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Ogata, Kiwako. "Elephant in Antiquity and the Middle Ages." Doctoral thesis, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/257007.

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The aim of this study is to describe the evolution of knowledge and representation of an animal – elephant – from Antiquity to the Middle Ages up to the 13th century in the West and to demonstrate continuity and changes, from one civilization to another, especially in its visual representations. We tried to introduce the fruits of contemporary study of philosophical and ethical thought on the animal and its relationship with man, represented especially by Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben. The study therefore, discusses not only the relationship between man and the elephant, but also include

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Loseby, Simon Thomas. "Marseille in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356966.

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Polci, Barbara. "Palace and hall in the Mediterranean basin between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327131.

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Frotscher, Antje G. "The war of the words : a history of flyting from antiquity to the Later Middle Ages." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2003. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.401258.

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Zavagno, Luca. "Cities in transition : urbanism in Byzantium between late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages : (AD 500-900)." Oxford [u.a.] : Archaeopress, 2009. http://bvbr.bib-bvb.de:8991/F?func=service&doc_library=BVB01&doc_number=018806496&line_number=0001&func_code=DB_RECORDS&service_type=MEDIA.

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Robinson, Thurstan H. "City and country in Pisidia from classical antiquity to the Middle Ages : Ariassos, Sia and their territories." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2002. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:533c8eb5-99a1-4444-9e32-1354d7700566.

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This thesis provides a study of the growth and decline of two small Pisidian urban settlements, Sia and Ariassos, with an especial focus on the relationship, both social and economic, between town and country. The thesis addresses the subject primarily chronologically, although chapter two is diachronic. The first chapter provides an historical and geographical introduction to the subject. The complexities of the ethnic and cultural environment in which the two cities were founded are discussed along with the history of early settlement in the region. The succeeding chapters present, discuss a

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Wyche, Rose-Marie. "An archaeology of memory : the 'reinvention' of Roman sarcophagi in Provence during the Middle Ages." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bbcae262-8f5f-4e41-8f50-3b24c066d094.

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This thesis is an exercise in the archaeology of memory. It investigates the reuse and ‘reinvention’ of late antique sarcophagi during the Middle Ages in the southern part of Gaul, with a particular emphasis on their reinvention for saints. The region of Provence has a large number of sarcophagi reused for the burial of saints (at least 20), including many of its most important holy figures such as Mary Magdalene, Cassian and Honorat. I shall analyse three groups of sites: the Alyscamps in Arles, Saint-Maximin and Tarascon (the sites connected with Mary Magdalene and her companions) and the mo

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Goncalves, Diniz Lilian Regina. "Christianisation and religious identity from Late Antiquity to Early Middle ages: a comparative history of Gaul, Hispania and Britannia." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Padova, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11577/3426313.

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Conversion to Christianity was a process that transformed the Roman world not only religiously but also cultural and socially. In the passage from Late Antiquity to Early Middle ages, namely from the fourth to seventh century, while the new religion and way to deal with life and death overcomes the pagan past, cultures and societies responded to this profound change in different ways. In the Roman West, the way in which Christianity was adopted and interpreted by its followers was different, depending on their cultural background but also on the way the new religion was introduced. The purpose

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Depnering, Johannes M. "Sermon manuscript in the late Middle Ages : the Latin and German codices of Berthold von Regensburg." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f76c3e99-6d2a-417e-9088-58766c17cfb4.

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This thesis on medieval sermon manuscripts aims to increase our understanding of the Franciscan Berthold von Regensburg, who is considered to be the most significant German preacher of the late Middle Ages. For this reason, I have selected twenty-one Latin and six German codices, dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. These codices have been analyzed to identify the writing material, internal structure and paratextual features. The underlying idea is that the codicological and paratextual organisation delivers insight not only into the date and provenance of the manuscripts, but

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Zavagno, Luca. "The Byzantine city (5th-9th centuries) : de-constructing and re-constructing the urban environment between late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.446331.

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Buchberger, Erica. "From Romans to Goths and Franks : ethnic identities in sixth- and seventh-century Spain and Gaul." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:1c70a75a-9556-4642-93ea-220b877155c6.

