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Bolgia, Claudia. "The church of S. Maria in Aracoeli, Rome : from the earliest times to circa 1400." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/2963/.

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This thesis aims to reconstruct the history, building phases, original appearance and role in mediaeval Rome of the church of S. Maria in Aracoeli, from its origins to c. 1400. The introduction describes the topographical setting of the church and traces its historiography . The first chapter investigates previous churches, their documentary sources, archaeological evidence and surviving components of church furniture. Patronage, date and original appearance of the so-called ‘ara coeli’, the extant main altar of the former church, are discussed. The second chapter concerns the present church,

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Trend, Faith Charlotte. "Church design in Counter Reformation Venice." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2018. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/8329/.

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This thesis explores how Venice's church architecture was shaped by the Counter Reformation between 1550-1700. It provides a snapshot of the situation with four pertinent case studies representing the broad spectrum of Venice's churches. Chapter One focuses on San Nicolo di Ldo, a church that was part of the proactive Cassinese Congregation. The church was rebuilt entirely and represents an almost ideal response to the Counter Reformation. Chapter Two looks at the rebuilt parish church of San Moise and it tackles the compromises that inevitably came with many competing factors. Chapters Three

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Dixon, Carl Stephen. "Polemics and persecution : East Romans and Paulicians, c.780-880)." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/52984/.

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Paulicians represent one of the most dynamic religious and military phenomena in the eastern Mediterranean during the ninth century. Despite being unknown to Greek sources at the beginning of this century, Paulicians were persecuted by the East Roman Empire in the 810s and again in the 840s. After this later persecution, they aligned themselves with the Emirate of Malaṭiya and raided the empire's eastern provinces until their eclipse as a regional power in the 870s. Yet modern scholarship concerning Paulicians has conventionally focused on their religiosity, which has traditionally been ident

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Welbourn, Michael. "Censors and society : the Roman censorship, 443-21 BC." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/49836/.

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The censorship was one of the Roman Republic's most significant magistracies. The range and importance of their duties – the census, the lectio senatus and recognitio equitum, letting public contracts and initiating public works, and the ceremony of the lustrum – meant that the office had a profound impact on Roman society. There is much modern scholarship on the censorship. But some of the arguments and conclusions put forward by earlier scholars, while valuable, need to be updated and certain misconceptions corrected. In particular, what is required is a greater focus on placing the censorsh

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Lange, Carsten Hjort. "Res publica constituta : Actium, Apollo and the accomplishment of the triumviral assignment." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10452/.

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This thesis will focus on the battle of Actium and the ways in which the Caesarian regime represented and commemorated this conflict and turned it to Octavian/Augustus's purpose. It will be argued that Actium was relatively more important than Alexandria in the ideology of the regime, but at the same time that the two battles must be understood together, as part of the accomplishment of the assignment of the triumvirate (constituting the res publica to order and ending the civil war). The focus will thus be on the period between 43-27 BC. It will be suggested that the powers given back to the

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Arfaioli, Maurizio. "The road to Naples : Florence, the Black Bands and the army of the League of Cognac (1526-1528)." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3099/.

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This is a study of the Italian Black Bands, one of the most famous units of mercenary infantry of the sixteenth century, and of their relationships with their employer, the Florentine republic, from the death of their founder and first commander Giovanni de'Medici (1498-1526) to their disbandment after the surrender of the army of the League of Cognac, of which they were part, at Aversa, near Naples, on 30 August 1528. In order to establish an adequate framework, the figure and the myth of Giovanni de'Medici - in memory of whom his men wore permanently the black bands of mourning - are examine

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Iordanou, Ioanna. "Maritime communities in Late Renaissance Venice : the Arsenalotti and the Greeks, 1575-1600." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2008. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/1110/.

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By the beginning of the sixteenth Venice was an established maritime empire having achieved, not only the methodical restraint of the Ottomans' expansive aspirations towards European lands, but also solid control over the Adriatic and Mediterranean Seas and the trade routes to the Levant. Internally Venice was a metropolis bustling with merchants, craftsmen, travellers and visitors, amongst whom a great number uf established foreigners. Nearly eighty per cent of the city's population was made up of these labouring poor, who contributed significantly to the economic stability and prosperity oft

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Timberlake-Newell, Elizabeth. "Consigned to the flames : an analysis of the Apostolic Order of Bologna 1290-1307 with some comparison to the Beguins/Spiritual Franciscans 1300-1330." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2012. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3592/.

