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Rhythmomachia : a propaedeutic game of the middle ages
Bibliography: leaves 226-246.
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Rhetoricizing Body and Ritual: Women Writing in the Middle Ages
This thesis applies Victor Turner's ritual theories to the writings of Heloise, Christine de Pizan, Julian of Norwich, and Margery Kempe. I argue that medieval women writers create social dramas within their texts in order to accomplish those ritual transformations which remain unattainable through …
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Between Brothers: Brotherhood and Masculinity in the Later Middle Ages
… to harmony between brothers existed in the later Middle Ages, and perhaps most critically, brothers also were men—thus implicated within masculinity. The martial elites of this study were subject to what I call “chivalric masculinity,” a version that privileged prowess, honor, courage, reputation, …
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The practice of Irish kingship in the Central Middle Ages
… of Irish kings and dynasties in the Central Middle Ages (roughly, the ninth to twelfth centuries) as represented by the sources. Several kingdoms and dynasties of medieval Ireland are closely studied with reference to different aspects of royal practice. There are two particular elements of …
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The finances of the Scottish crown in the later Middle Ages
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Spatial development of the city of London in the later middle ages
… - that of the City of London in the later Middle Ages - and the way that it evolved. It addresses itself to the organisation of space at the meso-scale, i.e. the way buildings were aggregated or arranged on the ground, and the external spaces that were formed. The work has two main aims: …
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The fourteenth-century sheriff : English local administration in the late Middle Ages
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the sheriffs appointed in fourteenth-century England, the period identified by both Stubbs and Maitland as having witnessed the shrievalty's final emasculation. This thesis is not a continuation of Morris' work on the sheriff, and neither is it directly …
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‘Spered in an hous aloone’: Enduring Spiritual Enclosure in the Middle Ages
… solitary spiritual enclosure in England in the Middle Ages (c. 1080-1525). It examines texts written for and by medieval cell-dwellers – particularly anchorites and Carthusians – to explore three broad areas of research. Firstly, it picks apart the exemplary reputation of the eremitic life in …
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The Art of Arts: Theorising Pastoral Power in the English Middle Ages
… of the early church through to fifteenth-century Middle English texts, I explore the dynamics produced by texts invested in producing this specific form of subjectivity as they expand their reach from a specialised audience of monks to an increasingly laicised vernacular sphere. This investigation …
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Devotion to St John the Baptist in England in the Middle Ages.
… for the universal, scriptural saints in the Middle Ages. The chief source is the sermons of the period in Latin and English, supplemented by vernacular legendaries, liturgy, primers and prayer books, representations of the Baptist in art, saints' lives, plays, relics, folklore and guild …
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Serializing the Middle Ages: Television and the (Re)Production of Pop Culture Medievalisms
In his now canonical "Dreaming the Middle Ages," Umberto Eco famously quips that "it seems that people like the Middle Ages" (61). Eco's apt sentiment still strikes a resonant chord some twenty years after its publication; there is indeed something about the Middle Ages that continues to fascinate …
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Secular urban musical culture in Provence and Languedoc during the late Middle Ages
Despite France's prominent role in the history of medieval secular music, scholarship concerning its urban musical culture is generally limited to a few publications by nineteenth-century local historians; in contrast, several recent comprehensive studies building on scholarship of the past two …
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Meet Me in the Middle Ages: Engaging with fantasy, reality, and collaborative world-building
… project, Medievalia Miscellany, a magazine for middle-grade readers which explores the world of medieval fantasy through art, comics, stories, and activities. Throughout the essay, I use my own term “archaeological upcycling” to discuss and explore a variety of relationships between ideas of …
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Writing the Apocalypse: Literary Representations of Eschatology at the End of the Middle Ages
… suggesting a climate of fear predominated in the Middle Ages. While the projected Christian eschatological timeline should have fostered hope for the saved, what it produced was often terrors of eternity and emptiness.
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