Browsing Mediaeval History Theses by Title
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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
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Thomas of Bayeux, Archbishop of York, 1070-1100
(University of St Andrews, 1997) - ThesisThis study considers the career of Thomas of Bayeux, the first Norman archbishop of York. Through the patronage of William of Normandy and his half-brother, Odo, Thomas rose from treasurer of Bayeux to royal chaplain, ... -
Tides of change : historical perspectives on the development of maritime archaeology
(University of St Andrews, 2001) - ThesisMaritime archaeology, as it is practiced underwater, is a widely misunderstood and controversial sub-discipline of archaeological research. Over the last fifty years this field has struggled to grow out of its professional ... -
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The uncrowned queen : Alice Perrers, Edward III and political crisis in fourteenth-century England, 1360-1377
(University of St Andrews, 2013) - ThesisThis thesis is a full political biography of Alice Perrers, the mistress of Edward III from the early 1360s until his death in June 1377 and mother to three of his children. It argues on the basis of the progression of ... -
The unglamorous side of shopping in late medieval Prato and Florence : the Ricordanze of Taddeo di Chello (1341-1408), and Piero Puro di Francesco da Vicchio (1397-1465)
(University of St Andrews, 2011-11) - ThesisThis thesis examines virtually unstudied sources, the ricordanze of a wage-earner, Piero Puro di Francesco da Vicchio of Florence, and the account book of a small tradesman, a rigattiere, Taddeo di Chello of Prato. It ... -
The use of ritualised acts in late medieval mystical narratives
(University of St Andrews, 2015) - ThesisThis 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), ... -
'We have nothing more valuable in our treasury' : royal marriage in England, 1154-1272
(University of St Andrews, 2010) - ThesisThat kings throughout the entire Middle Ages used the marriages of themselves and their children to further their political agendas has never been in question. What this thesis examines is the significance these marriage ... -
The work and thought of Hugh of Amiens (c. 1085-1164)
(University of St Andrews, 2005) - ThesisThroughout the course a long life in which he served as a cleric, a Cluniac monk, and an archbishop, Hugh of Amiens (c. 1085-1164) wrote a number of works including poems, biblical exegesis, anti-heretical polemics, and ...