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Eryilmaz, Cevirgen Aysegul. "Causal Relations Among 12th Grade Students." Phd thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614970/index.pdf.
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The purpose of this study is to invetigate the causal relationships among 12th
grade students&rsquogeometry knowledge regarding prisms and pyramids, spatial ability, gender, and school type. Path analysis was used to test the relationships among knowledge factors (declarative, conditional, and procedural knowledge), spatial ability factors (spatial visualization, mental rotation, and spatial perception ability), gender (female and male), and school type (general high schools and Anatolian high schools). Knowledge factors and spatial ability factors were determined by carrying out confirmatory factor analysis for the Prisms and Pyramids Knowledge Test and Purdue Spatial Visualization Test separately. Results revealed the bilateral relations among students&rsquo
declarative, conditional and procedural knowledge
and the bilateral relations among spatial visualization, mental rotation, and spatial perception ability. When relations among spatial ability factors and knowledge factors were examined, the importance of the students&rsquo
spatial abilities on geometry performance was exposed explicitly. Spatial visualization and mental rotation ability have positive direct effects on all knowledge factors. Additionally, spatial perception ability have positive direct effect on declarative and procedural knowledge. On the other hand, school type has positive direct effects on students&rsquo
geometry knowledge factors and spatial ability factors. These effects exposed the superiority of students in Anatolian high schools in respect of students in general high schools. Moreover, direct effects of gender on mental rotation ability, spatial perception ability, and declarative knowledge were found. Although, results presented the male superiority in mental rotation and spatial perception abilities, direct effect of gender on declarative knowledge indicate the female advantage.
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Deike, Michael W. "Tundale’s Vision: Socialization in 12th Century Ireland." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2014. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/182.
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The purpose of this project is to explore the historical image of Hell in Medieval Europe as an agent of socialization for illiterate Christian communities. The project focuses on a literary work, Tundale’s Vision, written in 1149 C.E in Cashel, Ireland. Tundale’s Vision came from a genre of vision literature derived from popular oracular folk tradition surrounding the image of Hell that served the purpose of socializing Christian communities to certain social norms and stigmas presented by the author. Vision literature would be used by preachers in vernacular sermons throughout the Medieval period in order to reinforce moral and social messages presented in to their congregations, and it drew much of its themes and imagery from folk traditions in order to be more relatable to local communities. This research provides a historical context from which this genre of literature emerged including a discourse on how it gained power as an agent of socialization in Medieval Europe. Time is devoted to the historical state of what are generally considered primary agents of socialization in human societies throughout Medieval Europe, and research reveals that much of these agents, aside from religion, were inaccessible to the majority of Medieval Europeans, especially those of the lower class.
Additionally, this project provides information on the rise in popularity of the artistic image of Hell in the Medieval period. The analysis of Tundale’s Vision, a work that emerged from this environment saturated with artistic depictions of Hell, reconstructs potential social norms and stigmas of 12th century Ireland relating to a contemporary reform movement within the Irish Christian church. This analysis provides the historical origin of many images commonly associated with the popular Medieval conception of Hell as it appears in Tundale’s Vision, and it analyzes the use of the fear of a painful afterlife in order spread and reinforce ideals presented by the Christian Church. Much of this project draws from the scholarly works of Gwenfair Adams and John Seymour who produced research concerning Tundale’s Vision, other works of vision literature, and their impact on Medieval Christian communities. The power of religious artwork in the process of socialization in Medieval Ireland should become apparent throughout this work.
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Gutierrez, Alejandra. "Imported Mediterranean medieval and later pottery (12th-17thC) in Wessex." Thesis, University of Winchester, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.697555.
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Romanova, Natalia. "Medieval French Idyllic Romance (12th-13th centuries) : a new look." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444166.
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Shanta, Susheela. "Investigation of Problem Solving Skills among 12th Grade Engineering Students." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/80480.
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US competitiveness in the 21st century global economy depends on a workforce that is science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) literate, and has knowledge and skills to tackle complex technological problems. In response to the need for a STEM literate workforce equipped with 21st century skills there is a push for K-12 educational reform. STEM literacy is the ability to use content knowledge and skills in science, technology, engineering and math in solving human problems in a collaborative manner (NRC, 2009, Wiggins and McTighe, 2005). Researchers have argued that the integrative STEM education (I-STEM ED) pedagogical approach (with its roots in technology education) promotes active learning through student discovery of using science and mathematics content and practices in novel situations, with active construction of understanding by doing (Cajas, 2001; Wells, 2010, 2016b)
Critical thinking and problem solving (CT and PS) skills, collectively identified as 21st century skills by P21 (2005a), involved in solving authentic design problems are not assessed in traditional science and mathematics standardized testing or in Tech-ED classrooms in K-12 grades. Assessments in traditional classrooms, focus on the extent of correctness of the end-result, and rarely, if ever, on the reasoning or procedures leading to the result (Docktor and Heller, 2009; Shavelson, Ruiz-Primo, Li and Ayala, 2003; Steif and Dantzler, 2005). Furthermore, the content knowledge tested is directly related to what has been recently taught in the classroom, and eliminates the need for solvers' demonstration of metacognitive processes involved in CT and PS that require recalling/selecting the discipline specific content knowledge. Within traditional Tech-ED classrooms, students are assessed using competencies defined in the Career and Technical Education curriculum framework which do not focus on solving authentic problems. Herein lies the gap between what is needed for the 21st century worker and what is currently the focus of secondary education.
The purpose of this study was to measure the extent to which students immersed in an I-STEM ED program were successful in solving an authentic design-based problem presented to them outside the context of the classroom where the content was learned. In addition, five specific student abilities (SAs) that contribute to authentic problem-solving were identified and a rubric to assess these SAs was developed and validated. A design-no-make challenge (DNMC) was developed and administered to these students.
Analysis of their responses showed that students immersed in an integrative STEM education program performed significantly better in designing a solution to the DNMC when compared with a hypothesized mean for students in a traditional classroom. Furthermore, the specific SAs associated with selecting and utilizing the relevant science and math content and practices, and communicating logical reasoning in their design of a solution were found to be strongly correlated to students' successful problem-solving.Ph. D.
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Novokhatko, Ekaterina. "Religion, Imagination and Politics in Post-Carolingian Catalonia (10th – 12th centuries)." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/671679.
