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Haslem, Michelle. "Familial politics and the Stuart court masque." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367810.
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This thesis contends that the monarch-centred view of the masque, which has prevailed since the publication in the 1960s and 1970s of Stephen Orgel's seminal works on the genre, needs to be challenged in the light of recent scholarship on the cultural agency of other members of the royal family. In my introduction I argue that while the New Historicism has been crucial in elucidating the theatricalization of power in the early Stuart court, its insistence on the inevitability of the collusion between art and sovereign power needs to be questioned. The masque has long been seen as a monolithic and univocal celebration of monarchical power, despite the fact that it was promoted at court not by King James but by other members of the royal family. Adopting a loosely chronological approach, this thesis retells the story of the 'Jacobean' court masque by recovering the role played in the commissioning and performance of masques by James's wife, his children, and his male favourites. The chapters set out to hear voices other than that of the King, and discover that, while panegyric was part of each masque, it was rarely as unequivocal as traditional criticism has suggested. On the contrary, the annual masques were frequently appropriated to express the oppositional agendas of factions at court, and above all, of members of James's own family. I argue that Queen Anne set a precedent for the disruptive use of the masque which she exploited to present herself as independent from the King, and to emphasise her importance as the mother of the royal children. Prince Henry, and later Prince Charles, both used the masque to contest the pacifist policies of the King, while Buckingham's success as a favourite was linked to his skilful exploitation of the masques as an integral part of his self-fashioning. Above all by shifting the focus away from King James to consider the more active participation in the masque of other members of the royal family, this thesis offers a possibility of moving beyond the current impasse of the subversion / containment debate to a more nuanced reading of the culture of the early Stuart court which recognises the delicate process of negotiation and accommodation in which the masquers and their audiences were engaged.
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Stevenson, Kyle. "From Medieval to Modern Union: The Development of the British State between the Union of the Crowns of 1603 and the Acts of Parliament in 1707." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/13326.
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Empirical studies in the sub-field of European state-building within political science have centered on material or institutional explanations for the development of the modern state. These cross-case analyses ignore key distinctions amongst cases, such as the importance of ideational factors in the modernizing process. This case study of the development of the British state looks at how changes in the conceptualization of the state and the nature of constitutionalism evolved over the course of the 17th century through the political writings of several influential theorists. This evolutionary process highlights distinctions in British constitutionalism between the personalist Union of the Crowns and the constitutionalist parliamentary Acts of Union. This study concludes with a discussion of the Scottish independence movement and the possible effects of the 2014 referendum on the British state.
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Bristol, Kerry A. C. "James 'Athenian' Stuart (1713-1788) and the genesis of the Greek Revival in British architecture." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.299166.
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Doyle, Kerry Delaney. "Agnostos Dei: staging Catholicism and the anti-sectarian aesthetic in early-Stuart England." Diss., University of Iowa, 2013. https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/1589.
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My dissertation, Agnostos Dei: Staging Catholicism and the Anti-Sectarian Aesthetic in Early-Stuart England, traces over four chapters the emergence of a literary counter-aesthetic to the increasingly violent sectarianism of Post-Reformation England. I focus primarily on popular plays that dramatize the destabilizing effects of radical beliefs on a society, whether small town or royal court, culminating in blood and exile. I argue that the plays' destructive conflicts and redemptive moments suggest the potential worth of cross-sectarian belief and ritual. In doing so, John Fletcher's The Faithfull Shepherdess (1608), William Shakespeare and John Fletcher's Henry VIII (1613), Dekker, Ford, and Rowley's The Witch of Edmonton (1621), and John Ford's `Tis Pity She's a Whore (1629) participate in an aesthetic that rejects the disunity promoted by radical sectarians and revises the rhetoric of English Protestantism. Kings James and Charles promoted, ultimately unsuccessfully, a via media (middle way) for the Church of England, seeking reunification of divergent Christian sects. At the same time, these works used the theatre as a space of free play to consider the possibility of ecumenical success in fictionalized worlds removed from the clashing rhetoric of real kings and clergy.
