Dissertations / Theses: 'England'

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Hardman, S. M. "Return migration from New England to England, 1640-1660." Thesis, University of Kent, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375621.

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Poláková, Alexandra. "Arts Council England." Master's thesis, Akademie múzických umění v Praze. Divadelní fakulta AMU. Knihovna, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-79415.

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This text presents basic analysis of the functioning of the Arts Council England. First section describes the main sources of funding arts and culture in Great Britain. Special part is devoted to the activity of the UK National Lottery. Next chapter examines the history and effect of the Arts Council England. A separate section deals with the impact of economic crisis on Arts Council England and presents how the recession affected financing of culture in the UK. The final chapter is devoted to application of the funding system of Great Britain to the Czech Republic. It describes the possibility of transferring some aspects to Czech life and the possibility of creation the same organization as Arts Council England in Czech Republic

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Klatt, Eva Maria. "Die englische Anwaltschaft auf dem Weg in das 21. Jahrhundert : ein Beitrag zu den Auswirkungen der gesetzlichen Reformen zwischen 1990 und 1999 auf das Standesrecht und das Berufsleben der englischen Anwaltschaft /." Berlin : dissertation.de, 2004. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/472680463.pdf.

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Machado, Elisabete Andreia Magalhães. "Tradução de "Through the Tunnel" e "England versus England" de Doris Lessing." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/60900.

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Doris Lessing foi a autora eleita para realização desta tese de mestrado. Entre diversos contos que compõem as obras da autora, “Through the Tunnel” e “England versus England”, cujas traduções sugeridas são “A passagem do Túnel” e “Inglaterra contra Inglaterra”, foram os seleccionados. Em adição à tradução, foi realizado um trabalho de pesquisa que visou encontrar outras obras e contos traduzidos para português. Foi ainda elaborada uma busca por notícias que demonstrassem a recepção da autora na imprensa de Portugal. A conclusão desta investigação mostrou que existem diversas publicações da autora, revelando a sua importância no panorama literário britânico e português.

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Machado, Elisabete Andreia Magalhães. "Tradução de "Through the Tunnel" e "England versus England" de Doris Lessing." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2011. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000212138.

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Doris Lessing foi a autora eleita para realização desta tese de mestrado. Entre diversos contos que compõem as obras da autora, “Through the Tunnel” e “England versus England”, cujas traduções sugeridas são “A passagem do Túnel” e “Inglaterra contra Inglaterra”, foram os seleccionados. Em adição à tradução, foi realizado um trabalho de pesquisa que visou encontrar outras obras e contos traduzidos para português. Foi ainda elaborada uma busca por notícias que demonstrassem a recepção da autora na imprensa de Portugal. A conclusão desta investigação mostrou que existem diversas publicações da autora, revelando a sua importância no panorama literário britânico e português.

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Marschall, Marina. "Ersatz reiner Vermögensschäden in der Geschichte des englischen Rechts am Beispiel der Auskunftshaftung /." Marburg : Görich & Weiershäuser, 2002. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/360500692.pdf.

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Wagemann, Christian. "Die Geschichte des Betrugsstrafrechts in England und den amerikanischen Bundesstaaten /." Herbolzheim : Centaurus, 2005. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/39603666X.pdf.

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Yip, Ngai Ming. "Housing affordability in England." Thesis, University of York, 1995. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/14105/.