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Les fonts litúrgiques i hagiogràfiques llancen llum sobre els aspectes múltiples de la investigació històrica: història de les institucions i les seves biblioteques, de la transmissió de texts i llibres, de la reconstrucció dels arquetips i famílies de texts, història de les identitats, història cultural entre d’altres. Els acadèmics catalans han prestat una atenció significativa a les fonts litúrgiques i hagiogràfiques dels segles X al XII que es troben als arxius i biblioteques catalans i de França del sud. Aquesta varietat de fonts inclou els martirologis, llibres importants per l’ús quotidià a les institucions religioses medievals. No obstant això, aquestes fonts mai han estat analitzades a fons a través de la perspectiva de la història cultural i en termes de transmissió de festes i cultes de sants. La tesi presentada comença a omplir aquesta llacuna investigant els sis martirologis d’Ado de Viena, difosos durant el període postcarolíngi a tota la regió catalana. Aquest estudi sobre els martirologis revela com les noves festes litúrgiques i els nous cultes s’integren en la vida religiosa local, com i perquè les formes religioses particulars de veneració dels cultes i dels sants es desenvolupen i com es creen i reconstrueixen les xarxes de comunicació entre les diferents institucions religioses. L’anàlisi de cinc festes que reben la veneració major i més àmplia a la regió catalana (Sant Miquel, Sant Aleix, Sant Guerau, la Passió de la Imatge de Crist i la Transfiguració) llança el llum sobre la forma en què l’expansió dels ideals religiosos reflecteix les necessitats socials i polítiques de la època. Aquesta recerca explora les dades dels martirologis, no només dins del context microhistòric de la situació política y social a la regió catalana, sinó també des del punt de vista més ampli de la sinergia de varis conglomerats multiculturals en els espais mediterranis postcarolingis. La tesi examina el sorgiment, la difusió i l’adaptació de les tradicions litúrgiques per descobrir com aquests cultes poden haver influït en les institucions religioses diferents i haver estat integrats i adaptats a la vida religiosa local. La investigació demostrarà que aquests canvis, presents en els textos litúrgics i hagiogràfics difosos àmpliament, reflecteixen i defineixen les vies principals de transició de les sensibilitats litúrgiques carolíngies i romàniques mitjançant la materialització de la imaginació teològica i sensorial dels contemporanis.Las fuentes litúrgicas y hagiográficas arrojan luz sobre múltiples aspectos de la investigación histórica: historia de las instituciones y sus bibliotecas, de la transmisión de textos y libros, de la reconstrucción de arquetipos y familias de textos, historia de las identidades, historia cultural, entre otras. Los académicos catalanes han prestado una atención significativa a las fuentes litúrgicas y hagiográficas de los siglos X al XII que se encuentran en los archivos y bibliotecas catalanes y del sur de Francia. Entre esta considerable variedad de fuentes se encuentran los martirologios, libros importantes para el uso cotidiano en diferentes instituciones religiosas medievales. Sin embargo, estas fuentes nunca han sido analizadas a fondo a través de la perspectiva de la historia cultural y en términos de transmisión de fiestas y cultos de santos. Esta tesis, titulada "Religión, imaginación y política en la Cataluña postcarolingia", comienza a llenar este vacío investigando seis martirologios de Ado existentes y difundidos en el período postcarolingio en toda la región catalana. Este estudio sobre los martirologios revela cómo las nuevas fiestas litúrgicas y los nuevos cultos se integraron en la vida religiosa local, cómo y por qué se desarrollaron determinadas formas religiosas de veneración y cómo se crearon y reconstruyeron las redes de comunicación entre las diferentes instituciones religiosas. El análisis de cinco fiestas (San Miguel, San Alejo, San Geraldo, la Pasión de la Imagen de Dios y la Transfiguración) que recibieron mayor y más amplia veneración en toda la región arroja luz sobre la forma en que la expansión de los ideales religiosos reflejaba las necesidades sociales y políticas de la época. Esta investigación explora los datos de los martirologios, no sólo en el contexto microhistórico de la situación política y social de la región catalana, sino también desde la perspectiva más amplia de la sinergia de varios conglomerados multiculturales en los espacios mediterráneos postcarolingios. El proyecto tiene por objeto abordar el surgimiento, la difusión y la adaptación de las tradiciones litúrgicas para descubrir cómo estos cultos pueden haber influido en diversas instituciones religiosas y haberse integrado y adaptado a la vida religiosa local. Demostrará que estos cambios, presentes en textos litúrgicos y hagiográficos ampliamente difundidos, reflejan y definen las principales vías de transición de las sensibilidades litúrgicas carolingias y románicas mediante la materialización de la imaginación teológica y sensorial de los contemporáneos.
Liturgical and hagiographical sources shed light on multiple aspects of historical research: histories of institutions and their libraries, transmission of texts and books, reconstruction of prototypes and families of texts, history of identities, cultural history and many others. Catalan scholarship has paid significant attention to liturgical and hagiographical sources from the tenth to the twelfth centuries housed in Catalan and Southern French archives and libraries. Among this considerable variety of sources are martyrologies, important books for everyday use in different medieval religious institutions. However, these sources have never been thoroughly analysed through the lens of cultural history and in terms of the transmission of feasts and saints’ cults. My PhD project, entitled 'Religion, Imagination and Politics in Post-Carolingian Catalonia’, starts to fill this gap by investigating six extant martyrologies of Ado disseminated in the Post-Carolingian period throughout the Catalan region. This study on martyrologies reveals how new liturgical feasts and new cults were embedded in local religious life, how and why particular religious forms of veneration developed and how communication networks between different religious institutions were created and reconstructed. The analysis of five feasts that received increased and widespread veneration throughout the region—St. Michael, St. Alexius, St. Gerald, Passion of the Image of God and Transfiguration—sheds light on how the expansion of religious ideals reflected social and political needs of the time. This research explores data from the martyrologies not only in the microhistorical context of the political and social situation within the Catalan region, but also from the broader perspective of the synergy of various multicultural conglomerations in post-Carolingian Mediterranean spaces. My PhD aims to address the emergence, dissemination and adaptation of liturgical traditions in order to discover how these cults may have influenced various religious institutions and became integrated into, and adapted for, local religious life. It will demonstrate that these changes, brought into widely disseminated liturgical and hagiographical texts, reflect and define key paths of transition of Carolingian and Romanesque liturgical sensibilities through shaping the theological and sensory imagination of contemporaries.
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Vukovic, Alexandra. "The ritualisation of political power in early Rus (10th-12th centuries)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/266696.
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This dissertation examines the ceremonies and rituals involving the princes of early Rus’ and their entourage, how these ceremonies and rituals are represented in the literature and artefacts of early Rus’, the possible cultural influences on ceremony and ritual in this emergent society, and the role of ceremony and ritual as representative of political structures and in shaping the political culture of the principalities of early Rus’. The process begins by introducing key concepts and historiographic considerations for the study of ceremony and ritual and their application to the medieval world. The textological survey that follows focusses on the chronicles of Rus’, due to their compilatory nature, and discusses the philological, linguistic, and contextual factors governing the use of chronicles in this study. This examination of the ceremonies and rituals of early Rus’, the first comprehensive study of its kind for this region in the early period, engages with other studies of ceremony and ritual for the medieval period to inform our understanding of the political culture of early Rus’ and its influences. The structure of this dissertation is dictated by the chronology of ceremonies and rituals that structure the reigns of Rus’ princes in literary sources. The first chapter investigates—both comparatively and locally—the development of enthronement rituals depicted in textual sources and on coins. The second chapter focusses on rituals of association that are represented as mediating relations between princes in a non-central functioning dynastic culture. Oath-taking (and breaking) and association through commensality—dining and gift-giving—are examined in terms of historical context and the internal categorisation of associative acts in textual sources from Rus’. The final chapter builds on recent studies of ritualised warfare in early Rus’ and examines the ritualisation of princely movement—the most common action associated with the princes of Rus’ in textual sources—in times of war. The celebration of triumph and princely entry along with ritualised invocations for intercession in war are acts examined—both in textual sources and iconographic artefacts—as rituals of triumphal rulership reflecting both Byzantine and wider medieval culture. This study concludes with a discussion of the themes explored in its three chapters and offers further considerations about the influence of the Church and monastic culture inherited from Byzantium (and developed in Rus’) on the preservation, creation, and promulgation of ritualised political power.
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Capasso, Michael Anthony. "Construction and wind tunnel test of a 1/12th scale helicopter model." Thesis, Monterey, Calif. : Springfield, Va. : Naval Postgraduate School ; Available from National Technical Information Service, 1994. http://handle.dtic.mil/100.2/ADA288487.
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Tučas, Rolandas. "Evolution of population of Lithuania‘s territory in the 1st–12th centuries AD." Doctoral thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2012. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2012~D_20120302_090250-68104.