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The Apostolic Order, a late medieval Italian mendicant order remains fundamentally little understood despite several centuries of research and writing devoted to their history. Much of the work done on the Apostolic Order (or Followers of Dolcino) has been focused on their leaders, taken as given the order’s heretical status, or presumed the marginalized status of those who supported the order. This thesis attempts to reconsider the order and its supporters by placing them as another mendicant order prior to the papal condemnation, and put forth the new perspective that the supporters were muc

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Malone, Stephen James. "Legio XX Valeria Victrix : a prosopographical and historical study." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2005. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13316/.

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This study of legio XX Valeria Victrix combines a prosopographical and historical approach to the study of the legion as a whole. Epigraphic and historical evidence is presented for all those individuals known to have served with the Twentieth Legion in their various capacities. Sources are quoted, with translation, for each of these and significant details of the careers discussed. Further aspects of careers generally are considered at the end of the relevant sections. This corpus is supported by a number of indices - of nomenclature, origins, ranks, service and posts held in other units etc.

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Singh-Masuda, Neil Raj. "Exilium Romanum : exile, politics and personal experience from 58 BC to AD 68." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1996. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36392/.

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This thesis investigates the sentence of exile in Rome from the years 58 BC to AD 68. Its central argument is that exile increased in severity from the end of the Republic until it had been turned into a despotic tool at the end of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty. The thesis also aims to convey diachronically the sense of exile through an analysis of its experiential effect on those who suffered banishment from Rome, while taking account of legal changes and explaining the various forms of exile, aquae et ignis interdictio, relegatio and deportatio. Primary sources referred to include the exilic wo

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Wheeler, Joseph Russell. "The sestiere of San Polo : a cross section of Venetian society in the second half of the fifteenth century." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1995. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36146/.

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This thesis seeks to add to our understanding of Venetian society in the latter half of the fifteenth century by offering a new approach: an in-depth study of one of Venice's six districts (sestier1). My researches concentrated on the sestiere of San Polo, which embraced the Rialto. My intention in narrowing the focus of analysis is to reveal a cross-section of society. Fundamental to this inquiry is to discover the identity of this sestiere; to explore its little known social profile, trades and solidarities and to sharpen the images of its urban fabric. At the same time, it is an investigati

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Gordon, Jessica Ann. "'La Sposa trionfante' : entertainments for princely marriages in Turin, Mantua and Florence, 1608." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1991. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34727/.

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This thesis is a study of the pageantry and entertainments which took place in 1608 on the occasion of three aristocratic marriages, those of Princesses Margherita and Isabella of Savoy to Francesco Gonzaga of Mantua and Alfonso d'Este of Modena and of Maria Maddalena of Austria to Cosimo II de' Medici of Tuscany. Volume I comprises: a brief survey of the political situation in northern Italy in 1608, including the marriage negotiations between savoy, Mantua and Modena; a discussion of attitudes to women current in the Renaissance as reflected in marriage pageantry; a full account of the pagea

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Peck, Alexander Gyford. "Haec patria est : the conceptualisation, function and nature of patria in the Roman world." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2016. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/88295/.

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It has been believed that patria was an inherently civic or political concept, being interpreted as indicating citizenship or the state in which citizenship was held. Thus, it has been regarded by some as synonymous with res publica. This thesis revaluates our understanding of patria in the Roman world by examining its conceptualisation, function and nature in Latin literature and inscriptions. This thesis reveals how patria was a complex and multifaceted conceptual embodiment of collective identity; that its membership was broad, pertaining to men and women, free and freed, as well as evidenc

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Dio, Rocco di. "Marsilio Ficino's notebooks : a case of Renaissance reading practices." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/77723/.

