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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Post-medieval"”.
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Palaeoepidemiological study of the post-medieval Gloucester 13/83 Skeletal Assemblage.
This thesis carries out a palaeoepidemiological study examining the representation of pathological conditions from an 18th-19th Century Gloucester skeletal collection (13/83). This skeletal assemblage contains 82 individuals, including 37 burials from a non-parochial church (Southgate …
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Post-medieval colonisation in the forests of Bowland, Knaresborough and Pickering
Taken from preface: It is the intention of this thesis to examine late settlement on the wastes of former royal hunting forests in Yorkshire. Three forests only were selected for study in detail; those of Bowland, Knaresborough, and Pickering, but they were well spaced across the former county of …
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Fire Assay, Cupellation and the Dissemination of Technical Knowledge in Post-Medieval Europe
… on the study of assaying practices in the post-medieval Europe (c. 14th-17th centuries), especially on silver assaying. Modern analytical chemistry is an offspring of fire assay and cupellation, a method used to quantify the amount of precious metals such as silver and gold in ores, ingots …
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Trinkets and Charms: the use, meaning and significance of later medieval and early post-medieval dress accessories
… is a thematic study of dress accessories of late medieval to early post-medieval date from two regions of mainland Britain. It is an investigation of everyday objects which aims to re-engage the material world with past individuals. An interdisciplinary approach is used to understand how dress …
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The Isle of Wight in the English landscape: Medieval and Post-Medieval rural settlement and land use.
… of Wight land use and settlement from the early medieval period to the nineteenth century and is fully referenced to national frameworks. The thesis utilises documentary, cartographic and archaeological evidence. It employs the techniques of historic landscape characterisation (HLC), using …
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Respiratory health in the past: a bioarchaeological study of chronic maxillary sinusitis and rib periostitis from the Iron Age to the Post Medieval Period in Southern England
… ranging in date from the Iron Age to the Post Medieval Period. The samples were chosen to examine both synchronic and diachronic trends in respiratory disease, contrasting contemporaneous populations living in rural and urban contexts, as well as populations from high and low social status …
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DISH Everywhere: Study of the Pathogenesis of Diffuse Idiopathic Skeletal Hyperostosis and of its Prevalence in England and Catalonia from the Roman to the Post-Medieval Time Period
… in the Roman samples, the highest in the early medieval ones and intermediate in the late medieval samples. While when using documentary resources and archaeological data, it was hypothesised that the prevalence of DISH in the English and Catalan samples might have been different, the results …
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The Origins and Development of the Verwood-Type Pottery Industry
… have predominantly focused on manufacture of post-medieval date. Despite this, little has been achieved in determining any medieval origins, or the organisation of pottery production in the early post- medieval period. This study readdresses this issue; firstly, by establishing that pottery …
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'Of the holy londe of Irlande': A reconsideration of some Middle English Texts in late medieval Ireland
… of Anglo-Irish reading communities in late medieval Ireland, and specifically, the audiences that existed for texts in English. The research undertaken focuses on issues surrounding the production and reception (contemporary and subsequent) of a corpus of late medieval manuscripts of assumed …
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BIOGRAPHIES OF PEOPLE AND PLACE: THE HAREWOOD ESTATE, 1698-1813
… and biography to provide a new perspective on post-medieval estate landscapes. A biographical approach is used to conciliate different scales of analysis and give meaning to the local, fleeting lives of the estate’s inhabitants. It is argued that at the local scale we find evidence that helps …
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Faecal Sediments as Bio-Archives: The Fish Event Horizon in the Low Countries
… day Belgium and the Netherlands) during the medieval and Post-Medieval periods (AD 500 – 1900). In this thesis, I complete a systematic review of ichthyological remains and fish consumption proxies (carbon and nitrogen values isotope values and parasite eggs) for a comprehensive …
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Shropshire Deer Parks c.1500 - c.1914 Recreation, Status and Husbandry
… development, changing use and survival of the post-medieval deer park in Shropshire. In so doing, it is hoped to add to and complement a body of research that has been assembled for other parts of the country, in the belief that individual regional studies can throw light on the wider national …
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Peopling Portland’s Past: A paleodemographic, osteological and funerary investigation of the burial population excavated from the site of St. Andrew’s Church, Portland, UK.
… of burials at the site. Comparison to other post-medieval sites concluded no differences regarding geographical location in relation to health, nutrition, and disease. This study has complimented previous research by creating a wholesome image of the equally important archaeology and …
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Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland: An Analysis of Faunal Assemblages from the Covesea Caves
… funerary activities, from the Neolithic to the Post-Medieval Period. Zooarchaeological analysis has illustrated how certain species were significant in ritual activity, and thus utilised specifically in funerary rites. The results from this research shed more light on past cosmologies and the …
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Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland: An Analysis of Faunal Assemblages from the Covesea Caves
… funerary activities, from the Neolithic to the Post-Medieval Period. Zooarchaeological analysis has illustrated how certain species were significant in ritual activity, and thus utilised specifically in funerary rites. The results from this research shed more light on past cosmologies and the …
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Questing the Beast: From Malory to Milton
<p>The Questing Beast is a Medieval creature that has received little scholarly attention. Because of her labile nature, she is difficult to identify and therefore challenging to study. When previously analyzed, she has been considered only in her Medieval context. By comparing the Questing Beast …
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The archaeology and conservation of the East Front of York Minster
… not only examines previous hypotheses on the medieval evolution and significance of the façade, but also sheds valuable new light on its post-medieval repair history. Since the repair histories of cathedrals are generally poorly represented in current scholarship, this thesis therefore makes a …
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The chemical analysis of ceramic fabrics from medieval Dorset and its region.
… was identified.A detailed study of the medieval ceramics found in Dorset and the surrounding counties in the last fifty years was executed. This enabled the targeting of thosecollections likely to prove most useful in extending an understanding, through chemical analysis, of medieval …
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Early evidence for coastal exploitation in Ireland
… resource exploitation were garnered from the post-medieval literary record and are presented here as a body of evidence in its own right, and as a comparative case study for the early Christian period.
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