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The aim of the study is to carry out a comparative causative analysis of population systems in the territory of Lithuania in the 1st–12th century AD. For this purpose, a unique GIS GDB of archaeological sites and find spots of Iron Age in Lithuania was compiled making advantage of the possibilities offered by GIS technologies. The comprehensive analysis of chronological development of territory population (by cultural groups localized in the territory of Lithuania) systems was carried out distinguishing their progression, change, stability and regression stages. The results obtained by detailed cartographic analysis allowed supplementing the data obtained by other researchers who have investigated the structural homogeneity of cultural areas and distinguished their kernel areas, peripheries, unpopulated tribal and intertribal territories, and peripheral areas of mixed cultural possession. Much attention was paid to the boundaries of cultural areas and their changes. The territorial unevenness of the spread of innovations is pointed out and their seed-beds and centres of old tradition distinguished. The regional differences of population and ethnogenetic processes in the territory of Lithuania were evaluated in close correlation with the natural environment as a determining factor of paramount importance. A concept of natural environment and integrity of cultural divisions (ethnogeocoenoses) is presented and used as an ideological and theoretical basis for further structural... [to full text]Disertacijos tikslas – atlikti I–XII a. Lietuvos teritorijos apgyvenimo sistemų palyginamąją priežastinę analizę. Tyrimui sukurta unikali Lietuvos geležies amžiaus archeologinių vietų ir radimviečių GIS GDB, kurios pagrindu, panaudojant GIS technologijas, atlikta išsami skirtingų I–XII a. Lietuvos teritorijoje lokalizuotų kultūrinių regionų teritorijos apgyvenimo sistemų chronologinės raidos analizė (skiriant jų plėtros, kaitos, stabilumo bei regresijos laikotarpius). Detalios kartografinės analizės rezultatas – papildyti ir patikslinti iki šiol kitų tyrinėtojų atlikti tyrimai, vertinant kultūrinių regionų struktūrinį nevienalytiškumą, išskiriant juose branduolius, periferiją, tarpgentines ir vidujgentines neapgyventas teritorijas bei mišrios kultūrinės priklausomybės periferines teritorijas. Daug dėmesio skirta kultūrinių regionų riboms, jų kaitai. Atkreiptas dėmesys į inovacijų plitimo teritorinį netolygumą, išskiriant jų židinius bei konservatyviuosius senųjų tradicijų centrus. Lietuvos teritorijos apgyvenimo ir etnogenezės procesų raidos regioniniai skirtumai vertinti neatsiejant jų nuo gamtinės aplinkos – kaip itin svarbaus jų raidą determinuojančio faktoriaus, įtakos vertinimo. Tuo pagrindu parengta gamtinės aplinkos ir kultūrinių darinių integralumo (etnogeocenozių) koncepcija, šiame darbe tapusi teoriniu pagrindu atliekant tolimesnę teritorijos apgyvenimo sistemų struktūrinę analizę. Aptariant bendruomenių adaptaciją nevienalytėje gamtinėje aplinkoje, išryškinti Rytų... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
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Kennedy, Alexandra Katharina Maria. "Gothic architecture in northern Burgandy in the 12th and early 13th centuries." Thesis, Courtauld Institute of Art (University of London), 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.362726.
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Major, Bala´zs. "Medieval rural settlements in the Syrian coastal region : (12th and 13th centuries)." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.669551.
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Khan, Robert Omar. "Ariake no Wakare, genre, gender, and genealogy in a late 12th century Monogatari." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0008/NQ34561.pdf.
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Sullivan, Michael E. "Hitler's teenaged zealots, fanatics, combat motivation, and the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0005/MQ46278.pdf.
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Brown, Andrew Ian. "The Iron Age Troad : Migration and Colonisation during the 12TH-6TH centuries BC." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.520180.
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Doll, James M. "An optimal allocation of recruiter and facilities in the 12th Marine Corps District." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/23740.
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Martins, Maria da Conceição de Barros. "Adapting the 12th Grade Cape Verdean English Syllabus to develop the Speaking Skill." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/10242.
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Trabalho de Projecto apresentado para cumprimento dos requisitos necessários à obtenção do grau de Mestre em Teaching English as a Second/Foreign LanguageEste trabalho de projecto preocupa-se com a adaptação do programa de 12º ano de língua Inglesa de Cabo Verde com o objectivo de desenvolver nos alunos a habilidade de falar Inglês. Assim, propõe a criação de um programa suplementar ao programa existente focado essencialmente na oralidade (fala), enfatizando o seu desenvolvimento nas turmas do 12º ano em Cabo Verde. Em primeiro lugar, define o programa e mostra a sua importância no processo de ensino/aprendizagem. Em seguida, descreve o desenvolvimento da oralidade (fala) nas aulas de Inglês como língua estrangeira de uma forma geral, assim como nas aulas de Inglês como língua estrangeira no contexto Cabo-verdiano e o papel da oralidade (fala) dentro do programa de língua Inglesa de 12º ano em Cabo Verde. Ainda descreve o programa suplementar criado como forma de complementar o programa de 12º ano existente em Cabo Verde, apresenta os resultados e as análises dos questionários aplicados aos professores de Inglês e seus respectivos alunos de 12º ano em Cabo Verde a cerca da implementação do programa suplementar através das aulas conduzidas nas turmas de 12º ano baseadas no referido programa e por fim, apresenta as conclusões e as recomendações.
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Dresden, Technische Universität. "12th International Fluid Power Conference (12. IFK): October 12-14, 2020 in Dresden." Dresdner Verein zur Förderung der Fluidtechnik e.V. Dresden, 2020. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A38661.
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The International Fluid Power Conference is one of the world's most significant scientific conferences on fluid power control technology and systems. It offers a common platform for the presentation and discussion of trends and innovations to manufacturers, users and scientists.
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Thoeming, Alix. "Exploring interconnectivity and similarity in the rune-stones of 10th-12th century Sweden." Thesis, Department of Archaeology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/10176.
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What began as a study of difference in the 10th-12th century rune-stones of Sweden has become a case study in homogeneity. These ‘close-knit’ people as described by Olrik in 1930 (:4) were much more interconnected than the current literature generally suggests, and clearly had communication networks running the length and breadth of settled Sweden. A result of the trade and wealth that characterised pre-Medieval Sweden, the rune-stones illustrate just how small and intertwined the world of the Scandinavians actually was. They suggest an interconnectivity that is now only just beginning to be recognised. The initial rapid proliferation of a small, highly integrated tradition that then contracted to the Mälaren Valley may be indicative of a society at a cultural ‘crossroads’, caught between the traditions of the past and the consequences of trade.
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Kirmizi, Burcu. "Material Characterization Of The Late 12th-13th Century Byzantine Ceramics From Kusadasi Kadikalesi/anaia." Phd thesis, METU, 2012. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12614094/index.pdf.
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This study investigates the petrographical and chemical characteristics of a group of Zeuxippus Ware Related Ceramics dating to the late 12th-13th centuries from Kusadasi Kadikalesi/Anaia. Kadikalesi was a Byzantine fortress at the coast of Aegean Sea. It was also a significant commercial port and an episcopacy center during the 13th century.
In this study, visual classifications of the ceramics were carried out based on their stylistic properties. Then, ceramic samples were investigated by several methods including mineralogical, micromorphological, chemical (SEM-EDX, ICP-OES, ICP-MS) and Raman Spectrometry techniques and further evaluated by statistical analyses. Bodies are found to be rich in SiO2 and Al2O3 while relatively
high amounts of Fe2O3 measured, agree well with their reddish bodies. These
bodies mostly display micaceous matrix with a relatively low degree of
vitrification. Cluster analysis performed among thirty selected samples, points out the presence of two main groups. Observed slip layers are also found to be rich in SiO2 and Al2O3 contents and exhibit various types of crystalline and/or vitreous matrix. Glazes are found to be high lead glazes processed at or below. The glazes are found to be high lead glazes processed at or below 700°C as confirmed by SEM-EDX and Raman spectrometry investigations. Iron compounds are the major coloring agents for most of the glazes analyzed regardless of their observed colors. Presence of Raman peaks in some yellow glazes which may be assigned to a solid solution of Naples yellow type of pigment is significant since its use in the Byzantine period as a glaze pigment has been scarcely reported before.
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Bolding, Sharon Lynn Dunkel. "When worlds collide : structure and fantastic in selected 12th- and 13th- century French narratives." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0002/NQ27109.pdf.
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Tzavella, Elissavet. "Urban and rural landscape in early and middle Byzantine Attica (4th-12th c. AD)." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2013. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4321/.
