Modern History: Recent submissions
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English impressions of Venice up to the early seventeenth century: a documentary study
(University of St Andrews, 1987) - ThesisThe first Englishmen to write about the city-state of Venice were the pilgrims passing through on their way to the Holy Land. Their impressions are recorded in the travel diaries and collections of advice for prospective ... -
William Paget and the late-Henrican polity, 1543-1547
(University of St Andrews, 2004) - ThesisThis thesis explores the late-Henrican polity through the archive and perspective of William Paget, Henry VIII's secretary at the end of his reign. Paget's papers as secretary (1543-1547), that form the basis of the ... -
Mary Queen of Scots in the polemical literature of the French Wars of Religion
(University of St Andrews, 2001) - ThesisThe French Wars of Religion were more than a battle for outright military victory. They were also a battle for the hearts and minds of the population of France. In this struggle to win over public opinion, often apparently ... -
The Layburnes and their world, circa 1620-1720: the English Catholic community and the House of Stuart
(University of St Andrews, 2002) - ThesisThis thesis concerns Catholics in north-western England in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, in particular the Layburne family of Cunswick, Cumbria. It examines their role in local society and at the ... -
Richard Cosin and the rehabilitation of the clerical estate in late Elizabethan England
(University of St Andrews, 1997) - ThesisThe royal supremacy established by Henry VIII was never fully defined or resolved. Was it an imperial kingship or a mixed polity - the king-in-parliament? Professor G.R Elton's theory of parliamentary supremacy has been ...