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Within a few centuries after the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West, the descendants of Romans who had envisioned the world in terms of moral, civilized Romans and the savage barbarian ‘other’ had come to identify with those very barbarians. This thesis explores this shift from ‘Roman’ to ‘Gothic’ and ‘Frankish’ identities in sixth- and seventh-century Spain and Gaul through an examination of the ways ethnonyms were used in contemporary sources. Within the first section on Visigothic Spain, chapter one discusses the ‘Romans’ of the East—that is, the Byzantines—as portrayed by Isidore of

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Cowan, Kimberly R. "Defining the castle through twelfth-century chronicle perceptions in the Anglo-Norman regnum." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b5a7b0d1-0ff7-4a7f-85b3-97b3236a1bcd.

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The medieval castle is one of the most popular topics in medieval historiography and interest in this structure has institutionalized it in modern medieval scholarship. Unfortunately, this does not mean that modern historians understand it. The problem lies in the narrow and isolationist definition used by many scholars who see it as simply a fortified private residence representing and defending power. This thesis will demonstrate that the castle’s contemporaries understood it as an identifiable and distinguishable structure and symbol with a singular yet multi-dimensional characteristics as

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Valenciano, Marie. "Saint-Blaise/Ugium : de l’agglomération tardo-antique au castrum médiéval : relectures et regard nouveau." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM3065.

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S’inscrivant dans un projet de mise en valeur du site archéologique de Saint-Blaise (Saint-Mitre-les-Remparts, 13), notre thèse propose la relecture des vestiges tardo-antiques et médiévaux de cet ensemble de référence. Grâce à la reprise de l’intégralité des archives et des minutes de terrain générées depuis 1935, à l’étude raisonnée de lots de mobilier, à l’enregistrement systématique des structures apparentes et à la réouverture de campagnes de fouilles programmées, nous présentons la première synthèse de l’évolution topo-chronologique de Saint-Blaise/Ugium entre Antiquité tardive et Moyen

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Pelat, Mathieu. "De la novempopulanie à la wasconie entre antiquité tardive et haut moyen-âge." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Pau, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024PAUU1123.

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L'objectif de cette thèse est d'étudier les transformations de l'espace aquitain sub-garonnique de la Novempopulanie romaine à la Wasconia franque, entre IVe et VIe siècle. Nous cherchons à analyser, de manière critique, les sources textuelles et certaines constructions historiographiques antérieures, parfois un peu hâtives. Au IVe siècle, ce territoire est une province périphérique en mutation à tous les niveaux. Comme ailleurs, il ne semble pas que l'ethnicité ait joué un grand rôle dans sa réorganisation administrative malgré le possible maintien tardif d'un concilium fédéral. L'élite aquit

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Miller, Michael T. "The metaphysical meaning of the name of God in Jewish thought : a philosophical analysis of historical traditions from late antiquity into the Middle Ages." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2014. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/14290/.

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The Name of God has formed a crucial element of Jewish thought throughout its history, from the Biblical text, through the rabbinic and kabbalistic writings and into the modern age when the topic has still been a focal point for Jewish philosophers. The purpose of this study is to examine the texts of Judaism, especially those within the mystical tradition, pertaining to the Name of God, and to offer a philosophical analysis of these as a means of understanding the metaphysical role of the name generally, in terms of its relationship with identity. While the materials are historical, the aim i

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Byrne, Philippa Jane Estrild. ""Non est misericordia vera nisi sit ordinata" : pastoral theology and the practice of English justice, c. 1100 - c. 1250." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bf675adb-33f4-4cb8-9cc7-a70f287e7d56.

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This thesis examines the relationship, in theory and in practice, between the concepts of justice (iustitia) and mercy (misericordia) in English courts between c. 1100 and c. 1250. During this period English judges (in courts of both common and canon law) were faced with a serious dilemma. The emergence of systematic law had fundamentally altered the pastoral foundations of the act of judgement. On the one hand, judges were incorporated into a system of law in which justice was expected to be routine and regular. They were bound by procedure, and ‘justice’ was considered to lie in the return o

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Rukavina, Iva. "L'urbanisme médiéval de la ville d'origine antique de Zadar en Dalmatie." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100114.