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Triggered by the state of the housing market and a change in the housing association subsidy system, housing affordability became a topical issue of discourse in Britain towards the end of the 1980s. Yet, there is little research both on the extent of the problem at the national level and how affordability should be measured. This research attempts to advance understanding in these issues based on data from the 1991 Family Expenditure Survey and the 1988 General Household Survey. In this thesis, a new definition of the residual income measurement has been proposed and threshold affordability ratios has also been established using a composite approach to affordability measurement combining the ratio and the residual income measurement, in additional to an experimentation on a behavioral approach to the measurement of affordability. Findings in this thesis suggest that, measured by the ratio measurement and the traditional residual income measurement, about a quarter of households in 1991 were in unaffordable housing. Social tenants and tenants in the unfurnished private rented sector, lone parents, the elderly persons and households with unemployed household heads and claimants of housing benefit were more likely to be in unaffordable housing. However, there is no evidence in support of distinct patterns in household expenditure between households who were affordable to housing and those who were unaffordable. It is also controversial to regard households who were unaffordable to housing but at the same time over-consumiing housing to be in voluntary unaffordability problem owing to the difficulties such households would have in adjusting their level of housing consumption. This thesis also points to the close relationship between housing affordability, housing benefit and social tenancy which suggests the inadequacy of the housing benefit system and state provision of housing in protecting households from the problem of housing affordability. A section of this thesis was devoted to the examination of the ability of tenants to buy in the late 1980s where tenure preference has been incorporated in the measurement of such ability. It was found that the majority of tenants in 1988 could not afford to buy and tenants living in London and the South East, single person households, lone parents and households on a low income were the least able to afford buying. Though the Right to Buy scheme would improve the capacity of these households in council housing to become home owners, they are still households who were the least able to buy.

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Johnston, Warren James. "Apocalypticism in Restoration England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2000. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272183.

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Harris, Jan G. "Mormons in Victorian England." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 1987. http://patriot.lib.byu.edu/u?/MTGM,13967.

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Hasselmann, Kristiane. "Die Rituale der Freimaurer : zur Konstitution eines bürgerlichen Habitus im England des 18. Jahrhunderts /." Bielefeld : Transcript, 2009. http://opac.nebis.ch/cgi-bin/showAbstract.pl?u20=9783899428032.

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Felder, Kathrin Anne. "Girdle-hangers in 5th- and 6th-century England : a key to early Anglo-Saxon identities." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.700623.

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Hess, Ann Giardina. "Community case studies of midwives from England and New England, c. 1650-1720." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1994. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272475.

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Rush, Joseph Ian. "Commerce and labor in medieval England : the impact of the market economy on workers' diet and wages, 1275-1315 /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3018391.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2001.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 213-221). Also available for download via the World Wide Web; free to University of Oregon users. Address: http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3018391.

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Link, Mathias. "Possession, Possessio und das Schicksal des Common Law : der Besitzrechtsstreit im Common Law in der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2003. http://www.gbv.de/dms/spk/sbb/recht/toc/364177950.pdf.

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Hakaml, Bader A. "Evaluation of the household waste management system in the East of England, England, UK." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520437.

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Many countries around the world are currently trying to find new solutions to the growing problems related to household waste management. Landfilling is no longer being accepted as a sustainable method for waste disposal. Instead, the view has shifted to consider waste as a resource rather than rubbish. Simultaneously, all the environmental concerns related to landfilling have meant that an immediate response to the growing waste crisis needs to be urgently considered. In Europe, the EU has responded by launching a set of Directives which aim to limit the adverse impacts of land filling and increase diversion rates through recycling and responsible treatment of waste. These directives bound all EU countries and threaten significant fines against those which do not comply with the regulations. Performance wise, the UK is behind most of its other fellow EU countries, sending more than 75% of its municipal waste to landfill. As part of the UK, England is also burying most of its waste in landfill despite the concern over the availability of sufficient space for landfill in the future. Current statistics suggests that England's performance has improved since the implementation ofthe Waste Strategy for England and Wales in 2000. However, there continue to be growing fears that it might fail to achieve the 2013 and 2020 Landfill Directive targets. This study sought to evaluate the current household waste management system in the East of England which is one of the nine English regions. The evaluation aimed to identify the strengths and weaknesses of the system prior to recommending ways for further improvements. Three methods were applied in the evaluation; a statistical analysis, semi-structured face-to-face interviews with waste managers from local authorities and private waste contractors and a SWOT analysis. The outcomes indicated that several problems existed with the current household waste management system in the region. Some require immediate attention and need to be addressed before the system can be enhanced and future targets achieved. The study was also able to offer suggestions for alternative strategies which can be applied to improve the current system. Furthermore, suggestions made in this research can potentially be considered to improve the system in other regions provided that they share similar waste management, demographic and socio-economic characteristics with the East of England.

