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Cults of political martyrs in late medieval England
(2005)
A number of prominent men who lost their lives during political struggles were
posthumously venerated as martyrs in later medieval England. This dissertation aims
to recreate some of the context - religious and cultural ...
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, ...
Antiquaries in the Age of Romanticism: 1789-1851
(2011)
The thesis concentrates on the work of fourteen antiquaries active in the period from the French Revolution to the Great Exhibition in England, Scotland and France. I have used a combination of the antiquaries’ published ...
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 ...
From printshop to piazza: the dissemination of cheap print in sixteenth century Venice
(2008)
This thesis is concerned with the smallest and cheapest products of the Venetian
presses in the sixteenth century. Pamphlets and printed fliers were the most accessible
articles of printed matter to the wider public, and ...
The construction of scientific knowledge regarding female 'sexual inversion': Italian and British sexology compared, c. 1870-1920
(2008)
This thesis uses medical and psychiatric records to explore how physicians analysed `female
sexual inversion' in Italy and Britain, c. 1870 to 1920. It investigates why sexology emerged
when it did and considers 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 ...
Vladimir Burtsev and the Russian revolutionary emigration: surveillance of foreign political refugees in London, 1891-1905.
(2008)
The thesis describes the early life in emigration of the Russian revolutionary, historian
and radical journalist Vladimir L'vovich Burtsev (17/29 November 1862 - 21 August
1942). Particular emphasis is placed on the ...
Extraordinary powers of perception: second sight in Victorian culture, 1830-1910.
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-09)
In the mid-1890s the London based Society for Psychical Research dispatched
researchers to the Scottish Highlands and Islands to investigate an extraordinary
power of prophecy said to be peculiar to the residents of these ...
“Samuel Pepys, the Restoration Public and the Politics of Publicity”
(Queen Mary University of London, 2013-09)
This thesis is situated in three fields of academic research. The first is the on-going reconceptualization of early modern political history conducted under the title of ‘post-revisionism’. Within this field of research, ...