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This thesis focusses on three compilations, extant in three manuscripts ―Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, MS 92; Milan, Venerabile Biblioteca Ambrosiana, MS F 19 sup.; Vatican City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Borgianus graecus 22― These three manuscripts were produced by one of the most important representatives of the Italian Renaissance: Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499). The Florentine scholar was largely responsible for the revival of Platonism in Western Europe during the Renaissance and beyond. MS Ricc. 92 contains an anthology of Greek and Latin texts on the theme of love, which Fici

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Rummel, Christopher. "The fleets on the northern frontier of the Roman empire from the 1st to 3rd century." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2008. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/27819/.

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Ancient sources consistently identify a strong naval element to Roman military activity along the northern frontier from the earliest occupation campaigns to Late Antiquity. This element is formed by four established provincial fleets, the CLASSES BRITANNICA, GERMANICA, PANNONICA and MOESICA. The current understanding of these units, however, is disproportionate to their importance and some current interpretations are in urgent need of revision in view of new archaeological and epigraphic data relevant to the fleets. This study identifies and analyses the main theories and problems in the stud

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Rundle, Christopher. "The permeable police state : publishing translations in fascist Italy." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2001. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3092/.

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The purpose of this study is to examine the birth of a translation industry in Italy during the fascist regime, and describe how, despite the fact that translations became the focal point for questions of cultural and political prestige, the regime took very little action to hinder their influx until the last few years before its collapse. Chapter One sets the historical background of this study with a brief examination of how the regime was put in place, the system of censorship that was applied, the regime's attempts to cultivate a fascist culture, and the developments that took place within

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Goodchild, Helen. "Modelling Roman agricultural production in the Middle Tiber Valley, Central Italy." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2007. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/175/.

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This thesis analyses the potential agricultural production of the regions of South Etruria and Sabina, north of Rome in the Middle Tiber Valley, Central Italy. Historical evidence from Roman authors is combined with archaeological evidence from field survey and geographical resource data, and modelled within a Geographical Information System. Farm size and location are investigated in order to determine any correlation with contemporary Roman recommendations. Multi-criteria evaluation is then used to create suitability maps, showing those regions within the study area best suited to different

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Schluter, Lindsay. "The religious and ecclesiastical role of women in the church in the city of Rome in the late eighth and early ninth century." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2010. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2437/.

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The religious and ecclesiastical role of women in the early medieval church in the city of Rome has so far not been studied in detail and this thesis offers to remedy that gap. It presents in form of a case study limiting itself in terms of its topographical boundaries to the city of Rome, and in terms of a historical time period to that which coincides approximately to the start of the papacy of Hadrian I to the end of the papacy of Paschal I. Use is made only of source material which can be connected directly to early medieval Rome, and not only ordained and monastic roles of women are explo

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Hajek, Andrea. "Narrating the trauma of the 'Anni di piombo' : the negotiation of a public memory of the 1977 student protests in Bologna (1977-2007)." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2010. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/34552/.

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Bruijn, Natasja de. "Lithic landscapes and taskscapes : obsidian procurement, production and use in west central Sardinia, Italy." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2006. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3765/.

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This thesis studies lithic landscapes and taskscapes from an explicit perspective of social practice. It explores the spatial and temporal dimensions of the three main interlocking lithic activities: procurement, production and use/discard. Five key concepts are used to explore human choice and interaction in these three fields: practice, knowledge, skill, strategy and tradition. Sardinia and the obsidian artefacts from the Riu Mannu Survey Project data have served as a case study. My research approach was developed to gain an understanding of the spatial and temporal developments of Sardinian

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Roccella, Paola. "Humanity, hybridism and liminality in Tommaso Landolfi (1939-1950)." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2017. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/104806/.

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This thesis analyzes the three texts forming the so-called „Fantastic trilogy‟ by Tommaso Landolfi: La pietra lunare (1939), Racconto d’autunno (1947) and Cancroregina (1950), in the light of the cultural and historical environment in which they were produced. I argue that these novellas incorporate and obliquely problematize specific tensions of the period running from Racial Laws (1938) and the Pact of Steel (1939) to post-war reconstruction. Building on recent scholarship on the subversive role of the Fantastic, the study provides a more comprehensive view of Landolfi‟s early production and

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Holdaway, Dom. "A return to cinema d'impegno? : cinematic engagements with organized crime in Italy, 1950-2010." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2013. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57495/.