My project responds to the revitalized return to religion in the scholarship of early modern England, which has included a renewed interest in the English Catholic experience and a reconsideration of the variety of believers within the nation, loosely grouped into categories like Puritans and High Church Anglicans. My work presents a correlative- and counter-narrative to these well-established readings. I consider the historical and literary analogues of the plays and the contemporary religiopolitical realities of the times of their staging. Rather than attempting to discover crypto-sectarian messages in the tales or intentions of the playwrights behind them, I argue that such categorizations can reduce and obscure the broader, ecumenical implications of these works. In speaking to a range of sectarian audiences, these playwrights exceed the limitations of clear affiliation to address a wider Christian possibility.
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Salazar, Gregory Adam. "Daniel Featley and Calvinist conformity in early Stuart England." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2018. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/278216.
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This thesis examines the life and works of the English Calvinist clergyman Daniel Featley (1582-1645) through the lens of various printed and manuscript sources, especially his manuscript notebooks in Oxford. It links his story and thought to the broader themes of early Stuart religious, political, and intellectual history. Chapter one analyses the first thirty- five years of Featley’s life, exploring how many of the features that underpin the major themes of Featley’s career—and which reemerged throughout his life—were formed and nurtured during Featley’s early years in Oxford, Paris, and Cornwall. There he emerges as an ambitious young divine in pursuit of preferment; a shrewd minister, who attempted to position himself within the ecclesiastical spectrum; and a budding polemicist, whose polemical exchanges were motivated by a pastoral desire to protect the English Church. Chapter two examines Featley’s role as an ecclesiastical licenser and chaplain to Archbishop George Abbot in the 1610s and 1620s. It offers a reinterpretation of the view that Featley was a benign censor, explores how pastoral sensitivities influenced his censorship, and analyses the parallels between Featley’s licensing and his broader ecclesiastical aims. Moreover, by exploring how our historiographical understandings of licensing and censorship have been clouded by Featley’s attempts to conceal that an increasingly influential anti- Calvinist movement was seizing control of the licensing system and marginalizing Calvinist licensers in the 1620s, this chapter (along with chapter 7) addresses the broader methodological issues of how to weigh and evaluate various vantage points. Chapters three and four analyse the publications resulting from Featley’s debates with prominent Catholic and anti-Calvinist leaders. These chapters examine Featley’s use of patristic tradition in these disputes, the pastoral motivations that underpinned his polemical exchanges, and how Featley strategically issued these polemical publications to counter Catholicism and anti-Calvinism and to promulgate his own alternative version of orthodoxy at several crucial political moments during the 1620s and 1630s. Chapter five focuses on how, in the 1620s and 1630s, the themes of prayer and preaching in his devotional work, Ancilla Pietatis, and collection of seventy sermons, Clavis Mystica, were complementary rather than contradictory. It also builds on several of the major themes of the thesis by examining how pastoral and polemical motivations were at the heart of these works, how Featley continued to be an active opponent—rather than a passive bystander and victim—of Laudianism, and how he positioned himself politically to avoid being reprimanded by an increasingly hostile Laudian regime. Chapter six explores the theme of ‘moderation’ in the events of the 1640s surrounding Featley’s participation at the Westminster Assembly and his debates with separatists. It focuses on how Featley’s pursuit of the middle way was both: a self-protective ‘chameleon- like’ survival instinct—a rudder he used to navigate his way through the shifting political and ecclesiastical terrain of this period—and the very means by which he moderated and manipulated two polarized groups (decidedly convictional Parliamentarians and royalists) in order to reoccupy the middle ground, even while it was eroding away. Finally, chapter seven examines Featley’s ‘afterlife’ by analysing the reception of Featley through the lens of his post-1660 biographers and how these authors, particularly Featley’s nephew, John Featley, depicted him retrospectively in their biographical accounts in the service of their own post-restoration agendas. By analysing how Featley’s own ‘chameleon-like’ tendencies contributed to his later biographers’ distorted perception of him, this final chapter returns to the major methodological issues this thesis seeks to address. In short, by exploring the various roles he played in the early Stuart English Church and seeking to build on and contribute to recent historiographical research, this study sheds light on the links between a minister’s pastoral sensitivities and polemical engagements, and how ministers pursued preferment and ecclesiastically positioned themselves, their opponents, and their biographical subjects through print.
