History (School of): Recent submissions
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A failed alliance and expanding horizons : relations between the Austrian Habsburgs and the Safavid Persians in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06-26) - ThesisThroughout the 16th and 17th centuries, both Austria and Persia were each repeatedly at war with the Ottoman Turks. Diplomats travelled between the two countries in an attempt to forge an alliance against their common ... -
Power, lordship, and landholding in Anjou, c.1000-c.1150
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06-26) - ThesisThis thesis explores the relationship between lordship and landholding in Anjou, from c.1000 to c.1150, focussing specifically on the effects of power upon that relationship. I consider questions central to lordship: how ... -
Latin books published in Paris, 1501-1540
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06) - ThesisThis is a study of the Parisian Latin book industry in the first four decades of the sixteenth century. It challenges the assumption that the Reformation brought about a profound change in the European print world. Luther’s ... -
Identities of class, locations of radicalism : popular politics in inter-war Scotland
(University of St Andrews, 2014-12-01) - ThesisThis thesis explores the shifting political culture of inter-war Scotland and Britain via an examination of political identities and practice in Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh. Drawing on the local and national archives ... -
Depictions of sainthood in the Latin saints' lives of twelfth-century England
(University of St Andrews, 2014-07-28) - ThesisThis thesis examines the depiction of saintly figures within the Latin vitae of twelfth-century England (1066–c.1215). It tests the extent to which these depictions are homogeneous and examines what factors may have shaped ...