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Sigalos, Eleftherios. "Housing in medieval and post-medieval Greece /." Leiden : University of Leiden, 2004. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb39248084k.
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Maurici, Ferdinando. "I castelli della Sicilia nell'età aragonese-catalana (1282-1400)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Girona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/673420.
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The long fourteenth century in Sicily can begin with the revolt of the Sicilian Vespers (1282) and end with the Congress of Caspe, the arrival of the first viceroy on the island and the defeat of the last baronial rebellions around 1418. Also in Sicily the fourteenth century was a time of cruel and bloody wars. In the aftermath of the “Ninety Years War” (1282-1372) against the rival Angevin kingdom, a series of civil wars took place and, from 1392, a short but violent war of resistance to the Aragonese-Catalan reconquest. The construction of a hundred new castles during this period fits into this context of war and daily violenceA Sicília el llarg segle XIV es pot obrir amb la revolta de les Vespres (1282) i tancar amb el Com-promís de Casp, amb l’arribada del virrrei a l’illa i la derrota de les darreres rebel·lions dels barons pels volts de 1418. A Sicília el Tres-Cents, també, va ser un temps de cruels i sanguinàries guerres. Poc després de la “Guerra del Noranta anys” (1282-1372) contra el rival regne angeví, es coneixen tot un seguit de guerres civils i, des de 1392, una breu però violenta guerra de resistència a la reconquesta catalano-aragonesa. La construcció d’un centenar de nous castells durant aquest periode es situa en aquest quadre de guerra i violència quotidiana
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Phillips, Kim M. "The medieval maiden : young womanhood in late medieval England." Thesis, University of York, 1997. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2439/.
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Baccianti, Sarah. "Telling stories in the Medieval North : Historical writing and literary artistry in Medieval England and Medieval Scandinavia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.530107.
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Newman, Caron. "Mapping the late medieval and post medieval landscape of Cumbria." Thesis, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10443/2556.
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This study is an analysis of the development of rural settlement patterns and field systems in Cumbria from the later medieval period through to the late eighteenth century. It uses documentary, cartographic and archaeological evidence. This evidence is interpreted utilising the techniques of historic landscape characterisation (HLC), map regression and maps created by the author, summarising and synthesising historical and archaeological data. The mapped settlement data, in particular, has been manipulated using tools of graphic analysis available within a Graphical Information System (GIS). The initial product is a digital map of Cumbria in the late eighteenth century, based on the county-scale maps of that period, enhanced with information taken from enclosure maps and awards, and other post medieval cartographic sources. From this baseline, an interpretation of the late medieval landscape was developed by adding information from other data sources, such as place names and documentary evidence. The approach was necessarily top-down and broad brush, in order to provide a landscape-scale, sub-regional view. This both addresses the deficiencies within the standard historical approach to landscape development, and complements such approaches. Standard historical approaches are strong on detail, but can be weak when conclusions based on localised examples are extrapolated and attributed to the wider landscape. The methodology adopted by this study allows those local analyses to be set within a broader landscape context, providing another tool to use alongside more traditional approaches to historic landscape studies. The Introduction sets out in detail the broad philosophical approaches taken by this study. It then describes the methodological approach of developing a digitised eighteenth century map and using this as a baseline for analysing and partially reconstructing the late medieval landscape. Chapter 2 discusses in detail the historical cartographic background and the technical aspects of eighteenth century map making, with particular reference to Cumbria. Chapter 3 examines the eighteenth century landscape, and the processes of change which led to its development out of the medieval landscape. A characterisation of the late eighteenth century landscape is presented. Chapters 4, 5 and 6 present an interpretation of the late medieval landscape of Cumbria, examining it through its lordship and structure and with a concentration on those aspects which are mappable attributes. Finally, a characterisation of the late medieval landscape is presented in Chapter 6. The conclusion, in Chapter 7 provides a comparison of the late eighteenth century and medieval landscape characterisations, an explanation of ii difference, and an evaluation of the research approach to understanding landscape development. There are two major products resulting from this study. The first is a digitised and enhanced county-scale map of the late eighteenth century landscape. The second is an interpretation of the late medieval landscape, based on the late eighteenth century composite map. Together, these provide a greater appreciation of the viability and value of post medieval map resources as an indicator of the later medieval landscape.
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Gudrun, Sveinbjarnardottir. "Settlement patterns in medieval and post-medieval Iceland: an interdisciplinary study." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.646160.
