Modern History Theses: Recent submissions

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    • The mobilisation and transmission of memories within the Pied-Noir and Harki communities, 1962-2007 

      Eldridge, Claire (University of St Andrews, 2010-06-24) - Thesis
      Focusing on the legacies of the Algerian War of Independence (1954-62), this thesis challenges the perception that this was the ‘war without a name’ by exploring the ways in which memories have been preserved, mobilised, ...

    • Wordmongers : post-medieval scribal culture and the case of Sighvatur Grímsson 

      Ólafsson, Davíð (University of St Andrews, 2009) - Thesis
      The subject matter of this thesis is manuscript and scribal culture in the age of print. Its first part explores the flourishing scholarship of post-medieval scribal culture in Europe and beyond over the past 25-30 years, ...

    • The historical imagination of Christopher Dawson 

      Sproviero, Glen A. (University of St Andrews, 2008-11) - Thesis
      Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) was one of his generation's most important historians and religious thinkers, and was a significant influence on many contemporaries including T.S. Eliot, C.S. Lewis, and Russell Kirk. ...

    • French military occupations of Lorraine and Savoie, 1670-1714 

      McCluskey, Phil (University of St Andrews, 2009-06-25) - Thesis
      Lorraine and Savoie were both occupied twice by French armies during the personal rule of Louis XIV. Lorraine was initially invaded and occupied in 1670 to support the French strategic and logistic position in the Dutch ...

    • William Cecil and the British succession crisis of the 1560s 

      Alford, Stephen (University of St Andrews, 1997) - Thesis
      'William Cecil and the British succession crisis of the 1560s' reconsiders the nature of the early Elizabethan polity and Cecil's place in it. Conventional historiography maintains that as principal secretary Cecil was a ...