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Cueto, Marcos. "LOCKHART, James y SCHWARTZ, Stuart B. Early LatinAmerica. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983.480 p. Mapas, cuadros, gráficos, bibliografía." Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, 2014. http://repositorio.pucp.edu.pe/index/handle/123456789/121914.
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Paul, Juliette. "The manuscript presentation volume of Jane Barker and her imaginative Catholic faith." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5913.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on August 30, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.
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Taylor, James Mark [Verfasser], Stuart S. P. [Gutachter] Parkin, Ingrid [Gutachter] Mertig, and Günter [Gutachter] Reiss. "Epitaxial thin films of the noncollinear antiferromagnets Mn3Ir and Mn3Sn for topological spintronic applications / James Mark Taylor ; Gutachter: Stuart S. P. Parkin, Ingrid Mertig, Günter Reiss." Halle (Saale) : Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, 2020. http://d-nb.info/1219508276/34.
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Strong, Edward Trowbridge. ""The Jaws of Mars are Traditionally Wide ... And His Appetite Is Insatiable": Truman, the Budget, and National Security." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1564568978026948.
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Brown, Morgan Alexander. "The Pleiadic Age of Stuart Poesie: Restoration Uranography, Dryden's Judicial Astrology, and the Fate of Anne Killigrew." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2010. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_theses/77.
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The following Thesis is a survey of seventeenth-century uranography, with specific focus on the use of the Pleiades and Charles's Wain by English poets and pageant writers as astrological ciphers for the Stuart dynasty (1603-1649; 1660-1688). I then use that survey to address the problem of irony in John Dryden's 1685 Pindaric elegy, "To the Pious Memory of Mrs. Anne Killigrew," since the longstanding notion of what the Pleiades signify in Dryden's ode is problematic from an astronomical and astrological perspective. In his elegiac ode, Dryden translates a young female artist to the Pleiades to actuate her apotheosis, not for the sake of mere fulsome hypberbole, but in such a way that Anne (b. 1660-d. 1685) signifies for the reign of Charles II (1660-1685) in her Pleiadic catasterism. The political underpinnings of Killigrew's apotheosis reduce the probability that Dryden's hyperbole reserves pejorative ironic potential.
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Billier, Jean-Cassien. "Libéralisme et rationalité morale." Paris 4, 2006. http://www.theses.fr/2006PA040116.
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Intimement lié au libéralisme politique, le libéralisme moral consiste à tenter de définir les principes d’une morale publique minimale rendant possible la garantie des désaccords moraux sur les conceptions du Bien. Il ne peut avoir de sens que de façon radicalement anti-perfectionniste, c’est-à-dire en refusant de comporter lui-même le moindre élément apparenté à une conception quelconque du Bien. Les fondations anciennes du libéralisme à partir des concepts d’autonomie et d’individualisme sont donc devenues impropres à justifier la neutralité axiologique idéale de la sphère publique. Ni l’autonomie ni l’individualisme ne font en effet partie des valeurs non-controversées que recherchent les libéraux anti-perfectionnistes contemporains. La justification et l’application des deux principes fondamentaux du libéralisme anti-perfectionniste, celui de la « non-nuisance » à autrui et celui de la « considération égale » apportée à chaque être humain, supposent d’une part un enracinement dans la culture politique démocratique et libérale qui s’est développée depuis environ deux siècles et d’autre part une reconnaissance de l’hétérogénéité des sources de nos délibérations morales qui sont définitivement faillibles dès qu’elles sortent de la tâche de fondation de ces mêmes principes par auto-compréhension de la communauté libérale. Le libéralisme moral anti-perfectionniste est ainsi opposé à tout relativisme moral tout en refusant également l’idée selon laquelle on peut découvrir un principe moral absolu et infaillible capable de résoudre nos dilemmes moraux : il ne propose qu’une morale publique qui n’ambitionne pas de répondre à l’ensemble des interrogations qui habitent nos vies morales personnellesMoral liberalism, which is intimately linked to political liberalism, consists in trying to define the principles of a minimal public morality which makes moral disagreements on conceptions of Good possible. The only way it can have any meaning is by being radically anti-perfectionist, that is, by refusing to contain in itself the least element akin to any conception of Good. The former foundations of liberalism based on the concepts of autonomy and individualism have therefore become inappropriate in justifying the ideal moral neutrality of the public sphere. Neither autonomy nor individualism belong to the uncontroversial values sought after by contemporary anti-perfectionist liberals. The justification and application of the two fundamental principles of anti-perfectionist liberalism, that of to do no harm to others and that of equal respect for each human being, depend, on the one hand, on our moral beliefs being rooted in the liberal and democratic political culture that has developed over the past two centuries and, on the other, on the recognition of the heterogeneity of the sources of our moral deliberations which are completely fallible as soon as they abandon their fucntion of founding those same principles through the understanding internal to the liberal community. Anti-perfectionist moral liberalism is thus opposed to all moral relativism while, at the same time, rejecting the idea that an absolute and infallible moral principle capable of solving all our moral dilemmas could be discovered. All it has to offer is a public morality which does not seek to answer all the questionings which haunt our personal moral experience