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Notre travail montre l’urbanisme de la ville de Zadar en Dalmatie, soit le développement de ses contenus urbains de ses débuts à l’Antiquité jusqu’à l’an 1409. Notre analyse urbanistique repose avant tout sur les monuments et autres vestiges matériels. Les sources historiques pertinentes furent bien évidemment prises en compte. Nous avons présenté la construction architecturale au cours de quatre périodes : Antiquité, Antiquité tardive, Haut Moyen Âge et Moyen Âge central et tardif. Pour chaque période, nous avons présenté les constructions de Zadar en quatre catégories distinctes d’après leur

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Haverkamp, Simon L. H. "'Si Adam et Eva peccaverunt, quid nos miseri fecimus?' : the reception of Augustine's ontological discourse on the soul in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/4513.

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Thesis analyses the reception of Augustine of Hippo's (354-430) ontological discourse on the soul in late antiquity and the early middle ages, more specifically in the sixth and the ninth centuries. Since Augustine never wrote a 'De anima', nor always presented his readers with definite answers to questions, there was room for later authors to interpret and improvise. This thesis focuses on 4 texts: Cassiodorus Senator's 'De anima', Eugippius of Lucculanum's massive florilegium the 'Excerpta ex operibus Sancti Augustini', both from the sixth century, Gottschalk of Orbais' letter 'Quaestiones d

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Levine, Adam. "The image of Christ in Late Antiquity : a case study in religious interaction." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:bf630377-9f51-4e53-bb6f-d60d750745d3.

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This dissertation focuses on images of Christ that date from the first half of Late Antiquity, defined as the three centuries between AD 200 and 500. The cultural dynamics of this period left a distinct impression on Christian art, and this dissertation traces that impact. Unlike other studies that attempt to resolve ambiguity within the corpus of Christ images, the argument here maintains that ambiguity was a key component in the creation and subsequent interpretation of the Late Antique Christian iconography. The dissertation proceeds in three parts, each comprising two chapters. In the firs

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Putelat, Olivier. "Les relations homme-animal dans le monde des vivants et des morts : études archéozoologique des établissements et des regroupements funéraires ruraux de l'Arc jurassien et de la Plaine d'Alsace : de la fin de l'Antiquité tardive au premier Moyen Age." Thesis, Paris 1, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015PA010600/document.

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Cette recherche archéozoologique s'intéresse aux relations homme-animal, de I' Antiquité tardive (milieu du 3e s.), jusqu'à la fin du premier Moyen Age (11e s.). Elle englobe le Massif jurassien et la Plaine d'Alsace. Ces deux régions géographiques limitrophes sont des axes de passage, des zones fluviales (Doubs, Saône, Rhône, Rhin), qui ont appartenu à des royaumes différents et qui ont été habitées par des populations soumises à des influences culturelles différentes. Trois entrées sont utilisées pour analyser les sources ostéologiques : les contextes domestiques ruraux, les contextes funéra

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Giannakoulas, Alexandros. "Interconnections, exchanges and influences relating to medicine, warfare and rulership between Egypt and the Aegean during the Middle and Late Bronze Age." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f52475d8-90f2-4f40-b754-7ba3caae16dd.

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This thesis studies interactions between Egypt and the Aegean during the Middle to Late Bronze Ages, focusing on reciprocal influences in the spheres of healing, warfare, and legitimation of power. Chapter 1 provides an introduction, starting with an overview of previous research. The next two sections discuss a couple of issues of general significance, namely chronology and the Egyptian terminology for Aegean peoples and locations. The last two sections deal with issues of methodology and explain the aims of this work. Chapter 2 is devoted to healing practices. Like the two chapters that foll

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Omissi, Adrastos. "Usurpation and the construction of legitimacy in imperial panegyric, 289-389." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f61e26ff-5439-4c45-9a7e-dac3a2e05882.

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This thesis is an attempt to address the surprising lack of study into the question of usurpation in late antiquity. During a period defined by a textual corpus (289-389), the thesis looks at how usurpers and usurpation were presented in the panegyrics delivered to emperors and their courts. That usurpation features very heavily in this corpus should tell us something in itself, but it is a feature of these texts which has hardly been observed. The thesis shows how the panegyrics employed aggressive rhetorical tactics that sought not to bury usurpers in silence but rather to glory in their des

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Bell, Tyler. "The religious reuse of Roman structures in Anglo-Saxon England." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f631fee6-5081-4c40-af85-61725776cbf6.

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This thesis examines the post-Roman and Anglo-Saxon religious reuse of Roman structures, particularly burials associated with Roman structures, and churches on or near Roman buildings. Although it is known that the Anglo-Saxons existed in and interacted with the vestigial, physical landscape of Roman Britain, the specific nature and result of this interaction has not been completely understood. The present study examines the Anglo-Saxon religious reuse of Roman structures in an attempt to understand the Anglo-Saxon perception of Roman structures and the impact they had on the developing eccles

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Barrett, Graham David. "The written and the world in early medieval Iberia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2015. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:55845223-42de-49d0-b407-b25c88f367eb.

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The written was the world of early medieval Iberia. Literacy was limited, but textuality was extensive, in the authority conferred on text and the arrangements made to use it. Roman inheritance is manifest, in documentary and legal culture, engendering literate expectations which define the period; continuity across conquest by Visigoths and Arabs, and the weakness of states in the north of the Peninsula, must lay to rest the traditional coupling of literacy with politics which underlies the paradigm of the Middle Ages. Between the eighth and eleventh centuries, as estates expanded to surmount

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Chatrath, Nick. "Tradition and innovation in the Mamluk period : the anti-bid‘a literature of Ibn al-Ḥājj (d. 737/1336) and Ibn al-Naḥḥās (d. 814/1411)". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:feda45d1-c656-4d7c-aa27-9846c788c375.

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This study seeks to contribute to a growing discussion about Islamic intellectual endeavours in the Middle Periods, providing new evidence from the genre of anti-innovation tracts (anti-bid‘a tracts) that has hitherto received relatively little modern scholarly attention. Specifically, this thesis examines tradition and innovation in Islam during the Mamluk period (648/1250 – 922/1517) through the lens of two jurists and their anti-innovation tracts. Ibn al-Ḥājj (d. 737/1336) was a Mālikī from North Africa who wrote Madkhal al-shar‘ al-sharīf. Ibn al-Naḥḥās (d. 814/1411), by contrast, was a Sh

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FitzGerald, Brian D. "The medieval 'vates' : prophecy, history, and the shaping of sacred authority, 1120-1320." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:a45bc6f3-8adf-4b5c-b5d4-7d7f23dbb9b0.

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Belief in prophetic inspiration and the possibility of discerning the future was a cornerstone of medieval conceptions of history and of God’s workings within that history. But prophecy’s significance for the Middle Ages is due as much to the multiplicity of its meanings as to its role as an engine of history. Prophetia was described in terms ranging from prediction and historiography to singing and teaching. This thesis examines the attempts of medieval thinkers to wrestle with these ambiguities. The nature and implications of prophetic inspiration were a crucial area of contention during the

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Гостєв, Є. С., Роман Миколайович Стасюк, Роман Николаевич Стасюк та Roman Mykolaiovych Stasiuk. "Значення фізичної культури у добу античного та середньовічного світу". Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2016. http://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/48266.

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Важливою складовою частиною духовного світу народу є наукові знання, рівень яких свідчить про ступінь розвитку культури суспільства. Стосовно давньоруських знань про фізичну культуру доби античного і середньовічного світу – історичні джерела дають достатньо підстав, щоб піддати це питання ґрунтовному аналізу. Праці античних і середньовічних авторів давньоруською церковнослов’янською мовою, а також оригінальні давньоруські праці наводили відомості про Олімпійські та інші ігри давнини, про різні види фізичної культури давнього та середньовічного світу.

