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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"friars"”.
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The Artistic Patronage of the Augustinian Friars in Central Italy (1256-c. 1370)
… in the late 1800s, the mendicant orders of friars – above all the Franciscans – have been considered pivotal for the artistic and urban renewal underway in Italy from the 1200s onwards. This dissertation provides the first comprehensive study of the ‘third’ mendicant order: the Hermits of St …
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Ringers of Bells and Teachers of Civilization : the Work of the California Franciscan Missionaries, 1769-1821
… hands of the Franciscan missionaries. The friars willingly answered their call and through their labors assured Spanish hegemony over the region. Both soldiers and friars had participated in the project but the latter's role has usually been underestimated.</p> <p>The usual mental picture …
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The northern clergy and the Pilgrimage of Grace
… in this dissertation is that the clergy—priests, friars, and monks—supported, stirred, and spread the rebellion throughout Lincolnshire and the North Country of England. In addition, this dissertation supports the argument that both the Lincolnshire rebellion and the Pilgrimage of Grace were …
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Networks and narratives: the 'Liber Exemplorum' and the intellectual milieu of the Franciscan order in thirteenth-century Ireland
… the compiler’s connections with other Franciscan friars and religious individuals, thus shedding light on the vibrant network of friars in Ireland and their links to England and the Continent. This thesis, therefore, aims to offer a glimpse into the life and concerns of this individual friar, …
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Architectural fusion and indigenous ideology in early colonial Mexico: a case study of Teposcolula, Oaxaca, 1535-1580, demonstrating cultural transmission and transformation through negotiation and consent in planning a new urban environment
… as a medium for ideological integration, by the friars in the use of the Rosary beads over the arches, and by the indigenous leaders in iconographic elements on the church, fusing and transforming pre-Columbian and Christian meaning. Chapter Five examines of the use of the disk frieze spanning …
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Art and Evangelization at the Sixteenth-Century Convento of Santiago Apóstol at Cuilapan, Mexico
<p>Dominican friars founded numerous churches and monasteries to evangelize the indigenous populations of Mexico. Although they presumably conceived the architectural plans and decorative schemes of these establishments, the resultant structures were constructed and adorned primarily by native …
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"The ""Popol Vuh"" and the Dominican Friar Francisco Ximenez: The Maya -Quiche Narrative as a Product of Religious Extirpation in Colonial Highland Guatemala"
… in highland Guatemala as the missionary friars conducted the spiritual conquest of the Maya-Quiche.
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Female Ensembles: Lesbian Neo-Victorian Fiction, 1998-2023
Female Ensembles is a study of lesbian historical fiction set in the nineteenth century. This project takes a reparative approach as Eve Sedgwick defines it (1997) to lesbian literary history through neo-Victorian novels, short fiction, and film from the last twenty-five years. Chapter one argues …
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Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales
… England in the thirteenth century by Franciscan friars, partly through the composition of songs. The same subjectivity is present in non-religious songs of the period as well, revealing a broader ideology that placed great importance on the individual. The Canterbury Tales feature many …
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Musicality, Subjectivity, and the Canterbury Tales
… England in the thirteenth century by Franciscan friars, partly through the composition of songs. The same subjectivity is present in non-religious songs of the period as well, revealing a broader ideology that placed great importance on the individual. The Canterbury Tales feature many …
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Italian Heroic Portraits in the Sixteenth Century
… and biblical figures, and portraits of Dominican friars in the guise of Dominican saints. The second chapter is dedicated to the heroic portraits of Cosimo I de’ Medici, Duke of Florence, from his election in 1537 to his death in 1574. One section analyses also the portraits of the Genoese ruler …
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Assessing the Exotic: Authority, Reason, and Experience in the Construction of Medieval Natural Knowledge
… and expected to be consumed, within the Friars’ studium. While these texts also enjoyed a complex life outside these educational houses, they are marked by the scholastic educational context they were designed within and for. The Pseudo-Albertus experimentum texts Liber de virtutibus …
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Effects of watershed land use on the benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in ridge and valley streams in Chattanooga, Tennessee
… assemblage of invertebrates in the study, while Friars Branch and the lower Ninemile Branch sites showed the poorest, most degraded communities. Significant correlations (P<O. l) observed in this study underscore the negative effects of agricultural and urban land use on invertebrate assemblages …
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Republicans, Citizens, and Wards: Indian Voting in New Mexico and Arizona, 1598—1912
<p>The Spanish settlers and friars who came to colonize the Indigenous nations of the Southwest Borderlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries brought with them distinct ideas of voting, town governance, and citizenship. Wary of dealings with large cadres of traditional village elders, they …
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Some Sources of Puritan Sabbatarianism
… early English laws, the preaching of Dominican friars of Medieval England, ·a restricted area of literature of the Middle Ages, creeds of the Continental Reformers and the work of the Council of Trent. The original publications of Lancelot Andrewes' two works that bear on this subject, published …
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Lifestyle and Intestinal Parasite Infection in Northern Europe: A Study Comparing Clergy and the General Population of Cambridge and Belgium in 12th-18th Centuries
… the only species found in both the Augustinian friars and the All Saints by the Castle parishioners. Interestingly, the infection rate in the fomer group, which was considered cleaner hence less inclined to suffer from such parasites, was nearly twice as high as that of the general population …