Mediaeval History: Recent submissions

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    • The reinvention of jihād in twelfth-century al-Shām 

      Goudie, Kenneth Alexander (University of St Andrews, 2016-11-30) - Thesis
      This thesis examines the reinvention of jihād ideology in twelfth‑century al‑Shām. In modern scholarship there is a tendency to speak of a revival of jihād in the twelfth century, but discussion of this revival has been ...

    • John of Salisbury and law 

      Esser, Maxine Kristy (University of St Andrews, 2017-12-08) - Thesis
      The aim of this thesis is to consider the knowledge and use of law by John of Salisbury, evaluating what he thought law should be, whence it originated and how it related to aspects of society, for example the institutions ...

    • Reading Paul and Dante in the fourteenth century 

      Gustaw, Chantal (University of St Andrews, 2015-09) - Thesis
      Given the importance of Paul for Dante’s characterization of the pilgrim, and his invocation of the Pauline Epistles throughout the Commedia, this thesis began by asking how important Paul was to Dante’s fourteenth-century ...

    • Edward I and the Crusades 

      Beebe, Bruce (University of St Andrews, 1971) - Thesis
      [This thesis has] “…attempted to define and discuss as many aspects of English crusade policy in the late thirteenth century as the source material will allow. Following a brief chronological summary of Edward’s involvement ...

    • Messengers in later medieval England 

      Hu, Jiazhu (University of St Andrews, 2017) - Thesis
      Messengers were well acknowledged as a profession in late medieval England, providing a prototype of postal service of later centuries. Yet varied documents other than Exchequer records expose a terminological confusion ...