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Wattebot, A. M. "The experience of time in early modern England, with special reference to Eastern England." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.368180.

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Benoit, Marisa Noelle. "Attitudes towards infertility in early modern England and colonial New England, c. 1620-1720." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2adc1e0d-55c2-4e99-b3b3-5efbca5be8dd.

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This thesis examines attitudes toward infertility in early modern England and colonial New England from c.1620 to 1720 through infertility’s representation in contemporary medical, religious, and literary sources. This study uses an expanded definition of infertility, namely a 'spectrum of infertility', to capture the tensions that arose during periods of infertility and experiences of reproductive failure such as miscarriages, stillbirths, monstrous births, and false conceptions. A spectrum, more than a modern definition, more accurately represents the range of bodily conditions experienced by early modern women and men that indicated reproductive disorder in the body; by extension, the language of infertility expressed fears about disorder in times of social, religious, and political crisis in early modern society. The two societies' relationship was often described through reproductive language and the language of infertility appears in both societies when order - within the body, within marriages, or within and between communities - was threatened. This thesis contributes to a growing body of scholarship on infertility in early modern society by analysing its presence in communications within and between early modern England and colonial New England. It argues that understanding the English origins of the colonists' attitudes toward infertility is fundamental both to understanding the close connection between the two societies and to providing context for the colonists' perceptions about their encounters with new lands, bodies, environments, and reasons for emigration. As a result, this thesis seeks to break new ground in providing an overview of social, medical, and cultural reactions in both England and New England, demonstrating that similar language and tropes were used in both regions to communicate concerns about infertility. Exploring the interplay between the many sources addressing this health issue more accurately represents the complexity of early modern attitudes toward infertility, and the intimacy of the relationship between the fledgling New England colonies and their metaphorical Mother England.

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Culpepper, Kenneth Scott Brackney William H. "One Christian's plea : the life, ministry, and controversies of Francis Johnson /." Waco, Tex. : Baylor University, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/2104/4823.

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Linder, Florian. "Gewährleistung in England und Österreich /." Wien : Linde Verlag, 2005. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=015444288&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Jan, Sara. "Ibsen in England 1889-1914." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.259559.

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Cesarani, D. "Zionism in England, 1917-1939." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.375884.

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Bowden, Kirstie Louise. "Polish identity in rural England." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/4282.

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With Polish accession to the European Union in 2004 came an unprecedented wave of Polish migration to England. Marking it apart from previous waves of migration which settled in urban areas, this wave settled across the settlement hierarchy, resultantly described as geographically “ubiquitous” by Bauere et al (2007). This thesis takes as its inspiration a triad of influences; this migration wave; what the author deems seminal texts in rural geography (Philo 1992, Askins 2009, Panelli et al 2009); and personal circumstance (living in a rural area receiving Polish migrants for the first time) to chart that postulated as a lacuna (Burrell 2009); a study of the ways in which post-accession Polish identity is played out in rural areas. Wanting to focus on life in rural England as a whole rather than one specific strand, this thesis is by necessity broad, incorporating a number of strands of enquiry; the media migrant worker moral panic, community relations, Polish focussed service responses to Polish migration, and schemes delivered to the rural host population which aim to improve their encounters with migrant populations. What binds these themes together is the notion of hospitality, considering whether it is being extended or withheld, the reasons upon which such acts are predicated and the outcome upon those involved. The thesis concludes that this grand wave of migration has rendered rural areas a thirdspace of possibility in both a physical (via service imprinting on the landscape) and social (via the forging of transnational friendships and in some instances, both Polish and migrant, hybridised identities) sense. It is postulated that the psychogeographies upon which relations are predicated – of which there are many, subtly nuanced and dependent upon the experiences of the individual - are in a state of flux and subject to revision with the passing of time, as are processes of hospitality extension (or indeed withholding). It is my belief that in detailing moments of hopeful engagement alongside moments of deep despair and reflecting upon their impacts upon identity, this thesis has heeded Askins (2005:53) call to embrace transrurality – a conceptualisation “that both encapsulates the specificities of place and is open to mobility and desire in order to displace rural England as only an exclusionary white space” and reposition it within transitional social imaginaries.