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The present study synthesiszes archaeological and historical evidence concerning Attica (Greece), the hinterland of Athens, in the Early and Middle Byzantine periods (4th-12th c.). Although the Byzantine monuments of Attica have been thoroughly studied, no coherent picture of how these relate to broader patterns of occupation and land usage has thus far been presented. In the main, the period under discussion is generally interpreted in three ways: Regarding Late Antiquity, research has often focused on the transition from paganism to Christianity, and to the characterisation of Attica as a ‘stronghold of paganism’. During the so-called ‘Dark-Ages’, Attica is most often presented as being ‘desolate’. Regarding the Middle Byzantine period, archaeological research is dominated by architectural and art-historical study of churches. The present study presents Attica within wider trends which took place in the Byzantine Empire, and which caused its transformation in terms of demography, settlement pattern, administration, road networks, economy, defense and ecclesiastical institutions. After a detailed catalogue and interpretation of all available archaeological material, Attica appears less ‘exceptional’ in Late Antiquity, less ‘desolate’ in the ‘Dark-Ages’, while in the Middle Byzantine period, emergence of a strong local elite matches the erection of monuments of high artistic quality.
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Aceves, Judith Margarita Lopez. "Diet and dynamic of the last muslims in Algarve during the 12th - 13th AD." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/26246.
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Carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analysis was done on bone collagen from 65 human samples and 20 faunal samples originating from Loulé, south Portugal; and 38 from these were analyzed for sulfur stable isotope. The human bone samples were excavated from 2 cemeteries outside the medieval wall of the city, while the faunal bones were excavated from trash pits in the historical center of Loulé. All samples represent Muslims dating from the Almohad period (c. 12th-13th AD), who were probably the last persons living under Islamic rule, before the conquest of Algarve in 1249. Faunal samples consumed a diet based mainly on C3-plants, differences were found in the δ15N values of fauna which allowed differentiation between wild and domestic animals. These diversity in values could reflect differences in animal foddering practices among the population. Results indicate that these individuals consumed a diet based on C3-plants (wheat, barley, olives, figs, etc.) with probably some inputs of C4-plants (sorghum and millet); and animal protein. An enrichment in δ15N and δ13C is seen in part of the individuals that might reflect marine protein consumption, which is supported by the δ34S values obtained and the presence of fish bones in the zooarchaeological context. δ34S values evidenced that diet from the individuals from both cemeteries was partly composed by non-local products, evidencing a possible trading system. Differences between diet in humans from both cemeteries was noticed. This difference may be due to social or ethnical causes; RESUMO:
Dieta e dinâmica dos últimos muçulmanos no Algarve durante os
séculos XII e XIII d. C.
A análise de isótopos estáveis de carbono e azoto foi feita em colágeno ósseo a partir de 65
amostras humanas e 20 amostras faunais provenientes de Loulé, no sul de Portugal; e 38
delas foram analisadas para isótopo estável de enxofre. As amostras de ossos humanos foram
escavadas a partir de dois cemitérios que se encontram da muralha medieval da cidade,
enquanto os ossos faunais foram escavados a partir de poços de lixo no centro histórico de
Loulé. Todas as amostras representam muçulmanos que datam do período almóada (séculos
XII-XIII d. C.), que foram provavelmente as últimas pessoas a viver sob o domínio islâmico,
antes da conquista do Algarve em 1249.
Amostras faunais consumiram uma dieta baseada principalmente em plantas C3, cujas
diferenças foram encontradas nos valores δ15N da fauna, o que permitiu diferenciar animais
selvagens de domésticos. Esta diversidade de valores poderia refletir diferenças entre a
população em matéria de práticas de criação de animais. No que diz respeito a humanos
(individuos) os resultados indicam que estes consumiram uma dieta baseada em plantas C3
(trigo, cevada, azeitonas, figos, entre outros) com alguma contribuição de C4-plantas (sorgo e
milho painço); e proteína animal. Um enriquecimento em δ15N e δ13C foi verificado em parte
dos indivíduos, o que pode refletir o consumo de proteínas marinhas, que é apoiado pelos
valores de δ34S obtidos e pela presença de ossos de peixe no contexto zooarqueológico.
Valores de δ34S evidenciaram que a dieta dos indivíduos de ambos os cemitérios foi
parcialmente composta por produtos não-locais, fazendo notar um possível sistema de
comércio. Foram determinadas diferenças entre as dietas em humanos de ambos os
cemitérios, que podem ser justificadas com base nas causas sociais ou étnicas.
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Rusnak, V. F. "Topography of pharynx in the fetuses in the 11-12th weeks of human ontogenesis." Thesis, БДМУ, 2022. http://dspace.bsmu.edu.ua:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/19331.
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Nadhiri, Aman Asili Ya Wittig Joseph S. "Sarasins and Franks perceptions of self and the other in 12th-15th century literature /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,2212.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009.Title from electronic title page (viewed Jun. 26, 2009). "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English." Discipline: English and Comparative Literature; Department/School: English and Comparative Literative.
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Rao, Abha Subba. "Academic Stress and Adolescent Distress: The Experiences of 12th Standard Students in Chennai, India." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/194424.
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Media reports and interviews with counselors indicate that academic stress and adolescent distress is a significant problem in India, but little systematic research has been conducted on the issue. A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods was used in the current study - surveys assessed the prevalence of academic stress and adolescent distress, and interviews with 12th standard students explored their perceptions of the issue and their understanding of the role of parents.In the survey part of the study, the prevalence of the problem was assessed with the use of scales that measured depression and anxiety. Surveys were completed by 12th standard students (n = 588) from the south Indian city of Chennai. A majority of students reported that they were stressed by the coming school year, and rates of depression and anxiety were very high in the sample. In contrast with previous research and contrary to expectations, few gender, academic track and school type differences were found. Further analyses indicated that different groups of students appeared to experience distress in different ways.Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 12th standard students (n = 24) to explore their perceptions of academic stress and adolescent distress. Their perceptions could be categorized into six themes: busy schedules, experience of stress, somatic symptoms, attitudes and beliefs about 12th standard, the role of God vs. hard work, and education reform. The same interview data was also used to understand the role of parents. Analysis suggested that parents were involved in their child's education in five ways - they had specific expectations for achievement, they put pressure on their children, they compared their child to others, they controlled the study environment, and they were supportive of their children. Some categories appeared to be associated with a greater experience of academic stress and adolescent distress than others. The interview data was also explored for gender, academic track, and school type differences.Jointly, these findings suggest that academic stress and adolescent distress is indeed a significant problem in Chennai, India. A variety of interventions are suggested to address the issue.
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Karame, Alya. "Qur'ans from the Eastern Islamic world between the 4th/10th and 6th/12th centuries." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/28999.
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This thesis identifies and studies Qur’ans produced in the eastern Islamic world between the 4th/10th and 6th/12th centuries. The period coincides with major transformations in the environment of Qur’an production: the replacement of “Kufic” with newer types of scripts; the use of paper instead of parchment as a writing material; and the introduction of the vertical format, which gradually replaced the old horizontal format of Qur’an manuscripts. It was during this period that the Seljuqs and Ghaznavids rose to power alongside other local dynasties in the eastern Islamic world following the breakdown of the Abbasid Empire in the 4th/10th century. The boundaries between these different empires, however, did not prevent the mobility of craftsmen to, from and within Greater Iran. The extant Qur’ans from this period point to a shared visual vocabulary due to the fluidity of borders and the mobility of motifs. Yet, within this common language, local trends emerged defying unified dynastic or regional labels. The similarities and differences in Qur’ans produced in Iraq, Iran, Syria, the Jazira, Khurasan and Transoxiana attest to this idea. At the turn of the 5th/11th century, new scripts were being stylised while the illumination was in continuity with past traditions. Qur’ans that survive from Greater Iran, Baghdad and Cairo, studied in the first and second chapters, point to local manners of script and illumination stylisation. Some of their epigraphic and decorative forms find parallels on architecture, pottery, and coins pointing to the travel of motifs not only across geographic boundaries but also across artistic fields. The third chapter identifies a group of Qur’ans copied in the first half of the 5th/11th century in Nishapur and hence represent a local style of Qur’an production. Imperial Ghaznavid and Ghurid Qur’ans copied between the second half of the 5th/11th century and the 6th/12th century, studied in the fourth and fifth chapters, exemplify trends of Qur’anic script and illumination in Khurasan. The aesthetic of the Ghaznavid Qur’ans is rooted in earlier traditions with links to Baghdad and Nishapur while that of the Ghurid Qur’ans appear in continuity with the Ghaznavid yet with new features. Their visual vocabulary resonates with the local eclectic style of architectural decoration and the ceramics, metalwork, coins and silk produced in Greater Iran. A section of the fourth chapter investigates the work of al-warrāq al-ghaznawī (the Warrāq from Ghazna), a recurrent title in the colophons of Ghaznavid Qur’ans that points to a collaborative work environment, and offers insights into the production of these Qur’ans. Based on similarities with the Ghaznavid and Ghurid corpus, additional Qur’ans are attributed to Khurasan and Transoxiana in the sixth chapter. Their visual languages also draw from Qur’anic and non-Qur’anic artistic productions of Khurasan and largely that of Greater Iran. Finally, Qur’ans copied in the 6th/12th century in the Central Islamic lands appear to be mutually related and further apart from those produced in Khurasan yet with visible links. The seventh and eighth chapters examine the aesthetic diversity in Qur’ans produced in Iran. Iraq, the Jazira and Syria. Their distinct features point to local stylisation of script and illumination that was shaped from the fluidity of motifs throughout the Mashriq.
