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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"West Country"”.
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Studies in the dialect and palaeographical materials of the medieval West Country
… the data gathered, an in-depth look at medieval West-Country dialect areas and diachronic dialectal changes. In particular, this study aims to develop new ways of analysing and profiling both historical dialectal and palaeographical material using computer-assisted methods. The relationship …
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Farming by Satellites: how West Country farmers were being driven to, and by, precision agricultural systems
… have on farm families, rural cultures within countryside landscapes in Britain or other countries where precision farming is being adopted? As a farmer’s son, I was concerned about the impact the computerisation of agriculture will have on family farms, nature and rural communities. I spent …
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The Capital Sculpture of Wells Cathedral, c. 1184-1210
… of interior ecclesiastical sculpture in a West Country cathedral. While the Gothic style of architecture is typically understood as, according to Paul Binski (2014), rational in execution and reception, the capital sculpture at Wells Cathedral has been considered illogical in terms of both …
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A study of the Segmental and Suprasegmental Phonology of Rhondda Valleys English
… with neighbouring varieties of English (e.g. the West Country) and the Welsh Language are observed.<br/><br/>The suprasegmental (prosodic) analysis is of spontaneous conversational data, and is auditory and instrumental. The phonology of RVE intonation is described mainly via a system of …
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Children and family values : a critical appraisal of 'family' in schools
… Two of each of the schools were located in the West Country and the remaining two, in order to give some ethnic and cultural balance to the project, were in the West Midlands. A total of sixteen teachers and forty children were involved. In each school, three topics or lessons that concerned …
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Serialisation, Settings, Characters: a comparative case study of gender roles in society, as addressed in selected novels by Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and Edith Wharton
… of each novel: Egdon Heath in Hardy's English west-country Wessex, Boston for James and New York in the case of Wharton. Those settings are discussed in relation to historical indicators within the works, including public gathering places which are portrayed as points of social pressure. A …
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Investigating the Provenance, Organisation and Themes of Erfurt, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha, I. 81
… in saints culted in a zone running from the West Country up the Severn to the West Midlands, and in royal martyrs in particular. This interest is further demonstrated by extensive marginalia in the hand of the copyist (who, it is argued, is likely to have been the compiler) throughout the …
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“Bound together by a web”: Victorian literary and cultural conceptions of human-nature entanglement
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms