History (School of): Recent submissions
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Calculating Time and the End of Time in the Carolingian World, c.740-820
(2011-12) - Journal articleThe hopes and fears associated with the imminence of apocalypse acted as catalysts for a number of significant changes in history. Relevant patterns of behaviour are not, however, always consistent. This paper examines the ... -
Images out of water : aspects of the interpretation of Ancient maritime grafitti
(University of St Andrews, 1997) - ThesisPictorial graffiti representing ships from prehistory, protohistory and the early medieval period are frequently examined by nautical historians and archaeologists seeking information about ancient ship technology. Examples ... -
'Bettered by the borrower': the use of historical extracts from twelfth-century historical works in three later twelfth- and thirteenth-century historical texts
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis takes as its starting point the use of extracts from the works of historical authors who wrote in England in the early to mid twelfth-century. It focuses upon the ways in which their works began to be incorporated ... -
Political imagination and the struggle for power : Algerian Islamism as a case study
(University of St Andrews, 2002) - ThesisThis dissertation is concerned with the case study of Algerian political Islam in the contemporary era. The central research question addressed here is two fold. First, the question of whether political Islam ... -
Conciliar politics and administration in the reign of Henry VII
(University of St Andrews, 2001) - ThesisSince Elton's commentary on the absence of critical study of the early Tudor council in 1964, some progress has been made towards a wider, fuller, more detailed understanding of Henry VII's council and where it fits-or ...