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Aspects of the monastic patronage of the English and French royal houses 1130-1270.
(1976)
This study takes as its theme the relationship of the
English and French kings and the religious orders, c.1130-1270,
Patronage in general is a field relatively neglected in the rich
literature on the monastic life, and ...
Furniture-making in London c. 1700-1870: craft, design, business and labour.
(1982)
This thesis is a study of furniture-making in London in the
years between about 1700 and 1870. The aims of the thesis are outlined
in the introduction, which also explains why the years 1700-1870 were
chosen. The special ...
Marriage and mobility 1754-1810 : an examination of the Anglican marriage registers of selected Shropshire parishes
(1980)
Little is known in detail of the chronology, magnitude and pattern
of migration prior to 1800. This thesis examines Anglican Marriage
Registers and the insight they can provide into past patterns of mobility
in a county ...
Early crusading apocalyptic in the context of the western apocalyptic tradition.
(1978)
This thesis sets out to describe the development in Judaism and
Christianity of apocalyptic ideas - in particular that of the Millennium,
the temporary kingdom supervised, on God's behalf, by his earthly
representative, ...
Huguenot artists designers and craftsmen in Great Britain and Ireland. 1680-1760.
(1982)
The names of over five hundred and seventy French artists
and craftsmen have been extracted from the records of the Huguenot
churches in Great Britain and Ireland, 1680-1760. This thesis
covers their contribution in the ...
A Florentine family in crisis: the Strozzi in the fifteenth century.
(1981)
In 1434 the Strozzi lineage had held a leading position in
Florentine society and government for at least one hundred and fifty
years, and was one of the largest and wealthiest of the city's
patrician lineages. The ...
The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 1840-1873
(Queen Mary University of London, 1977)
The Royal Institution is generally thought of as an institution
devoted solely to scientific research and the Popular exposition of
science. In the mid-nineteenth century however it had a wider range
of objectives and ...
The Masters of Requests : an Extraordinary Judicial Company in an. Age of Centralization (1589 - 1648)
(Queen Mary University of London, 1977)
As readers of the journal of the marquis d Argenson
will knows the mastres des requetes ordinaires do 1'hotel
du roi were "la vraie pepiniere des administrateurs" in
the eighteenth century (1) From this judicial ...
A STUDY IN THE STRUCTURE OF LAND HOLDING AND ADMINISTRATION IN ESSEX IN THE LATE ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD
(Queen Mary University of London, 1986)
This study explores some of the implications of the
distribution of estates between the landholders of Essex
in 1066. Emphasis is placed on the immediate background
of land ownership in Essex during the reign of Edward ...
Victor Hugo in the light of English criticism and opinion during the nineteenth century
(Queen Mary University of London, 1944)
in the follovina pages I have set out to discover what
English critics of the nineteenth century thought of the
works of Victor Hugo* It has not been my intention to study
the extent to which the general public of the ...