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Lotz, Kelye L. "Chrétien et la théorie celtique : état présent d'études." Thesis, McGill University, 1992. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=56929.
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Since their composition during the middle to late twelfth century, Chretien's tales of Arthur and his chivalrous knights have fascinated generation upon generation of storytellers and their audiences, as well as literary critics and historians. Originally thought to have sprung from the newly civilized and thoroughly christianized courts of Marie of Champagne, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, eighteenth century literary historians suggested that the legends behind the tales may have originated in the lost mythologies of Celtic Ireland and Wales. The following thesis examines the evolution of the theory of celtic origins of Chretien's Romans de la Table Ronde.
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Laszczewska, Edyta. "Soziale Ausgrenzung : die Darstellung Parzivals als Aussenseiter bei Wolfram von Eschenbach." Thesis, McGill University, 1999. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=30182.
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The question of marginality has aroused great interest in recent years among the researchers in German literature. The present thesis follows along the lines of that trend and explores the concept of the High Middle Ages and in Wolfram's von Eschenbach epos Parzival. The primary purpose of the study was to establish prominent outsider characteristics in the poet's presentation of his title hero. To accomplish that task, the thesis was divided into two parts---the first giving a socio-historical account of the main aspects of outsiderdom in the mediaeval period, followed by a detailed analysis of those aspects in Wolfram's epos. The conclusions drawn at the end allow for a broader assessment of Parzival's life as an outsider.
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Roveda, Vittorio. "Narrative reliefs of the SW and NW western corner pavilions of Angkor Wat." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.313427.
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Stein, Emma Natalya. "All Streets Lead to Temples| Mapping Monumental Histories in Kanchipuram, ca. 8th - 12th centuries CE." Thesis, Yale University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10633265.
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This dissertation examines the transformation of the South Indian city of Kanchipuram into a major cosmopolitan sacred center during the course of the eighth through twelfth centuries. In this pivotal five hundred-year period, Kanchipuram served as the royal capital for two major dynasties, the Pallavas and then the Cholas. Both dynasties sponsored the production of prominent sacred monuments built from locally sourced stone. These temples were crowned with pyramidal towers, adorned with sculpted and painted figures of deities amid groves and palatial landscapes, and elegantly ornamented with courtly Sanskrit and Tamil inscriptions. Over time, the temples functioned as monumental statements of power, sites of devotion, and municipal establishments where diverse social groups negotiated their claims to political authority and economic prosperity. In Kanchipuram, temples also played a crucial role in defining urban space by demarcating the city's center and borders, marking crucial junctions, and orienting the gods towards avenues, hydraulic features, and royal establishments. As religious monuments, they also fostered vibrant circuits of pilgrimage and travel that were integrated with a broader Indian Ocean network.
The dissertation argues that the construction of temples fundamentally shaped and reordered landscape. The four chapters, organized chronologically, address the expanding geography of Kanchipuram and its widening sphere of influence. The first two chapters trace the city's shifting contours and the emergence of a major pilgrimage route that led precisely through the urban core. The city was radically reconfigured around this new central road, which functioned as a processional pathway that created relationships between monuments both inside the city and beyond its borders. The third chapter reveals patterns of movement linking the city with its rural and coastal hinterland, and considers connections with Southeast Asia. Temples in more remote areas disclose links to Kanchipuram through their use of shared architectural forms, a standardized iconographic program, and inscriptions that detail economic and political ties to the urban hub. The fourth chapter focuses on colonial-era encounters with Kanchipuram and the city's role in the broader production of colonial knowledge. As a site of antiquarian interest and military history, Kanchipuram was subject to competing narratives about India. Whereas European officials and surveyors such as James Fergusson saw in the city's monuments India's past glory and inevitable decline, other travelers found no evidence of rupture or disrepair. I read these conflicting representations against the grain to expose Kanchipuram's continuity as a flourishing cosmopolitan center. The dissertation's goal is twofold. First, it documents Kanchipuram and maps its monuments spatially and chronologically in relation to each other, the city, and features of the natural environment. Second, it situates the temples within their ritual and civic functions as agentive establishments that both served and fostered a growing urban landscape.
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OZAWA, Minoru. "From Runic Stone to Charter : Transformation of property confirmation in 11th and 12th century Denmark." 名古屋大学大学院文学研究科, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2237/13996.
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Ostapkowicz, Joanna. "Taino wooden sculpture : Duhos, rulership and the visual arts in the 12th-16th century Caribbean." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.300073.
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Welham, Katharine Mary Anne. "The compositional homogeneity of potash lime silica glasses in northern Europe from 12th-17th centuries." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2001. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/10190/.
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This research investigates the compositional homogeneity of potash-limesilica glasses from the 12th-17th centuries in Northern Europe, and the significance of this with respect to compositional studies of archaeological glasses. The variables in the glass making process that influence the formation of a homogeneous glass are discussed, and investigated using laboratory replication of beech and bracken ash glasses. The experimental results are compared to archaeological material from glass production sites at Blunden's Wood, Knightons, Sidney Wood, and Little Birches in England, and Hils in Germany. Backscattered scanning electron microscope (SEM) imaging is used to qualify the extent of inhomogeneity in both the experimental and archaeological samples. It is confirmed that visually homogeneous glasses can contain inhomogeneities that are only visible under backscattered SEM imaging. It is seen that the size and orientation of inhomogeneities is varied, and specific glass artefact types (such as crucible and waste glass) are more prone to inhomogeneity than fully formed glass (such as window and vessel glass). Electron microprobe analysis (EPMA) is used to quantify the extent of elemental variations present in the inhomogeneous archaeological glasses. The results show that a number of elements are significantly influenced by inhomogeneity, including those (such as calcium, magnesium and sodium) which are commonly used to form compositional groupings of medieval glass. It is concluded that although a number of variables in the glass making process influence the formation of a homogeneous glass, specific variables, such as increased furnace temperature and a high alkali concentration in the ash, appear to be the dominating factors. The presence of large elemental variations in a number of the archaeological glasses analysed confirms that inhomogeneity is a vital consideration in compositional studies of this material, and that particular care must be exercised when using analytical techniques that require only a small sample size.
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Stiles, Paula R. "Christian and non-Christian Templar associates in the 12th and 13th century crown of Aragon." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/13665.
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This thesis seeks to illuminate the nature, extent and complexity of Templar interactions with their associates, particularly non-Christians, women and Mozarabs, by examining these interactions where the most evidence exists for them---northeastern Spain. Evidence for Temple associations with both Christians and non-Christians is strongest and most prolonged here. The overall nature of these interactions was friendlier than expected in a crusading group. In fact, Templars actively competed with the secular Church, nobility and the king in the Crown of Aragon for lordship over non-Christians because non-Christians were a lucrative tax base. Some non-Christians also sought association with the Templars because the Templars were a strong, international group with friendly ties to the Aragonese kings. The Temple could therefore offer protection from other lords against excessive taxation and exploitation, and physical attack. Documentary evidence shows mutually beneficial interactions as the Temple's (and its non-Christian associates') ongoing preference over time and space. Chapter one examines Templar interactions in general, both with associates and non-associates. Chapter two looks at Templar associations in Novillas, the first Templar house founded in the Crown of Aragon. Chapter three deals with the Tortosa and the lower Ebro Valley, which has the most varied surviving Templar documentation in the areas studied. Chapter four deals with Gardeny (in Lleida/Lerida), which has the largest number of surviving documents for all of the areas in the study. Chapter five looks at Monzon and Barcelona, the main Templar houses for Aragon and Catalonia respectively. The last chapter deals with Huesca, the northernmost house in the study.