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Vidoni, Tullio. "Medieval seamanship under sail." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26936.
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Voyages of discovery could not be entertained until the advent of three-masted ships. Single-sailed ships were effective for voyages of short duration, undertaken with favourable winds. Ships with two masts could make long coastal voyages in the summer. Both these types had more or less severe limitations to sailing to windward. To sail any ship successfully in this mode it is necessary to be able to balance the sail plan accurately. This method of keeping course could not reach its full development until more than two sails were available for manipulation. Rudders
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Ships with three or more masts could be sailed in all weather with very little dependence on the power of the rudder and the freedom from this limitation made it possible to build ships large enough to carry sizable crews, their stores and spare gear over ocean crossings.Arts, Faculty of
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Roberts, Sara Elin. "Welsh medieval legal triads." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.396126.
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Wade, James Palmer. "Fairies in medieval romance." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.612469.
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Lott, Beryl. "Medieval buildings in Westmorland." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.481620.
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Bruce, A. C. "Medieval theories of imagination." Thesis, University of York, 1986. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.372769.
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Beckett, Ruth. "Medieval perspectives on Waverley." Thesis, University of York, 1991. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.292507.
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Anderson, Harald Jens. "Medieval accessus to Statius." The Ohio State University, 1997. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1371645234.
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Pinello, Christie. "Attempted ancient DNA detection of Plasmodium vivax in medieval and post-medieval Britain." Thesis, University of Manchester, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.495739.
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From social impacts to genetic mutations, malaria has greatly affected our species. Plasmodium vivax, one of the causative agents of human malaria, is of particular interest due to its widespread global dispersion and seemingly benign effects, the significance of which are increasingly becoming more apparent. Molecular genetics can be applied to the analysis of past populations in an attempt to better understand the changing nature of disease over time. This project aimed to assess the extent that it is possible to use ancient DNA sequencing to study changes in the molecular diversity of P. vivax in medieval and post-medieval England. Historical records from this time suggest that P. vivax dramatically changed in virulence from the 13th to the 19th centuries, causing mortality levels in marshland areas to peak in the 1600's. The analysis of ancient Plasmodium DNA extracted from the bones of individuals dating to these centuries allows us to explore changes in parasite structure and virulence, while also assessing the extent to which it is possible to use ancient DNA techniques to study changes in the molecular diversity of the parasite. As P. vivax leaves no pathological change in bone, biomolecular techniques provide the only method for a conclusive retrospective diagnosis. Ancient DNA extracted from the rib bones of 159 skeletons was screened for the presence of P. vivax using optimized PCR systems and DNA sequencing. Segments of the malarial 18S rRNA and cytochrome b genes, and the human mtDNA HVR1 regions were amplified, cloned and sequenced. There was no evidence for the presence of P. vivax in any of the bones, however P. falciparum DNA was detected in one, possibly two, bones and human DNA detected in 16 bones. This suggests poor pathogen DNA survival and/or inadequate current techniques. The results of this study highlight specific areas of aDNA research that need to be addressed to increase the effectiveness and utility of aDNA research. These include sample contamination, preferential microbial DNA amplification, PCR specificity, and the incorporation and survival of pathogen and endogenous DNA in bone. Ancient DNA techniques have great potential to make significant contributions to palaeodisease research. However, further development is needed before they can reliably and efficiently be applied to P. vivax aDNA studies.
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Azevedo, Leandro Villela de. "As obras inglesas de John Wycliffe inseridas no contexto religioso de sua época: da suma teológica de Aquino ao concílio de Constança , dos espirituais fransciscanos a Guilherme de Ockham." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-14062011-135520/.
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O período presente entre o começo do século XIV e ano de 1418 é indispensável para a compreensão do cenário religioso-político medieval e para a compreensão das bases do mesmo pensamento na Idade Moderna. Neste período temos a mudança da sede da Igreja Católica de Roma pra Avignon, o retorno da mesma para Roma, a divisão da Igreja em dois grupos, cada um liderado por um papa, o Cisma do Ocidente, cisma esse que dura por décadas. Temos a ampliação do pensamento herético, a conversa entre grupos heterodoxos, e tentativas de conciliação que nem sempre eram absolutas e levavam até mesmo a renúncia do cargo pontifical. Neste período viveu John Wycliffe, professor de teologia em Oxford, tendo produzido uma série de obras em latim e outra ainda maior em inglês. Divulgando seus ideias para o povo e criando seu próprio grupo, os Lolardos. Esse pensador, dialogando com os grandes pensadores católicos e revendo pensamentos de outras heresias anteriores, cria a premissa da impossibilidade de uma igreja que fosse ao mesmo tempo autenticamente cristã e institucionalizada ou poderosa, em sua obra The Wicket. Através de uma argumentação racional e humanista, Wycliffe formulou, de certa forma, a base para a reforma protestante, ao mesmo tempo que precisou ser descartado pela mesma, após seu crescimento nos círculos de poder e institucionalização. A melhor compreensão deste peculiar autor e de sua obra permite não somente compreender melhor o mundo da baixa Idade Média, suas disputas religiosas e políticas, como também aprofundar o conhecimento sobre as bases do pensamento moderno. Além de lançar bases para a própria problematização da estrutura do poder religioso em si, seja ele católico ou não.The Late Middle Ages, specially the period between 1305 and 1418 is indispensable to understand the political an religious though not only of the medieval people, but for the comprehension of the modern ages. In this small period of time much religious turbulence took place in Western Europe. The capital of the Catholic Church moved to Avignon and then returned to Roma, the Church slipt in two different factions in the Great Western Schism and each group was leaded by a different pope, both of them considering themselves as the sumo pontifce and the only true connection between God and men in earth. The Schism lasts for decades and each pope define the other as the antichrist. In this period the heretical though grown up and the attempts of reconciliations of the groups not always become effective, in matter of fact once even a pope renounced his post. John Wycliffe, professor of Theology in Oxford University, lived in this time. He produced a great number of papers in Latin and a even more great number of papers in middle English. His ideas continued with his followers the Lollards. This great thinker created important dialogues with the other heretical thinkers, being one of the most important pre-reformist theologian and creating the bases of the protestant reform. But the also created the idea that the true Christian church would never be institutionalized neither it could be powerful. In his sermon The Wicket, using humanistic reason, he united the words of Jesus in the Gospels to prove that would be impossible to create a strong institutionalized church. So, this particular paper was also put aside because it was not interesting for the newly created institutionalized church of the 16th century Studding this thinker and his works, specially the Wicket is very important to better understand not only the medieval church, but the institutionalized church of all times.
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Raye, Lee. "The forgotten beasts in medieval Britain : a study of extinct fauna in medieval sources." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2016. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/93165/.
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This thesis identifies and discusses historical and literary sources describing four species in the process of reintroduction: lynx (Lynx lynx), large whale (esp. Eubalena glacialis), beaver (Castor fiber) and crane (Grus grus). The scope includes medieval and early modern texts in English, Latin, and Welsh written in Britain before the species went extinct. The aims for each species are: (i) to reconstruct the medieval cultural memory; (ii) to contribute a cohesive extinction narrative; and (iii) to catalogue and provide an eco-sensitive reading of the main historical and literary references. Each chapter focuses on a different species: 1. The chapter on lynxes examines some new early references to the lynx and argues that the species became extinct in south Britain c.900 AD. Some hard-to-reconcile seventeenth century Scottish accounts are also explored. 2. The chapter on whales attributes the beginning of whale hunting to the ninth century in Britain, corresponding with the fish event horizon; but suggests a professional whaling industry only existed from the late medieval period. 3. The chapter on beavers identifies extinction dates based on the increasingly confused literary references to the beaver after c.1300 in south Britain and after c.1600 in Scotland, and the increase in fur importation. 4. The chapter on cranes emphasises the mixed perception of the crane throughout the medieval and early modern period. Cranes were simultaneously depicted as courtly falconers’ birds, greedy gluttons, and vigilant soldiers. More generally, the thesis considers the levels of reliability between eyewitness accounts and animal metaphors. It examines the process of ‘redelimitation’ which is triggered by population decline, whereby nomenclature and concepts attached to one species become transferred to another. Finally, it emphasises geographical determinism: species generally become extinct in south Britain centuries before Scotland.
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Croom, Jane Nicola. "The pre-medieval and medieval human landscape and settlement pattern of South-east Shropshire." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1989. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498039.
