Mediaeval History: Recent submissions

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    • The use of ritualised acts in late medieval mystical narratives 

      Buncombe, Miriam (University of St Andrews, 2015) - Thesis
      This thesis addresses the function of the depiction of ritualised acts in late medieval mystical narratives through the use of four case studies, those of Mechthild of Magdeburg’s Flowing Light of the Godhead (c. 1260), ...

    • The 'Passiones' of St. Kilian : cult, politics and society in the Carolingian and Ottonian worlds 

      Thornborough, Joanna (University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - Thesis
      The subject of this thesis is the relationship between hagiography and cult in the early medieval west taken through the example of the Passiones of St. Kilian of Würzburg († 689) in the period from circa 700 to circa 1000 ...

    • State and aristocracy in the Sasanian Empire 

      Bagot, David John (University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - Thesis
      This thesis aims to consider the competing visions of Sasanian Iran advanced by Arthur Christensen in ‘L’Iran sous les Sassanides’ (1944) and Parvaneh Pourshariati in ‘Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire’ (2008), discuss ...

    • The image of ecclesiastical restorers in narrative sources in England c.1070-1130 

      French, Michael (University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - Thesis
      This thesis explores the depiction of ecclesiastical restorers in narrative sources in England between c.1070 and 1130. It examines the way in which contemporaries wrote about churchmen who were engaged in restoring the ...

    • Abbatial elections : the case of the Loire Valley in the eleventh century 

      Howie, Catriona V (University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - Thesis
      This thesis examines a series of documents described as electoral charters, produced in monastic institutions of the Loire Valley from the late tenth to late eleventh centuries. By considering the variations in the formulas ...