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Krummel, Michael James. "Perception of stressors by 9th and 12th grade students utilizing the Youth adaptation rating scale." PDXScholar, 1992. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/4368.
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Stress is a fact of life. There has been much research done since the early 1970's dealing with the various aspects and relationships of stress and life events for all stages of human development. The purpose of this study was to investigate perceived life-event stressors of 9th grade and 12th grade students in three Pacific Northwest rural schools. The study also sought to a) ascertain whether male students in the 9th grade and 12th grade perceive stressful life events differently than female students in the same grade, and b) explore if there was a difference in perceptions of students of "different" rural community populations and different age populations (9th & 12th graders).
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Reid, Jessica. "The Fortunes of a King: Images of Edward the Confessor in 12th to 14th Century England." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34197.
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This thesis is an iconographic study of Saint-King Edward the Confessor. It focuses on the political and devotional functions of his images in twelfth to fourteenth century England. The images are not concerned with the historical Anglo-Saxon King, but rather depict an idealized and simplified version of Edward. The discrepancies between Edward, the Anglo-Saxon monarch, and his representation in the twelfth to fourteenth centuries provide insight into how he was perceived at the time.
Spanning the reigns of King Henry I to King Richard II, this unique study assembles both royal and ecclesiastical images of Edward to compare and contrast their intended purposes and messages. The study explores the role that Westminster Abbey had in the emergence, adoption, and transformation of Edward’s cult images, and it examines how the English crown subsequently adopted Edward as a saint-king figure under King Henry III and King Richard II. Furthermore, the study reveals elements of cooperation between Westminster Abbey and King Henry III in the presentation and interpretation of Edward’s image. In particular, the first images of Edward as a saint-king were part of a wider hagiographic image cycle developed in Westminster Abbey. The images incorporated Edward’s status as both a king and saint to promote cooperation between the Abbey and the monarchy. Similarly, coronation portraits of King Edward promoted Edward as an ideal king; these images embraced peaceful, Solomonic, and clergy-supported kingship. King Henry III’s images of Edward, found throughout his castles and palaces, built upon Westminster’s format and his messages maintained cooperation with the clergy.
The images evolved under King Richard II as Edward was removed from his hagiographic context. Richard’s images of Edward were personal and self-serving, and Edward became a justification of Richard’s independent and sacral style of kingship. The images evolved from promoting Edward’s style of sainthood and kingship to providing overt divine support for Richard’s reign. This image study illuminates the symbolic purpose of Edward in Medieval English society and how his image was constructed and embraced by Westminster Abbey and the monarchy.
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Bentley, Michaela Bronwyn. "The hidden children of Byzantium? : an examination of childhood during the 6th to the 12th centuries /." Title page and contents only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arb477.pdf.
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趙智輝 and Chi-fai Chiu. "A study of the phonology of 12th century China, with reference to Zhu Xi's fanqie notation." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1988. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31208149.
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Mincin, Elisabeth C. "Curing the common soul : rethinking Byzantine heresy through the literary motif of disease (11th-12th centuries)." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7608.
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This thesis explores the literary topos in which heresy is defined in terms of disease, focusing particular attention on the reign of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118). By examining the portrayals of two heretics – the philosopher Ioannes Italos and the dualist Bogomil heresiarch Basileios – in a body of interrelated source material, conclusions are drawn related to the contemporary thought-world, which influenced the authors, their works and their understanding of the heterodox threat. This, in turn, is used to gain insight into the contemporary dynamics of imperial propaganda and power. There are four main chapters, the first of which discusses the methodological approach adopted throughout this study. This section treats various questions related to the problems inherent in heresy scholarship, such as the ever-changing definition of ‘heresy' and the use of source material that is fundamentally antagonistic towards the heretical subject. The second chapter traces the transmission of the focal topos, ‘heresy as disease', within heresiology from its origins in the fourth-century Panarion of the bishop Epiphanios of Salamis up to the twelfth century, where it is found used prevalently by the court of Alexios I. Chapter three then offers a detailed analysis of the primary sources that are employed in the case studies of Italos and Basileios: Anna Komnene's Alexias, Euthymios Zygabenos's Panoplia Dogmatike, the Synodikon of Orthodoxy and trial proceedings preserved from the synodal examination of Italos. The final chapter explores the surviving presentations of both men – their depictions as ‘outsiders' and the specific association developed between their teachings and disease – within the context of the newly emerging and insecure Komnenian dynasty. ‘Heresy as disease' is found to transmit an ideological framework, allowing Alexios to reinforce his unstable position by capitalising on the image of the great Orthodox doctor, providing a cure for the common soul.
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Al-Samaany, Nasser S. "Travel literature of Moroccan pilgrims during the 11-12th/17-18th centuries : thematic and artistic study." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2000. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/542/.
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Previous research has mostly focused on various literary genres such as poetry, short story and novels. In contrast to the great concern shown for these genres, little attention has been given to an interesting genre of literature that is worth appreciation and deserves examination and care, this is ' Travel Literature '. Therefore, I preferred to approach this under explored and vibrant field, which is concerned with al-Rihlät compiled by the pilgrims known as al-Rihlät al-Hijäziyya, during the 11-12th/17-18th centuries, and to the Rihlätof the Moroccans, specifically of Far Morocco, (al-Maghrib al Aq). The target texts that are analysed are from the following Rihlät of Abü Madyan, al-cAmiri, al-, Ayni, al `Ayyäshi, al-Hashtüki, al-Ijudayki, Ibn cAbd al-Saläm, Ibn Abi Mahli, Ibn al-Tayyib, Ibn Malib, Ibn Näsir, al-Ishägi, al-Muräbit, al-Qädiri, al-Räfidi, al-Shawi, al-Yüsi and al-Zabddi. This study is divided into two major parts. In the first part, which constitutes the first half of the focus of this study, the poetry composed by Moroccan travellers is analysed and investigated in terms of two main methods. The first is a descriptive thematic study. The descriptive method is represented in the analysis of the poetic texts according to its poetic themes, such as religious verse, brotherly poems, estrangement, longing, yearning and complaint, description, elegy and other themes. In addition to this, there is an outline of the significant role of Süfis with special emphasis on al-Zäwiya in all aspects of life, and more specifically academic activities as well as literary life for the period in which the travellers lived. The second is an analytical artistic study. The poetry is analysed and discussed according to the following artistic features: poem structure, content (meanings and ideas), imagery, the language (words and syntax), emotion and experience. The second part, which is considered the second half of the focus of this study, is prose material, where the same method is applied. It is classified according to two main sections. In the first the prose material is analysed according to thematic features. These are religious, geographical, academic, political and security, commerce, social, literary and humorous content. In the second, the prose is examined in terms of its artistic features. These are Rihla structure, the language (style and vocabulary) and the content. In addition, this study provides a summary of the most significant motives and aims, which led, or encouraged travellers to journey from one place to another. It includes a brief summary of the biographies of the most famous Arab travellers of non-Moroccan origin and their travels from the pre-Islamic period until the 10th/15th century, as well as details about the Moroccan travellers, including their biographies and Rihlätin the centuries prior to the main period studied. In addition, there is a section concentrating on the main period studied within this thesis, and due to this, more details are given about Moroccan travellers and their Rihlät recorded in the 11th and 12th/18th and 19th centuries. In addition to this, there is a brief summary of the political and educational aspects and al-Hajj as a main motive for travel. The final chapter is the conclusion and epilogue. It outlines the findings of the research, and suggests further areas of study for future research in the light of the results obtained.