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The subject of this thesis is the pre-medieval and medieval settlement pattern and human landscape of south-east Shropshire. Using the multi-disciplinary techniques first developed by H P R Finberg and C C Taylor, the area's administrative geography is investigated, in particular the pattern of Anglo-Saxon land units and settlements. Urban origins in the area and the extent to which the towns' roles may have developed out of the earlier, estate-based systems of administrative and economic exchange are investigated using the very considerable documentary, toponymic and topographical evidence available. Special attention is paid to the early history of two of the area's later medieval towns Much Wenlock and Bridgnorth. Much Wenlock is a planned town, focused on a seventh century royal minster, and possibly a place of pre-medieval importance. Bridgnorth is a twelfth century "new town", with a royal burh and royal free chapel nearby. The research into the towns' origins and their relationship to the medieval and pre-medieval landscape includes the detailed topographical analysis of the region using the earliest reliable maps. The towns' subsequent medieval growth is also studied, particularly in respect of each one's several sorts of relationship (eg. socio-economic, ecclesiastical) with the area's rural society and landscape.
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Denham, Sean Dexter. "Animal exploitation in medieval Ireland." Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.492149.
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Two proxies are best suited to an investigation of animal exploitation in medieval Ireland, the historical record and the zooarchaeological record. Extensive analyses of both have been brought together here to address this topic. In selecting period documents to include in the study, an attempt was made t.o cover the various historical traditions seen in medieval Ireland; this includes Irish annals, Anglo-Norman administratixe documents, and narrative histories and observations from medieval writers. One of the more important aspects of this thesis was the accumulation of as authoritative corpus of zooarchaeological data as possible. Towards these ends, a large number ofpublished and unpublished reports have been brought together to form a complete picture ofthe state of the medieval Irish faunal record. Three new faunal assemblages, from Carrickmines Castle, Co. Dublin, Dunboyne Castle, Co. Meath, and Ballybarrack souterrain, Co. Louth, have also been analysed and included in the thesis. On a broader scale, this thesis highlights three problems in both the archaeology of medieval Ireland. The first of these is the integration of historical and archaeological data, and to what extent it is appropriate to do so. The second is a general problem within archaeology and that is the treatment of specialist reports. Too often such reports are either not fully published or not published at all, limiting or eliminating the usefulness of the data they contain. Alternatively, they are not readily accessible to researchers whom they would benefit. Finally, the state of the medieval Irish archaeological record is heavily biased towards Anglo-Norman/urban sites. This is of special significance in that, due to a lake of economic records, zooarchaeology is one ofthe few strands of evidence available which may shed light on animal exploitation in Gaelic Ireland. Supplied by The British Library - 'The world's knowledge'
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Jolin, Paula. "Epilepsy in medieval Islamic history." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0025/MQ50527.pdf.
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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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Camozzi, Pistoja Ambrogio. "Dante and the medieval Alexander." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648418.
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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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Al-Saraf, Nihaya Jawad Hamudi. "Aspects of medieval Arabic zoology." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.316415.
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Murgatroyd, Philip Scott. "Medieval warfare on the grid." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2012. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/3797/.
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Although historical studies are frequently perceived as clear narratives defined by a series of fixed events; in reality, even where critical historical events may be identified, historic documentation frequently lacks corroborative detail to support verifiable interpretation. Consequently, interpretation rarely rises above the level of unproven assertion and is rarely tested against a range of evidence. Agent-based simulation can provide an opportunity to break these cycles of academic claim and counter-claim. This thesis discusses the development of an agent-based simulation designed to investigate medieval military logistics so that new evidence may be generated to supplement existing historical analysis. It uses as a case-study the Byzantine army’s march to the battle of Manzikert (AD 1071), a key event in medieval history. It describes the design and implementation of a series of agent-based models and presents the results of these models. The analysis of these results shows that agent-based modelling is a powerful tool in investigating the practical limitations faced by medieval armies on campaign.
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Semper, Philippa Judith. "Diagrams in English medieval manuscripts." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.261166.
