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Annalistic writing in Normandy, c. 1050-1225
… provides an analysis of annalistic writing in Normandy between c. 1050 and c. 1225. It examines three principal groups of texts which were written and copied in religious institutions throughout the duchy from the mid eleventh century, before being transmitted beyond its borders into France and …
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Strategic litigation: Legal culture and daily life in sixteenth-century Normandy
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2020-02-28 without embargo terms
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Tactical air power in the Normandy campaign: The role of 83 Group (France)
… regarding tactical air power in the Normandy campaign in the Second World War. Within this body of material there exists two schools of thought; by far the largest and most popular is that which argues tactical air power was effective, even decisive, in winning the campaign, primarily …
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A Comparative Study of Schoolmasters in Eleventh-Century Normandy and the Southern Low Countries
… of eleventh-century schoolmasters in dioceses in Normandy and the Southern Low Countries. In doing so the purpose of this thesis is twofold. The first aim is prosopographical, given that this thesis examines the careers of cathedral schoolmasters active in these dioceses so as to understand the …
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Chronographia and Imperium: continuing the chronicle tradition of Eusebius-Jerome and Sigebert of Gembloux in twelfth-century Normandy
… chronicle, as transmitted in twelfth-century Normandy via Sigebert of Gembloux, embodied an understanding of time (chronographia) as framed by the succession of the political order (imperium). Whereas earlier scholars attributed the twelfth-century success of Sigebert’s chronicle to its …
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An object Biography of WW2 Pillboxes in Cumbria and Lancashire, and the Defensive Structures of Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France
… as well as the Pointe du Hoc site being the only Normandy coast site. By conducting field research along with historical and oral records I will show the object biography of these structures. Furthermore research will show the changes of biography, drawing comparisons between the British pillbox …
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The Poems of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, Marquis of Normandy, and Duke of Buckingham (1648-1721): A Critical Text
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T20:52:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0025267.pdf: 23558518 bytes, checksum: 61d5c6f56247cc60dfe1c9a3f94d748b (MD5) Previous issue date: 1957
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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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The Unfree in the Anglo-Norman Realm c.1000-c.1100 with special reference to slavery
… thesis is a comparative study of the unfree in Normandy and England in the eleventh century. The unfree formed a large percentage of the population in these areas, along a scale from the most unfree, the slaves, to the nearest to freedom, arguably the villeins. Although this thesis is concerned …
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The Cross-Channel Interests of the Baronage of the Pays de Caux and Cotentin, 1189-1204
… baronage whose personal interests in Normandy and England were an important influence on their subsequent political activities during the reigns of the Norman king-dukes. While there has been extensive scholarship on this theme prior to 1154, there has been only limited research in the …
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FORAMINIFERAL DISTRIBUTION AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF OXFORDIAN SUCCESSIONS IN THE WESSEX/ANGLO-PARIS BASIN
… from the South . Dorset Coast, U.K. and the Normandy Coast, France provide the basis for this study. A near continuous succession of the Oxfordian from South Dorset and Normandy were obtained, and foraminifera extracted. Examination of the fauna revealed representatives from 23 families, …
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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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Poison, Power and Perception: A Biography of Mabel of Belleme (1030-1082)
… masters of the southern and western frontier of Normandy, and how implausible stories about Mabel came to be included in Orderic Vitalis’s twelfth century history of the Norman church. My thesis is that Mabel relied upon the Bellême power initially created in the ninth century by her …
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Traces of a Spatial Relic: Encountering the Observation Bunker of Heuqueville
… chain of bunkers lining the Atlantic beaches of Normandy, France; specifically, an Observation Bunker located at the outermost edge of the town of Heuqueville. The act of discovering, exploring, and dwelling on the fortification in its current state was recreated and isolated in a digital …
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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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Les terres cuites architecturales des églises du haut Moyen Age dans le nord-ouest de la France et le sud-est de l'Angleterre : application de la datation par luminescence à l'archéologie du bâti
… 10th and 11th century religious buildings of Normandy, Pays de Loire in France and Kent and Essex in England. Are the bricks used in the masonry structures Roman spolia or a novo productions? Dating techniques were scrutinized through a process of intercomparison work between two luminescence …
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Ceramic building materials in early medieval churches in north-western France and south-eastern England. Application of luminescence dating to building archaeology.
… 10th and 11th century religious buildings of Normandy, Pays de Loire in France and Kent and Essex in England. Are the bricks used in the masonry structures Roman spolia or a novo productions? Dating techniques were scrutinized through a process of intercomparison work between two luminescence …
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Point of failure: British Army brigadiers in the British Expeditionary Force and North Western Expeditionary Force, 1940 - A study of advancement and promotion
… commands in the initial stages of the Battle of Normandy in 1944. This is to compare a group on the cusp of winning a war with one close to its loss. The conclusion will be that the degree of change between the types of officer serving was not as radical as might have previously been supposed.
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