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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"University of Paris"”.
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Apostolic theology and humanism at the University of Paris, 1490–1540
… ideas about theology in early sixteenth–century Paris. Previous scholarship has addressed this development through a dichotomous model that pits humanists from the Republic of Letters against scholastics from the Faculty of Theology. In my study, this misleading model is replaced by a focus on …
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Visual Constructions of Corporate Identity for the University of Paris, 1200--1500
Visual images representing the medieval University of Paris and its sub-groups (i.e., colleges, faculties, and 'nations') survive in a range of media, including painted miniatures, seals, and sculpture. The majority of these works have not been previously studied from an art historical perspective …
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UN FILOSOFO TRA I DOMENICANI. FILOSOFIA, TEOLOGIA E CONTESTI INTELLETTUALI IN ROLANDO DA CREMONA
This thesis focuses on the figure of Roland of Cremona, the first Dominican theologian to hold a chair in the University of Paris. In particular, this work studies how Roland integrated philosophical and scientific learning into Christian theology. The thesis is structured in three chapters: the …
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Jules Ferry and Henri Maret: The Battle of Church and State at the Sorbonne, 1879-1884
… the battle between church and state at the University of Paris, 1879-1884. Jules Ferry, the Minister of Public Instruction for the French Third Republic, wished to secularize education in France through a series of legislative actions in order to modernize France, as he understood the term. …
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The Demonology of William of Auvergne
This dissertation examines the demonology of William of Auvergne, to determine why and how he constructed his theories out of contemporary lore about demons and other spirits. William was master of theology in the University of Paris and bishop of Paris from 1228 until his death in 1249, in which …
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The Time That Belongs to God: The Christian Prohibition on Usury in the 12th-13th Centuries and the Making of the Subject of Debt
This dissertation traces the meaning of the idea that usurers sell time through 12th- and 13th-century Christian debates about the ethics of usury in the intellectual milieu of the University of Paris. According to a frequently recurring argument, the problem with usury is that the usurer is a …
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Academic Mobility and Identity Construction at the Late Medieval Universities of Paris and Orléans
… and identity construction at the universities of Paris and Orléans from the fourteenth to the early sixteenth century. Because of their prestigious reputation, the universities of Paris and Orléans were among the preferred destinations for academic mobility in late medieval Europe; Orléans had …
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Die Informatio seriosa Papst Benedikts XIII. von 1399 : Stufen einer kirchenpolitischen Denkschrift von 1399 bis zum Konzil von Perpignan 1408
… presents for the first time the text of this document in total. It is part of the large written work by this great second Schism Pope from Avignon (1394-1417/22) and was composed in two parts, the first a detailed account of events 1394/95, the second dealing with the events 1398/99 …
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Personalized Biomechanical Heart Modeling for Clinical Applications
The objective of this thesis is the assessment of a biomechanical heart model using experimental data, and the investigation of clinical applications with patient-specific modeling.<br/><br/>At the 1D level we aimed at reproducing physiological experiments with myocardial fiber contraction. For the …