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This thesis examines diagrams found in English medieval manuscripts dating from the ninth to the fourteenth century. It is based upon a survey of diagrammatic material, the results of which are presented in the catalogue raisonnee (Appendix A). The lack of adequate terms to define diagrams is addressed, as is the lack of a consistent and coherent treatment of diagrams in existing literature. A close critique of diagrams can be an aid in dating manuscripts and tracing textual recensions, and therefore a well-defined yet flexible framework must be established in order to further future research. The catalogue establishes standard types for particular diagrams, which can be used for comparison and identification of examples in manuscripts. The discussion of the thesis is largely structured on a chronological basis, studying the types of diagrams which were in use in three periods; late Antiquity, the Dark Ages, and the twelfth to fourteenth centuries. The main diagrammatic forms which were transmitted from late classical commentaries in medieval manuscripts are analysed in terms of their content and technique. These diagrams are still influenced by Greek learning. Changes and adaptations in these forms and techniques are then observed. The degeneracy of learning in the Dark Ages is characterised by diagrams based on cyclical rather than circular forms. The availability of translations of Greek texts through Arab sources in the twelfth century leads again to precise diagrams which accompany logical textual exposition. Diagrams are finally viewed within the wider context of medieval art. Features of medieval aesthetics are highlighted which make it possible to approach diagrams in the same way as works of art. The importance of geometric structures to artistic composition is increased by the symbolic meanings which are attached to certain shapes and proportions. Pictorial diagrams themselves migrate into wall-paintings and floor-mosaics, and also eventually into literature
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Barroca, Mário Jorge. "Epigrafia medieval portuguesa : 862-1422." Doctoral thesis, [Lisboa] : Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian : Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/55736.
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Goodison, Natalie Jayne. "Transformations in medieval English romance." Thesis, Durham University, 2017. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12054/.
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This thesis examines the role of supernatural transformation in medieval English romance. It explores corporeal changes of humans transformed into animals, monstrous men, loathly ladies, as well as the transformative effects of death. However, transformations could also alter one’s identity and interior states of being. Transformation in these texts is revealed to affect the body as well as the spirit. This symbiotic relationship between outward body and interior spirit is first demonstrated between two separate persons, and progresses to become localized within the one body and the same soul. Illicit practices of magic as well as the supernatural, powers of the faery otherworld as well as divine might, initiate these transformations. While romance transformations occur through various sources, both licit and illicit, the authors and redactors of these romances consistently employ religious imagery or belief at moments of transformation. This engagement with religious precepts proves to be surprising and unorthodox. As such this thesis explores the relationship between religious belief and the politics of disenchantment.
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Canales, Llantoy Luis Alfonso, and Vega Francisco Pariona. "Medieval Combat Con realidad virtual." Bachelor's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/621891.
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This paper describes the development of Medieval Combat con Realidad Virtual project, which was born in the wake of the negative impact that traditional interfaces (keyboard, mouse) have in the immersion in virtual reality. The project's general objective is the implementation of a virtual reality videogame integrating various virtual reality tools (natural user interfaces), which will be demonstrated by developing one application(videogame) that integrates the natural user interfaces (NUIs) Kinect and Wii Remote with the virtual reality technology Oculus Rift. One of the applications of virtual reality is the simulation of a virtual environment generated from the memory of a computer. The main difference between simulation and three-dimensional animation is that simulation interacts with the user. The generated simulation environments are based on three-dimensional geometric representations and algorithms for synthesis of images to represent a realistic visualization. Due to the graphic quality of these environments and the absence of external sensory stimuli, the user may experience a sensory immersion while it is in this artificial environment. Consequently, the user stops perceiving the real environment and becomes immersed in the virtual world.Tesis
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Webb, Nicholas Hart. "Early medieval Welsh book-production." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1988. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.432322.
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Misa, Henry R. "Climate in Medieval Central Eurasia." The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1578000733718613.
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Ghafoori, Ali. "Polemics in Medieval Sufi Biographies." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12127/.
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The eleventh and twelfth centuries represent a critical formative period for institutions and practices that characterized later Islam. Sufism also emerged during the same period as a distinct mode of piety that gained widespread acceptance in the aftermath of Mongol invasions in the thirteenth century. Using early Sufi biographies produced in Khorasan during that period, this study will argue that the early Sufis were not only preoccupied with locating their own tradition within the Islamic orthodoxy but also defining the contours of what constituted acceptable Islam. The sources used are predominantly Persian Sufi biographies composed in Khorasan which form the main body of historiography of Sufism.
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Henderson, Dave. "The medieval English begging poem." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/5580.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2008.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 June 8, 2009) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.
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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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Nelson, Kathleen E. "Medieval liturgical music of Zamora /." Ottawa : The Institute of Mediaeval music, 1996. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb369600647.
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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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Bhaduri, Reena. "Social formation in medieval Bengal /." Kolkata : Bibhasa, 2001. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb401409270.