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This thesis seeks to interrogate the mutual relationship between representations of organized crime and commitment in Italian film (cinema d’impegno). Since the Second World War, images of bandits, mafiosi and criminal rackets have been central to some of the most important political films released, including In nome della legge (Pietro Germi, 1949), Salvatore Giuliano (Francesco Rosi, 1961) and A ciascuno il suo (Elio Petri, 1967). The ‘mafia film’ in Italy thus has a rich heritage of powerfully engaged cinema that remains a far cry from its glamourized international counterpart. Yet this ‘fi

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Fletcher, Stella. "Venetian cardinals at the Papal Court during the pontificates of Sixtus IV and Innocent VIII : 1471-1492." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1991. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/51478/.

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The histories of particular cities and states within that myriad-faceted slice of civilisation, the Renaissance in Italy, have received more scholarly attention than have the diplomatic, ecclesiastical and cultural connections between them. This study is part of a balance-redressing process. Senior clerics traversed frontiers, owing allegiance to their native state, their benefices and, above all, to the Papacy. The purpose of this exploration of the curial careers of four later quattrocento Venetian cardinals is essentially twofold : to account for relations between Venice and the Papacy with

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Beverley, Tessa. "Venetian ambassadors 1454-94 : an Italian elite." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1999. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/36358/.

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This study is concerned with filling the gap that exists in our understanding of Venetian diplomacy. Historical works on Renaissance diplomacy have tended to be general, and the experience of Venice in the fifteenth century has been largely overlooked (partly because of the lack of extant diplomatic material). Yet this period is of key importance in the history of diplomacy; it was during the mid-fifteenth century that Italian states first used resident ambassadors, something which became accepted practice in sixteenth century Europe. My approach has been to carry out a prosopographical analys

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Newsome, David John. "The forum and the city : rethinking centrality in Rome and Pompeii (3rd century B.C. - 2nd century A.D.)." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2010. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/814/.

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This thesis details the development of fora in Rome and Pompeii in order that our understanding of these spaces as 'centres' accounts for their changing relationship with the city, between the third century B.C. and the second century A.D. It is a diachronic study of spatial practice and the representation of space, based on archaeological evidence for infrastructures of movement and textual evidence for the articulation of spatial concepts. Having asserted the importance of movement in shaping the perception of space in antiquity, this thesis details the changes to the physical disposition, t

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Aloè, Carla. "The New World mythology in Italian epic poetry, 1492-1650." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7013/.

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My thesis explores the construction of the New World mythology as it appears in early modern Italian epic poems. It focuses on how Italian writers engage with and contribute to this process of myth-creation; how the newly created mythology relates to the political, social and cultural context of the time; and investigates extent to which it was affected by the personal agendas of the poets. By analysing three New World myths (Brazilian Amazons, Patagonian giants and Canadian pygmies), it provides insights into the perception that Italians had of the newly discovered lands in the Sixteenth and

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McCunn, Stuart. "Supply and command : a study of the late Roman commissariat." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51988/.

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The Roman ability to project their power and defend their empire was based on the empire having the capability to maintain a standing army. This thesis is an examination of the commissariat that supplied this army since without logistical support such an army could not survive. The basic question under consideration is how well the commissariat functioned in late antiquity, the period when it was in its most developed and best documented state. When considering the commissariat of late antiquity it is important to understand what came before and how this system came into being. Of particular i

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Comiati, Giacomo. "Horace in the Italian Renaissance (1498-1600)." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/79572/.

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This dissertation aims to study the reception of the Latin poet Horace in the Italian Renaissance, taking into consideration works composed in several different genres both in Latin and Italian vernacular between 1498 and 1600. This thesis follows five main pathways of investigation: 1) to study the Renaissance biographies of the poet; 2) to analyse several exegetical works both in Horace’s single texts and his whole corpus; 3) to study the Italian translations written both in prose and verse which were made during the Cinquecento; 4) to study in depth those who imitated Horace in their lyrica

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Mitchell, Jillian. "The religious world of Quintus Aurelius Symmachus." Thesis, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, 2016. http://repository.uwtsd.ac.uk/731/.

