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Producing and Using Codices in Tenth Century Dunhuang
… from this cave, examines the codex culture in tenth century Dunhuang and explores the early history of the codex in the Sinophone world. Inspired by western codicology and palaeography, this dissertation pays particular attention to the materiality of manuscripts and reconstructs their …
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Buddhist sculpture of Wu Yueh, 907-978: Chinese sculpture of the tenth century
… of Wu Yueh within the general context of tenth-century Chinese sculpture of the Five Dynasties period. Wu Yueh (a southern kingdom in the present day Chekiang region) was especially known for its support of Buddhism. The ruling house of Wu Yueh, the Ch'ien family, was devoted to Buddhism …
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The Political Career of Archbishop Bruno of Cologne: Ottonian Statesman of Tenth-Century Germany
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Geomorphic Reconstruction and 3D Visualisation of a Tenth Century Volcanic Jökulhlaup at Sólheimajökull Glacier, South Iceland
… of both. <br/>This research reconstructs a Tenth Century jökulhlaup at Sólheimajökull; a southern outlet glacier of Mýrdalsjökull ice cap overlying Katla volcano. The flood permanently altered sandur topography and marked an important shift in changing flood routes and resultant flood …
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Sanctity in Tenth-Century Anglo-Latin Hagiography: Wulfstan of Winchester's Vita Sancti Æthelwoldi and Byrhtferth of Ramsey's Vita Sancti Oswaldi
… examples of sanctity in the hagiography of late tenth- and early eleventh-century England in order to determine whether or not there are any common themes to be found. It considers specific moments and examples from the broad context of 'the Benedictine Reform' in order to investigate the ways in …
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RECONCILING ISLAM AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE VIRTUOUS CITY: REREADING AL-FARABI'S AL-MADINAH AL-FADILAH WITHIN 10TH-CENTURY ISLAMIC THOUGHT
In his tenth-century work, al-Madīnah al-Fāḍilah, the Muslim philosopher Abū Naṣr al-Fārābī posits a solution to the internecine hostilities between Muslim intellectual communities which occurred as a result of conflicting positions on the relationship between revelation and reason, religion and …
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The Mouth of Hell in Medieval Art and Thought
The monastic reform of the tenth century brought with it a need to express theological principles in vivid ways which were readily accessible to the lay audience. When the reform movement crossed the Channel into Anglo-Saxon Britain, it used artistic symbols and representations which were already …
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On Prophecy and Revelation in the Virtuous City: Towards Establishing a Viable Framework for Re-Contextualizing al-Fārābī
… Muslims who founded Islamic Philosophy. In his tenth-century work, On the Perfect State, al-Fārābī tackles questions of eminent importance to society of Muslims still deciding who they were. These questions and their inevitable solutions were, for a time, a source of much turmoil for the young …
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Waka After the Kokinshu: Anatomy of a Cultural Phenomenon
… is a study of the boom of waka poetry in the tenth century. Waka is approached here as a cultural phenomenon, that is, a complex system of people, practices, and ideas centering around the production, distribution, and consumption of cultural artifacts. Four main aspects of this system are …
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The Appeal and Reception of the Legend of Saint Eustace in Early Medieval England and Medieval Scandinavia
… the case for its reflexes that can be linked to tenth-century England and medieval Scandinavia. This thesis will examine the transmission and reception of the Legend in early medieval England, focusing on the tenth century, and in medieval Scandinavia, where the West Norse tradition in Norway and …
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Cultural Achievements and Social Reality in The Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba 929-1031
… "Golden Age" was particularly evident in the tenth century under three succeeding rulers, Abd al- Rahman III (912-961), Al-Hakam (961-976) and Hisham II (976-1009). This thesis will show that while there is evidence of extraordinary contributions and developments within the fields of …
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Composing the Sacred in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia: History and Christianity in Alfred Schnittke's Concerto for Choir
… mixed chorus, and its text is the work of the tenth-century Armenian monk and poet, Gregor Narekatsi (951--1003). The work is demanding and challenging, and its approximate length of forty-seven minutes requires great endurance. These characteristics, plus a lengthy Russian text, have not …
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Byzantium and beyond: the Medieval Roman Empire and its world through the letters of patriarch Nicholas I Mystikos, 901-925 CE
… (i.e., Byzantium) and its world in the early tenth century. From social relationships and the ways gifts sustained them, to efforts to reign in borderland lords in the tenuously held provinces of Southern Italy, to large-scale diplomatic and religious entanglements with Rome and Baghdad, …
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Altar And Stage: Liturgical Drama in Three Theatrical Traditions
… dramaturgical texts: Regularis Concordia in tenth-century England, The Natyasastra in seventh-century India, and Zeami's Fushikaden of fifteenth-century Muromaki Japan. It attempts to explore and identify the ways that their corresponding theatres have their roots in liturgical practice, and …
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Tracing the Trend from Public Piety to Private Devotion in Western European Reliquaries of the Middle Ages
… part of the devotee. Therefore, extant ninth and tenth century examples of these are important signs that suggest that an individual, private devotional experience was available and perhaps even common long before personal prayer books first became popular with the laity in the late eleventh and …
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Morphosyntactic variation and contact: A comparative view from Daco-Romance
… and Istro-Romanian, split around the tenth century, there are no written attestations of these varieties up until the end of the fifteenth century. Nevertheless, a comparative Romance and Balkan perspective can provide valuable evidence for the early (unattested) stages and can explain …
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Hypnosis as an Analgesia in Labor and Delivery
… with his hand. | A great physician in the tenth century, Avicenna, expounded his view that the imagination of man could act not only on his own body, but even on other and very distant bodies; further, that it could fascinate and modify them, either by making them ill or restoring them to …
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