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Ghafoori, Ali Stockdale Nancy L. "Polemics in medieval sufi biographies." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12127.
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Jones, Owain Wyn. "Historical writing in medieval Wales." Thesis, Bangor University, 2013. https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/historical-writing-in-medieval-wales(43884bc6-c386-427b-9f67-a3dad4043135).html.
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This study focusses on the writing of history in medieval Wales. Its starting-point is a series of historical texts in Middle Welsh which, from the second quarter of the fourteenth century, begin to appear together in manuscripts to form a continuous history, termed the Welsh Historical Continuum. The central component of this sequence is a translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s influential history of the Britons. The main questions of the first part of the thesis are when and why these historical texts were first combined, and to what degree this Welsh historiographical phenomenon reflects broader European trends. Codicology, textual typology, a geographically centred case-study and comparison with similar texts in Latin, Anglo-Norman French, Middle English and Icelandic are the main areas of research. The second part of the thesis moves on to consider the chronicle writing which formed the basis for the third part of the Historical Continuum, and then brings the study together with a discussion of the role of the Cistercians in the writing of history in medieval Wales. The fourth chapter’s re-assessment of Brut y Tywysogion offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of one of the most important narrative sources for medieval Wales. The fifth chapter discusses a neglected but significant Welsh chronicle, O Oes Gwrtheyrn, a new edition of which is appended to the thesis. The discussion of the Cistercian order in the sixth chapter serves in some ways as a synopsis and a conclusion, since it fits the diverse matters discussed in previous chapters into a general discussion of the important role these monastic institutions played in the formation and dissemination of what became the standard narrative of Welsh history for several centuries. Overall, the thesis is a wide-ranging and comprehensive investigation of the most influential and enduring historical narrative to emerge from medieval Wales.
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Barroca, Mário Jorge. "Epigrafia medieval portuguesa : 862-1422." Tese, [Lisboa] : Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian : Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, 2000. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000107919.
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Gogol, Nityananda. "Historical geography of medieval Assam." Thesis, University of Gauhati, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1594.
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Silvester, R. J. "Insights into medieval and early post-medieval rural settlement and the landscape in eastern Wales." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.606095.
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In the later 1990s, Cadw initiated an examination of known deserted medieval and early post-medieval rural settlements throughout Wales, primarily as a programme geared to scheduling enhancement but subsequently also as a more academic exercise on a theme that had received relatively little attention in the Principality after the 19605. This project was the genesis of the first paper presented here, and the catalyst for most of the others. Various themes have been tackled in recent years. House platforms are one of the most common of sites amongst the suite of settlement forms in Wales, something largely unacknowledged by specialists. Identified within dispersed fanning settlements, shrunken nucleated settlements, and as seasonally occupied dwellings in the hills, they are found over virtually the entire country. The distribution is, however, skewed strongly towards upland areas, reflecting a general bias in fieldwork. Upland platforms are in a few localities associated with cultivation remains, comparable with those on the moorlands of south-western England. The recognition of such remains is an on-going though elusive task. The transition from nucleated settlement to individual farm in the later medieval period has been proposed by historians and can be paralleled in the field record though chronological confirmation is at best occasional. A distinctive characteristic of the Welsh uplands are the widespread, seasonally occupied settlements attested by surface remains, place-names and documentary evidence: surprisingly there has been little recent study of the phenomenon. Similarly, the study of encroachment on the commons has also been the preserve of the historian, but the scale of that activity was such that there is considerable scope for both the archaeologist and the landscape historian. The landscape, indeed, is the backdrop to all of these settlement studies, and east Wales provides a rich potential for examining the evolving landscape and the human activity that fashions it. This is considered in two papers, on Welsh borderland forests in the medieval era and on the development of a gentry estate overlooking the Severn valley.
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Flavin, Christopher Michael. "The Self, the Church, and Medieval Identities: The Evolution of the Individual in Medieval Literature." OpenSIUC, 2011. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/dissertations/335.
