Mediaeval History: Recent submissions
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Curing the common soul : rethinking Byzantine heresy through the literary motif of disease (11th-12th centuries)
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11) - ThesisThis thesis explores the literary topos in which heresy is defined in terms of disease, focusing particular attention on the reign of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118). By examining the portrayals of two ... -
Change in Northumbria : was Aldfrith of Northumbria's reign a period of innovation or did it merely reflect the development of processes already underway in the late seventh century?
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis looks at a period of Northumbrian history when the king was a part Irish, Iona trained scholar. Some have suggested that Aldfrith was assisted to the kingship by the northern victors of the battle of Nechtansmere. ... -
Images out of water : aspects of the interpretation of Ancient maritime grafitti
(University of St Andrews, 1997) - ThesisPictorial graffiti representing ships from prehistory, protohistory and the early medieval period are frequently examined by nautical historians and archaeologists seeking information about ancient ship technology. Examples ... -
'Bettered by the borrower': the use of historical extracts from twelfth-century historical works in three later twelfth- and thirteenth-century historical texts
(University of St Andrews, 2015-11-30) - ThesisThis thesis takes as its starting point the use of extracts from the works of historical authors who wrote in England in the early to mid twelfth-century. It focuses upon the ways in which their works began to be incorporated ... -
Protestant polemic and the nature of evangelical dissent, 1538-1553
(University of St Andrews, 1998) - ThesisThis study explores how Protestant writers during the period 1538-1553 dealt with the threats and opportunities that were offered to Protestant reform in England by the Royal Supremacy. Though initially propagandists ...