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Kampianaki, Theofili. "John Zonaras' Epitome of Histories (12th cent.) : a compendium of Jewish-Roman history and its readers." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:34140293-8430-421e-a462-48cd8da6131e.
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This thesis is concerned with the twelfth-century chronicle of John Zonaras, the so-called Epitome of Histories (henceforth: Epitome). Its aim is to identify the unique qualities of the Epitome which make the work stand out, and thus determine its place within the tradition of Byzantine historical writing. The first chapter discusses the biographical and chronological information available to us about Zonaras, and contains a survey of the other works composed by the author in addition to the Epitome. Chapters 2 to 5 focus on the chronicle itself. The second chapter explains the arrangement of Zonaras' text in volumes and in thematic units. It demonstrates that the author gradually developed his project into a universal historical account over a period of time. Chapter 3 looks at the author's method of work, exploring how he used and adapted his source material. The fourth chapter deals with the work's political and ideological framework. It shows that Zonaras' disapproval of Alexios I Komnenos was to a great extent a personal attack, but also an outright rejection of similar policies that were implemented by various emperors in the past. Zonaras' pronounced interest in Roman antiquities is discussed in the fifth chapter. His attention to the Roman origins of Byzantium is examined against the broader intellectual, literary and historical milieu of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Chapters 6 and 7 include discussions that go beyond the text. The sixth chapter proves that the chronicler was part of a network of intellectuals outside the monastery to which he had retired. Additionally, it shows that Zonaras addresses the Epitome to relatively learned readers. The last chapter, dedicated to the reception of the chronicle, investigates the various ways in which approximate contemporaries of Zonaras and later readers perceived and exploited the Epitome. At the end of the thesis, some broader conclusions are drawn about the profile of Zonaras and about the overall character of his historical account.
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Bradley, Willie Howard. "Effect of the Criminal Justice Curriculum on the Attitudes of 12th-Grade Students Toward the Police." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2638.
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While the use of criminal justice courses and law-related education programs have been shown to serve as a crime prevention and deterrence mechanism against school crime and violence, and help students to gain positive experiences and attitudes toward law enforcement, many high schools still do not offer criminal justice courses. The purpose of this quasiexperimental study was to compare the attitudes of 12th-grade students from a school district in Massachusetts who took a criminal justice course to 12th-grade students from another school district in Massachusetts who did not to determine if there is a statistically significant difference between the groups. Reisig and Park's experience with police model guided this study. Data were collected using Hurst's survey with a purposive sample of 60 12th-grade students who were 18 years of age or older and 8 students who were below the age of 18 from two school districts in Massachusetts. Data were analyzed using two sample t test and one-way analysis of variance. Results indicated that there was no significant difference (p > .05) in 12th-grade students' attitudes toward the police between students who have taken a criminal justice course and students who have not, and no significant difference (p > .05) between male and female 12th-grade students' attitudes toward the police. A criminal justice course did not have an effect on student's attitudes toward the police, but other law-related education programs or students' contact with the police should be further investigated. The implications for positive social change are directed toward school district leaders to continue to look for ways to improve juveniles' attitudes toward police, but a course in the middle and high school curricula may not be the best way to spend those limited resources.
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Voisin, Meghan Dawn. "Sexual dimorphism in the 12th thoracic vertebra and its potential for sex estimation of human skeletal remains." Thesis, Wichita State University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/3991.
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The purpose of this study is to determine the presence/degree of sexual dimorphism of the 12th thoracic vertebra through a quantitative analysis and to further examine its potential and reliability in the sex estimation of human skeletal remains. This study also explores the age-related changes of human skeletal remains and how these affect morphological variation conducive to sex estimation. In order to assess this, the 12th thoracic vertebrae, femur and sacrum of 168 mature skeletal remains (94 males and 74 females) from the Raymond Dart Collection in Johannesburg, South Africa and 407 (205 males and 202 females) mature skeletal remains from the Hamann-Todd Collection in Cleveland, Ohio were analyzed. Only individuals whose group affiliation was designated as “South African Black” from the Raymond Dart Collection and “African American” from the Hamann-Todd Collection were measured. This was done to permit the examination of geographical variance within and between the two samples.
The morphology of the 12th thoracic vertebra was examined by means of univariate and multivariate analyses to better assess each effect. These analyses resulted in relatively high correct classifications of males and females in all samples, with mean measurement values being larger in males in all measurements. While age-related changes have little effect on the high reliability of sex estimation in the African American sample, age-related changes decreases the reliability of sex estimation in the South African sample.
Overall, this study reveals that the 12th thoracic vertebra has potential for use in sex estimation as a result of the skeletal morphological variation between males and females both documented in the Raymond A. Dart Collection of Human Skeletons and the Hamann-Todd Osteological Collection.Thesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Anthropology.
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Proske, Dirk, Milad Mehdianpour, and Lucjan Gucma. "4th International Probabilistic Workshop: 12th-13th October 2006, Berlin, BAM (Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing)." Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, 2009. https://slub.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A284.
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Die heutige Welt der Menschen wird durch große Dynamik geprägt. Eine Vielzahl verschiedener Prozesse entfaltet sich parallel und teilweise auf unsichtbare Weise miteinander verbunden. Nimmt man z.B. den Prozess der Globalisierung: Hier erleben wir ein exponentielles Wachstum der internationalen Verknüpfungen von der Ebene einzelner Menschen und bis zur Ebene der Kulturen. Solche Verknüpfungen führen uns zum Begriff der Komplexität. Diese wird oft als Produkt der Anzahl der Elemente eines Systems mal Umfang der Verknüpfungen im System verstanden. In anderen Worten, die Welt wird zunehmend komplexer, denn die Verknüpfungen nehmen zu. Komplexität wiederum ist ein Begriff für etwas unverstandenes, unkontrollierbares, etwas unbestimmtes. Genau wie bei einem Menschen: Aus einer Zelle wächst ein Mensch, dessen Verhalten wir im Detail nur schwer vorhersagen können. Immerhin besitzt sein Gehirn 1011 Elemente (Zellen). Wenn also diese dynamischen sozialen Prozesse zu höherer Komplexität führen, müssen wir auch mehr Unbestimmtheit erwarten. Es bleibt zu Hoffen, dass die Unbestimmtheit nicht existenzielle Grundlagen betrifft. Was die Komplexität der Technik angeht, so versucht man hier im Gegensatz zu den gesellschaftlichen Unsicherheiten die Unsicherheiten zu erfassen und gezielt mit ihnen umzugehen. Das gilt für alle Bereiche, ob nun Naturgefahrenmanagement, beim Bau und Betrieb von Kernkraftwerken, im Bauwesen oder in der Schifffahrt. Und so verschieden diese Fachgebiete auch scheinen mögen, die an diesem Symposium teilnehmen: Sie haben erkannt, das verantwortungsvoller Umgang mit Technik einer Berücksichtigung der Unbestimmtheit bedarf. Soweit sind wir in gesellschaftlichen Prozessen noch nicht. Wünschenswert wäre, dass in einigen Jahren nicht nur Bauingenieure, Maschinenbauer, Mathematiker oder Schiffsbauer an einem solchen Probabilistik- Symposium teilnehmen, sondern auch Soziologen, Politiker oder Manager... (aus dem Vorwort) --- HINWEIS: Das Volltextdokument besteht aus einzelnen Beiträgen mit separater Seitenzählung.PREFACE: The world today is shaped by high dynamics. Multitude of processes evolves parallel and partly connected invisible. For example, the globalisation is such a process. Here one can observe the exponential growing of connections form the level of single humans to the level of cultures. Such connections guide as to the term complexity. Complexity is often understood as product of the number of elements and the amount of connections in the system. In other words, the world is going more complex, if the connections increase. Complexity itself is a term for a system, which is not fully understood, which is partly uncontrollable and indeterminated: exactly as humans. Growing from a single cell, the humans will show latter a behaviour, which we can not predict in detail. After all, the human brain consists of 1011 elements (cells). If the social dynamical processes yield to more complexity, we have to accept more indetermination. Well, one has to hope, that such an indetermination does not affect the basic of human existence. If we look at the field of technology, we can detect, that here indetermination or uncertainty is often be dealt with explicitly. This is valid for natural risk management, for nuclear engineering, civil engineering or for the design of ships. And so different the fields are which contribute to this symposium for all is valid: People working in this field have realised, that a responsible usage of technology requires consideration of indetermination and uncertainty. This level is not yet reached in the social sciences. It is the wish of the organisers of this symposium, that not only civil engineers, mechanical engineers, mathematicians, ship builders take part in this symposium, but also sociologists, managers and even politicians. Therefore there is still a great opportunity to grow for this symposium. Indetermination does not have to be negative: it can also be seen as chance.