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Simon, Jesse. "Images of the built landscape in the later Roman world." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e86a09f5-a1da-4ac0-8051-ba7fca36c16e.

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At its greatest extent, the Roman empire represented one of the largest continuous areas of land to have been ruled by a single central administration in the classical period. While the extent of the empire may be determined from both the extensive body of literary evidence from the Roman world, and also from the physi- cal remains of great public works stretching from Britain to Arabia, the processes by which the Romans were able to apprehend larger spaces remain infrequently studied in modern scholarship. It is often assumed that Roman spatial awareness came from cartographic representations

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Jackson, Bonner Michael Richard. "An historiographical study of Abu Hanifa Ahmad ibn Dawud ibn Wanand al-Dinawari's Kitab al-Ahbar al-Tiwal (especially of that part dealing with the Sasanian kings)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:36f7c6b5-f9f2-44cd-83e6-2a4eaa7f4559.

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This thesis is a study of the pre-Islamic passages of Abū Ḥanīfa Aḥmad ibn Dāwūd ibn Wanand Dīnawarī's Kitāb al-Aḫbār al-Ṭiwāl. This is to say that it stops at the beginning of the Arab conquest of Iran. It is intended for scholars of Late Antiquity. Special emphasis is placed on Dīnawarī's exposition of the rule of the Sasanian dynasty and questions relating to the mysterious Ḫudāynāma tradition which are intimately connected with it. Beginning with a discussion of Dīnawarī and his work, the thesis moves into a discussion of indigenous Iranian historiography. Speculation o

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Studer, Monika Beatrice. "Exempla im Kontext : Untersuchungen zur Sammelhandschrift Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, mgf 863 aus dem Strassburger Reuerinnenkloster." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:2f7ac871-523f-4fe6-aec3-e52b9eceb1b0.

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The manuscript Berlin, SBB-PK, mgf 863 was written in about 1430 to 1435 and contains more than 600 short narrative texts in German prose (with some Latin insertions). Among them is the collection of the ›Alemannische Vitaspatrum‹ as well as an additional, extensive and multifarious exempla corpus, which mostly contains translations from well-known Latin collections such as – for example and most prominently – Caesarius' of Heisterbach ›Dialogus miraculorum‹. Because of the specific composition of the corpus and its large extent, mgf 863 builds an excellent basis for the investigation of exemp

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Lantschner, Patrick. "The logic of political conflict in the late Middle Ages : a comparative study of urban political conflicts in Italy and the southern Low Countries, c. 1370-1440." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:88345337-bad5-4eb6-b626-ec6ae003cfef.

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This thesis examines urban political conflict in the late Middle Ages (c. 1370-1440) in Europe’s most heavily urbanised regions, Italy and the Southern Low Countries. Conflicts have frequently been viewed in the context of an emerging state-controlled political order, and have been interpreted either as forms of disruptive disorder, or as affirmations of political processes shaped by states. This thesis suggests that urban conflict should be studied not in the context of a state-controlled political order, but within the political framework provided by the numerous semi-autonomous jurisdiction

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Sofield, Clifford M. "Placed deposits in early and middle Anglo-Saxon rural settlements." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:b878e1cd-21a3-449a-8a18-d1ad8d728a26.

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Placed deposits have received increasing attention over the past 30 years, particularly in prehistoric British archaeology. Although disagreement still exists over the definition, identification, and interpretation of placed deposits, significant advances have been made in theoretical and methodological approaches to placed deposits, as researchers have gradually moved away from relatively crude ‘ritual’ interpretations toward more nuanced considerations of how placed deposits may have related to daily lives, social networks, and settlement structure, as well as worldview. With the exception o

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Shaw, Robert Laurence John. "The Celestine monks of France, c. 1350-1450 : monastic reform in an age of Schism, councils and war." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:d1669ab4-1650-4396-b856-5e1fe53b5b7f.