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This dissertation examines the construction of literary identities by medieval women, recognizable as an authorial voice that is distinct from those of her contemporaries yet congruent with the gender norms and expectations of her contemporary culture, in both religious and secular literatures from late antiquity through the waning of the Middle Ages. The argument posited here is that texts authored by women, as informed by concurrent male texts and the literary traditions in which individual authors seek to participate, can be read as a taxonomy of responses to the traditions individual authors appropriate and to their contemporaries, directly responding to and incorporating elements from each in order to position themselves within the literate culture by accessing the shared traditions, norms and memories of the community. Focusing on primary texts authored by women makes it possible to more fully examine the intertextual nature of women's identity in medieval literature, the impact of male discourse on the identities available to women as writers and as women, and the diverse positions they assign to themselves through the construction of literary identities, both orthodox and heterodox. The delimination of the culture and the traditions in which individual authors participate clarifies both the self-positioning engaged in by individual authors and the function of their text, in its native context, while placing these texts and their authors in a meaningful context for modern scholars. The project is divided into six broadly chronological chapters which engage with key authors and place them in dialogue with both their male contemporaries and previous generations of women's writings. The first chapter, "(En)Gendering Texts," focuses on the texts from late antiquity which have the most measurable and lasting impact on subsequent women's writings and engage directly with the patristic sources for communal Christian identity in the period. The second chapter, "Perpetua and Her Daughters," highlights the role of women's texts in the education of both genders throughout the period and begins the process of contextualizing women's independent identities within the rubric of the Christian West. Chapter Three, "Constructing a New Self," approaches the letters of Heloise to Abelard and her other correspondents as a model for women's writing and the construction of polysemic identities within the traditions. Chapter Four, "Re-Envisioning the Passions," places mystics such as Hildegard of Bingen and Julian of Norwich in dialogue with the patristic traditions and medieval philosophy in order to illustrate the degrees of self-determination possible in women's texts while continuing to be viewed as orthodox. The fifth chapter examines the phenomena of affective piety, ascetic mysticism, and the uses of the body in creating a tangible identity for women writers in the period. The final chapter examines the tensions between the medieval and patristic traditions and the changing political and social geography of the later Middle Ages and the impact of these cultural shifts on women's writing and their access to the traditions.
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Sato, H. "PEACE AND CONFLICTS IN LATE MEDIEVAL JAPAN AND EUROPE." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2434/172806.
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This dissertation elaborates on a comparative analysis of late medieval local realities, between some Japanese and European cases, regarding local conflicts in the 14th and 15th centuries. Research objects are Yano-no-shō, a Japanese shōen in Harima, and western Alpine territories between the Ossola valley and Valais. A particular attention is placed on the local élites' active involvement in local conflicts, in the political action in which people of various origine encountered, and in the dynamics of the development of local political culture.This situation offered articulated logics of peace, as a base of legitimization of their actions in the middle of intense conflictuality.
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Watts, Rebecca. "Childhood development and adult longevity in archaeological populations from medieval and post-medieval England (AD950-1855)." Thesis, University of Reading, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.631678.
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This study examined the age-at-death distribution of multiple indicators of non-specific stress in archaeological populations from multi-period sites spanning medieval and postmedieval England (AD 950-1855). The aim was to assess how disruptions during specific periods of childhood development (between six months of age to growth completion) affected adult longevity. It was hypothesised that greater levels of childhood stress would have a negative impact on long term health, resulting in reduced adult longevity. This would be evident in a greater prevalence of stress indicators among individuals who died during early adulthood. Adult skeletons from Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire (a small market town), and 13 London cemeteries were examined for the presence of cribra orbitalia and linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH), reduced diameters of the vertebral neural canal (VNC), fluctuating asymmetry of the craniofacial skeleton and short femoral lengths. Individuals who died between 18-25 years had experienced chronic ill-health before 15 years of age, resulting in smaller transverse diameters of the VNC than individuals who lived into older adulthood. Levels of LEH were comparable in all age categories, suggesting illnesses responsible for enamel defects did not have a detrimental effect on longevity. An earlier age-at-death for males and females with small transverse VNC diameters was observed at both sites and all cemetery periods, excepting low status females and high status males from post-medieval London. Similarities in the prevalence of stress indicators at Barton-upon-Humber and London may suggest that many adults living in London were migrants who grew up in small towns where environmental conditions were similar to Barton-upon-Humber. Females with a history of poor health were unlikely to migrate, while the privileged status of wealthy males protected them from health insults. This study demonstrates how analysing multiple stress indicators can elucidate the long term sequelae of stress which occurred at specific periods of childhood development.
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Lawrence, Thomas Andrew. "Negotiating the medieval imagetext: a phenomenological approach to the study of late medieval English mixed media." Thesis, University of Kent, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.652024.
