History (School of): Recent submissions
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A culture of reuse : libraries, learning and memory in early modern Germany
(2022-11-29) - ThesisThis dissertation studies the collection and reuse of scholarly books in early modern Germany. Employing a book-historical methodology for the wider history of knowledge, I show why used books played such a central role ... -
The Topkapı Sarayı Müzesi Qurʾān manuscript H.S. 32 : its history, text, and variants
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - Thesis -
The London Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the First World War : musical institutions, cultural identity and national conflict in Britain and Imperial Germany
(University of St Andrews, 2022-01-17) - ThesisThis thesis offers a comparative study of the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) during the First World War (WWI), examining how their music-making and their performances were ... -
“To promote some publick Good, by the Joint Endeavours of a Number of People” : hereditary societies in Philadelphia and Charleston, 1740-1810
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis focuses on the English, German, and Scottish societies in Philadelphia and Charleston from the 1740s until the 1810s. It argues the significance of early American charitable organizations in maintaining and ... -
How Arthurian knights fought : reading late medieval romances with fight books
(University of St Andrews, 2022-06-16) - ThesisThis thesis offers a new and interdisciplinary approach to depictions of fighting in late medieval chivalric romances by combining Arthurian literary studies with the emergent field of Historical European Martial Arts ...