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This thesis explores the last decades of legal paganism in the Roman Empire of the second half of the fourth century CE through the eyes of Symmachus, orator, senator and one of the most prominent of the pagans of this period living in Rome. It is a religious biography of Symmachus himself, but it also considers him as a representative of the group of aristocratic pagans who still adhered to the traditional cults of Rome at a time when the influence of Christianity was becoming ever stronger, the court was firmly Christian and the aristocracy was converting in increasingly greater numbers. Sym

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Leonard, Marie-Louise. "Plague epidemics and public health in Mantua, 1463-1577." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2014. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/5704/.

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This thesis investigates how health officials sought to preserve or recover good health during plague epidemics in Mantua, from 1463-1577. Scholarship on health boards in Italy has focused primarily on larger cities such as Milan, Florence and Venice, while many smaller cities and states which formed part of the wider network of interdependent health offices have yet to receive significant attention. This study attempts to address this imbalance by focussing on Mantua, a hitherto neglected area in the heart of northern Italy. Historians have shown by the sixteenth century health offices had wi

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Tarrant, Neil James. "Disciplining the School of Athens : censorship, politics and philosophy, Italy 1450-1600." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2010. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/2340/.

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This thesis examines the censorship of philosophy in Italy in the period 1450-1600, seeking to establish how the scrutiny of ideas was affected by the religious crisis of the sixteenth century. One of the primary aims of this thesis is to revise older accounts of censorship, dominant in the literature of both the history of science and Italian intellectual history traditions. These historiographies suggest that the Counter- Reformation triggered the emergence of a new and repressive attitude towards the censorship of philosophy, which grievously affected Italian intellectual and scientific cul

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Burnett, Sarah. "The cult of St Nicholas in medieval Italy." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3632/.

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St Nicholas was one of the most popular saints in medieval Italy. His cult attracted the attention of popes, kings and emperors, and his shrine at Bari became an important international pilgrimage destination. This thesis asks how the cult of St Nicholas came to be so widespread and popular in Italy, and why the saint attracted the attention of diverse groups and individuals. This thesis is structured around four chapters. The first demonstrates that through a process of Latinisation the cult of St Nicholas became integrated within Italian literary traditions and within a new spiritual era. Ch

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Tiozzo, Fasiolo Marco. "Consensus for Mussolini? : popular opinion in the province of Venice (1922-1943)." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2017. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/7660/.

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The thesis focuses on the response of Venice province population to the rise of Fascism and to the regime’s attempts to fascistise Italian society. This thesis is developed around analysis of popular opinion and the way in which limited local consensus for the Fascist regime contributed to Fascism’s downfall. The thesis begins with a discussion of the Party, and to provides a clear picture of how ‘national’ and ‘local’ interacted alongside the establishment of the structures. The focus then shifts to the working class and the way it came to terms with the Fascist regime. The third chapter deal

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Gibb, Reba Ann. "A study of the early Renaissance Sibyl cycles in the art of Northern and Central Italy." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2003. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/80313/.

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Sibyl cycles in Northern and Central Italy, in the Early Renaissance. Previous published scholarship listed twenty-two sites. I now know of forty. Twenty-three of these may be considered Early Renaissance works of art and are the subject of this study. This study is not primarily engaged with history of Art but with the history of Ideas. That is, it is not a study of the painters. their methods and status but rather with the study of the development of the genre. its textual sources, the content of the inscribed oracles. the development of the pictorial conventions and symbolism. the transmiss

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Mo, Lily Anne. "Public bodies and private spaces : locating cloistered contemplative discourses in female Franciscan spirituality in thirteenth-century Umbria." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2002. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3247/.

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The thesis explores how far enclosure was pivotal in shaping the female Franciscan spirituality in thirteenth-century Umbria as cloistered and contemplative. It focuses on how enclosure influenced the development of representations of female urban sainthood, with particular reference to three Umbrian saints; Clare of Assisi, Clare of Montefalco and Angela of Foligno. The issue of enclosure came to the fore because of the success of the Franciscan movement in promoting the apostolic life, which emphasised the itinerant life, evangelisation and participation within the urban community. However,

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Brannick, Peter James. "Bilingualism in Bolzano-Bozen : a nexus analysis." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2016. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/6683/.

