History (School of): Recent submissions
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'The “English disease” : identities of melancholy in early modern England'
(2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis explores the various identities of the disease of melancholy in England between c.1580 and 1789. Melancholy was a disease with a long and ambiguous history of symptoms and meanings which can be traced back to ... -
Between internationalism and nationalism : the Esperanto movement in the Iberian Peninsula in the early twentieth century
(2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis is, first of all, an account of the Esperanto movement in the Iberian Peninsula. A largely unexplored phenomenon in general, the development of the constructed language in Southern Europe has not been addressed ... -
New state, old vices : the everyday dimensions of gaming and gambling under the Portuguese Estado Novo, 1933-1974
(2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis explores the dynamics of class segregation as well as questions of agency and autonomy under the Portuguese Estado Novo regime through the analytical prism of adult gaming. Taking ongoing debates about the ... -
Lordship in the eastern Campania, c. 1053-1127
(2022-11-30) - ThesisBased principally on the examination of surviving diplomatic material, this thesis argues that lordship determined societal organisation in the eastern Campania between c. 1053 and 1127. This provides the first systematic ... -
Folcuin and the politics of writing institutional history after the end of the Carolingian Empire
(2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis examines the relationship between politics and the writing of institutional history (cartularies and gesta) after the end of the Carolingian Empire (888) from the perspective of Folcuin of St-Bertin and Lobbes ...