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Hall, Eric Paterson. "An analysis of the performance of the term 'Great Britain/British' from a brand perspective, 1603 to 1625." Thesis, University of Hertfordshire, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2299/11562.
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The dissertation takes the modern business technique/concept of brands and branding, applies them to a historic case study, the creation by James VI and I of Great Britain from 1603 to 1625, and by doing so throws new light on both. It compares two distinct approaches to branding, unidirectional and social interactionist, postulating that the latter would prove better at explaining the success of the brand Great Britain/British. The case study reveals that neither approach is supported by the evidence. Content analysis shows that there was a lack of awareness of the brand Great Britain/British and an inconsistency in its use, hence neither approach can be sustained. However, the same analysis does show that an alternative brand, England/English, existed in the same time and that this brand provides some limited support for the social interactionist view of brands and branding. The lack of success of the brand Great Britain/British during his reign does not appear to have prevented James VI and I from establishing himself as the legitimate King of England in addition to Scotland although the contribution of the brand to this was marginal at best.
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James, David [Verfasser], Felix [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Krahmer, Matthias [Gutachter] Hein, Anja [Gutachter] Sturm, Gerlind [Gutachter] Plonka-Hoch, Russell [Gutachter] Luke, and Stephan [Gutachter] Waack. "On two Random Models in Data Analysis / David James ; Gutachter: Felix Krahmer, Matthias Hein, Anja Sturm, Gerlind Plonka-hoch, Russell Luke, Stephan Waack ; Betreuer: Felix Krahmer." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1126724769/34.
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James, David Verfasser], Felix [Akademischer Betreuer] [Gutachter] Krahmer, Matthias [Gutachter] Hein, Anja [Gutachter] Sturm, Gerlind [Gutachter] Plonka-Hoch, Russell [Gutachter] [Luke, and Stephan [Gutachter] Waack. "On two Random Models in Data Analysis / David James ; Gutachter: Felix Krahmer, Matthias Hein, Anja Sturm, Gerlind Plonka-hoch, Russell Luke, Stephan Waack ; Betreuer: Felix Krahmer." Göttingen : Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, 2017. http://d-nb.info/1126724769/34.
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Parker, George. "Actor Alone: Solo Performance in New Zealand." Thesis, University of Canterbury. Theatre and Film Studies, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/1035.
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This thesis explores solo performance in New Zealand. That solo performance has been widely used in New Zealand's relatively brief theatre history is usually ascribed to the economy, manoeuvrability and adaptability of the form - common reasons for the popularity of solo performance elsewhere as well. But this thesis considers solo performance as a kind of theatre that has been suited to New Zealand in a distinctive way. In particular, I argue that solo performance has emerged on the margins of mainstream theatre in New Zealand as a means of actively engaging with a sense of isolation that typifies the post-colonial New Zealand experience. The ability of the solo performance to move between remote rural settlements and urban centres has connected these New Zealand communities in a way that is unusual for theatre in New Zealand. Furthermore, a solo performer speaking directly to an audience about the experience of living in New Zealand allows for an intimate interaction with a traditionally stoic and laconic masculine society. In this thesis, I make a case for three solo performances where it is possible to see, in the representation of a search for what it means to be a New Zealander, a theatrical contribution to nation-building: The End of the Golden Weather (1959), Coaltown Blues (1984) and Michael James Manaia (1991). However, in a subsequent chapter, I look at solo performances in New Zealand that might better be understood within global movements such as feminism and multiculturalism. I argue that this shift has depleted the power that the form once held to comment upon New Zealand identity and to assist in the search for national identity. I conclude the thesis by considering how ongoing theatre practice may be informed by the experience of solo performance in New Zealand.
