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Showing 1 to 20 of 205 for “"MARIAN"”.
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The Marian Paintings of Jan Van Eyck
… to remain so), it does seem curious that these Marian works have never been studied as a body to see if they reveal a distinctive attitude toward the Virgin that could be called characteristic of Jan van Eyck. This study confronts a curious situation in the History of Art. Jan van Eyck has been …
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Appropriation and resistance in Philippine Marian devotion
… is a postcolonial study of Philippine Marian devotion using, among others, M. M. Bakhtin's theory of dialogism and Homi Bhabha's theories on ambivalence (the "simultaneous desire for and disavowal of a given object"), mimicry and hybridity. It is also a historical study of Philippine …
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Pilgrimage, Spatial Interaction, and Memory at Three Marian Sites
… of porousness are complex and varied. Three Marian, Catholic pilgrimage places demonstrate the potential for variation in porous boundaries: Chartres cathedral; the Marian apparition location of Medjugorje; and the House of the Virgin Mary near Ephesus. These three places are porous in that …
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Jeesuksen ja Magdalan Marian kohtaaminen Aleksandra Frosterus-Såltinin maalamassa Ilmajoen kirkon alttaritaulussa
Tutkin kandidaatintutkielmassani Alexandra Frosterus-Såltinin (1837–1916) maalaamaa Ilmajoen kirkon alttaritaulua ja sitä, miten taiteilija ilmentää siinä jakeen Joh. 20:17 tapahtumia. Pyrin selvittämään etenkin, miten Jeesuksen liminaalitilaa on kuvattu teoksessa. Usein syntymä ja kuolema nähdään …
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Making Digital Libraries Flexible, Scalable and Reliable: Reengineering the MARIAN System in JAVA
… were used in the project of Reengineering the MARIAN System in Java. The results of the project and experiments verified the correctness of the hypothesis. The results of this thesis may help inform future digital library design and implementation projects to produce flexible, scalable, and …
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Marian Devotion Through Music, Lyric, and Miracle Narrative in the Cantigas de Santa Maria
… of Castile (r. 1252-1284), amidst an upsurge of Marian devotion and a simultaneous proliferation of vernacular poetry and monophonic music, all outgrowths of the twelfth century. This thesis shows not just that music, lyric, and narrative converge in the cantigas de miragro (miracle songs), but …
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Marian Apparitions in Cultural Contexts: applying Jungian depth psychological concepts to mass visions of the Virgin Mary.
… of the Virgin Mary and examines the case of Marian apparitions in Zeitoun, Egypt. A review of the literature points to a prevailing socio-political approach to examining visions of the Virgin Mary while a psychoanalytical approach is generally lacking. The former approach suggests that Marian …
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THE USE OF THE MARIAN ICON IN VENICE: RELIGION AND POLITICS MERGE IN THE CHURCH OF SANTA MARIA DELLA SALUTE
The Virgin Mary was central to the success of Venice from the beginning of the Republic. Venice was exposed to the Byzantine idea that the union of the spiritual and material could be achieved in the form of an icon. The church quickly realized the value of visual images in their apostolic mission …
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Hydrologic Response to Conifer Removal from an Encroached Mountain Meadow
… the hydrology of a control and study meadow (Marian Meadow) before and after restoration. In order to determine weekly changes in groundwater depth, 14 Odyssey water level capacitance instruments were installed to a 1.5 meter depth in PVC wells. In order to quantify changes in soil moisture …
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Could Mary have said “no?” a contemporary feminist analysis of consent, examined through the context of Marian representations that originate from the Annunciation
… consent. Additionally, a reimagining of the Marian image as a model of non-competitive collaborative agency is proposed as a guide to further discussions of consent, moving towards a more equitable and inclusive relationality.
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The Water Table and Soil Moisture Response Following the Removal of Conifers from an Encroached Meadow
… removal of conifers from an encroached meadow (Marian Meadow) has an effect on soil moisture and groundwater depth such that meadow hydrologic conditions are promoted. This goal will be accomplished by the following objectives: 1) develop a water budget incorporating groundwater depth, soil …
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Effective, Efficient Retrieval in a Network of Digital Information Objects
… in digital library collections or software. MARIAN is a digital library system designed and built to store, search over, and retrieve large numbers of diverse objects in a network of relationships. It is designed to run efficiently over large collections of digital library objects. It …
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Strange duality on elliptic and K3 surfaces
… has been proved in full generality on curves by Marian and Oprea, and by Belkale. There have been ongoing work on the Strange Duality on surfaces by various people. In the current paper, we show that the approach of Marian and Oprea to treating elliptic surfaces can be generalized in multiple …
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Hydrologic Response to Conifer Removal and Upslope Harvest in an Encroached Montane Meadow
… encroached conifers from an encroached meadow (Marian Meadow) for successful meadow restoration. The objectives of this study are to determine (i) quantify the meadow hydrology following removal of encroached conifers, (ii) determine if forest tree removal adjacent to the meadow influences the …
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Anti-Spanish sentiment in English literary and political writing 1553-1603
… thesis examines anti-Spanish sentiment within Marian and Elizabethan literary and political writing. Although its primary aim is to reinvigorate the reader's perceptions about a topic that has traditionally been subject to considerable scholarly neglect, four `core' objectives can still be …
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Text, Knowledge and Truth In the Duchy of Luxembourg, 1666-1781
… knowledge and claimed truth between the first Marian election of 1666 and the centenary celebration of her patronage in 1781. The introduction identifies the Duchy as a contested historiographical entity and disputed spatial imaginary by revisiting the prejudices of traditional Luxembourgish …
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The Martyrs of North Africa During the Persecution of Valerian: Text, Translation, and Commentary on the Acts of St. Cyprian, SS. Montanus and Lucius, and SS. Marian and James
… in the passions of Montanus and Lucius and Marian and James, and where a literal translation would have latinized the English too much. | In editing these texts, I refrained almost altogether from giving my personal opinion but instead quoted or paraphrased the opinions, comments, and …
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Religious Mobility and the Development of English Catholicism, 1532-1558
… and encounters abroad to bear upon the Marian Church, this research not only connects Mary’s reign more fully with the historiography of the broader European Counter-Reformation – answering calls to ‘de-centre’ our approach to Catholic reform in this period – but it also challenges …
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