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This thesis focuses on the Celestine monks of France, a largely neglected and distinctive reformed Benedictine congregation, at their apex of growth (c.1350-1450). Based largely within the kingdom of France, but also including key houses in the contiguous territories of Lorraine and the Comtat, they expanded significantly in this period, from four monasteries to seventeen within a hundred years. They also gained independence from the mother congregation in Italy with the coming of the Great Western Schism (1376-1418). The study aims view the French Celestines against the backdrop of a vibrant

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Marani, Flavia. "Monete, circolazione ed economia nel Lazio meridionale in età tardoantica e altomedievale." Thesis, Paris, EPHE, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016EPHE4099.

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Cette recherche se base principalement sur l’utilisation de l’instrument monétaire – particulièrement la monnaie de bronze – afin d’analyser les processus de transformation de l’économie d’un ensemble territorial spécifique : le Latium méridional.Les monnaies proviennent de contextes archéologiques variés : habitats à continuité d'occupation, complexes agricoles, villas, aires funéraires. La contextualisation du mobilier numismatique, associée à d'autres classes de matériel, peut nous permettre d'évaluer, en milieu rural, les phénomènes éventuels de circulation monétaire sur le long terme ou d

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Russell, Alexander. "England and the general councils, 1409 - 1563." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:677e32c2-821f-453d-9375-978f42f4980b.

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My doctoral thesis examines the intellectual and political relationship between England and the general councils of the Church from the Council of Pisa until the Council of Trent. It illuminates the hitherto unexplored features of the revolution that was the end of universal papal authority. With the transfer of spiritual authority to Henry VIII, the heads of England’s Protestant regimes inherited the papacy’s distrust of the general council, which had the potential to interfere with the course of the reformation in England. At the same time, the thesis examines the changing nature of public c

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Theophilopoulou, Calliope-Catherine. "Figures du héros antique dans le roman médiéval : didactisme et œuvre romanesque." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009LYO29999.

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Les mythes comme aussi les personnages qui les peuplent, les héros, ont exercé au fil du temps, un charme sur les sociétés. Les hommes du Moyen Age, à leur tour, se tournaient vers eux chaque fois qu’ils éprouvaient le besoin. D’abord, personne ne peut contredire ou rejeter ces récits. Il s’agit des auctoritas que personne ne peut rejeter. Les écrivains de cette époque, pas soucieux de créer, se chargent donc de les transmettre aux illiterrati. Par ailleurs, les personnages jouent un rôle modélisant ; ils constituent des modèles archétypaux que personne ne peut contredire. Les écrivains se réf

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Aleksidze, Nikoloz. "Making, remembering and forgetting the Late Antique Caucasus." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:8a7a37ad-4cdf-482e-abe5-d510676bb750.

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The present thesis examines probably the ultimate focal point in the history of the Christian South Caucasian Cultures – the Caucasian Schism that occurred in the early seventh century – a major scandal that ended the ecclesiastical communion between the Georgian and Armenian Churches and gave impetus to the rise of the so-called national Churches. The schism became the central point of reference in both medieval and modern Caucasian historiographies. Modern scholarship has advanced different claims concerning the nature, reasons and results of the Schism, in many cases arguing that almost all

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Sumera, Franck. "Signature des occupations protohistoriques et antiques dans l’évolution des paysages et dans la construction de la géographie humaine du massif du Mercantour (Alpes-Maritimes)." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015AIXM3019.

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Les travaux archéologiques et paléoenvironnementaux conduits dans les Alpes du sud, témoignent de l’existence de pratiques pastorales continues depuis le Néolithique. Ces dernières auraient entraîné une ouverture constante du milieu dont résulterait la construction des paysages actuels. Les signaux renvoyés par l’archéologie, l’histoire et le paléoenvironnement concernant les pratiques d’élevage et les activités impactant les paysages depuis la Protohistoire sont revisités au travers d’une synthèse de l’état des connaissances. L’analyse est menée en recherchant les sources d’impacts paysagers

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Wadden, Patrick James. "Theories of national identity in early medieval Ireland." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:49c662b9-4e14-41b3-972e-ed8475f324c5.

