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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Northern Europe"”.
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Aspects of the Jewish Experience in Northern Europe, 800 to 1096
<p>The course of Jewish history in western Europe is varied. Beginning in small communities located in the Roman provinces at the beginning of the Common Era, the Jews spread northward into Germany and France and slowly increased both their population and the number of towns in which they were …
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We are not the periphery: barbarian economies and Northern Europe in the exchange patterns of Western Eurasia, 1800 BC - AD 900
… of long-term exchange patterns involving northern Europe and neighboring regions of western Eurasia reveals that the world of the North has, typically, played an important role both as producer and consumer. Especially in the Carolingian period (AD 700 - 900), the system as a whole can be …
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The affects of warfare upon trade : economic growth in a war-torn world, Northern Europe 1000-1700 by Vincent John Kindfuller.
Theories abound to describe how and why Europe was able to become the economic hegemon of the world between the 18th and 20th centuries. One of these theories is the competition argument, which argues that competition between the fractured states of Europe created the impetus for technological and …
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Lifestyle and Intestinal Parasite Infection in Northern Europe: A Study Comparing Clergy and the General Population of Cambridge and Belgium in 12th-18th Centuries
While parasites were widespread in medieval Europe, very little work has been undertaken to compare how the risk of contracting different species may vary with a person’s lifestyle. A range of intestinal parasites have been identified from medieval and early modern excavations in northern Europe …
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Between Scotland and Norway: connected cultures and intercultural encounters after 1700
… by its relationships with other cultures across Northern Europe, in particular with continental Europe and Scandinavia. This thesis examines intercultural encounters evident in the historical, material and literary cultures of coastal communities in Scotland and Norway, demonstrating the …
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Thermal biology and establishment potential of two non-native candidate biological control agents, Nesidiocoris tenuis Reuter (Hemiptera: Miridae) and Lysiphlebus testaceipes (Cresson) (Hymenoptera: Braconidae, Aphidiinae), in the U.K.
… agricultural and horticultural pests in southern Europe. Through a series of laboratory and field assessments, this study investigates the establishment potential of these two species in cool temperate climates typical of northern Europe. Laboratory results demonstrated a low level of cold …
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An experimental and theoretical investigation of the migration of moisture in cocoa beans
… of cargoes during shipment from West Africa to Northern Europe.
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Contextualizing Anthony van Dyck's Iconography within the Emerging Traditions of Portraiture and Artists' Biography in the Early Modern Period
… and etched half-length portraits of contemporary European men and women of various professions and backgrounds, including artists, scholars, diplomats, and religious leaders. This thesis examines the artistic and literary context for Van Dyck’s Iconography, with a focus on the changing social and …
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Analyse de la répartition spatiale des restes fauniques du site éémien de Caours (Somme). Apport des systèmes d'information géographique.
… located in the Somme, is the only Eemian site in Northern Europe in interglacial context. This site show an incredible conservation of faunal remains spread out over a large area and a recurrence Human occupation. That gave us a large amount of data about this period of Neanderthal history. We now …
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Chivalry and Romantic Love in the Courts of Eleanor of Aquitane
… to instill in the courts of both kingdoms of northern Europe the refinements of her native Aquitaine. For these specific contributions, she merits greater praise.</p>
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Political Institutions and Carbon Taxation
… diffusion of ECT policies spreading outward from Northern Europe.
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The Nun's Tale from the Hours of Catherine of Cleves: A Medieval Novella
… important productions of late medieval art in northern Europe, although the artist of the remarkable illustrations remains unknown. This thesis combines historical facts from Catherine’s tumultuous life via lively characterizations of the patron and presumed artist. The climax of the story is …
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Bronze metallurgy in Iron Age central Europe : a metallurgical study of Early Iron Age bronzes from Stična, Slovenia.
… Early Iron Age (750-450 BCE) marks a time in the European Alpine Region in which cultural ideologies surrounding bronze objects and bronze production were changing. Iron was becoming the preferred material from which to make many utilitarian objects such as weapons and agricultural tools; this …
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Konstruktionen av det heliga. Altarna i det medeltida Lunds stift
… content it does not deal with the conditions in Northern Europe. The general aim of this dissertation is to broaden our knowledge about altars in Northern Europe and,specifically, in the diocese of Lund: how were altars physically constructed, how many altars were there in different churches, and …
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South African public memorials of World War One. A historical view of processes in public memorialisation through symbolic content, with particular reference to Cape Town
… prototypes, particularly the war memorials in northern Europe. The symbolic content is of paramount importance. Photographs, in the Appendix, will visually illustrate many points which are referred to during the course of the study. Each memorial embodies its unique set of cues for articulating …
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A Foraminiferal Biostratigraphy of the Campanian and Maastrichtian Chalks of the United Kingdom.
… the Upper Cretaceous and those of wide areas of northern Europe, clearly placing Britain within the Transitional biogeoprovince. Palaeoecological study has indicated that marine conditions with normal salinities prevailed throughout the Campanian and Maastrichtian. Palaeotemperatures appear to …
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Some implications in international law of the Soviet proposal to open the northern sea royte to transnational comercial traffic; transit passage in the Soviet Arctic straits
… Institution, has recently undertaken the Northern Sea Route Project, an effort to ascertain the feasibility of opening the shipping route along the Arctic coast of the Soviet Union, from the Norwegian frontier to the Bering Strait. The goal is to operate the route on a year-round basis, …
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Staging Europe, Staging Ireland: Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov in Irish Cultural Politics, 1899--1922
… this study reveals the critical role of Northern Europe in the search for wider, alternative models for Irish national drama. The study examines the appeal the Scandinavian and Russian traditions had for Irish playwrights and cultural revivalists like Edward Martyn and George Moore, …
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Governing Migrants in the European Union: A Critical Approach to Interrogating Migrants' Journey Narratives
… the Western Balkans to Germany and the rest of Northern Europe. Based on field observations in initial reception centers for asylum seekers in Hamburg and semi-structured interviews with fifteen participants from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan who came to Germany between 2015 and 2016, this …
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