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Wessex and the origins of the Danelaw: Borders, frontiers, and borderlands
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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The Royal Nunneries in the Landscape of Anglo-Saxon Wessex 871–1066
… landscape of the six royal nunneries of Wessex, from the reign of King Alfred to the Norman Conquest. By examining the nunneries within their changing physical, political and ecclesiastical settings, it attempts to assess the extent to which the nunneries were inward-looking, insular …
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Thomas Hardy and the Vision of Time: A Reading of the Wessex Novels
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FORAMINIFERAL DISTRIBUTION AND SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY OF OXFORDIAN SUCCESSIONS IN THE WESSEX/ANGLO-PARIS BASIN
The use of micropalaeontology within a sequence stratigraphic context is rapidly emerging as a valuable tool for the recognition of ancient cycles and sequences. This study shows how micropalaeontology can be used to develop insights into sequence stratigraphic interpretations. A micropalaeontology …
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Intellectual Networks and Royal Legitimacy: Religious Intellectuals and English Kings Between Conversion and the Rise of Wessex
<p>The early Middles Ages were a politically unstable period in Western Europe. No single king had a secure claim to the legitimacy of their rule, with usurption and military conquest making claims to legitimacy difficult to defend. England between the Augustinian mission (ca. 597) and the rule of …
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From <i>Wessex Poems</i> to <i>Time's Laughingstocks</i> : An eco-critical approach to the poetry of Thomas Hardy
… analysis to Hardy's poetry, focusing on <i>Wessex Poems</i>, his first verse collection. Although short, the collection shows how Hardy was already shaping his own poetic sense of the natural world. This theme is developed in Chapter 5, on <i>Poems of the Past and Present</i>, a collection …
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A study of the influence of the Wessex setting on the novels of Thomas Hardy with particular reference to the main characters
This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University
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Towards the quantification of intellectual disability in children and adolescents in Africa: an exploration of the psychometric properties of the Wessex Behaviour Schedule (WBS) in Khayelitsha, South Africa
… the TQQ was not developed with ID in mind. The Wessex Behavioural Schedule (WBS) is a UK screening tool for functional ability for adults with ID, and therefore seemed an appropriate candidate instrument to evaluate for potential use in Africa. However no psychometric data for the tool were …
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The early Neolithic tor enclosures of Southwest Britain
… the emphasis on cultural change, in neighbouring Wessex chalkland areas. The aim of this thesis is to re-examine the evidence from the southwest and to interpret it with reference to and in contrast with the potentially radically different interpretations of the Early Neolithic in nearby Wessex. …
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Creating a gens Anglorum: Social and Ethnic Identity in Anglo-Saxon England through the Lens of Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica
… was probably translated into English, and into Wessex where it was mined as a source for the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. In both of these texts, we see the Historia being used to respond to viking invasion in distinct ways, as the vernacular narrative emphasises teaching and evangelism while the …
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Walking in the Novels of Thomas Hardy
… elements to construct the fatalistic region of Wessex. In wandering this space, Hardy's walker conveys the problems of an anomic existence--of isolation, exclusion, and rejection--as inexorable and insoluble.
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THE SEDIMENTOLOGY, PETROLOGY AND STRATIGRAPHY OF THE UPPER GREENSAND IN S.W. ENGLAND
… Selbome Group is made up of the proposed Wessex Greensand Formation and Gault Clay Formation as well as the existing Haldon Sands Formation. Four members are proposed and type sections are designated. Lithological logs are presented for sections at Branscombe/Beer Head (Type Section for …
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Medical education, professional learning and action research in the health service: assessment, interventions and future models for General Practice vocational training of senior house officers.
… General Practice Education throughout the Wessex region. Course organisers specifically for SHO education have been appointed for every vocational training scheme in Wessex and have been able to apply the principles of action research using the monitoring system outlined in this study.
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La représentation des Scandinaves dans la Chronique anglo-saxonne aux 9e et 10e siècles
… Scandinaves, laissant seulement le royaume du Wessex et son roi, Alfred le Grand, à affronter l’ennemi commun. Après avoir remporté une victoire définitive à Edington en 878, Alfred le Grand devient roi de tous les Anglo-Saxons qui sont libres des Scandinaves, consolidant ainsi une première …
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An Evaluation of downland turf re-creation, using invertebrates as indicators.
Seven study sites within the South Wessex Downs Environmentally Sensitive Area (SWD ESA) were used to evaluate re-created downland turf, a habitat created under one of the scheme management options. The novel habitat was compared to adjacent areas of established downland and to the edges of arable …
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The Function of Natural Imagery as Applied to Henchard in Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge
… Casterbridge, the second of Hardy's four great Wessex novels, concentrates almost exclusively on Michael Henchard, "a man of character," whose impulsiveness, which is, perhaps, his dominant personality trait, catapults much of the action in the book and leads to his downfall, in The Mayor, as in …
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