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Despite the political disunity of early Irish society, theories and expressions of national identity abounded in the work of the learned classes of clerics, genealogists, poets and lawyers. This thesis examines texts from two crucial periods in the evolution of these theories. Focusing initially on the seventh and eighth centuries, the first part of the thesis argues that Irish national identity was created as part of a campaign to assert the joint authority of the Uí Néill kings of Tara and their ecclesiastical allies in Armagh. Drawing inspiration from biblical and patristic sources, and pos

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Carlson, Laura M. "The politics of interpretation : language, philosophy, and authority in the Carolingian Empire (775-820)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:9e2574f8-b264-4e48-8390-fbec34411651.

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Is language a tool of empire or is empire a tool of language? This thesis examines the cultivation of Carolingian hegemony on a pan-European scale; one defined by a renewed interest in the study of language and its relationship to Carolingian eagerness for moral and spiritual authority. Intended to complement previous work on Carolingian cultural politics, this thesis reiterates the emergence of active philosophical speculation during the late eighth and early ninth centuries. Prior research has ignored the centrality of linguistic hermeneutics in the Carolingian literate programme. This thesi

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Portass, Robert Nicholas. "Society, Community and Power in Northern Spain : 700-1000." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:56e7d378-389e-4a1e-84a2-7f1869c9ed3f.

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The period from c.718 to c.1000 oversaw the reconquest of a significant part of the Iberian Peninsula by the Kingdom of Asturias (718–910) and its successor in León (910–1037); the study of this process of Reconquista has in recent years focused on two broader social changes: the increasing exploitation of the peasantry, and the eclipse of public power. In the Introduction, I argue that it is necessary to integrate the study of peasant societies with analyses of royal and aristocratic power; reframing the subject in this way, we are able to appreciate the diversity of social experience which c

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Sowerby, R. S. "Angels in Anglo-Saxon England, 700-1000." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:60cb4d1f-505a-4ef9-8415-bc298f3cb535.

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This thesis seeks to understand the changing place of angels in the religious culture of Anglo-Saxon England between AD 700 and 1000. From images carved in stone to reports of prophetic apparitions, angels are a remarkably ubiquitous presence in the art, literature and theology of early medieval England. That very ubiquity has, however, meant that their significance in Anglo-Saxon thought has largely been overlooked, dismissed as a commonplace of fanciful monkish imaginations. But angels were always bound up with constantly evolving ideas about human nature, devotional practice and the working

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Hartrich, Eliza. "Town, crown, and urban system : the position of towns in the English polity, 1413-71." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2014. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6838c2aa-7dc3-489d-8faf-eb864217913e.

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In this thesis, a collective urban sector-consisting, in various different guises, of civic governments, urban merchants, and townspeople-is presented as a vital and distinctive component of later medieval English political society. The dynamics of this urban political sector are reconstructed through the use of a modified version of the 'urban systems' approach found in historical geography and economic history, positing that towns are defined by their evolving relationship with one another. Drawing from the municipal records of twenty-two towns, this thesis charts the composition of the late

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Morleghem, Daniel. "Production et diffusion des sarcophages de pierre de l'Antiquité tardive et du haut Moyen Age dans le Sud du Bassin parisien." Thesis, Tours, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016TOUR2017.

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La fabrication de sarcophages constitue, entre la fin du 5e s. et jusqu’au 9e s., une activité artisanale et économique importante, témoin de réseaux économiques et d’aires culturelles locaux et régionaux. L’inventaire et l’étude des sarcophages en contexte funéraire a permis d’établir une typologie détaillée fondée sur des critères morphologiques, décoratifs et technologiques. Sur les quelques 2500 sarcophages étudiés, un faible nombre est bien daté. Une typo-chronologie relative a pu être établie, qui s’appuie sur des exemplaires bien calés chronologiquement et sur l’évolution supposée des f

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Urbanová, Petra. "Recherches sur la datation directe de la construction des édifices : exploration des potentialités de la datation des mortiers archéologiques par luminescence optiquement stimulée (OSL)." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015BOR30078/document.

