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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Medieval sources"”.
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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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'Forse in Parnaso esto loco sognaro'. Parnassian Imagery and Dante's Earthly Paradise
… Commedia and an investigation on classical and medieval sources, this research examines how Dante reshapes the classical idea of Parnassus and adapts it to his needs. My intent is to show how Parnassian imagery fosters some fundamental reflections on the power, the limits, and the purpose of …
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Representations of ancient Cynicism in French texts, 1546-1615
… the nature and availability of ancient and Medieval sources, and how they are used in neo-Latin and vernacular collections of sayings, miscellanies and encyclopedias. Adaptation and invention of Cynic sayings in collections show how the Cynic tradition encourages improvisation. The …
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Situating the citole, c.1200-1400
… based on the correlation of name and image in medieval sources, this thesis provides an unprecedented body of evidence from c.l200-1400 relating to this instrument type and demonstrates what sorts of information about the citole can be gleaned from these sources. There has been no comprehensive …
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Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
This dissertation probes medieval sources to identify how and why women made transformative choices in their own lives and analyzes the consequences of those choices. The major case study investigates the life of Marie of Blois-Boulogne, a twelfth-century abbess, countess, wife, and mother. Marie …
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Jocus : a personification of folly and play and an attribute of carnal love in Renaissance art
… and transformation in early-Christian, medieval, and Renaissance literature. Thereafter, it analyses representations of Jocus within art, focussing on medieval manuscript illustrations and a selection of Renaissance paintings.<br></br><br></br> The most prestigious literary source is a …
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Monsters in Paradise: The Representation of the Natural World in the Historias of Bartolome de Las Casas and Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo
… with wondrous images derived from classical and medieval sources; these various discourses combined in ways that were colored by the authors' ideological perspectives on the justice of the Spanish conquest. This dissertation examines the interaction between proto-scientific empiricism and …
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Returning the King: the Medieval King in Modern Fantasy
… structure and shared themes that can be found in medieval sources as well as earlier myths. Tales of kingship in modern fiction, specifically in the work of Neil Gaiman (The Sandman) and George R. R. Martin (A Game of Thrones), are similar to the medieval models, as kingship and the requirements …
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Investigating the Provenance, Organisation and Themes of Erfurt, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, I. 81
… hitherto-unknown references to the manuscript in medieval sources, which reveal that the manuscript spent a period of time at the Dominican friary in Thetford. The compiler’s choice and layout of saints is discussed in detail and contextualised by a comparison with other hagiological documents of …
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Sovranità Imperiale. Dal Simbolismo all'Espressione Architettonica nella Cultura di Corte Bizantina, Carolingia e Islamica (VIII-X secolo d.C.)
… of the majesty core, which was the heart of medieval kingship symbolic representation. Both Byzantine and Arabian sources witness the presence of composite throne devices at the courts of Constantinople and Samarra, under the reign of Theophilus and Mutawakkil. The most relevant examples …
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An Ecclesiastical Institution in Medieval Munster: A Study of Emly to c. 1100
… that Emly was the most important church in early medieval Munster, it has yet to receive a dedicated critical study. The thesis embraces the institution as its basis of inquiry, and the approach taken is to bring together a broad range of sources to better understand the institution’s history and …