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The Artistic and Architectural Patronage of Countess Urraca of Santa MarÃa de Cañas: A Powerful Aristocrat, Abbess, and Advocate
<p>Countess Urraca Lope de Haro was the daughter of the noble Lord Diego Lope de Haro, friend and advisor to King Alfonso VIII of Castilla-León and granddaughter of Lord Lope Díaz de Haro and Lady Aldonza Ruiz de Castro, aristocratic courtiers as well as popular monastic patrons. As a young and …
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Maids, Wives and Widows: Female Architectural Patronage in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… Frances Boscawen; Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery; Henrietta Knight, Baroness Luxborough and Lady Sarah Bunbury. The third and final section discusses the architectural patronage of widowed women, including Susanna Montgomery, Countess of Eglinton; Georgianna …
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"This strange operation of love" : a unified reading of Sidney's Arcadia.
… and edited by the author's sister, the Countess of Pembroke. Some critics blast the Countess for her "meddling," while others praise, or at least endorse, the Countess's work. I believe that in the 1593 form, Sidney's didactic message and purpose are intact. This thesis shall attempt to …
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The Organisational Work of Lady Ishbel Aberdeen, Marchioness of Aberdeen and Temair. (1857-1939)
… to which she became affiliated. The Countess of Aberdeen was wife of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, John Campbell Gordon, the 7th Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Haddo. They served in Ireland firstly and briefly in 1886, and more fully in the period 1906 until 1915. Politically they were …
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Exploring ‘Zelmaneship’: Developing Queer Inwardness from Sidney to Stage
… character in Philip Sidney’s epic romance The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia (1590), has often been studied for her transgressive gender and sexuality. Zelmane’s first words in the New Arcadia direct readers to look within, “Transform’d in show, but more transform’d in mind” (Sidney 131). I …
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The Politics of Anti -Courtly Love Poetry: Gender, Sexuality, and Religion in Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Verse Miscellanies
… epitaphs for Elizabeth; attacks on the earl and countess of Somerset, the Jacobean royal favorite and noble Catholic woman who were found guilty of murdering Sir Thomas Overbury; poems opposing the proposed marriage between Prince Charles and the Spanish Infanta; verses that allege that another …
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Minister of the Gospel at Haddington The Life and Work of the Reverend John Brown (1722-1787)
… In 1771 Brown began to correspond with Selina, Countess of Huntingdon, one of the leaders of the Evangelical Revival in England and Wales, who requested a copy of his Systematic Theology for use in her college in Trefecca in mid-Wales. Brown was a prolific religious writer and published sixty …
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"THE DISTEMPER OF A GENTLEMAN": GROTESQUE VISUAL AND LITERARY DEPICTIONS OF GOUT IN GREAT BRITAIN 1744-1826
… and upper gentry in Sarah Fielding's The Countess of Dellwyn and Tobias Smollett's The Adventures of Roderick Random; I contend that Fielding and Smollett offer rather more radical and nuanced depictions of this stock figure than those common within the graphic satire of the era. These …
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Keeping Rapunzel: The Mysterious Guardianship of Joan of Flanders the Case for Feudal Constraint
… of Joan of Flanders, Duchess of Brittany and Countess de Montfort during the Hundred Years War was not for her so-called madness, but was political. Joan of Flanders, who had led a defense of the castellany of Hennebont that routed the French and saved Montfortist Brittany, abruptly vanished …
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Gothic Stirrings on the Georgian Stage, 1740-1780
… John Home's Douglas [1756], Hall Hartson's The Countess of Salisbury [1765 ]. Arthur Murphy's The Grecian Daughter [1772], John Jackson's Eldred [1773], and Paul Hiffernan's The Heroine of the Cave [1775]. Chapter 1 explores how the Gothic emerged from anxieties caused by the threat of war and …
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Chopin in Britain: Chopin's visits to England and Scotland in 1837 and 1848 : people, places and activities.
… Adelaide Sartoris, the Earl of Falmouth, and the Countess of Blessington. On 5 August, accompanied by John Muir Wood, Chopin took the train from Euston to Edinburgh, where he was met by the Stirlings' Polish physician, Dr Adam Lyschifiski. Subsequently, Chopin was a guest at Scottish country seats …
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CHOPIN IN BRITAIN Chopin's visits to England and Scotland in 1837 and 1848 People, places, and activities
… Adelaide Sartoris, the Earl of Falmouth, and the Countess of Blessington. On 5 August, accompanied by John Muir Wood, Chopin took the train from Euston to Edinburgh, where he was met by the Stirlings' Polish physician, Dr Adam Lyschifiski. Subsequently, Chopin was a guest at Scottish country seats …
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Vanished comforts: locating roles of domestic furnishings in Scotland 1500-1650
… is seen in the inventories of Mary, dowager Countess of Home. She maintained houses in England and Scotland. Some of her furnishings represented the style of an inner circle at court. Her inventories are also significant because they detailed equipment for a range of activities. She …
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"Nor fear I censure" : early modern women writers and issues of authority, 1578-1680.
… The French Historie (1589); Mary Wroth's The Countess of Montgomery's Urania (1621); and Elizabeth Cary's History of Edward II (composed c. 1627; published 1680). I explore the methods by which each of these writers creates an authoritative relationship with her readers even when those readers …
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Evaluating Leachability of Residual Solids from Hydraulic Fracturing in the Marcellus Shale
The process of natural gas extraction through hydraulic fracturing produces large quantities of fluid containing naturally-occurring salt, radionuclides, and heavy metals which form residual solids during storage and treatment. The purpose of this research was to characterize the residual solids …
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Elite women's household management: Yorkshire, 1680-1810
… attention is given to Isabella Dowager Countess of Carlisle's authorship of a work of conduct literature intended for a female readership. Hence, the permanence of household management as a theme in this literary tradition is explored as well as its gendered dimensions and categorised …
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Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
… of Blois-Boulogne, a twelfth-century abbess, countess, wife, and mother. Marie experienced change and tragedy, provoking the need to make choices with religious and political ramifications. As such, her story enables us to examine decision-making in the context of controversy on the one hand …
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The Free Church of England: otherwise called the Reformed Episcopal Church - c.1845 to c.1927
… were established in association with the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, controversy being exacerbated by Phillpotts' prosecution of James Shore, Curate of Totnes. But whilst the Connexion moved towards Congregationalism, in 1876 a separated and far-spreading FCE received episcopal …
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A prosopographical analysis of society in East Central Scotland, circa 1100 to 1260, with special reference to ethnicity
… charter use, including one focused around Countess Ada and other related countesses, in the early stages of aristocratic charter use. Furthermore, the important component of Europeanization, whereby ‘peripheral’ peoples took up common European personal names, can be qualified in the case of …
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