History (School of): Recent submissions
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Perfecting prevention : the medical writings of Maino de Maineri (d.c. 1368)
(University of St Andrews, 2006) - ThesisThis thesis provides evidence of the centrality of prevention to learned medicine as well as wider social interest in and demand for this type of advice in the fourteenth century. It is based on the four major medical ... -
Robert Beale and the Elizabethan polity
(University of St Andrews, 2000) - ThesisRobert Beale (c. 1541-1601) was one of the foremost (and certainly the best documented) of the 'second-rank' figures that inhabited the inner rings of the Elizabethan polity, and who in many senses characterised the ... -
The impact of the Union of 1707 on early eighteenth-century Fife electoral politics, 1707-1747
(University of St Andrews, 2006) - ThesisIn an unprecedented act of peaceful, albeit contentious, statesmanship, the 1707 Treaty of Union joined Scotland and England into one sovereign country. Now governed by the Parliament of Great Britain, Scotland was allowed ... -
England, the English and the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
(University of St Andrews, 2012) - ThesisThis thesis explores the role of England and the English during the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648), and provides the first major study of the between 50,000 and 60,000 Englishmen who fought for the ‘Protestant cause’ ... -
Preachers and governance in fifteenth-century Italian towns : a comparative investigation of three case studies
(University of St Andrews, 2012) - ThesisThis thesis examines the sermons of three conventual mendicant preachers in three 15th-century Italian cities: the Easter Sunday sermons of 1416 and 1417 of a Franciscan, Giovanni Coltellini; a 1446 sermon for the feast-day ...