Mediaeval History: Recent submissions
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Early Umayyad Syria : a study of its origins and early development
(University of St Andrews, 2003-02) - ThesisThis is a study dealing with the origins and early development of Early Umayyad Syria to the early 660s, including a description of Syria at the end of the preceding period. Late Roman Syria's continuing material prosperity, ... -
The feudal nobility of Cyprus, 1192 - 1400
(University of St Andrews, 1974) - ThesisThis dissertation is a study of the lay nobility in Cyprus during the first two centuries of Lusignan rule . The first part begins with a chapter in which the term "feudal nobility" is defined with reference to Cyprus and ... -
Power, lordship, and landholding in Anjou, c.1000-c.1150
(University of St Andrews, 2014-06-26) - ThesisThis thesis explores the relationship between lordship and landholding in Anjou, from c.1000 to c.1150, focussing specifically on the effects of power upon that relationship. I consider questions central to lordship: how ... -
Depictions of sainthood in the Latin saints' lives of twelfth-century England
(University of St Andrews, 2014-07-28) - ThesisThis thesis examines the depiction of saintly figures within the Latin vitae of twelfth-century England (1066–c.1215). It tests the extent to which these depictions are homogeneous and examines what factors may have shaped ... -
The mirror broken anew : the manuscript evidence for opposition to Marguerite Porete's Latin 'Mirror of simple souls' in the later Middle Ages
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - ThesisThis thesis examines three manuscripts which demonstrate negative attitudes towards the Latin translation of the fourteenth-century Old French mystical work The Mirror of Simple Souls, written by Marguerite Porete. Marguerite ...