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This study is about discourses of bilingualism in Bolzano-Bozen, Italy, and what they reveal about language, identity, hegemony and the production of social space. The theoretical and methodological framework I use is Nexus Analysis and Geosemiotics: approaches developed by Scollon and Wong Scollon (2004 and 2003, respectively). These approaches have revealed how and why place names, their public placement, Fascist-era monuments and bilingual education maintained a constant presence, under broader discourses on bilingualism, during the research period. Nexus Analysis focuses on social action a

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Silvestri, Angelo Mario. "The power of the bishop in the Dioceses of Lincoln and Cremona (1067-1340) : a study in comparative history." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2012. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/45975/.

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The bishops of the 11th-14th centuries were key figures both within the church hierarchy and within state organisation across Europe. In addition to being the primary religious authorities within their dioceses they were also local or national potentates in their own right, judges, feudal lords, warriors and advisers to kings and other rulers. And yet their nature and extent of their local power is often elusive. Moreover the nature of their power changed over time making their role and their authority extremely fluid. One can hardly study the history of the medieval church without understandi

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Mistry, Kaeten D. "Perceptions of success : the United States, Italy and political warfare, 1945-1948." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2008. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/133/.

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The thesis analyses US foreign policy toward Italy in the postwar period by considering the multi-faceted nature of the relationship between the countries. It looks at the motivations and challenges facing American visions of a stable anti-communist Italy, as well at the hopes and limitations facing Italian interlocutors in their interaction with the US hegemon. In analysing the overlaps and dissimilarities between policy toward the country and broader approaches in Europe, it explores how the Cold War shaped the US attitude toward Italy and how Italy influenced American conceptualisation of t

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Bassi, Serena A. "Italy through the mirror of translation : place, culture and difference in the twenty-first century book market." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/57594/.

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This thesis asks how stereotypical images of a foreign country are reinforced or contested through translation in the context of the contemporary consumer book market. Taking Italy and the British publishing market as its focus, it sets out to examine the translation process for one popular genre of Italian fiction and two Italian bestsellers published in Britain after 2000. Gomorra by Roberto Saviano (2006) and Cento colpi di spazzola prima di andare a dormire by Melissa P. (2003) and the so-called ‘new Italian crime fiction’, are three recent Italian publishing phenomena that have been selec

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Chalupinski, Beniamin Kazimierz. "L'italiano neostandard : un'analisi linguistica attraverso la stampa sportiva." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2014. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/4839/.

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Since the first definition of “italiano neostandard” appeared in the Eighties, more and more often “neostandard” forms, while already present in common speech, feature today in the written media, and even find their space in contemporary grammaticography. Through a corpus-based analysis, this dissertation aims at assessing the vitality of the neostandard as it appears in the written columns of three daily papers during a selected period of time in 2007. In particular, two phenomena are explored: the usage of the clitics ci, ne and lo in function of case marker (marca complementare); and the te

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Sinibaldi, Caterina. "Between censorship and propaganda : the translation and rewriting of children's literature during facism." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2012. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/56235/.

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The thesis sets out to examine the little studied phenomenon of translating and rewriting children’s literature during Fascism. Under Mussolini’s rule, books for children had to perform the important task of forging the ‘new Italians’. For this reason, the presence of foreign literature on the Italian book market became increasingly problematic, as the regime attempted to achieve cultural and economic autarchy. This research aims to show how, rather than merely reflecting dominant ideologies, the translation of books for children was a site for negotiation, allowing different, and sometimes co

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Skerry, Nathaniel S. (Nathaniel Standish) 1971. "Transformed materials : a material research center in Milan, Italy." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70358.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2002.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 74-75).<br>[Transformed Materials] is an exploration into today's design methodologies of architecture production. The emergence of architectural form is questioned in relation to the temporal state of design intent and the physical material construct. At a time when there is an increased awareness of the current state of technology, material innovation and methods of fabrication, there are new speculations of what materiality is and can be. This thesis will propose

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Hall, Joshua Ryan. "The Tyrrhenian way of war : war, social power, and the state in Central Italy (c.900-343 BC)." Thesis, Cardiff University, 2015. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/91117/.