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La datation directe de l’édification de maçonneries est l’objectif archéologique majeur de cette thèse qui s'inscrit dans un contexte interdisciplinaire. Il s’agit de mettre au point une méthode de datation des mortiers, matériaux de choix beaucoup plus représentatifs de la chronologie de l’édification que les briques ou les bois de charpentes qui peuvent être remployés. Les mortiers de chaux, constitués d'un mélange de chaux et de sable, peuvent être datés par luminescence optiquement stimulée : il s’agit en effet de remonter à la fin de la dernière exposition à la lumière des grains de sable

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Martinez, Damien. "De la cité Arverne au diocèse de Clermont : Topographie ecclésiale, fortifications et peuplements de l’Auvergne entre Antiquité tardive et haut Moyen Âge (Ve-Xe siècles) : une approche archéologique." Thesis, Université Clermont Auvergne‎ (2017-2020), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017CLFAL007/document.

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En cherchant à renouveler la vision du rôle joué par les fortifications et les premiers lieux de culte chrétiens dans la structuration et l’évolution des peuplements médiévaux, cette étude offre une nouvelle synthèse sur l’histoire du peuplement de l’ancienne cité de Clermont durant l’Antiquité tardive et le haut Moyen Age. Si les connaissances acquises sur le sujet font l’objet d’une nécessaire analyse critique, la documentation est renouvelée par une approche résolument interdisciplinaire puisant dans les apports confrontés des données textuelles, archéologiques et monumentales (formes archi

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Turquois, Elodie Eva. "Envisioning Byzantium : materiality and visuality in Procopius of Caesarea." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:943e33e8-10cd-4f27-8134-60b6f088b5a8.

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The three works of Procopius of Caesarea, the History of the Wars, the Buildings and the Secret History, form a corpus which can be profitably studied as a whole. My thesis is a typology of the visual in Procopius’ corpus, which is embedded in a study of narrative technique. It concerns itself with the representation of material reality and the complex relationship between materiality and the text. It utilises the digressive and the descriptive as an indirect entry point to expose Procopius’ literary finesse and his use of poikilia. In the first half of this thesis, the main object of my study

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Martínez, Jiménez Javier. "Aqueducts and water supply in the towns of post-Roman Spain (AD 400-1000)." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:17cc559e-923c-440e-a55a-4b7814152d1f.

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Despite the recent interest in late antique archaeology and the increasing number of publications on the transformations of towns (both in Spain and in the Roman world as a whole), the concern shown towards aqueducts has been almost non-existent. Some studies have focused on exceptional local examples, such as Rome or Constantinople, but there have been neither general nor regional syntheses of the chronology of the abandonment of aqueducts on a broad regional scale. This thesis consequently fills this gap in our knowledge by offering an all-encompassing study and compilation of the available

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O'Brien, Conor. "Bede's temple : an image and its interpretation." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2013. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:3dd5d291-c22d-430e-ba8e-56cde7773b19.

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This thesis studies, for the first time, Bede’s use of the image of the Jewish temple across all his writings. Not only analysing how Bede developed earlier Christian interpretations of the temple, it also uses the temple-image to shine light on under-explored aspects of his theological thought. Throughout, I argue that the communal understanding of the temple-image in Bede’s monastery helped shape his exegesis; we should think of Bede, not as an individual scholar, but as a monk engaged in an active discourse concerning the Bible. <strong>Chapter 1</strong> introduces the thesis, providing th

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Munt, Thomas H. R. "The sacred history of early Islamic Medina : the prophet, caliphs, scholars and the town's Ḥaram". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2011. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:e8394f8b-238a-4b23-8bfc-cdf395db0f1a.

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This thesis investigates the emergence of Medina in the Ḥijāz as a widely-venerated holy city over the first three Islamic centuries (seventh to ninth centuries CE) within the appropriate historical context, with special attention paid to the town’s ḥaram. It focuses in particular upon the roles played by the Prophet Muḥammad, Umayyad and Abbasid caliphs, and early Islamic legal scholars in this development. It shows that Medina’s emergence as a widely-venerated holy city alongside Mecca was a gradual and contested process, and one that was intimately linked with several important developments

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