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Kinser, Jonathan A. "Beneath the Smoke of the Flaming Circle: Extinguishing the Fiery Cross of the 1920s Klan in the North." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1491564321579784.

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Silva, Eliana Carlos da. "AtualizaÃÃes e RessignificaÃÃes do Mito da Donzela Guerreira: Uma anÃlise Comparada dos romances Papisa Joana (Donna Wolfolk Cross) e Memorial de Maria Moura (Rachel de Queiroz)." Universidade Federal do CearÃ, 2013. http://www.teses.ufc.br/tde_busca/arquivo.php?codArquivo=10470.

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Este trabalho tem como objetivo central analisar os pontos de contato e distanciamento entre as representaÃÃes do Mito Tradicional da Donzela Guerreira nos romances Papisa Joana, de Donna Woolfolk Cross, e Memorial de Maria Moura, de Rachel de Queiroz. A seleÃÃo dos romances citados como corpus desta pesquisa deveu-se Ãs vÃrias semelhanÃas entre as duas narrativas, mesmo levando em conta o fato de seus enredos estarem inseridos em contextos sÃcio-histÃricos bastante diferentes. Partindo dessas premissas, o presente trabalho verifica como as caracterÃsticas do Mito da Donzela Guerreira Tradicional se apresentam nas obras Papisa Joana e Memorial de Maria Moura, detectando-se atÃ que ponto elas conseguem contemplar as marcas do referido mito. Para a consecuÃÃo dos resultados desta pesquisa, alguns construtos teÃricos importantes tiveram que ser discutidos e transformados em ferramentas analÃticas que permitissem uma melhor apreciaÃÃo dos romances em foco. AlÃm, logicamente, do Mito da Donzela Guerreira Tradicional, merecem destaque, entre as ideias consideradas como chave para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa, os conceitos de violÃncia simbÃlica, corpo disciplinado e/ou dÃcil e empoderamento. ApÃs a anÃlise das duas obras, confirmou-se a hipÃtese inicial que norteou o trabalho, ou seja, que as diferenÃas na forma como o Mito da Donzela Guerreira Ã representado em Papisa Joana e Memorial de Maria Moura estampam, na verdade, apenas etapas distintas de um mesmo processo: a trajetÃria das mulheres com vistas ao seu empoderamento.

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Tebbit, Alistair. "The household knights of Edward II." Thesis, University of Bristol, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.434773.

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Ingamells, Ruth Louise. "The Household knights of Edward I." Thesis, Durham University, 1992. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1509/.

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The royal household lay at the heart of the king's army in the late thirteenth century. The military importance of the knights attached to Edward's household has been examined by M.0 Prestwich. Although Prestwich acknowledged that the knights did serve in other areas of royal government no systematic study of their role has been attempted. Based on an examination of the surviving wardrobe accounts and other documents the role of the household knights in many areas of royal government in England and Edward's other dominions has been assessed. The part they played in newly or partially conquered territories of Wales and Scotland has also been considered. The knights attached to Edward's familia were employed as sheriffs, justices, constables of castles and diplomats and councillors. However the proportion of knights who served in these areas remained small. The knights were appointed With any regularity only to posts which demanded a combination of military and administrative skills. A large number held royal offices in Scotland and Wales. However, there were a small number of knights hose skills as diplomats and councillors were clearly of more importance to the king than military prowess. This inner circle of knights were probably the forerunners of the chamber knights of the fourteenth century. The rewards received by the knights in return for their services have also been considered in great detail. The knights were rewarded in accordance with their status and length of service within the household. The major grants of lands, wardships and offices went to a fairly small group of men. The others received more minor gifts of grants of timber and animals. Edward was not a king who was renowned for his generosity. However, the loyalty of the knights to their master suggests that the rewards they received were adequate.

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O'Malley, G. J. "The English Knights Hospitaller, c.1468-1540." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1999. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272606.

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Eckersley, Rosanna. "A study of Winifred Knights, 1915-1933." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2015. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/58565/.

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Winifred Knights, 1899-1947, was a student at the Slade School of Art from 1915, where she developed a decorative manner of rhythmic, repetitive forms, one form of cautious modernism. In 1920 she was the first woman to win the Rome Prize in Decorative Painting. The award was for three years at the British School at Rome. Knights often chose to base her paintings on biblical subjects, or the lives of saints. She was not religious and I argue that these stories, which were well-known in Britain at the time, were vehicles to represent the lives of women and families in the unsettled years during and after WWI. Many women artists have depicted domestic scenes, but Knights chose the exterior and multi-figure compositions, including many self-portraits. She used these compositions to explore women‟s vulnerability, rebellion against male control, maternity and the self-sufficiency of a women‟s community. Personal material is present in all her work and much of it deals with the traumas she suffered. My thesis argues that her paintings‟ engagement with the viewer is not restricted by this material: the themes she explored resonated with contemporaneous viewers, as they do today. The argument closely examines Winifred Knights‟ paintings, including their art historical sources. It draws on her correspondence and on the social conditions of Britain and Italy. The small number of her oil paintings is no measure of Knights‟ success as artist and woman. Indeed, the many dimensions of life as artist, woman, mother and wife were important to Knights. While previous studies of women artists have regarded biography as artistic source material or distraction, I argue that it is central to understanding Knights and her contexts. This thesis therefore argues that the many aspects of a complete life fed into Knights‟ painting and can be seen in her sensitive depictions of women‟s lives.

