History (School of): Recent submissions

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    • Learning from loss : eroding coastal heritage in Scotland 

      Graham Allsop, Elinor Louise; Dawson, Thomas Christopher; Hambly, Joanna (2017-11-09) - Journal article
      Heritage sites are constantly changing due to natural processes, and this change can happen fastest at the coast. Much legislation has been enacted to protect sites of historic interest, but these do not protect sites from ...

    • Magnificence and materiality : the commerce and culture of Flemish luxuries in late medieval Scotland 

      French, Morvern (University of St Andrews, 2017-06-22) - Thesis
      This thesis explores the prestige associated in late medieval Scotland with Flemish luxury products, using a material culture-based approach founded on the premise that objects can reveal the beliefs and attitudes of those ...

    • The reinvention of jihād in twelfth-century al-Shām 

      Goudie, Kenneth Alexander (University of St Andrews, 2016-11-30) - Thesis
      This thesis examines the reinvention of jihād ideology in twelfth‑century al‑Shām. In modern scholarship there is a tendency to speak of a revival of jihād in the twelfth century, but discussion of this revival has been ...

    • John of Salisbury and law 

      Esser, Maxine Kristy (University of St Andrews, 2017-12-08) - Thesis
      The aim of this thesis is to consider the knowledge and use of law by John of Salisbury, evaluating what he thought law should be, whence it originated and how it related to aspects of society, for example the institutions ...

    • Roger Morrice and his 'Entring book' : 'all the news that's fit to print' 

      Bide, Richard William (University of St Andrews, 2017) - Thesis
      It is a reasonable assumption to make that anyone with a passing knowledge of British history will have heard of Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth-century ‘man about town’. His diary has been the subject of extensive research ...