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Jones, Emma Louise. "Abortion in England, 1861-1967." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.529789.

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Langum, Virginia Eileen. "Discretion in late medieval England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609515.

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Hulton, Mary H. M. "Urban weavers of medieval England." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.311596.

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Greenwood, Dona. "Measures of malnutrition in England." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1998. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/804888/.

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Gray, Hazel Catherine. "Moneylending in twelfth-century England." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2007. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.756583.

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The thesis is a study of the role of Jewish and Christian moneylenders in the twelfth-century monetary economy and primarily the reign of Henry II, the basis of which is a detailed computerised analysis of the information contained in the Pipe rolls for the period 1155-1188 and 1191-2. The thesis is divided into two sections. The first part is a brief reappraisal of royal borrowing in the reigns of Henry I and Stephen and the possible origins of a system of borrowing and repayment which was used to great effect during the reign of Henry II but had declined by his death. There is a discussion of royal borrowing for the year 1155-6 followed by an evaluation of the role of several Christian moneylenders including Robert fil. Sawini, Ralph Waspail and most notably William Cade. Their activities are examined in detail on an annual basis to reveal the amount of money they loaned the crown together with some consideration of the underlying procedures involved in collecting and repaying money and possible reasons for royal borrowing. There is then a discussion of the reason why Henry II turned to Jewish moneylenders around 1164 and further analysis of their role in his financial activities. The second part of the thesis consists of an assessment of the career of the pre-eminent Jewish financier Aaron of Lincoln through an examination of the 1191 Pipe roll listings of some four hundred private clients and their loans which were recorded after Aaron's death in 1186. The social status of his clients, their geographical distribution, the amount of money they borrowed, and the forms of collateral on which the loans were secured are all analysed in depth, together with additional comments on underlying financial procedures and associated business activities. The thesis continues with a brief discussion of the financial and social impact of Aaron of Lincoln in the reigns of Richard I and John, again supported by some computerised Pipe roll analysis and closes with a brief discussion of the role of moneylenders in the twelfth-century economy.

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Stylianou, Anastasia. "Martyrs' blood in Reformation England." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2018. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/111214/.

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This thesis analyses how martyrs’ blood was constructed in sixteenth-century English martyrological writings, confessional apologetics and polemics, c. 1520-c. 1625. It uses the topic of martyrs’ blood as a lens onto wider confessional constructions of both martyrdom and confessional theologies. It argues that, despite superficial similarities, Protestants and Catholics constructed martyrs’ blood in very different ways, and that this calls into question recent scholarly trends towards seeing the confessions as having a common conception of martyrdom. Chapter One surveys the treatment of blood and martyrdom from the Bible to the medieval West, demonstrating the main threads on which early-modern constructions of martyrdom drew. Chapter Two discusses Henrician Protestant constructions of martyrs’ blood. Chapter Three focuses on John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments. Chapter Four examines the relatively unbloody rhetoric of English Catholic discussions of martyrdom, from the 1520s to 1570s. Chapter Five looks at the emergence of a rich rhetoric of martyrs’ blood in English Catholic writings from the 1580s to the 1620s. Authors examined include William Tyndale, John Bale, John Foxe, Thomas More, Reginald Pole, Robert Persons and William Allen. The thesis focuses particularly on five key elements relating to the texts’ treatment of martyrs’ blood: Eucharistic theology; materiality; temporal worldview; bloody enemies; martyrs’ blood as witness.

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Cooper, Suzanne Fagence. "Picturing music in Victorian England." Thesis, Bucks New University, 2005. http://bucks.collections.crest.ac.uk/9932/.

