-Catholicism, and brought up questions of exclusion years before the infamous Exclusion Crisis began. History has traditionally remembered her …
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A historical study of Muslim treatment of Christians in Islamic Jerusalem at the time of 'Umar Ibn al-Khattab and Salah al-Din with special reference to Islamic value of justice
The thesis is concerned with the study of Muslim treatment of Christians in Islam in general and in Islamic Jerusalem in particular. It conducts detailed research based on primary sources illustrating the juristic principles and rules. This formed the conceptual framework o f Muslim treatment o f …
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Defender of the Faith
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Speech, 1966
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The Musical Education and Involvement of the Six Wives of Henry VIII
The first half of sixteenth-century England was a land permeated by religious upheaval and political instability. Despite being a land fraught with discord, it was a time of great advances in education, theology, and the musical arts. Henry VIII, king of England during this time, married six …
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Publishing the Stuarts: Occasional Literature and Politics from 1603 to 1625
… during the first Stuart reign. Through a series of contextualized readings of key occasional events and texts, I argue that these poems and pamphlets not only move beyond the epideictic to engage in key political debates, but also that they present competing visions of the Stuart realm and …
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Declare I Dare Not
… a craft paper on dialogue and seven chapters of a young adult historical fiction novel. The craft paper focuses on the use of dialogue to convey information rather than other means such as backstory and flashback, and it analyses these strategies in three historical novels, Wolf Hall and Bring …
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English King and German Commoner: An Exploration of Sixteenth Century Clothing and Identity
<p>This paper will explore the connections of clothing and identity in the sixteenth century. The fit and construction of clothing can be directly related to how a person is perceived, or indeed, how one perceives one's self. Henry VIII (1491-1547) of England will be compared and contrasted with …
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Shakespeare's Henry V and the Alexandrian Allusion
<p>The character of Henry V (in Shakespeare's play of the same name) has been a matter of debate among critics, some of whom accept the historical view of Henry as an extraordinarily able and heroic king, while others view him as an extremely unattractive personality, a spiritual hypocrite, and a …