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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Later medieval"”.
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Ivory carving in later medieval England, 1200-1400
… of a comprehensive nature has been done on late medieval English ivories. Since the 1920s, a few studies, now hopelessly dated, have sufficed for the curious, the scholar, and the admirer of an important form of the English minor arts. During this same period, English ivories of the thirteenth …
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Trinkets and Charms: the use, meaning and significance of later medieval and early post-medieval dress accessories
… is a thematic study of dress accessories of late medieval to early post-medieval date from two regions of mainland Britain. It is an investigation of everyday objects which aims to re-engage the material world with past individuals. An interdisciplinary approach is used to understand how dress …
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The Medieval Borderland: Geophysical Analysis of a Later Medieval Deserted Settlement and Cultural Landscape from Western Ireland
… excavations is utilized to reconstruct the medieval built environment, which was comprised of a masonry castle, nucleated settlement and wider arable agricultural landscape. By integrating the archaeological and historical records, I pose hypotheses related to the differential statuses of …
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Leadership and virtue: a character analysis of Fionn mac Cumhaill and King Arthur in the later medieval period
… in character. Oliver Padel, in his Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature, discusses briefly the similarity between the Arthur of the earliest Welsh literature and Fionn, noting that the Arthur of the early Welsh is “much closer to that of Fionn in Irish literature, or Robin Hood in medieval …
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Love and Drede: Religious Fear in Middle English
… earlier generations of historians described the later Middle Ages as an ‘age of fear’. This account was especially applied to accounts of the presumed mentality of the later medieval layperson, seen as at the mercy of the currents of plague, violence and dramatic social, economic and political …
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An archaeology of female monasticism in medieval Ireland
… evidence for female monasticism in medieval Ireland, with a particular emphasis on the later medieval period. Female monasticism has been considered from an archaeological perspective in several countries, most notably Britain, but has yet to be considered in any detail in Ireland. …
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The Augustinian canons in the Diocese of Worcester and their relation to secular and ecclesiastical powers in the Later Middle Ages
In the later medieval period the Augustinian canons flourished in England, yet they have received relatively little scholarly attention. This thesis attempts to integrate the evidence for the eight houses in the diocese of Worcester and contribute to the knowledge of the Augustinian canons by …
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Grímr-Visaged War: Viking Age Battle, With an Eye to Performance
… battle in the late Scandinavian Iron Age and medieval period in terms of a performance process. The community analyzed is the hall-based warrior elite that developed throughout the Viking Age. By approaching the material from the performance perspective rather than warrior identity or …
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Mapping Women's Movement in Medieval England
… investigates women’s geographical movement in medieval England from the perspective of mobility and freedom. It uses pilgrimage accounts from medieval miracle story collections and to gather information about individual travel patterns. The study uses GIS to analyze gendered mobility patterns, …
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'My Testament in Englisshe Tonge': A study in the use of the vernacular in medieval wills
… by examining the processes of will-writing in later-medieval England in detail, analysing the essential linguistic components of the canonical testament before using two specific groups of wills from mid-fourteenth- and late-fifteenth-century London to explore nuances of composition and …
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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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Delivered Without Peril: Birth Girdles and Childbirth in Late Medieval and Early Modern England
Medieval English prayer rolls offered protection from various dangers: death in battle, disease, weather, or misfortune, among others. Some prayer rolls promised specific protections for pregnant and laboring women. These prayer rolls have been designated as "birth girdles." During the fourteenth …
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Bottoms Up! John of Arderne and the Interest in Surgical Manuscripts in Late Medieval England
… specifically at a corpus of manuscripts on medieval anal fistulas, the following thesis seeks to fill this gap in our knowledge of medieval manuscripts to uncover the various people who made up surgical readership in later medieval England. In doing this, I hope to demonstrate the importance …
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Aspects of medieval landscape change in Herefordshire, Shropshire and Gloucestershire: evidence from the feet of fines
… of data gathered from over 5000 original, medieval fines at the Public Record Office in Kew. Computer technology, notably Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and databases, has been utilized in the analysis. This has led to the production of a series of tables, graphs and maps for the …
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Saint, martyr, killer of Christ? The legend of Longinus in medieval Irish tradition
… blood and water issuing from the wound, and who later was martyred for his belief. In my thesis I survey the knowledge and use of the legend of Longinus in Ireland over genres and over time. Sources used for the analyses include iconographic representations of the spear-bearer in manuscripts, …
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Dlíthe Luath-Ghaeilge: Staidéar ar Theanga agus ar Dhátú Gluaiseanna agus Tráchtanna
This thesis examines the language and dating of later medieval Irish legal writing. Three texts are analysed: the ‘Marriage Disputes’ commentary, edited by Fergus Kelly (2014); the glosses and commentaries copied by Scribe 1 of Cáin Lánamna (ed. Charlene Eska, 2010); and the glosses on Gúbretha …
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The secular Church and clergy in the Diocese of Argyll from circa 1189 to 1560
Herein presented is a diocesan study of the medieval secular church and its clergy in Argyll, situated along the west coast of Scotland, from its foundation in 1189 until the Reformation in 1560, but with a special focus on the period between the later fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. The church …
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The Resurgence of Gaelic power in Ireland and Scotland and its wider impact, c.1350-1513
Over the course of the later Middle Ages nearly half the landmass of the British Isles fell under the control of a handful of Gaelic dynasties in Ireland and Scotland. The impact of this profound geopolitical recasting of much of the Atlantic Archipelago has however, received very little scholarly …
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Pioneering new approaches to woodland ecology and human activity in medieval Ireland (c.500-1550AD): an investigation using archaeological charcoal
… influenced wood selection strategies during the medieval period in Ireland using the archaeological charcoal record. It examined the functional and cultural factors that influenced wood selection and wood use during a period of dynamic social, economic and political change and provided valuable …
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