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This thesis analyses musical imagery created by Victorian artists. It considers paintings, decorative arts and photography, as well as contemporary art criticism and poetry. Focusing on artists associated with Pre-Raphaelitism and aestheticism, it shows how they used musical subjects to sidestep narrative conventions and concentrate instead on explorations of femininity, colour, mood and sensuality. This thesis begins by considering the musical experience of four artists - Frederic Leighton, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones and James Whistler - and the influence of personal taste on their musical subjects. It then looks at the depiction of non-Western performance, including images of dancing girls. The third chapter explores the links between music and worship, and the subversion of traditional religious iconography by aestheticist artists. Chapter four analyses images of musical women, and especially the late-Victorian interest in mermaids and sirens. The theme of sensuality continues with an investigation of the connections between music and colour, by assessing the influence of Renaissance Venice, Wagner and French theories of synaesthesia on the Victorian art-world. The final chapter looks at the interconnectedness of music, nostalgia and bereavement in aestheticist painting. Although this study approaches the subject of music-in-art from a number of different directions, there are two key themes that underpin the interpretation of musical images. The first is that musical symbolism was malleable: music could signify both religious devotion and sexual passion. The second is that, in the Victorian imagination, music was oppositional and unstable. It was linked with femininity, emotion, colour, desire and the supernatural. This thesis demonstrates that the idea of music was a key component in the emergence of anti-Establishment art in Victorian England.

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Seo, Dong Ha. "Military culture of Shakespeare's England." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2011. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/2976/.

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This thesis examines the development of military culture in, and its effects on, early modern English society. Militarism during the late Elizabethan and early Stuart periods was not reinforced by military institutions directly interfering with the private lives of individuals, or by controlling the thoughts and actions of the whole nation. It was, however, strongly influenced by the culture of a military elite, represented by leading noblemen such as Leicester, Sidney, Essex, and Prince Henry, who paid considerable attention to the theatrical aspects of formal and ceremonial occasions and how their military role was portrayed in art and literature. Unlike the usual traditional portrayal of these prominent figures as incompetent military leaders who rushed blindly forwards in pursuit of military glory, we will see that through their aristocratic patronage of various art forms they promoted their image as competent Protestant warriors, and helped the public to be receptive to a variety of military ideas. The principal motivation of this study is to consider a multiplicity of perspectives on how a military culture was constructed, through a variety of genres, and how particular views on military matters were integrated into popular culture. Literary critics and historians have previously examined certain aspects of militarism in this period but this study aims to take a holistic view of how the military culture developed and affected the public sphere.

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Hall, David. "The open fields of England." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/16564.

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The open fields of England describes the system of agriculture that operated in medieval England before the establishment of present-day hedged farms surrounded by hedges or walls. The volume encompasses a wide range of primary data not previously assembled, to which are added the results of new research based upon a fifty-year study of open-field remains and their related documents. The whole of England is examined, describing eight different kinds of field-systems that have been identified and relating them to their associated land-use and settlement. Details of field structure are explained such as the demesne, the lordâs land, and the tenantsâ holdings, as well as tenurial arrangements and farming methods. Previous explanations of open-field origins and possible antecedents to medieval fields are discussed. Various types of archaeological and historical evidence relevant to Saxon-period settlements and fields are presented, followed by the development of a new theory to explain the lay-out and planned nature of many field systems found in the central belt of England. A summary and suggestions for future research conclude the text. The numerous maps and photographs illustrate the contrasting complexities of different field systems. Of particular interest is the Gazetteer, which is organized by historic counties. Each county has a summary of its fields, including tabulated data and sources for future research, touching on the demesne, yardland size, work-service, assarts, and the physical remains of ridge and furrow. The Gazetteer acts as a national hand-list of field systems, opening the subject up to further research, and will prove essential to scholars of medieval agriculture.

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Lazarus, Micha David Swade. "Aristotle's Poetics in Renaissance England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:fea8e0e3-df54-4b57-b45d-0b46acd06530.