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Brice, James Stuart [Verfasser]. "German holocaust literature : trends and tendencies / vorgelegt von James Stuart Brice." 2008. http://d-nb.info/98947058X/34.
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Chmelíková, Pavla. "Otázka nástupnictví Jakuba, vévody z Yorku, za vlády Karla II. Stuarta." Master's thesis, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-405917.
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This diploma thesis deals with 70s and 80s in 17the century in England. During this period of the reign of Charles II Stuart comes to the forefront the question of succession, which culminated in the so-called exclusion crisis (1679-1681). The thesis will try to outline in seven chapters, including the introduction and conclusion, the development of the crisis of succession associated with the person of James, Duke of York. The first part of the work will focus on the period before the exclusion crisis and will highlight important moments such as the approval of the Test Act or the Popish Plot. Another part of the thesis will deal with the period of crisis itself until the dissolution of the last Exclusion Parliament in Oxford in 1681 and the defeat the Whig party. The last chapter will close the whole question of succession in 1685, the death of Charles II Stuart and the advent of James II to the English throne.
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Blanch, Stuart James. "Influence of water regime on growth and resource allocation in aquatic macrophytes of the lower River Murray, Australia / by Stuart James Blanch." Thesis, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/2440/19198.
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Addendum inserted.Includes copies of author's previously published papers.
Bibliography: p. 390-414.
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Aims to examine the effects of water regime on growth, vegetative recruitment, resource allocation and photosynthesis in selected perennial species, and the adaptations permitting them to tolerate sub-optimal regimes.
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Depts. of Zoology and Botany, 1998?
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(9039344), Gabriel R. Lonsberry. "The King, the Prince, and Shakespeare: Competing for Control of the Stuart Court Stage." Thesis, 2020.
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When, each holiday season, William Shakespeare’s newest plays were presented for King James I of England and his court, they shared the stage with propagandistic performances and ceremonies intended to glorify the monarch and legitimate his political ideals. Between 1608 and 1613, however, the King’s son, Prince Henry Frederick, sought to use the court stage to advance his own, oppositional ideology. By examining the entertainments through which James and Henry openly competed to control this crucial mythmaking mechanism, the present investigation recreates the increasingly unstable conditions surrounding and transforming each of Shakespeare’s last plays as they were first performed at court. I demonstrate that, once read in their original courtly contexts, these plays speak directly to each stage of that escalating rivalry and interrogate the power of ceremonial display, the relationship between fiction and statecraft, and the destabilization of monarchically imposed meaning, just as they would have then.
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OGGIANO, ELEONORA. "Rethinking royal spectacle in Elizabethan and Jacobean England." Doctoral thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/11562/399536.
