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The Household knights of Edward I.
… century. The military importance of the knights attached to Edward's household has been examined by M.0 Prestwich. Although Prestwich acknowledged that the knights did serve in other areas of royal government no systematic study of their role has been attempted. Based on an examination of …
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A study of Winifred Knights, 1915-1933
Winifred Knights, 1899-1947, was a student at the Slade School of Art from 1915, where she developed a decorative manner of rhythmic, repetitive forms, one form of cautious modernism. In 1920 she was the first woman to win the Rome Prize in Decorative Painting. The award was for three years at the …
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La localización de videojuegos coreanos al español: propuesta de traducción del videojuego Unknown Knights
… la propuesta de traducción del juego Unknown Knights. Se realiza un análisis detallado de los aspectos lingüísticos y culturales involucrados en el proceso, tras una revisión de los antecedentes y teorías relevantes. Asimismo, se examinan las estrategias empleadas para salvar diferencias …
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Space in Aristophanes: Portraying the Civic and Domestic Worlds in Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps
… and diegetic space in Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps, and the comedies' attitude towards a variety of domestic and civic spaces, taking into consideration the cultural context in which the plays were composed. I argue that by using visual creativity and the available staging …
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Knights in shining armor? : when humanitarian military intervention works and when it does not
Military intervention for stated humanitarian purposes has been undertaken on several occasions since the end of the Cold War. It is bound to be attempted again, yet academics and policy makers have left fundamental questions unanswered. Have past humanitarian military interventions saved lives? …
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Erring Knights of Desire: The Romance in Santa Teresa's Libro de la vida and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene
<p>This study explores how romance opens the texts of two sixteenth-century authors. The first is the autobiography, Libro de la vida, of Spanish nun, mystic, and reformer, Santa Teresa de Jésus. Amidst the narrative of her life and her instructions on how to better live the mystical life, Teresa …
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Flying knights or Flying scientists? a cognitive history of the US Air Force Fighter Pilot in air-to-air combat, 1950-1980
US Air Force fighter aircraft underwent a remarkable transformation in the period from 1950 to 1980. Whereas the lone fighter pilots of earlier fame relied on the power of their eyesight, the finesse of their piloting skills, and a steady squeeze of the trigger to achieve victory, later pilots …
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An Analysis of Juvenile Chinook Salmon Outmigration Speed and Survival in Response to Habitat Features: Sacramento River from Knights Landing to Sacramento, California
<p>Outmigration is an important life stage for Chinook salmon (<em>Oncorhynchus tshawytscha</em>) survival in the Sacramento River, and yet our understanding of their behavior and needs during this time is limited. To gain a better understanding of their survival and movement rates during …
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An Almost Threesome: Erotic Love Triangles and Authorial Choice in Malory’s Le Morte D’ Arthur
… nearly all of the relationships between Arthur’s knights; which is, similar to de Troyes a very important component of the romances to Malory. What is not as apparent, however, is the subtle use of erotic language in Malory’s text. This is likely to be the case because the most erotic …
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Trans Metamorphoses: Gender, Race, and Classical Receptions
… fantasy of premodern England as a place where knights were knights, ladies were ladies, and everyone was white.
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Forge of Myths and Legends
… Expecting to be destroyed by the Arthurian knights, Erika instead finds friendship, acceptance, and kindness. With the help of Loki, Erika and the knights must free themselves from the grasp of the Seer, the gods, and oppression. Broadly, Forge of Myths and Legends delves into cultural …
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The Pen and the Pennon: Political and Social Comment Inscribed within Chivalric Romance
… of oath taking and the bonds formed by knights from the practice of such. Chapter four focuses on the message of Athelston and argues that the work repositions the power of the crown beneath that of a regularized judicial system in which knights function as jurists. Chapter five engages …
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Byzantium and the Question of Colonial Identity: An Examination of the Immediate Social Impacts of the Fourth Crusade on the Thirteenth Century Byzantine Roman World
… and Greece in 1204 by western European knights was a form of colonialism, whereby a colonial enterprise was established in the former lands of the Byzantine Roman Empire by the participants of what modern scholars refer to as the Fourth Crusade. As a result of this conquest, western …
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HAMLET : ENTER HERO An Exploration of Archetypal Themes, Images, and Symbols Inherent in Hamlet: Prince of Denmark.
… examined by a host of critics. In fact, L. C. Knights, in Some Shakespearean Themes and An Approach To Hamlet, claims that more has been written about Hamlet than about any other of Shakespeare’s plays. The majority of Hamlet criticism is based, although at times loosely, upon the …
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Locks
… are relegated to the fairytale mythology of knights and slavering wolves.
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‘One of the nobelyst knyghtes of the worlde, and most perfitist man’: the role of Bors in Malory’s Morte Darthur.
… for the Holy Grail, Bors is one of just three knights who succeed in the quest and travel to the Holy Land, and the only one of the three to return to England to give an account of these events. It would would appear that the significance of the figure of Bors has been under-rated by critics …
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