Modern History Theses: Recent submissions

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    • Mary Queen of Scots in the polemical literature of the French Wars of Religion 

      Wilkinson, Alexander S. (University of St Andrews, 2001) - Thesis
      The 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 

      Wright, F. Alison (University of St Andrews, 2002) - Thesis
      This 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 

      Hampson, James E. (University of St Andrews, 1997) - Thesis
      The 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 ...

    • The Somers mutiny of 1842 

      Goldberg, Angus Ephraim (University of St Andrews, 2000) - Thesis
      This dissertation presents an analysis of the Somers mutiny of 1842 that goes beyond the simple narratives offered by previous studies of the cruise. The mutiny is examined within the context of contemporary American ...

    • Women in revolutionary organisations 

      Gentry, Caron E. (University of St Andrews, 2003) - Thesis
      The main aim of this thesis is to demonstrate that the female revolutionary is no different from her male compatriot. She enters the organisation in the same manner; she shares the same ideology; she participates equally ...