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La tesi prende in esame gli intrattenimenti regali offerti a Elisabetta I, a Giacomo I Stuart e sua moglie Anna, in un periodo tra 1559 e il 1613. A quel tempo, varie forme di spettacolo venivano impiegate per celebrare ed intrattenere il sovrano, sia all’interno della corte che fuori. Considerando la diffusione di questi ‘spettacoli regali’ come un fenomeno che ha fortemente caratterizzato entrambi i periodi, scopo precipuo di questo studio sarà quello di indagarne lo sviluppo dall’epoca Elisabettiana a quella Giacomiana concentrandosi soprattutto sull’analisi del complesso rapporto fra ‘script’ e ‘testo spettacolare’. Fulcro dell’indagine saranno gli intrattenimenti organizzati in occasione della cerimonia d’entrata nella capitale del sovrano, come pure quelli allestiti durante i soggiorni estivi in provincia, ossia presso alcune città, le Università e le dimore della nobiltà. Attraverso la disamina congiunta di differenti tipologie di testo, fra le quali, ‘scripts’, lettere, dispacci e estratti da resoconti storici coevi, ciascun capitolo si propone di analizzare vari intrattenimenti, singolarmente o in gruppo, ponendo particolare attenzione al loro contesto ‘spettacolare’, al fine di tracciarne le modalità performative che li caratterizzano e individuare le diversità o corrispondenze nel passaggio da un’epoca all’altra. Partendo dal presupposto che questi intrattenimenti espongono il sovrano come ‘oggetto visibile’ e fulcro della performance ideando una ‘messa in scena’ intimamente legata a questioni ideologiche e politiche, l’indagine si offre inoltre di esaminare la complessa trama di riferimenti e allegorie che hanno contribuito a creare una sofisticata simbologia del potere regale attraverso la rappresentazione su vari scaffolds urbani e regionali di questa particolare categoria di spettacoli rinascimentali.This thesis focuses on the outdoor entertainments staged before Queen Elizabeth, King James Stuart and his wife, Queen Anne, over a period of fifty years. This was a time when different pageant shows were mounted to celebrate and entertain the monarchs, both inside and outside the court. The aim of this study is to trace the development of royal pageantry in Elizabethan and Jacobean England by investigating the complex text/stage relationship pertaining to such multifaceted forms of spectacle. Special attention will be paid to civic ceremonies, entertainments on progress, at the Universities and at aristocratic country houses. Although these performances took place within a broader entertainment culture and were organized for diverse occasions, they were set up as ‘shows in progress’ which had at their centre a royal guest who often figured as both spectator and performer. The focus is on a variety of ceremonial events, whose analysis first aims at shedding light on the structure of their textual accounts in order to understand how these ‘shows’ were staged and identify their performative features. By gathering together different textual accounts, such as printed publications of urban processions, outdoor shows and court masques, as well as dispatches, letters, and historical records, each chapter undertakes a close reading of one particular royal spectacle with the aim to reconstruct its staging by drawing attention to its performative context. Since these ‘royal triumphals’ are especially concerned with the notion of sovereign power, special emphasis will be laid on the type of iconography which is textually inscribed in the entertainment script and visually displayed through its performance by concentrating on the relationship between of verbal text and visual display. A focus on these issues allows to build up a picture of the staging of these outdoor performances in the transition from Elizabethan to Jacobean entertaining culture, by highlighting their different or equivalent stage practices.
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Vodička, Pavel. "Anglický královský dvůr a jeho proměny v kontextu první poloviny 17. století (1603-1640)." Doctoral thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-338122.
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The aim of the dissertation is a comparative analysis of the English royal court in the first half of the 17th century. The analytical part of the dissertation focuses on researching processes that influenced the structure and roles in the royal court in regards to the political, religious, economic, social and cultural development of the world. The benchmarks represent the personality of the ruler, institutional structure and personnel composition of the court, its financing and its culture. The comparison is a defined period of time between the beginning of James I (1603) and the end of the personal rule of Charles I (1640). The dissertation is based on critical analysis of the sources and studies of secondary literature. One of the features of the Royal Court during the rule of James I was the rivalry of various factions. In the interest of retaining a balance in power, the monarch revealed selected offices only to members of his Scottish clubs. Targeted strengthening of the influences of selected institutions of court, especially Bedchamber, ended up contributing to a significant weakening of the unitary system of the government, where the Privy Council played a key role up until then. In addition, between 1603 and 1625, there became a strong concentration of power in the hands of the royal...
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Powell, Damian X. (Damian Xavier). "James Whitelock's Liber Famelicus, 1570-1632." 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09php8822.pdf.
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Nesvadbová, Dominika. "Vznik Anglo-skotské unie roku 1707." Master's thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-449056.
