Browsing Mediaeval History Theses by Title
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Abbatial elections : the case of the Loire Valley in the eleventh century
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - ThesisThis 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 ... -
Administration on the estates of Humphrey Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, 1402-1460
(University of St Andrews, 1973) - ThesisThe purpose of this work is to describe the system of administration which existed on the estates of a megnatic of the fifteenth century, using mainly the estate records, the accounts, as source materials. To set the period ... -
An analysis of the correspondence and hagiographical works of Philip of Harvengt
(University of St Andrews, 2008-06) - ThesisFor every famous author of the twelfth-century renaissance, there are numerous lesser-known writers. Despite being overshadowed by more brilliant scholars or those closer to the centre of important events, their voices add ... -
The Anglo-Saxon and Irish ideal of the Ciuitas, c. 500-1050
(University of St Andrews, 2010-06-24) - ThesisThis thesis examines the ideal of the Anglo-Saxon and Irish ciuitas, c. 500-1050, by considering what Anglo-Saxon and Irish ecclesiastics understood a ciuitas to be, how they used the term in their own writings and what ... -
Arthur and the Scots : narratives, nations, and sovereignty in the later Middle Ages
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The Berkeleys of Berkeley, 1281-1417: a study in the lesser peerage of late medieval England
(University of St Andrews, 1989) - ThesisThis thesis is a study of the Berkeley family through five generations from 1281 to 1417 and attempts to study in depth all the aspects of their lives for which material is available. This is far more abundant for ... -
'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 ... -
Blessed are those who weep : gratia lacrymarum in thirteenth-century hagiographies
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisHagiographies and canonisation processes from the thirteenth century are frequently saturated with descriptions of tears. The tears of holy men and women were both the means to, and apex of, spiritual perfection. Using ... -
Byzantine Larisa and its region from the 6th century to 1204
(University of St Andrews, 1995-07) - ThesisThe mediaeval town of Larisa and its immediate vicinity -the most important part of Thessaly- in central Greece have been generally viewed as one of the most remote and underdeveloped areas within the Byzantine Empire. By ... -
The Caliphate and the Turks, 232-256 / 847-870 : a political study
(University of St Andrews, 1979) - ThesisUnder the Umayyads, Muslims came into direct contact with Turks in their homeland which lay east of Khurasän and Transoxania. However, after the Turks had submitted to the Islamic state, the Caliphs, in particular the ... -
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. ... -
Charter diplomatics and norms of landholding and lordship between the Humber and Forth, c.1066-c.1250
(University of St Andrews, 2012-06-21) - ThesisThis thesis closely analyses the linguistic forms of aspects of non-royal charters produced c.1066-c.1250 in the north-east of England and the south-east of Scotland, namely, consent, joint grants, separate confirmations, ... -
Christian and non-Christian Templar associates in the 12th and 13th century crown of Aragon
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisThis thesis seeks to illuminate the nature, extent and complexity of Templar interactions with their associates, particularly non-Christians, women and Mozarabs, by examining these interactions where the most evidence ... -
The coastal defence in Scandinavia : the role and composition of the military organisation in the Viking and early Middle Ages
(University of St Andrews, 2003) - ThesisThis thesis sets out to examine the coastal defence in Scandinavia in the Viking and early middle ages, with main emphasis on Norway, the organisation and the elements' level of co-existence. The idea is that the military ... -
The coming-of-age of a northern Iberian frontier bishopric : Calahorra, 1045-1190
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisThe northern Iberian Bishopric of Calahorra was re-founded in 1045 by Garcia 111 of Navarre. Between that date and the death of its eighth post-restoration bishop in 1190 all or part of its diocesan territory changed hands ... -
The community of scholars : an analysis of the biographical data from the Taʻrīkh Baghdād
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisThe biographical details of the 7828 individuals listed in the biographical dictionary known as the Ta'rikh Baghdad were entered in a database and used to create a profile of the hadith community of Baghdad. The ... -
Community, cult and politics : the history of the monks of St Filibert in the ninth century.
(University of St Andrews, 2010-06-24) - ThesisIn the ninth century, the community of St Filibert, which was established on the island of Noirmoutier in the late-seventh century, relocated five times reportedly due to pressures caused by the invasions of the Northmen. ... -
A comparative study of the hospitals and leprosaria in Narbonne, France and Siena, Italy (1080-1348)
(University of St Andrews, 2017-12-08) - ThesisThis thesis analyses the development of the hospitals and leprosaria in Narbonne and Siena from their foundation to the Black Death (1080-1348). Specifically, it examines their respective relationships with the people of ... -
Conrad III and the Second Crusade in the Byzantine Empire and Anatolia, 1147
(University of St Andrews, 2008) - ThesisThis thesis aims to revise the established history of the passage of the Second Crusade through the Byzantine Empire and Anatolia in 1147. In particular, it seeks to readdress the ill-fated advance of the army nominally ... -
Convivencia femenina? : the interfaith interactions of women in late mediaeval and early modern Castile, c.1440-1571
(University of St Andrews, 2014) - ThesisSpanish demography was permanently altered when Los Reyes Católicos expelled all Jewish inhabitants from Castile in 1492. Earlier that same year, the last vestiges of Muslim power had disappeared with the full political ...