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Arabic-speakers in Norman Sicily
… of Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060, Arabic was the dominant language but by 1250 prestigious Romance vernaculars could be heard almost everywhere. Of particular importance is the formative period of Norman rule (1061-1194), when the key transitions from an …
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The Norman episcopate, 989-1110
… social and cultural development of ducal Normandy. Not only men of great political power, many strove to create vibrant centres of learning in their dioceses, and accounts of their efforts to reform the Norman Church spread throughout Europe. However, while the episcopate of …
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‘Episcopal Power in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135’
… narrative sources for the episcopate of Anglo-Norman England, but not in the reality of episcopal conduct, and that historians have often been misled by these narrative sources, reproducing a model of episcopal power which was little more than a monastic fantasy.
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Dialectical structures in the work of Norman Mailer
Dialectical structures in the work of Norman Mailer The thesis is divided into two sections; the first section comprises an introduction and six chapters, and the second section comprises a long chapter divided into three parts' Section One explains the thesis and provides the basis for Section …
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Norman Angell, peace, politics and the press, 1919-1924
There is no abstract available for this dissertation.
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Dynamic Behavioral Analysis of Malicious Software with Norman Sandbox
… IP addresses. Behavioral data was collected via Norman Sandbox for storage and analysis. We proposed to find which statistical measures and metrics can be collected for use in the detection and classification of malware. We conclude that our logging and cataloging procedure is a potentially …
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"Mood-Stuff" and "Metaphoric Utterance": Norman Corwin's radio art
Norman Corwin (1910-2011) is widely acclaimed as the best radio writer in early American radio art (from the early 1920s to 1950). Ample research has been done on him as a radio dramatist, patriotic propagandist, and innovative journalist yet there are areas of his radio art career that have had …
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Iowa's wolf in populist clothing: Norman Baker, 1925-1936
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The Early Norman Castles of the North of England
This thesis studies the distribution of Norman castles of the 11th-12th centuries across the north of England. A methodology is presented for assessing the reliability of identification of castle sites, and applied to the whole region in order to produce a substantial body of data. This data is …
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Canvas politics: Norman Lewis and the art of Abstract Resistance
<p>Norman Lewis (1909-1979) is best remembered, perhaps erroneously, as the first African American Abstract Expressionist. In this dissertation, I argue that he is better suited as a Social Abstractionist and an Abstract Allusionist based on the life he lived, the work he produced, and his …
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The Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland: Liturgy, Practice, and Society
… in use in Ireland prior to the arrival of Normans in the twelfth century. The existence of this liturgical rite and its supposed suppression at the hands of the Normans are usually taken for granted in these works. However some modern liturgical scholarship has begun to question the …
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The Anglo-Norman nobility in the reign of Henry I
… is a prosopographical study of the Anglo-Norman nobility in the first half of the twelfth century. By the twelfth century, the status, wealth and power of this class had come to be based more on the inheritance of position than on an individual’s military or administrative function. In …
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The Priest's Wife in the Anglo-Norman Realm, 1050-1150
… study of the wives of the clergy in England and Normandy from 1050 to 1150. After the Norman Conquest of England (1066), both regions shared an elite ruling class and the churches shared personnel. However, the different social and political contexts of the English and Norman churches ensured …
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The Function of Writs in England before the Norman Conquest
This doctoral thesis offers a sustained re-examination of the corpus of Anglo-Saxon writs, a group of over 120 vernacular documents that survive predominantly from the later tenth and eleventh centuries, and which were issued by kings alongside a range of non-royal individuals. These short, nimble, …
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Two paths to peace : the efforts of Norman Angell, 1914-1918
… objectives, and actions of peace advocate Norman Angell in the critical years of the First World War and attempts to ascertain if and how his objectives and methods of operation changed. As a basis for comparison, Angell's earlier life is briefly examined. Because Angell first achieved …
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Pragmatism, Patronage, Piety and Participation: Women in the Anglo-Norman Chronicles
… examines the chronicles written in England and Normandy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries and explores how the writers of these histories perceived women. This study is meant to illuminate the lives of the women in the Anglo-Norman chronicles at every stage of life. While many modern books …
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Embracing Fracture: The Buddhist Poetics of Allen Ginsberg and Norman Fischer
… and critical, of two authors, Allen Ginsberg and Norman Fischer. I explore Allen Ginsberg's relationship with Buddhism, as it changed throughout his life, looking at key poems in his early career, such as "Sakyamuni Coming Out of the Mountain," and "The Change: Kyoto to Tokyo Express." I also …
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