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This thesis examines warfare, social power, and the state in central Italy for the period between 900 and 343 BC.1 The goal of this research is to better understand how warfare fit into the dialogue of social power in Etruria and Rome. This is achieved through the fulfilment of a number of aims. The first is to understand the patterns of warfare present in central Italy, as these can help us better understand the social aspects of conflict in the region. The project assumes that the practice of warfare is important for understanding its role in this dialogue, and thus an analysis of arms, armo

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Glendinning, Eleanor Ruth. "Guilt, redemption and reception : representing Roman female suicide." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2011. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/13450/.

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This thesis examines representations of Roman female suicide in a variety of genres and periods from the history and poetry of the Augustan age (especially Livy, Ovid, Horace, Propertius and Vergil), through the drama and history of the early Principate (particularly Seneca and Tacitus), to some of the Church fathers (Tertullian, Jerome and Augustine) and martyr acts of Late Antiquity. The thesis explores how the highly ambiguous and provocative act of female suicide was developed, adapted and reformulated in historical, poetic, dramatic and political narratives. The writers of antiquity conti

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Mazzolini, Samuele. "Populism and hegemony in Ernesto Laclau : theory and strategy in the Italian Communist Party and the Ecuadorian Citizens' Revolution." Thesis, University of Essex, 2018. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/22783/.

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This thesis explores critically two central notions in the work of Ernesto Laclau: populism and hegemony. From analytical and strategic points of view, some incongruities stand out. For example, the conceptual proximity between the two often hinders their respective explanatory and political purchase. Moreover, Laclau's arguments in support of left-wing populism appear not to examine in sufficient depth some important issues, such as the non-necessary but also potentially problematic relationship between populism and democracy and the question of the leader. In this thesis I examine Laclau's w

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Malici, Luca. "Watching queer television : a case study of the representation, circulation and reception of sexual dissidence on Italian mainstream TV from 1990 to 2012." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2015. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5725/.

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This thesis explores the increasing representation of sexual dissidence on contemporary Italian mainstream television from 1990 to 2012. It argues that TV programming and regulations have been historically influenced by notions of an ideal family audience assumed to be traditionally nuclear, patriarchal, heterosexual and normative. The visual representation of sexuality in the media has been the subject of considerable international debate which has problematised the historical invisibilisation and misrepresentation of sexual dissidents, particularly in film and with an almost exclusive method

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Broder, David. "Bandiera Rossa : communists in occupied Rome, 1943-44." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3688/.

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This study is a social history of communists in wartime Rome. It examines a decisive change in Italian communist politics, as the Partito Comunista Italiano (PCI) rose from a hounded fraternity of prisoners and exiles to a party of government. Joining with other Resistance forces in the Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale (CLN), this ‘new party’ recast itself as a mass, patriotic force, committed to building a new democracy. This study explains how such a party came into being. It argues that a PCI machine could establish itself only by subduing other strands of communist thought and organistion

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Kirkbride, Robert. "The renaissance studioli of Federico da Montefeltro and the architecture of memory /." Thesis, McGill University, 2002. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=82902.

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This investigation of the studioli, small contemplation chambers in the ducal palaces of Urbino and Gubbio, considers their position in the western tradition of the memory arts. Drawing upon select images in the studioli, as well as text sources readily available to Duke Federico da Montefeltro (1422--82) and the members of his court, this inquiry examines how the discipline of architecture equipped the late quattrocento mind with a bridge between the mathematical arts, which lend themselves to mechanical practices, and the art of rhetoric, a discipline central to the cultivation of mem

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Godfrey, Sara Elizabeth. "Patriotic heterotopias : architecture, city and the nation (Italy 1861-1911)." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2005. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1445558/.

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This thesis is an enquiry into what patriotism means as an experience, which is considered through the historical context of the birth of the Italian nation and the 'making' of the patriotic subject. It seeks to raise questions on how patriotism is produced by the subject's dynamic interaction with Others and how it is through the repetition of patriotic spatial practices that a national psyche is formed. To undertake this enquiry four of the most significant spaces in Liberal Italy are analysed---the Cimitero Monumentale (Milan), the Vittorio Emanuele Monument (Rome), Lake Fucino (Abruzzo), t

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Ketcham, Barbara. "The use of water in the gardens of the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, Italy." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/22726.

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