History (School of): Recent submissions
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State and aristocracy in the Sasanian Empire
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - ThesisThis thesis aims to consider the competing visions of Sasanian Iran advanced by Arthur Christensen in ‘L’Iran sous les Sassanides’ (1944) and Parvaneh Pourshariati in ‘Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire’ (2008), discuss ... -
The image of ecclesiastical restorers in narrative sources in England c.1070-1130
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - ThesisThis thesis explores the depiction of ecclesiastical restorers in narrative sources in England between c.1070 and 1130. It examines the way in which contemporaries wrote about churchmen who were engaged in restoring the ... -
Le orecchie si piene di Fiandra : Italian news and histories on the Revolt in the Netherlands (1566-1648)
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisThis thesis examines the Italian news reports, political debates and histories of the revolt in the Netherlands between 1566 and 1648. Many Italians were directly involved in this conflict and were keen narrators of these ... -
Abbatial elections : the case of the Loire Valley in the eleventh century
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - ThesisThis thesis examines a series of documents described as electoral charters, produced in monastic institutions of the Loire Valley from the late tenth to late eleventh centuries. By considering the variations in the formulas ... -
The Glasgow City Improvement Trust : an analysis of its genesis, impact and legacy and an inventory of its buildings, 1866-1910
(University of St Andrews, 2003-09) - ThesisThis dissertation comprises a descriptive and analytical account of the workings of the Glasgow City Improvement Trust (from 1895, the Glasgow City Improvement Department), together with a comprehensive inventory of its ...