History (School of): Recent submissions

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    • The mediaeval bestiary and its textual tradition 

      Stewart, Patricia (University of St Andrews, 2012) - Thesis
      This thesis examines the textual development of the medieval Latin prose bestiary throughout Europe over the course of the Middle Ages and uses this, in conjunction with a detailed study of the manuscripts, to propose ...

    • Representations of collective action in Mantua and Parma, c.1000-c.1120 

      Houghton, Robert (University of St Andrews, 2013) - Thesis
      During the 1970s Keller codified a Ständeordnung (social order) in the cities of Italy in the ninth to twelfth centuries dividing political society into three ordines: the capitanei (high nobility), valvassores (low ...

    • A biographical and critical study of the life and writings of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes 

      Carnie, Robert Hay (University of St Andrews, 1954) - Thesis
      The name of Sir David Dalrymple, Lord Hailes has always been known to students of Scottish history by reason of his "Annals of Scotland", long accepted as a fundamental reference book for that period of Scottish history ...

    • Henry Hallam revisited 

      Bentley, Michael John (2012-06) - Journal article
      Although Henry Hallam (1777–1859) is best known for his Constitutional History of England (1827) and as a founder of ‘whig’ history, to situate him primarily as a mere critic of David Hume or as an apprentice to Thomas ...

    • Living like the laity? : The negotiation of religious status in the cities of late medieval Italy 

      Andrews, Frances (2010-12) - Journal article
      Framed by consideration of images of treasurers on the books of the treasury in thirteenth-century Siena, this article uses evidence for the employment of men of religion in city offices in central and northern Italy to ...