History (School of): Recent submissions
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"From water every living thing" : water mills, irrigation and agriculture in the Bilād al-Shām : perspectives on history, architecture, landscape and society, 1100-1850AD
(University of St Andrews, 2006) - ThesisThis work explores the role of the watermill in the history and society of Jordan, Syria and Cyprus from the 12th to the 19th century. Previous studies in this area have been limited, and have usually assumed the watermills ... -
Blessed are those who weep : gratia lacrymarum in thirteenth-century hagiographies
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06-26) - ThesisHagiographies and canonisation processes from the thirteenth century are frequently saturated with descriptions of tears. The tears of holy men and women were both the means to, and apex of, spiritual perfection. Using ... -
Convivencia femenina? : the interfaith interactions of women in late mediaeval and early modern Castile, c.1440-1571
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisSpanish demography was permanently altered when Los Reyes Católicos expelled all Jewish inhabitants from Castile in 1492. Earlier that same year, the last vestiges of Muslim power had disappeared with the full political ... -
The use of ritualised acts in late medieval mystical narratives
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisThis thesis addresses the function of the depiction of ritualised acts in late medieval mystical narratives through the use of four case studies, those of Mechthild of Magdeburg’s Flowing Light of the Godhead (c. 1260), ... -
The 'Passiones' of St. Kilian : cult, politics and society in the Carolingian and Ottonian worlds
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - ThesisThe subject of this thesis is the relationship between hagiography and cult in the early medieval west taken through the example of the Passiones of St. Kilian of Würzburg († 689) in the period from circa 700 to circa 1000 ...