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Christians in Al-Andalus ( 8th-10th centuries)
The historiography of early Islamic Spain has become polarised between the Arabic narrative histories and the Latin sources. Although the Arabic sources have little directly to say about the situation of the conquered Christians, a willingness to engage with both Latin and Arabic texts opens up a …
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The Asian Summer Precipitation Over The Past Five Centuries
… to centennial changes over the past five centuries. The Pacific Decadal Oscillation and ENSO intensity are speculated to be associated with these multidecadal to centennial changes of rainfall-ENSO relations. An area-averaged All Asian Rainfall Index (AARI) was constructed with the RAP, …
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Byzantine monastic libraries in the eleventh and twelfth centuries
… and circulated in the eleventh and twelfth centuries by and for the monastic communities. Furthermore it is also concerned with who was reading these book and in what way.<br/><br/>Chapter 1 establishes definitions of 'monastic' and 'book culture' and looks forward to the central definition …
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Absurdist Features in Russian Drama: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
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English Festal Psalms of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
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Uses in the Later Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Centuries
… that is, the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, as a result of this increased employment of uses, we see a sharp increase in legislation concerning uses and a number of important doctrinal developments, particularly with regards to what cestui que use was considered to have in land …
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Der arme Heinrich in the thirteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries
Thesis (M.A.)--University of Kansas, Germanic Languages, 1916. ; Includes bibliographical references.
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A Monster for Our Times: Reading Sade across the Centuries
… France throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Chapter Two focuses primarily on Rétif de la Bretonne as the first reader of Sade, one who publicly condemned the author and his works on moral grounds while simultaneously composing his own erotic novel in the Sadean vein. Chapter Three …
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Oriental Contributions to Franciscan Art in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries
… art from the thirteenth to the fourteenth centuries, arguing that what appears as an encounter with the East was, in fact, a complex process of self-definition within Western Christian culture. The research proceeds along a transregional trajectory from Italy to Armenia, Central Asia, and …
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Place and Pedagogy: Sunday School in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
This dissertation explored the development of Sunday School in England as it transitioned from a program that was society-based to a church-based educational ministry. Primary emphasis is given to Sunday School’s placement under church leadership and the change in purpose that impacted Sunday …
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The Ritualisation of Political Power in Early Rus (10th-12th centuries)
This dissertation examines the ceremonies and rituals involving the princes of early Rus’ and their entourage, how these ceremonies and rituals are represented in the literature and artefacts of early Rus’, the possible cultural influences on ceremony and ritual in this emergent society, and the …
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Concubines in Chinese society from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries
The goal of this dissertation is to provide a comprehensive study of traditional Chinese concubinage during and immediately after the Ming dynasty. The source materials used include both official and unofficial histories, biographies, and documents, legal case tales, fictional sources, modern …
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Ten Centuries of Celsus’s De Medicina: Practical Histories of Medical Humanism
… at intellectual and practical levels across ten centuries. While considered virtually unknown in the Middle Ages, Celsus’s first-century CE medical textbook has been marginally addressed in the history of Renaissance medicine for its sophisticated Latin style, which provided humanists a rich …
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Pastoralist systems of the Roggeveld in the 18th and 19th centuries
Eighteenth and nineteenth century Karoo history has received relatively little archaeological attention. This is despite the fact that the area underwent a major economic transformation in the nineteenth century. The pastoralists of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century Roggeveld …
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Pathological Bodies. Specimen Preservation, Death and Display in Britain, 18-19th Centuries.
… specimen collections dating back to the 18-19th centuries. Amongst these collections are those which have been preserved in fluid, often referred to as potted specimens. These collections were created at a time when anatomical study was on the rise in Britain, with potted specimens often …
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Evolution of population of Lithuania‘s territory in the 1st–12th centuries AD /
The aim of the study is to carry out a comparative causative analysis of population systems in the territory of Lithuania in the 1st–12th century AD. For this purpose, a unique GIS GDB of archaeological sites and find spots of Iron Age in Lithuania was compiled making advantage of the possibilities …
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Assessing Two Centuries of Anthropogenic Impacts on Silver Lake, Summit County, Ohio
The increase in human population and human activities often negatively impacts the quality of our waters. Lake sediment often preserves a record of past anthropogenic activities and can be used to assess the impact of humans on the lake system. This study examines Silver Lake, a groundwater-fed …
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