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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"Medieval period."”.
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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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Palaeoecology of human impact in northwest England during the early medieval period: investigating ‘cultural decline’ in the Dark Ages
The period following the Roman withdrawal from England in AD 410 has long been considered a time of ‘cultural decline’, owing to the relative paucity of archaeological evidence relating to this time and the dismal state of affairs described by the Dark Age historians Gildas (c AD 540) and Bede (AD …
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Shetland and the trade of steatite goods in the North Atlantic region during the Viking and early medieval period
… of steatite goods during the Viking and Early Medieval periods. Artefact assessment has highlighted distinctive steatite artefact types from Shetland, Norway and Greenland. This visual provenance technique allowed comprehensive assessment of imported steatite artefacts from the North Atlantic …
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The Life of the Nuns at West Malling Abbey: Social and Religious Dynamics from the Middle Medieval Period to the Reformation
… events of the time. The thesis highlights a period when monastic life was at its height, before ending with the Dissolution. Nonetheless, life continued in West Malling whose town and abbey site still bear visible reminders of this inheritance. The enduring legacy of Gundulf, the Bishop of …
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Respiratory health in the past: a bioarchaeological study of chronic maxillary sinusitis and rib periostitis from the Iron Age to the Post Medieval Period in Southern England
… ranging in date from the Iron Age to the Post Medieval Period. The samples were chosen to examine both synchronic and diachronic trends in respiratory disease, contrasting contemporaneous populations living in rural and urban contexts, as well as populations from high and low social status …
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Aristotle’s journey to Europe: A synthetic history of the role played by the Islamic Empire in the transmission of Western educational philosophy sources from the fall of Rome through the medieval period
… this Greek literature could have taken to reach medieval Europe after the split of the Roman Empire into east and west sectors, but these two potential paths functionally became, instead, dual roadblocks to its transmission. In the western portion of the former Roman Empire, there was an …
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Life in Medieval Cambridge: an isotopic analysis of diet and mobility
… an important trade centre in the High and Late Medieval period (11th-16th century). Historical accounts and archaeological evidence indicate that the Late Medieval period was a tumultuous chapter in English history, with episodes of war, climate change, famine and plague. It is argued that the …
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Luminescence Dating of Medieval and Early Modern Brickwork
… in significant historic brickwork spanning the medieval period. A great deal of earlier archaeological study has focused on the development and use of brick during this period, providing a framework of understanding as to how this material was employed in Essex through the medieval period. …
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‘Holyest Erth of England?’ Glastonbury Abbey: Saints, Sanctity and Pilgrimage
… will hear or read about Glastonbury during the medieval period: is that its abbey was a great centre of pilgrimage in England, along with Canterbury and Walsingham. Research concerning aspects of the abbey’s history and pilgrimage status is relatively scarce for such a venerable abbey, and this …
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Death and Commemoration in Late Medieval Wales
… to and commemoration of death in Wales in the period between the end of the thirteenth century and the middle of the sixteenth century by analysis of the poetical work produced during this period. In so doing, this is placed in the wider context of death and commemoration in …
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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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Medieval landscapes and lordship in South Uist
… and settlement patterns. In this thesis, the medieval period has been defined as that between c. 1000 and c. 1650. The historical evidence is considered along with archaeological evidence to create a holistic understanding of medieval social developments in South Uist. The results have …
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Justification and Good Works: A Study of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification
… out between Augustine and Pelagius, later in the medieval period, and most importantly during the Reformation period - which led to mutual condemnations and the division of the Western church. The church still does not have a unified voice in interpreting the doctrine despite recent ecumenical …
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Mapping sculpture and power: symbolic wealth in early medieval Scotland, 6th-11th centuries AD
… In studying the power structures of early medieval Scotland, both textual and archaeological evidence must be considered. Documentary evidence for Scotland is poor, but comparison can be made with Ireland, which has relatively rich textual evidence. The archaeological evidence of the early …
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Skin and bone: the face in the archaeological imagination
… structure. The ‘starting point’ is the Neolithic period which has been associated with the notion of visuality with a reconstruction from the early Neolithic site of Annagh, Co. Limerick. The following layer of analysis appears with attention to intersubjectivity in the early medieval period with …
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Magical rings in Middle English romance: an interdisciplinary study in Medieval literature and material culture
This thesis argues that studying medieval literature is rarely undertaken with an interdisciplinary approach, and that this lack of contextual understanding has led to interpretations that do not take into account the importance of medieval belief and practice in literary manifestations. The focus …
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The Origins and Development of the Verwood-Type Pottery Industry
… predominantly focused on manufacture of post-medieval date. Despite this, little has been achieved in determining any medieval origins, or the organisation of pottery production in the early post- medieval period. This study readdresses this issue; firstly, by establishing that pottery …
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Helping the Shoe to Fit
… collection explores animal perspectives, the medieval period, mythology, and family dynamics. Poetic devices within these stories put the reader into a position where they must interact with sound and language in the ways that my learning disabilities force me to interact with sound and …
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Creating Heresy: (Mis)representation, Fabrication, and the Tachikawa-ryu
… Japanese esoteric Buddhist doctrine during the medieval period (900-1200). In doing so, I seek to challenge currently held, inaccurate views of the role played by this tradition in the history of Japanese esoteric Buddhism and Japanese religion more generally. The Tachikawa-ryu, which has yet to …
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