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Love, Lust and Literature in the Late Sixteenth Century
I have chosen to focus on several poets of the long 1590's, since I would argue that together they represent, for the first time, a confluence of literary love traditions that have previously existed independently across multiple centuries, nations and languages. First, I consider Ovid and the …
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North Italian liturgical music in the late sixteenth century
… Republic and adjacent territories, from the late 1560s, when the decrees of the Council of Trent were implemented in regional councils, to the earliest years of the new century, when the economic prosperity of Venice was starting to wane. The prosperity and stability of the Republic, …
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An Analysis of Wars of the Romani, a Flemish Tapestry From the Late Sixteenth Century
… tapestry woven in the last third of the 16th century. It is a large weaving, 10’ x 15’, portraying two armies intertwined in merciless combat. The specific subject matter of Wars of the Romani is unknown, but a standard displaying the Roman eagle held aloft in the background indicates the …
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An Analysis of Wars of the Romani, a Flemish Tapestry From the Late Sixteenth Century
… tapestry woven in the last third of the 16th century. It is a large weaving, 10’ x 15’, portraying two armies intertwined in merciless combat. The specific subject matter of Wars of the Romani is unknown, but a standard displaying the Roman eagle held aloft in the background indicates the …
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Music copyists in late sixteenth-century England, with particular reference to the manuscripts of John Baldwin.
… practice in English music manuscripts of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with one scribe, John Baldwin (d.1615), as its point of reference and centre of interest. Baldwin is known to be the copyist of three manuscripts: British Library, R.M.24.d.2, also known as his …
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Martyrological fulfilment: the process of reform in the publication of late sixteenth-century printed Italian martyrologies, c. 1568 - 1583
Throughout the first half of the sixteenth century, Catholic martyrologies were printed in Italy based on the martyrology of Usuard. These martyrologies directly transcribed the majority of the entries in his martyrology, added their own eulogia and changed the title to identify it with the Romana …
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Hǒ Nansǒrhǒn and Her Hansi : a study of the life and the work of Hǒ Nansǒrhǒn, a poetess of the late sixteenth century, in Yi dynasty Korea
… She was fortunate in having gifted brothers, who later were acclaimed as being amongst the foremost writers and poets of the period. The late sixteenth century was also the golden age of hansi, a time when disillusionment with Confusian literary values emerged and the ideals of the …
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Hǒ Nansǒrhǒn and Her Hansi : a study of the life and the work of Hǒ Nansǒrhǒn, a poetess of the late sixteenth century, in Yi dynasty Korea
… She was fortunate in having gifted brothers, who later were acclaimed as being amongst the foremost writers and poets of the period. The late sixteenth century was also the golden age of hansi, a time when disillusionment with Confusian literary values emerged and the ideals of the …
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Sixteenth-century dialogic discourse: an exploration of Protestant selfhood in the writings of Edmund Spenser and his contemporaries
… the relationship between the work of the sixteenth-century poet Edmund Spenser and Protestant polemical writers of the 1580s. Previous scholarship has tended to prioritise Spenser’s indebtedness to classical epic and pastoral, underestimating the importance of classical dialogue as a …
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Robert Greene's James IV : a historical approach
… appear to be characteristic of the plays of the late sixteenth century. One major characteristic of the plays of this period is the interest shown in historical events, current and. past. Other characteristics such as the use of allegory and didacticism appear in the plays of the period and are …
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Space, Ritual, and Religious Experience and the Ottoman hajj, c. 994/1586–1194/1780
… about correct belief and practice after the late sixteenth century and the boundaries within which the hajj itself eventually came to be understood and practiced in this time. It investigates the lived experiences of the thousands of Ottoman pilgrims who undertook the hajj every year, as well …
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Samuel de Champlain and the French Wars of Religion
… not typically associated with Champlain. Using late sixteenth-century France to contextualize Champlain's youth, this essay surveys three critical areas of his early life: military experiences, ties of patronage, and religious convictions. Military experience, gained during the Wars of Religion, …
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A social interpretation of the castle in Scotland
… premise, this thesis has investigated the castellated architecture of Scotland, not as a military fortress or an expression of architectural genius, but as a structure where people lived and which influenced how they lived. In achieving this aim, certain techniques of spatial analysis have been …
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The Purchase of the Past: The Elizabethan Past and the uses of History in Eighteenth-Century Britain
… past and the uses of history in eighteenth-century Britain” examines the place of the late sixteenth-century Elizabethan and Shakespearean pasts in eighteenth-century popular culture and politics. Through an analysis of five moments, three times at which Elizabeth and the men of her era had …
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Making 'fritters with English:' Functions of Early Modern Welsh Dialect on the English Stage
… boasted of Welsh ancestry. Still, in the late-sixteenth century, there was a surge in London’s Welsh population which coincided with the establishment of the city’s commercial theatres. This timely development created a stage for English playwrights to dramatically enact the complicated …
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Theorising the will in early modern English literature
… didactic framework of the morality tradition in late sixteenth-century drama; how the will was used to establish and explore notions of malevolence and acts of moral transgression in early modern plays; the part theories of the will played in shaping how notions of death and human fate were …
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The Medieval English Longbow: Characteristics and Origin
… replacement of the longbow by firearms in the late sixteenth century occurred at a time when the former was still the superior weapon. The question remains, why was the state of archery permitted to decline to such depths that it was abandoned. Hodgkin believes "laziness and the restless …
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In His Majesty’s Service: the career of Captain Francisco de Cuéllar in the armed forces of the Spanish Monarchy (1578-1606)
… armed forces of the Spanish Monarchy during the late sixteenth century. He is known to Irish history through a remarkable account (Carta) that he composed about his experiences in Ireland and Scotland following shipwreck on the Sligo coast in September 1588. While Cuéllar and his Carta became …
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The Concept of Equity in Early-Modern European Legal Scholarship
… the concept of equity is often assimilated with that of Aristotelian epieikeia, a process which serves to correct rules when, though their wording undoubtedly applies to a case, yet the outcome would be unjust, or the legislator would have never wanted the rule to be applied to such a …
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Italian Heroic Portraits in the Sixteenth Century
… study of heroic portraiture in Italy in the sixteenth century. With the term heroic, which is presented and justified in the introduction to the thesis, I qualify independent portraits in all media in which the sitter is represented in the guise of a mythological, historical or religious …
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