History (School of): Recent submissions
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The circulation and collection of Italian printed books in sixteenth-century France
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis is an examination of the circulation networks and the patterns of collection of Italian printed books in France in the sixteenth century. Although the cultural relations between the Italian and French territory ... -
Economic and financial strategies of the British Catholic community in the age of mercantilism, 1672-1781
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisThis dissertation examines the British Catholic community during the Age of Mercantilism. It opens with John Aylward’s trade in the early 1670s and closes with the death of Bishop Richard Challoner in the late eighteenth ... -
Lutheran piety and visual culture in the Duchy of Württemberg, 1534 – c. 1700
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisEarly modern Lutherans, as is well known, worshipped in decorated churches. They adopted a path of reform that neither disposed of all ornament nor retained all the material trappings of the Catholic church. This thesis ... -
Curing the common soul : rethinking Byzantine heresy through the literary motif of disease (11th-12th centuries)
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11) - ThesisThis thesis explores the literary topos in which heresy is defined in terms of disease, focusing particular attention on the reign of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118). By examining the portrayals of two ... -
Change in Northumbria : was Aldfrith of Northumbria's reign a period of innovation or did it merely reflect the development of processes already underway in the late seventh century?
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis looks at a period of Northumbrian history when the king was a part Irish, Iona trained scholar. Some have suggested that Aldfrith was assisted to the kingship by the northern victors of the battle of Nechtansmere. ...