Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"middling ranks"”.
-
The ownership of goods and cultures of consumption in Ludlow, Hereford and Tewkesbury, 1660-1760
This thesis examines how the lifestyles of the middling sorts evolved during the period 1660 and 1760 as reflected in their relationship to material goods in three contrasting, but geographically near towns. The towns are similar to the degree that their history and circumstances led to them being …
-
Cumbria's encounter with the East Indies c.1680-1829 : gentry and middling provincial families seeking success
… This thesis enumerates well over four hundred middling and gentry Cumbrian men and women who travelled to and sojourned in the East Indies as well as a host of Cumbrians whose East Indies interests were operated from the British Isles. There were many more Cumbrians implicated in those East …
-
"Once Mistress of the World :" Rome, St. Peter, and female devotion in the early Middle Ages
… religion, and with them the deeds of the poor or middling ranks in society. This broad examination of devotion in terms of geography and social rank contributes to a dynamic image of the late antique and early medieval worlds, providing further caution against assumptions that the local …