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This thesis combines a practical phenomenological approach (based upon the phenomenological writings of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty) with the theoretical criticism of W.J.T. Mitchell, in order to negotiate the function and effect of image and text interactions in three distinct forms of late medieval English 'mixed media': the Middle English ekphrastic poem, Pearl; the Middle English illustrated poem, A Disputation between the Body and Worms; and the elaborate mural painting of St Catherine of Alexandria preserved at St. Peter and Paul's Church in Pickering, North Yorkshire. It aims to give an account of these composite works of art not as historical cultural objects, but as lived - immediate, temporal and affective - phenomena, arguing that the lived experiences of medieval works of art are not entirely lost to us, but can be assessed through our modem contact with them. This study demonstrates how, in the absence of historical evidence, modem experience can provide valuable insight into how medieval works of art may have operated upon, and been experienced by, their medieval audiences. By combining a practical phenomenological approach with Mitchell's concept of the imagetext, the thesis shows that it is possible to move beyond the comparison of image and text in medieval media, and consider how visual and verbal modes interact within a medium when it is performed by a user. The thesis reveals the importance of the user in the study of medieval art, arguing that it is the user's perception, imagination and memory that form connections between image and text in medieval media. It advises that we must examine the role of the user of the medieval works of art if we are to advance our understanding of the function and effect of image and text interactions, and offers three case studies of how this research could be undertaken.
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Pallipurath, Anuradha Radhakrishnan. "Non-invasive spectroscopic study of simulated medieval paints : method development and their use in medieval manuscripts." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.648357.
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Bethlehem, Ulrike. "Guinevere, a medieval puzzle : images of Arthur's Queen in the medieval literature of England and France /." Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2005. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb399654430.
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Gomes, Maria Joana Matos. "As Condessas traidoras e a terra de Espanha." Master's thesis, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10216/14664.
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A lenda da Condessa traidora é um relato ficcional que surge pela primeira vez na historiografia medieval peninsular nos finais do século XII, na Crónica Najarense. Ao longo dos dois séculos seguintes (século XIII-XIV) a Lenda conheceu reescritas em Castela (Toledano, Versão Crítica, Versão Amplificada). Em Portugal, a Lenda comparece na obra intitulada Crónica Geral de Espanha de 1344 do conde dom Pedro de Barcelos, neto de Dom Dinis e bisneto do rei Sábio, Afonso X de Castela. Este trabalho faz uma análise das várias versões da Lenda, um estudo das personagens mais importantes bem como das circunstâncias contextuais que rodearam a reescrita da Lenda, que foi sendo construída com material de origem diversa como por exemplo o Conto de Salomão. O estudo da Lenda da Condessa Traidora permite levantar questões relacionadas com a misoginia medieval, com a terra de Espanha e também com a problemática textual dos manuscritos portugueses e castelhanos que testemunham as obras historiográficas medievais.
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Gomes, Maria Joana Matos. "As Condessas traidoras e a terra de Espanha." Dissertação, Porto : [Edição do Autor], 2006. http://aleph.letras.up.pt/F?func=find-b&find_code=SYS&request=000181853.
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A lenda da Condessa traidora é um relato ficcional que surge pela primeira vez na historiografia medieval peninsular nos finais do século XII, na Crónica Najarense. Ao longo dos dois séculos seguintes (século XIII-XIV) a Lenda conheceu reescritas em Castela (Toledano, Versão Crítica, Versão Amplificada). Em Portugal, a Lenda comparece na obra intitulada Crónica Geral de Espanha de 1344 do conde dom Pedro de Barcelos, neto de Dom Dinis e bisneto do rei Sábio, Afonso X de Castela. Este trabalho faz uma análise das várias versões da Lenda, um estudo das personagens mais importantes bem como das circunstâncias contextuais que rodearam a reescrita da Lenda, que foi sendo construída com material de origem diversa como por exemplo o Conto de Salomão. O estudo da Lenda da Condessa Traidora permite levantar questões relacionadas com a misoginia medieval, com a terra de Espanha e também com a problemática textual dos manuscritos portugueses e castelhanos que testemunham as obras historiográficas medievais.
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Schmid, David Neil. "Yuanqi medieval Buddhist narratives from Dunhuang /." online access from Digital dissertation consortium, 2002. http://libweb.cityu.edu.hk/cgi-bin/er/db/ddcdiss.pl?3043951.
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