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Khalaf, Ali K. "The predictors of chemistry achievement of 12th grade students in secondary schools in the United Arab Emirates." The Ohio State University, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1384531327.
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Lewis, Ann S. "The effect of trade books on the environmental literacy of 11th and 12th graders in aquatic science." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2003. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc4311/.
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The purpose of this study was to compare the environmental literacy of 11th and 12th graders who participated in an eighteen-week environmental education program using trade books versus 11th- and 12th-graders who participated in an eighteen-week, traditional environmental education program without the use of trade books. This study was conducted using a quasi-experimental research technique. Four high school aquatic science classes at two suburban high schools were used in the research. One teacher at each high school taught one control class and one experimental class of aquatic science. In the experimental classes, four trade books were read to the classes during the eighteen-week semester. These four books were selected by the participating teachers before the semester began. The books used were A Home by the Sea, Sea Otter Rescue, There's a Hair in My Dirt, and The Missing Gator of Gumbo Limbo. The instrument used to measure environmental literacy was the Children's Environmental Attitude and Knowledge Scale. This test was given at the beginning of the semester and at the end of the semester. The scores at the end of the semester were analyzed by 2 X 2 mixed model ANOVA with the teacher as the random effect and the condition (trade books) as the fixed effect. The statistical analysis of this study showed that the students in the experimental classes did not score higher than the control classes on the Children's Environmental Attitude and Knowledge Scale or on a subset of "water" questions. Several limitations were placed on this research. These limitations included the following: (1) a small number of classes and a small number of teachers, (2) change from the original plan of using environmental science classes to aquatic science classes, (3) possible indifference of the students, and (4) restrictive teaching strategies of the teachers.
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Ulff-Møller, Nina Konstantinova. "Transcription of the Stichera idiomela for the month of April from Russian manuscripts from the 12th century /." München : O. Sagner, 1989. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37598717n.
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Corrêa, Alicia Michelle Harting. "The 'Durham Ritual' (Durham Ms.A.IV.19) and its place in the development of collectars, 8th-12th centuries." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/14103.
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Few liturgical historians are aware that a book of collects for the Divine Offices formed part of the service-books owned by a monk or priest during the late eighth to the end of the twelfth century. Conciliar decrees and liturgical rules remain silent about its function and development. On account of the paucity of information from the non-liturgical evidence, one can only formulate an idea about the collectar from the surviving manuscripts. The Durham Cathedral Library, Ms.A.IV.19, misnamed the 'Durham Ritual', is the earliest collectar to have survived in England. It has been tentatively dated to the early tenth century, written in the south of England from an unknown exemplar. At least five continental collectars pre-date the Durham Collectar. This number increases substantially in the eleventh century, when the Leofric Collectar and Wulfstan Portiforium, the better-known English collectars, were written. By the twelfth century, the collectar is still used; but its association is so intertwined with other office material that it is but a small step away from the breviary. In an effort to place the Durham Collectar within the development of collectars, the surviving manuscripts prior to the twelfth century have been examined. No standard collectar ever materialized. The 'pure collectar' of the eighth century extracted only the extraneous prayers from the mass-set of a single sacramentary. By the ninth century, some of the more important mass prayers were introduced, in particuliar, the collecta. Both Gelasian and Gregorian prayers were extracted, possibly reflecting the more complex structure of the sacramentary source. At the turn of the century, the capitula, or short chapter readings from the Bible, were also added. The Durham Collectar represents this primitive stage, before the prayers and chapters were divided into offices. The exemplar of the DC adhered closely to its sacramentary source. Textual analysis of the prayers, in particular those for All Saints and St. Martin, among others, indicate that this sacramentary lay very close to Tours and the compositions of Alcuin. These continental affiliations and its primitive organization place the DC at odds with the tenth- and eleventh-century English service-books. This may explain the treatment it received in England. It was sent northwards soon after it was hastily copied in southern England by a scribe who was not trained in a Winchester scriptorium. At Chester-le-Street, members of the Cuthbert community added other office material and educational texts. By c.970, it was glossed by Provost Aldred, the famous glossator of the Lindisfarne Gospels.
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Dunkel, Sharon Lynn. "Displacement and redemption in the Lais of Marie de France." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/28040.
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In the endless cycle of life and death, the issues of love and marriage are a constant and recurrent theme of literature. The man, as a foreigner, comes to court the woman with the intent of taking her away from her parents and bringing her into his own home. He must first convince the woman to leave the paternal location. The hearth, the center of the new home and the symbol of his wife, constitutes the one constant and stable aspect of the man's otherwise nomadic existence. The tensions and conflict inherent in this masculine struggle serve to mold and prepare the man for his future role as the protector and provider of his home and society.
The woman, for her part, must also undergo -a spatial displacement. Not only must she travel to the new domicile, but she must also be prepared to change and adapt herself to the idea of leaving her birthplace. The vertical movement from the tower to the grove by way of the bedroom constitutes the process of maturation for the lady. Once she has proven herself capable of adulthood, the woman will assist her mate in gaining access to the society he had originally rejected in his search for self. Thus the woman serves as the instrument of God in redeeming the man while maintaining her own individuality, seen in the parallel process of displacement which she experiences. The reader response to the text of the Lais is based upon the realization that the reader also experiences a type of spatial displacement similar to that of the protagonists. Marie, through the use of a variety of literary mechanisms, forces the recipients of the text to go back in time and space to the mythic locale of Bretaigne. The purpose of this narrative technique is that, through identification with the various characters, each reader learns the proper methods of social interaction. In other words, the twelve stories form a manual of courtly etiquette.
The Lens of Marie de France are not only for entertainment but for edification as well.Arts, Faculty of
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Wallace, S. A. "Socioeconomic change and the meaning of settlement in the Early Iron Age of Crete, 12th-7th centuries BC." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/27604.
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A settlement shift occurred in Crete during the 12th century BC (Late Minoan IIIC) from valleys and coasts to more elevated, usually defensible, sites in foothill and mountain zones. The study’s aim is to place this phenomenon in the context of socio-economic change known to have occurred in the Aegean/east Mediterranean in the 12th-7th centuries BC (Early Iron Age: EIA). The implications of the settlement shift for subsistence (sometimes argued to have been its prime mover) are addressed through hinterland characterisation at six sites/site clusters in various regions of Crete. All have occupation starting in this period, but contrast greatly in their size, local topography and length of use. The approach makes use of long-term land-use and settlement history, ethnography and soil studies, alongside archaeological data for the period (which now includes some archaeobotanical/faunal studies). On their own, none of these data sources can define EIA subsistence regimes. Considered together in the six different cases, they do allow significant conclusions to be drawn about the most likely practices and about the general degree of change between Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age subsistence. In the second half of the thesis, and analysis is made of socio-political/economic relationships within and between the new communities, and how these changed over the course of the EIA. They are discussed in the context of wider Aegean developments in exchange economy and in social organisation, strongly connected to new systems of production, circulation and consumption of high-value goods. Many settlements founded in the shift of the 12th century were abandoned, while significant nucleation took place at others, from the Protogeometric period (early 10th century). The latter continued to develop through Archaic (7th and 6th centuries BC) and in many cases became Classical poleis. Their locations can be shown to share better access to large arable hinterlands and to communication routes than the abandoned sites, again giving rise to questions of how EIA settlement related to economic considerations.