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This thesis brings to light evidence for the circulation and first-hand reception of Aristotle's Poetics in sixteenth-century England. Though the Poetics upended literary thinking on the Continent in the period, it has long been considered either unavailable in England, linguistically inaccessible to the Greekless English, or thoroughly mediated for English readers by Italian criticism. This thesis revisits the evidentiary basis for each of these claims in turn. A survey of surviving English booklists and library catalogues, set against the work's comprehensive sixteenth-century print-history, demonstrates that the Poetics was owned by and readily accessible to interested readers; two appendices list verifiable and probable owners of the Poetics respectively. Detailed philological analysis of passages from Sir Philip Sidney’s Defence of Poesie proves that he translated directly from the Greek; his and his contemporaries' reading methods indicate the text circulated bilingually as standard. Nor was Sidney’s polyglot access unusual in literary circles: re-examination of the history of Greek education in sixteenth-century England indicates that Greek literacy was higher and more widespread than traditional histories of scholarship have allowed. On the question of mediation, a critical historiography makes clear that the inherited assumption of English reliance on Italian intermediaries for classical criticism has drifted far from the primary evidence. Under these reconstituted historical conditions, some of the outstanding episodes in the sixteenth-century English reception of the Poetics from John Cheke and Roger Ascham in the 1540s to Sidney and John Harington in the 1580s and 1590s are reconsidered as articulate evidence of reading, thinking about, and responding to Aristotle's defining contribution to Renaissance literary thought.

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Piercy, Jeremy Lee. "Moneyers of England, 973-1086." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/31513.

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This thesis examines one labourer group within developing urban society in England during the tenth and eleventh centuries in order to address both its status and whether the internal workplace organisation of this group might reflect on the complexity of an Anglo-Saxon 'state'. In reviewing the minting operation of late Anglo-Saxon England, and the men in charge of those mints, a better picture of the social history of pre-Conquest England is realised. These men, the moneyers responsible for producing the king's coinage, were likely part of the thegnly or burgess class and how they organised themselves might reflect broader trends in how those outside of the artistocracy acted in response to royal directives. In order to address this, a database combining information from multiple catalogues, coin cabinets, and online repositories was developed in Part I and is presented in Part II. The Moneyers of England Database, 973-1086 consists of 3,646 periods of moneyer activity, derived from 28,576 individual coins produced at ninety-nine geographic locations. Parts III and IV provide potential uses for the database through two different types of study. Part III argues that the mints were primarily controlled and operated by families. Pointing to the repetition of the protothemes amongst the moneyers on a large scale across nearly all the mint locations known from the 970s to 1086, I argue that the mints were dominated by a few select families that maintained authority through wars and conquests. Part IV presents two new theories on late Anglo-Saxon mint organisation. The first theory is that groups of moneyers would begin and end activity within the mints together, most often within family units, but regularly in conjunction with other minting families in the same location. The second theory is that these groups would operate in rotation. The moneyers would operate for a set period of time, then withdraw in favour of another member of their dynasty before returning to activity at a later date. I conclude that this was potentially, if not likely, in response to royal imposition on the mints restricting the number of coinages that a moneyer could be responsible for, and take profit on, consecutively. The thesis is structured with a brief introduction and literature review, inclusive of discussion on the status of the moneyers and the concept of an Anglo-Saxon 'state', followed by a methodological section that outlines the creation of the Moneyers of England Database, 973-1086, as well as limitations in the source material. This is followed by the database, two analysis sections, and the conclusion. There are two appendices. The first appendix is an insert diagram of all 425 moneyers in operation in London between 973 and 1086. The second is the coinage record from which this work is derived.

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Hallett, Jennifer Rachel. "Paganism in England, 1885-1914." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1983/84df7e45-7965-486b-b1c8-059bc148a95b.

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This thesis examines paganism in England from the late Victorian period to the outbreak of the First World War. It explores paganism as an aspect of cultural history and defines paganism as the use of images and ideas from the ancient, pre-Christian, Mediterranean world. It identifies the existence of a radical desire for paganism to be restored in the modem era and it asserts that although this desire cannot be separated into discrete groups or movements, it did manifest itself in different varieties. This thesis reveals that there were three different varieties of paganism in operation during our period; these are labelled 'responsible' paganism, 'decadent' paganism, and 'magical' paganism. The form and nature of these varieties of paganism are discussed, analysed, and placed in the context of the wider cultural situation. This thesis concludes that paganism was used in an attempt to satisfy both spiritual and human aspirations .

