Browsing Mediaeval History Theses by Title
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Reading Paul and Dante in the fourteenth century
(University of St Andrews, 2015-09) - ThesisGiven 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 ... -
The reign of Leo VI (886-912) : personal relationships and political ideologies
(University of St Andrews, 1994-07) - ThesisLeo VI (886-912) is an emperor who has suffered from a hostile and inadequate press. He has been portrayed as a weak and careless emperor, known mainly for his dubious parentage and marital exploits. This thesis questions ... -
The reinvention of jihād in twelfth-century al-Shām
(University of St Andrews, 2016-11-30) - ThesisThis 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 ... -
The representation of weeping rulers in the early Middle Ages
(University of St Andrews, 2018) - ThesisThis thesis examines the representation of weeping rulers in early medieval sources, focusing on the Carolingian empire between 790 and 888. The meanings applied to tears are culturally specific: thus, exploring how, why, ... -
Representations of collective action in Mantua and Parma, c.1000-c.1120
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisDuring the 1970s Keller codified a Ständeordnung (social order) in the cities of Italy in the ninth to twelfth centuries dividing political society into three ordines: the capitanei (high nobility), valvassores (low ... -
Representations of death and burial in the first six sagas of Snorri Sturluson's 'Heimskringla'
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisThis thesis explores textual depictions of the burial of leaders in Snorri Sturluson’s Heimskringla. Central to my argument is the close connection between representations of burial and the broader qualities of good/bad ... -
Rewriting history in the cult of St Cuthbert from the ninth to the twelfth centuries
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisSt Cuthbert's literary cult was conceived in the late seventh and early eighth century with the production of three vitae, most importantly Bede's prose Vita sancti Cuthberti. Over the ensuing centuries, the cult stimulated ... -
Royal endowment of peerage creations in the reign of Edward III
(University of St Andrews, 1996-07) - ThesisThis thesis is an examination of the use Edward III made of various resources at his disposal in order to patronize a number of individuals destined for the parliamentary peerage or beyond. Primarily through a judicious ... -
Seville : between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean, 1248-1492 : pre-Columbus commercial routes from and to Seville
(University of St Andrews, 2007-06-21) - ThesisThe city of Seville and its port have had a prominent place in the history of early modern Europe and America. This city was not only the Gate of the Indies, but also the Gate of Europe for all the exotic goods and people ... -
Sex, salvation, and the city : the monastery of Sant'Elisabetta delle Convertite as a civic institution in Florence, 1329-1627
(University of St Andrews, 2018-06-28) - ThesisThis thesis reassesses the importance of Sant'Elisabetta delle Convertite, a monastery for repentant prostitutes, in Florence from its foundation in 1329 to 1627 after the Grand Duke became the monastery’s protector. ... -
Shipbuilding and trade in the Eastern Mediterranean during the 7th century : possible effects of the Muslim invasion
(University of St Andrews, 1997-06) - ThesisThis thesis examines the change in shipbuilding techniques from the mortice and tenon method common in antiquity, to the frame first method, specifically when the former method disappeared, in the 7th century AD. It ... -
A social and economic study of the Cinque Ports region, 1450-1600
(University of St Andrews, 1979) - ThesisThe Cinque Ports are the only example of a fully-developed confederate structure in English history. As a result, historians have tended to consider the fortunes of the region as a whole and have stressed the factors which ... -
State and aristocracy in the Sasanian Empire
(University of St Andrews, 2015-06-25) - ThesisThis 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 ... -
Studies in the life, scholarship, and educational achievement of Guarino Da Verona (1374-1460)
(University of St Andrews, 1969) - Thesis -
A study of society in the Anglo-Scottish borders, 1455-1502
(University of St Andrews, 1974) - ThesisThe thesis is a detailed descriptive survey of the society of the Anglo-Scottish borders in the second half of the fifteenth century. The survey is divided into three sections, the first providing a background to border ... -
The 'Synopsis Chronike' and its place in the Byzantine chronicle tradition: its sources (Creation – 1081 CE)
(University of St Andrews, 2007-11-30) - ThesisThe subject of this thesis is the Synopsis Chronike (or Synopsis Sathas), a Byzantine chronicle of the thirteenth century that conveys the history of the world, starting from Adam and concluding with the recapture of ... -
Texts and contexts : women's dedicated life from Caesarius to Benedict
(University of St Andrews, 2007-06-21) - ThesisThe history of western monasticism in the early middle ages has traditionally been viewed as a continuous process of development. Women religious have been excluded from this discourse, although early work which ‘rediscovered’ ... -
The counts of Aumale and Holderness, 1086-1260
(1977)The counts of Aumale, who held the land of Holderness for two hundred years, came into England at the end of the Conqueror's reign. They came from Aumale in the north-eastern corner of Normandy, a small county grouped ... -
The Spanish monarchy, 1475-1492: crisis of policy in the years leading up to the first Columbian expedition
(University of St Andrews, 1968-05)