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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Late Middle Ages"”.
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The fourteenth-century sheriff : English local administration in the late Middle Ages
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the sheriffs appointed in fourteenth-century England, the period identified by both Stubbs and Maitland as having witnessed the shrievalty's final emasculation. This thesis is not a continuation of Morris' work on the sheriff, and neither is it directly …
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Secular urban musical culture in Provence and Languedoc during the late Middle Ages
Despite France's prominent role in the history of medieval secular music, scholarship concerning its urban musical culture is generally limited to a few publications by nineteenth-century local historians; in contrast, several recent comprehensive studies building on scholarship of the past two …
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Golden Age of the French Mysticism: A Different Perspective. The Study of the Spiritual Literature of the Late Middle Ages, From Jean Gerson to Lefevre d'Etaples
The major chapter of the dissertation is based on sermons, poems, treatises, speeches and letters of Jean Gerson and examines his spirituality. The last part of the dissertation analyzes the influence of Gerson's ideas on the writings of Jacques Lefevre d'Etaples and his collaborators.
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Passionate transformation in vernicle images.
This thesis will examine the iconography of late-thirteenth- through fifteenth-century images of St. Veronica's veil, also known as vernicles. In the late Middle Ages, vernicle iconography changed from iconic representations of Christ's face toward graphic imagery of Christ's suffering during his …
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Magical Artifice and Artificial History in the 'Roman de Perceforest'
… other forms. Magic was a polemical topic in the late middle ages, and the matter of fiction appears similarly thought-provoking!
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Communion of the living and the dead: valuing purgatory in A revelation of purgatory to ane holy woman (1422)
… The text addresses the anxiety prevalent in the late Middle Ages that the dead in Purgatory are often forgotten by the living. The text confirms the importance of the invisible ties that bind all Christians together and prescribes rituals that the living can perform for the dead to speed their …
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Mystical Relations: A Study of Feminine Relationships with Christ in the High Middle Ages and Beyond
… a female figure is especially prevalent in the late Middle Ages, notably in the writings of figures such as St. Ambrose, Bernard of Clairvaux, Hildegard of Bingen, Hadewijch of Brabant, Julian of Norwich, and Catherine of Siena. Not only do these writers draw a picture of a feminized Christ, …
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Private Matters: The Place of Privacy in English Legal Records, Romances, and Letters, 1300-1500
… of cities and the rise of a merchant class in later medieval England, the desire for privacy began to emerge alongside an increase in personal consciousness. In my dissertation, I examine the place of privacy in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century England by juxtaposing elements of the private …
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Supernatural Visitation in Medieval Literature
… and cross-generic literary motif throughout the Late Middle Ages. Although previous studies have considered the cultural origins, taxonomic limitations and contextual import of select supernatural beings - e.g. angels, fairies, demons and revenants - in select medieval texts, no study has yet …
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ENTRE EL DESEO Y EL PUDOR, EL AMOR HEREOS EN LA NOVELA SENTIMENTAL: GRISEL Y MIRABELLA DE JUAN DE FLORES
… discourse created by Juan de Flores in the late Middle Ages. In doing so, I argue that the female characters were an alterity of power to their real counterparts in society. In some narratives they are resistant within the text, in others they struggle to act upon their desire without …
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Vijayanagara in foreign eyes: a study of travel literature and ethnology in the Renaissance (1420-1600)
… understand the formation and transmission of images of non-European societies during the Renaissance from a case-study. An introductory chapter explains travel literature as a genre, and establishes its general importance for the early development of the human sciences in the European cultural …
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Actividad y estructuras pecuarias en la Comunidad de Albarracín (1284-1516)
… of this historical institution during the late Middle Ages. Furthermore, it gives a design about the articulation of the space in this mountain area, situated just at the point of union between Aragonese, Castilian and Valencian lands. His proposal involves the claiming of the inside …
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Chaucer's "Naked Text" and the Tradition of the Medieval Sublime
… theory of the sublime did not exist during the middle ages. Analyzing the Latin tradition from the patristic period through the late medieval period, I argue for the vibrant presence of the sublime by documenting its centrality to medieval rhetoric, literary theory, and hermeneutics. For …
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The philosopher, the preacher, and the poet : sadness and suffering in late medieval English literature
… a framework for properly understanding how some late medievals might have thought about literature and the emotions. If our aim is to better appreciate why artists and authors of late medieval England depicted sadness and suffering in the way that they did, it is important to understand the …
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Private devotion in England on the eve of the Reformation illustrated from works printed or reprinted in the period 1530-40
… and excessive morbidity for which the late middle ages are often condemned. Some of the weaknesses of the Catholic tradition are suggested by comparison with the more rational and secular attitudes of Christian humanist , authors, notably Erasmus, available during the 1530s. The …
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Retelling Conversion: The Making of Christian Histories of Sweden, c. 1100–1550
… century; the broad scope is necessitated by the late arrival of Latin literacy in Sweden and the relative scarcity of narrative sources in the Middle Ages. The dissertation is divided in three major chapters: The first chapter analyses the lives, offices and legends of saints allegedly active …
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A Historical Constitutional Approach to The King Can Do No Wrong: Revisiting Crown Liability
… associated with the king can do no wrong in the late Middle Ages and Tudor periods (chapter 2), during the constitutional struggles of the 17th century (chapter 3) and in the 18th and 19th centuries (chapter 4) is followed at the end of each chapter by a discussion of the two dimensions of crown …
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Welsh Identity and Adam Usk’s Chronicle (1377-1421)
… his own identity. This is particularly related to the locality of the town of Usk, and his national identity as a Welshman. In addition, I explore externally projected negative Welsh stereotypes, particularly how and why Adam used them to describe Owain Glyndŵr and his followers. Finally, …
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Donor Portraits in Late Medieval Venice c.1280-1413
… throughout Europe and mainland Italy during the late Middle Ages, the few art historians who have addressed the subject have concluded that the motif was not popular in fourteenth-century Venice. The political structures of Venice and its citizens’ supposedly innate abhorrence of public …
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The decline in representations of the Virgin as mother in early post-reformation iconography.
… this decline in the very physical piety of the late Middle Ages was a growth in spirituality which aided and abetted both the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Restoration. This new kind of spirituality looked ‘inwards’, making much of the examination of conscience as part of the Christian …
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