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Jourdan, Paul. "Mendelssohn in England, 1829-37." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272810.

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Burrows, Donald. "Handel in England: Sacred Music." Bärenreiter Verlag, 1987. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A37211.

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Kaplowitz, Benjamin Mark. "A Church in New England." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/64453.

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The project explores light as a material element and as a spacial generator, and how the intercession of other disparate, different material elements can work to create disparate, different material conditions that manifest specific physical phenomena that hold direct implications for the metaphysical (here, spiritual) experience of the inhabitant. This project doesn't create an arena for a specific experience, but rather strives to generate a spectrum on which to relate an individual chosen action to the physical self (here, now, made spiritual). A self-reflection inspired by a visceral interaction with an ordered space, resulting in self-awareness in metaphysical (phenomenological) context. A building made of concrete, steel, wood, and light. A place for meditation, for prayer, and for worship.
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Tickell, Shelley Gail. "Shoplifting in eighteenth-century England." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/16335.

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Shoplifting proliferated in eighteenth-century England with retail expansion, acquiring a new prominence as it was made a capital crime. This study comprehensively examines this phenomenon, seating it within the historiographies of crime, marketing and consumption. The majority of offenders were occasional thieves, drawn from some of the most economically vulnerable sectors of plebeian communities, their profile confirming the significance of age and gender. While specialist shops were shoplifters' primary target, particularly those selling textiles and clothing, a spatial analysis suggests that thieves preferred smaller, local shops to their more prestigious counterparts. Shoplifters matched their tactics to the size and status of shop, using performance as a tool to achieve their ends. Yet the study questions assumptions around the influence of fashion and consumer desire on shop theft, discussing how the type and quantity of goods stolen points to more complex economic motives, both financial and social. The potential impact of the crime on women's role as shopkeepers and the tendency to sexualise female offenders are also scrutinised. While retailers were initially instrumental in driving legislative change and worked constructively with magistrates to control the crime's incidence, their constant reluctance to prosecute conveys a false impression of the crime's true extent. The study calculates prevalence, and projects the financial impact of shoplifting on its victims at a time of highly competitive retailing. 'Risk-based' in their thinking, retailers developed practical means of protecting their stores, while new marketing techniques proved variously a boon and handicap. Yet shopkeepers' reactions were not uniform, some apparently preferring such situational prevention, while others turned more readily to the law. This ambivalence was also exhibited in their engagement with the capital law reform that ultimately saw the repeal of the Shoplifting Act. Employing a variety of sources from court transcripts to literature, the study finally explores how changing social perspectives on crime during the period coloured public attitudes to shoplifting, foreshadowing reconfigured nineteenth-century perceptions of the crime.

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Nilson, Benjamin John. "Cathedral shrines of medieval England /." Suffolk (U.K.) ; Rochester (N.Y.) : the Boydell press, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37089482f.

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Helmholz, Richard H. "Marriage litigation in medieval England /." Holmes Beach (Fla.) : Wm. W. Gaunt and sons, 1986. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37375127t.

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Redfern, Alison M. "Infant feeding in England, 1992." Thesis, University of Surrey, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.308518.

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Martin, Lisa A. "Children, Adolescents, and English Witchcraft." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2005. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4952/.

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One area of history that historians have ignored is that of children and their relationship to witchcraft and the witch trials. This thesis begins with a survey of historical done on the general theme of childhood, and moves on to review secondary literature about children and the continental witch trials. The thesis also reviews demonological theory relating to children and the roles children played in the minds of continental and English demonologists. Children played various roles: murder victims, victims of dedication to Satan, child-witches, witnesses for the prosecution, victims of bewitchment or possession, and victims of seduction into witchcraft. The final section of the thesis deals with children and English witchcraft. In England children tended to play the same roles as described by the demonologists.

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Goulden, John. "Michael Costa, England's first conductor : the revolution in musical performance in England 1830-80." Thesis, Durham University, 2012. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/5924/.