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This diploma thesis analyzes the genesis of the issues of the Anglo-Scottish union. In its introduction the diploma thesis shortly mentions the events from the end of English Civil War in 1651 until the death of Charles II King of England. The thesis will deal in more detail with the genesis of the Anglo-Scottish and political relations as well as historical events of England from the reign of the catholic King of England James II, his expeletion in 1688, and consequential arrival of his nephew and at the same time son-in-law William III of Orange with his wife Queen Mary II. Thereafter Queen Anne of Great Britain, who became a successor to the throne in 1702, as the second daughter of King James II, during whose reign the Union and Great Britain was established, to her death in 1714 and the arrival of the Hanoverian dynasty. The diploma thesis does not lose focus attention to causation and circumstances, which brought the English and the Scots closer together, and resulting conclusion of the Anglo-Scottish union in 1707. And last but not least it also analyzes implications of these connections for future development of Great Britain.
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Šimečková, Michaela. "Teorie veřejného mínění devatenáctého století ve světle současnosti." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-325176.
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This diploma thesis is thematically oriented towards early theories of public opinion of the late 19th century. Concretely, it deals with the theories of Alexis de Tocqueville, John Stuart Mill and James Bryce. The thesis presents an analysis, interpretation and a comparison of these three thinkers and concentrates on the following topics: the definition of the term "public opinion"; the formation of public opinion; the influence individuals, groups and society as a whole have on public opinion; and the role the media play in public opinion. Further, it shows how these authors' thoughts are continued in selected 20th century theories of public opinion, namely in Walter Lippmann's concept of public opinion, the Two-step flow model developed by Elihu Katz and Paul Lazarsfeld, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann's Spiral of Silence, Irving Crespi's theory of the Public Opinion Process and Giovanni Sartori's "cascade model" of public opinion. Key words: public opinion, media, Two-step flow model, Spiral of Silence, Public Opinion Process, cascade model of public opinion, Alexis de Tocqeuville, John Stuart Mill, James Bryce, W. Lippmann, E. Katz, P. Lazarsfeld, E. Noelle-Neumann, I. Crespi, G. Sartori
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Masjed-Jamei, Mohammad [Verfasser]. "Some new classes of orthogonal polynomials and special functions : a symmetric generalization of Sturm-Liouville problems and its consequences / by Mohammad Masjed-Jamei." 2006. http://d-nb.info/98240851X/34.
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Tyler, John. "A Pragmatic Standard of Legal Validity." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2012-05-10885.
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American jurisprudence currently applies two incompatible validity standards to determine which laws are enforceable. The natural law tradition evaluates validity by an uncertain standard of divine law, and its methodology relies on contradictory views of human reason. Legal positivism, on the other hand, relies on a methodology that commits the analytic fallacy, separates law from its application, and produces an incomplete model of law.
These incompatible standards have created a schism in American jurisprudence that impairs the delivery of justice. This dissertation therefore formulates a new standard for legal validity. This new standard rejects the uncertainties and inconsistencies inherent in natural law theory. It also rejects the narrow linguistic methodology of legal positivism.
In their stead, this dissertation adopts a pragmatic methodology that develops a standard for legal validity based on actual legal experience. This approach focuses on the operations of law and its effects upon ongoing human activities, and it evaluates legal principles by applying the experimental method to the social consequences they produce. Because legal history provides a long record of past experimentation with legal principles, legal history is an essential feature of this method.
This new validity standard contains three principles. The principle of reason requires legal systems to respect every subject as a rational creature with a free will. The principle of reason also requires procedural due process to protect against the punishment of the innocent and the tyranny of the majority. Legal systems that respect their subjects' status as rational creatures with free wills permit their subjects to orient their own behavior. The principle of reason therefore requires substantive due process to ensure that laws provide dependable guideposts to individuals in orienting their behavior.
The principle of consent recognizes that the legitimacy of law derives from the consent of those subject to its power. Common law custom, the doctrine of stare decisis, and legislation sanctioned by the subjects' legitimate representatives all evidence consent.
The principle of autonomy establishes the authority of law. Laws must wield supremacy over political rulers, and political rulers must be subject to the same laws as other citizens. Political rulers may not arbitrarily alter the law to accord to their will.
Legal history demonstrates that, in the absence of a validity standard based on these principles, legal systems will not treat their subjects as ends in themselves. They will inevitably treat their subjects as mere means to other ends. Once laws do this, men have no rest from evil.