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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Pope, Alexander"”.
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Origins of Catholicity in Richardson County Nebraska
… to the beginnings of the American Church when Pope Alexander VI by a bull of June 23, 1492, transmitted to the new world the continuity of the Catholic Church. He appointed as Vicar General Reverend Bernardo Boil, Benedictine of the Abbey of Monteserrat, who, influenced by the reform of …
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The Ludus de Antichristo and the making of a monastic theatre: imperial politics and performance at the abbey of Tegernsee 1000-1200
… Roman Emperor” Frederick I “Barbarossa” and Pope Alexander III. In addition to its dramatization of contemporary issues surrounding imperial and papal politics, the Ludus was also placed into service in the cloister school at Tegernsee Abbey. Thus, the play stands as a valuable example of a …
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Globalising China: Jesuits, Eurasian Exchanges, and the Early Modern Sciences
… sciences and politics at an audience with Pope Alexander VII. As this dissertation contends, Martini’s successful mobilisation of disparate political, religious, commercial, and scholarly networks across a turbulent Eurasia enabled his laudatory accounts of Chinese sciences to convince an …
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The aisleless cruciform church: its occurrence and meanings in romanesque Europe
… Rule of St Augustine, promoted by the Milanese pope Alexander II, the importance of whose contribution has been underestimated. The adoption of the building type for the canons at post-Conquest York Cathedral, always seen as surprising in the context of major Anglo-Norman church architecture, is …
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The influence of Christianity in Pope's Moral Essays.
Alexander Pope's Moral Essays include the Epistle to Cobham, the Epistle to a Lady, the Epistle to Bathurst and the Epistle to Burlington. Simply put, this thesis focuses on Christianity as it appears in these poems. Christ does, of course, show Himself in different ways through the four poems. In …
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"Ourselves to know" : the problem of evil in the poetry of Alexander Pope.
… of evil. In chapter one, I examine in Alexander Pope's personal letters how his reliance upon religious resignation, sovereignty, heavenly compensation, prayer, and biblical imagery reveal a theodician search. In chapter two, I show how together Eloisa to Abelard, the 1717 Rape of the …
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Alexander Pope's Imitations of Chaucer
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Te Sequor: A Study of Pope's Observations on The Iliad of Homer
Although has been written on Pope's translation of the Iliad, little has been written directly on his commentary, which comprise more than half of Pope's work. This study seeks to correct this neglect and argues that Pope's commentary is a vital part of his Iliad. I examine Pope's place among …
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The Sanctity of the State under Frederick Barbarossa (1152 - 1190): Saint Charlemagne and the sacrum imperium
In my thesis I discuss a very influential and widely accepted thesis on the resacralisation of the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Frederick Barbarossa (1152 – 1190) and Rainald of Dassel (chancellor 1156 – 1159, archbishop of Cologne 1159 – 1167). I first trace the history of this opinion, showing …
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The Artistic Patronage of the Augustinian Friars in Central Italy (1256-c. 1370)
Since the inception of Renaissance scholarship in the late 1800s, the mendicant orders of friars – above all the Franciscans – have been considered pivotal for the artistic and urban renewal underway in Italy from the 1200s onwards. This dissertation provides the first comprehensive study of the …