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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Low Countries"”.
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Faecal Sediments as Bio-Archives: The Fish Event Horizon in the Low Countries
… regarding change in fish exploitation in the Low Countries (present day Belgium and the Netherlands) during the medieval and Post-Medieval periods (AD 500 – 1900). In this thesis, I complete a systematic review of ichthyological remains and fish consumption proxies (carbon and nitrogen values …
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A Comparative Study of Schoolmasters in Eleventh-Century Normandy and the Southern Low Countries
… in dioceses in Normandy and the Southern Low Countries. In doing so the purpose of this thesis is twofold. The first aim is prosopographical, given that this thesis examines the careers of cathedral schoolmasters active in these dioceses so as to understand the educational developments …
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Moving boundaries: civic surgeons and medical practice in the eighteenth-century Austrian Low Countries, 1700-1794
… practice in the eighteenth-century Austrian Low Countries, the area we now know as Belgium and Luxemburg. This field of research has been neglected so far, and little literature has been written for this geographical area, which does not do its history any justice. During the eighteenth …
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WE SUBDUED THE BODY BUT NOT THE COURAGE': POPULAR LITERATURE, SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY, AND CEREMONIAL RITES OF POWER DURING THE DUTCH REVOLT, 1550-1598'
… relations and social change in the Low Countries. My work draws upon the premises that appeared most consistently in the literature and images circulated during the Dutch Revolt: strategy and communication, sovereignty and constitutionalism, freedom of conscience, political theory in …
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Secular urban musical culture in Provence and Languedoc during the late Middle Ages
… of the past two centuries exist for the Low Countries and Germany. This unevenness in scholarship, and the resulting bias in our knowledge, has resulted in discussions of urban musical culture that unintentionally create the false impression that urban musical life outside of the Low …
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The Lute In Seventeenth-Century Dutch Brothels: A Study of Selected Genre Paintings
… as an important aspect of the sex trade in the Low Countries, but also provide clues about speelhuizen, the underground "music halls where whores plied openly."</p> <p>The significance of these representations has not been well understood. Wayne Franits, for example, in his magisterial Dutch …
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Thomas Morley and the business of music in Elizabethan England
… for printed recreational music. His visit to the Low Countries in 1591 allowed him to see at first hand a thriving music printing business. Two years later he set out to achieve an income from his own music, initially by publishing collections of light, English-texted, madrigalian vocal works. He …
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The Work of the Magi: Adoration Images and Visions of Globalization in Early Modern Europe
This dissertation investigates the extent to which early modern depictions of the three magi of the biblical Adoration story can be understood within a representational "economy," that is, an economy defined by ideas and ways of knowing that circulate through the visual innovations and …
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Matthaeus Pipelare's "Fors seulement chanson (II)" and its related motet and mass performance editions and commentary
… housed in libraries and archives of eleven countries throughout Europe, stretching from Russia to Spain, with 26 sources found in Italy. The surviving corpus consists of eight secular works (four Flemish songs and four French chansons, one doubtful), nine motets, nine Masses, and a Credo. …
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Art In Revolt: Material And Meaning In The 80 Years' War
… Calvinists stormed Catholic churches across the Low Countries, stripping their walls of “idols.” With shattered glass and beheaded statues, the beeldenstorm, or the Iconoclastic Riots, brought a new consciousness to the materiality of art. This dissertation is a materially-oriented, multimedia …
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The Danger of Visual Seduction: Netherlandish Prints of Susanna and the Elders
… the biblical heroine Susanna proliferated in the Low Countries. The majority of these engravings, etchings, and woodcuts portray the attempted seduction of a provocative female nude by two old men, a scene which explicitly manifests "lasciviousness" and "seductive charm." This dissertation …
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The medieval Miles Christi and the Anabaptist knight : chivalric imagination in the Radical Reformation.
… at Anabaptists across Germany and the Low Countries. Special emphasis is given to the role of baptism and martyrdom among the Swiss and South German Anabaptists, especially in their musical traditions. The self-fashioning of Jan of Leiden, the Anabaptist king of Münster, reveals the …
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Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, handschriften-Inkunabelsammlung, Musica Ms F (1509-1525): an examination of the repertorial, codicological, and political significance of a unique source of parody masses, with a modern edition of the manuscript and its models
… known as the “Alamire complex”, produced in the Low Countries in the early sixteenth century. A detailed examination of the codicological features of the manuscript, including its structure, scribes, and extensive decoration, provides new evidence of its intended recipient. Although it was …
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Court in the Market: The 'Business' of a Princely Court in the Burgundian Netherlands, 1467-1503
… advanced economic regions in Europe, the greater Low Countries, it argues that the Burgundian court was, both in its institutional operations and its cultural aspirations, a commercial enterprise. Based primarily on fiscal accounts, corroborated with court correspondence, municipal records, …
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Alexander Hegius (ca. 1433-98) : His life, Philosophy, and Pedagogy
… from the Thomism prevalent in the schools of the Low Countries. The complex interplay of this nominalism with his emerging humanism had far-reaching effects on the curriculum and methods in Deventer and made St. Lebuins an outstanding center of the new Learning.</p>
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The art market, its intermediaries and the components of value of art works in an historical perspective
… of an art work. The historical overview that follows is a descriptive analysis of the various support systems and intermediaries in the Western art market from the Renaissance through to the late twentieth century, the guilds, patrons, academies, and dealers, that have and still do function as …
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The Spread of Hindu-Arabic Numerals in the European Tradition of Practical Arithmetic: a Socio-Economic Perspective (13th–16th centuries)
… numerals among European practitioners allows to reconstruct a long-run history of transmission of useful knowledge from the Arabic world to the origins of the so-called European ‘little divergence’. During the commercial revolution of the 13th century, Italian international …