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Recent literature has thrown new light on the patronage, financing and social context of the music industry in nineteenth-century London. One area that has received less attention is the management and direction of musical performance – a branch of the profession which arguably changed more than any other. The thesis seeks to identify the radical changes in this area through the life and work of Michael Costa. His fifty-three year career in charge of the main London musical institutions saw the transition from divided control by the violin-leader, musical director and maestro al cembalo to unified control by a professional conductor-manager, of which he was the London prototype. Costa’s uniquely powerful position in the operatic, symphonic and choral world enabled him to embed reforms that laid the basis for much of modern musical practice: not only in baton-conducting but also in the conductor’s contractual powers, orchestral discipline, the lay-out of performers, rehearsal strategy, acoustics, and the system for managing the enlarged orchestras and choruses which emerged in the period. This infrastructure and the raised standards of performance that these reforms fostered were arguably the greatest achievement of English music in the otherwise rather barren mid-Victorian period. The thesis considers Costa’s crucial role in the battles between the two rival opera houses, between the Philharmonic and the New Philharmonic, and between the venerable Ancient Concerts and the mass festival events of the Sacred Harmonic Society. It tries also to place him in the context of the profound aesthetic changes of the period – in repertoire, performance and attitude to musical ‘works’. Finally it seeks to explain the remarkable rise and eclipse of Costa’s reputation and to reassess in its contemporary context Costa’s contribution to the emergence of the music industry in the form which we know today.

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Cairns, Rhoda F. "The Exegesis of Experience: Typology and Women's Rhetorics in Early Modern England and New England." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1211998311.

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Ulrich, Editha. ""Old England for ever!" England in den Wahrnehmungen und Deutungen deutschsprachiger Reisender ; 1870/71 - 1914." Frankfurt, M. Berlin Bern Bruxelles New York Oxford Wien Lang, 2008. http://d-nb.info/99618192X/04.

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Kearns, David Richard. "Common Law Judicial Office, Sovereignty, and the Church of England in Restoration England, 1660-1688." Thesis, The University of Sydney, 2019. https://hdl.handle.net/2123/21468.

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This thesis argues that Restoration English debate over sovereignty and state was dominated by attempts to configure the scope of common law judicial office, with arguments in favour of the judiciary’s subordination to the king or Church of England the most common. In response, members of the Restoration judiciary not only rhetorically defended their office as independent, but the judges of the Court of King’s Bench, the highest common law court, exercised their office in such a way as to affirm their independence. They effected this through two processes. First, they grounded their office chiefly in the lex non scripta, rather than statute developed by king or parliament. The Restoration judiciary focused on the customary practices of the realm, found through research into the records of the common law itself. They engaged with statute – the lex scripta – ambivalently, at times ignoring it, or citing it in the face of explicit opposition by Charles II and James II to the legislation in question. Second, the judges claimed their office was responsible for the administration of temporal concerns, such as the defence of the realm, and distinguished this from the salvific focus of the Church, which they described as spiritual. That the judiciary exercised their office as independent of Church and crown requires that we rethink our historiographic approaches to the Restoration, which have tended to treat sovereignty as juridically hierarchical, and Restoration England as confessionalised. As we will see, though the judiciary recognised the king as sovereign, they claimed this entailed only a marginal legal power, its limits subject to the common law judiciary, not an exclusive supremacy over the law. And although the Restoration judiciary prosecuted along confessional lines, they did so not in terms of the salvific focus of the Church, but in terms of the temporal focus of the common law, subordinating the Church to the needs of the state.

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Cameron, Esther Anita. "Sheaths and scabbards in England, AD400-1100." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.670226.

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Duggan, Ed. "The impact of industrialization on an urban labor market Birmingham, England, 1770-1860 /." New York : Garland Pub, 1985. http://books.google.com/books?id=HAktAAAAMAAJ.

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Brand, David C. "Beatific vision, benevolence, and self-love a contextual study of Jonathan Edwards with special reference to the Cartesian revolution and the Arminian triumph in Puritan New England /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1988. http://www.tren.com.

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