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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"lordship"”.
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Medieval landscapes and lordship in South Uist
… thesis examines the structures of society and lordship in the Middle Ages in South Uist through historical documentation, oral-tradition, cultural landscapes, monuments and settlement patterns. In this thesis, the medieval period has been defined as that between c. 1000 and c. 1650. The …
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The origins of the lordship of Leinster and the role of William Marshal: perceptions and reality
… kingdom of Leinster into an Anglo-Norman feudal lordship and explores the role William Marshal, Earl of Pembroke played its subsequent development. There are several strands to this study. It begins with an investigation of the way Marshal –whose role in English history was always relatively well …
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Lords of War: Maximilian I of Bavaria and the Institutions of Lordship in the Catholic League Army, 1619-1626
<p>This dissertation is a study of lordship and its expression through the Catholic League army's institutions during the early years of the Thirty Years War. It draws on letters, reports and other chancery documents from the Bavarian State Archive to examine how duke Maximilian I of Bavaria [r …
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The acts of the Earls of Dunbar relating to Scotland c.1124-c.1289 : a study of Lordship in Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
… was crucial to the functioning of the Dunbar lordship. Whether the structure can be termed feudal is more problematic. The comital economy was based on arable and pastoral farming, and in the charters there are land management agreements which suggest a heavy involvement in the wool trade. The …
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Friendship and authority in the pastoral office: a Christological approach
… mutuality, mission, community, and his superior lordship-authority. Jesus does not consider his lordship a barrier to meaningful friendship with his disciples, but a necessary characteristic of it. Rather than depicting authority and friendship as being tensive realities, then, Jesus …
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Huvudgårdar och herravälden : En studie av småländsk medeltid
… social centre in the landscape from where local lordship was exercised. There seem to have been at least 250 manors in the area. The majority of them appear to have existed for a relatively short time. Alongside these short-lived manors there were others that seem to have existed as local centres …
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Sokemen and freemen in late Anglo-Saxon East Anglia in comparative context
… affected by the land market and the influence of lordship. The group’s local distribution, and, by implication, the extent of manorialisation, could vary widely and was influenced primarily by the strength of lordship. There were longstanding and important differences between East Anglia and …
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The relationship between discipleship training and transformative learning in Korean Presbyterian congregations
… evangelism, calling as a disciple, Jesus' Lordship and so on. Using the Discipleship Inventory developed and revised by Brad Waggoner, 90 surveys randomly selected in each church, totaling 270 surveys, were distributed and 254 surveys were completed. This data was primarily used to compare …
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Signoria ecclesiastica e comunità rurali nel medioevo (secoli XII-XIII). S. Giorgio in Braida di Verona e i villaggi del Fiumenovo. Ecclesiastic Lordship and Rural Communities in the Middle Ages (12-13th c.). St Giorgio in Braida of Verona and the villages of Fiumenovo.
… and the 'status quaestionis' concerning rural lordship in the Italian historiography. The first section focuses mostly on the urban milieu, where the canons of St Giorgio lived and built their strategies and connections with the communal establishment. The second section analyses the …
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The sub-standard ship and port state control in South Africa
… it has made demands on all who subscribe to its lordship. More effective means of productivity, lower costs, higher turnover and more efficient transport. Demands which we race to meet, all of which are important but none more important than the need for transport. Without a satisfactory …
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The Essence of English Identity: Gender's Role in the Stability of the Nation in English Literature, from the Anglo-Saxons to the Victorians
… grew out of the traditions of loyalty and lordship from the epic heritage of a pagan past embodied in the poem of Beowulf in a common vernacular tongue.” In the three periods examined here, men and women had responsibilities in marriage that were defined by the societal ideals for their …
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The history of Carlton in Coverdale, 1086-1910
… Coverharn Abbey; the fight by the tenants of the Lordship of Middleharn and Richmond to preserve their tenure by 'tenant right'; the transfer of the Lordship by the Crown to the City of London, and its eventual sale to the tenants. From monastic times, the parish church at Coverham was an …
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Rebel angels: political theology and the fall of the angels tradition in old English literature
… narrative shaped prevailing attitudes towards lordship and dissent and underwrote protocols for counteracting crises such as ecclesiastical corruption, external invasion, and social disobedience. This study traces the fall of the angels narrative through diverse Latin and vernacular genres …
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Land tenure and agrarian social structure in Ethiopia, 1636-1900
… themselves as “fief-holding” or rights of lordship, which merely entitled them to collect tribute from the subject peasantry. By using land registers, surveys, charters, and private property transactions, which I collected from Ethiopian churches and monasteries, this dissertation …
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Culture, Conflict, and Northern English Fortification in the British Civil Wars, Circa 1638–1652
… between governorships and the concept of lordship. This section is particularly important since it addresses the question of royalist military government. The dissertation will suggest that an alternative methodology, examining the interactions of military governments with civic …
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Feudal politics in Yorkshire 1066 - 1154.
… the Normans extended the system of compact lordships based upon castleries, hundreds and hundredal castleries in order to bring the more remote parts of the county under control and to provide protection for its borders. The new men placed in control of these lordships played a vital role in …
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The Honour of Wallingford, 1066-1300
The honour of Wallingford was the great lordship centred on the castle of Wallingford on the bank of the River Thames in the English county of Berkshire that dominated the southern midland region as an important centre of power. Famous in English constitutional history for its unique mention in …
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Servicium Debitum and Scutage in Twelfth Century England With Comparisons to the Regno of Southern Italy
… of the twelfth-century feudal structure and lordship arrangements as described by these documents, and how they came to be in their twelfth-century forms. This is supplemented by a similar, but briefer, evaluation of the Regno of southern Italy and of the occasional relevant documents from …
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