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Wheet, Carson Taylor. "THE CREATION AND DEMISE OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/193529.

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Ross, Marion E. "Schopenhauer and Beckett : 'knights with death and devil'." Thesis, University of Ulster, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.329516.

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Faulkner, Kathryn Helen. "Knights and knighthood in early thirteenth century England." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.267719.

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Hyttenrauch, David Edward. "Ladies and their knights in Middle English Arthurian romance." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.239380.

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Mahoney, Peter J. "The Seven Knights of Lara: annotated translation and study." Thesis, Boston University, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12813.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.
In his monumental study of 1896, La leyenda de los infantes de Lara, Ramon Menendez Pidal rescued the story of the Seven Knights de Lara (SKL) from near oblivion and sought to resolve the more problematic issues of the narration included in the thirteenth-century Estoria de España for the first time. Approximately a half-century later, the same story was retold in the Crónica de 1344 with more vivid and novelistic details, as well as episodes that were absent from the earlier version. Many scholars have dedicated their careers to studying the medieval epic, yet they have never read the SKL because there was no English translation of it. I have pioneered the first bilingual edition of the legend with the hope of making it accessible to a broader audience ofscholars and students ofthe Middle Ages. My objective was to capture accurately the details of the original texts while providing a translation that can be read independently of them. In order to achieve this goal, I took minor liberties and suppressed unnecessary repetitions, modernized the syntax, and divided the text into paragraphs. Keeping in mind the needs of an audience of scholars and students, I have provided explanations about key historical figures and events, geographical names, concepts of medieval law, specific points of contention among critics regarding certain passages or characters, and references to other literary works. A principal component of the edition is the preliminary study that presents the social, political, and literary contexts in which the narration was composed as well as the major problems that literary scholars discuss today: the questions about the origins of the legend and its authorship, the date of composition, medieval historiography, history and fiction in the SKL, the structure of the two versions and their differences, and the representation of the SKL in later literary works. In the study I not only present the major trends of scholarship that have emerged, but also develop and expound my own perspective on the legend. I assert that the chroniclers included the SKL in the Estoria de España to preserve a well-known story with a moralizing lesson about the dangers of internal enemies and treason.

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Lightfoot, K. W. B. "The household knights of King Henry III, 1216-1236." Thesis, Swansea University, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.637915.

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This thesis examines the indispensable role played by the household knights of King Henry III in the governance of England, Ireland, and those parts of Wales under Crown rule between the years 1216 and 1236. A large part of this study is devoted to reconstructing the membership of the familia regis from the fragmentary evidence for this period. Building on that reconstruction and the identification of king’s knights it provides, the major duties and functions of the milites regis are examined. It will be shown that their greatest contribution as a group was through their performance as sheriffs castle custodians, diplomats, and guardians of important state prisoners. How the king’s knights were compensated for their service is also examined. This thesis shows how the terra Normannorum was used as a preserve by Henry III to reward his knights for their services, and how tenure of these escheats, given initially at pleasure, were gradually secured as hereditary grants guaranteed by royal charter. The process whereby this occurred is discussed as well as the political implications. The development of a system of monetary rewards during the minority and early years of Henry III’s personal rule involving annual Exchequer fees is also examined.

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Morton, Nicholas Edward. "The Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land :1190-1291." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.486329.

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This study is a comprehensive analysis of the Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land. It discusses their early development and their rising importance in the Latin East. It explores the strong connection between the order's growth and the enthusiasm of the Gennan nobility for crusading to the Holy Land. Within this the brethren's relationship to the empire and the papacy at this time is examined closely. Crucially, this thesis seeks to nuance the current contention that the order was merely an expression of the emperor's Mediterranean policies and demonstrate that its intentions, like its interests, lay in the defence of Christendom, not in the wars ofthe papacy and empire. Over time the order acquired major territorial holdings in Livonia and Prussia and the effect of these growing military and financial commitments upon its Levantine branch is examined to show the way in which defeats and opportunities on these northern frontiers could impact upon the Levant. Within the Latin East itself, the order's relationship with the lay and ecclesiastical hierarchies is analysed to evaluate their contribution to the local politics of the Holy Land. Furthennore, the brethren's role in the Eastern Mediterranean is continually contrasted with that of the Templars and Hospitallers to highlight the similarities and differences between their institution and these older orders. Internally, the order's system of control and organisation is examined to discuss how effectively the institution overcame the challenges of its geographically dispersed commitments and how factions within the order, which advocated the needs ofeach separate frontier, affected its general policy. In short, this is a detailed study of the Teutonic Knights in the Holy Land which places both their military and internal affairs in the context of their responsibilities in the Baltic and the wider poli~ics of the medieval world.

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Abram, Zachary. "Knights of Faith: The Soldier in Canadian War Fiction." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/34613.

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The war novel is a significant genre in twentieth-century Canadian fiction. Central to that genre has been the soldier’s narrative. Canadian war novelists have often situated the soldier’s story in opposition to how war has functioned in Canadian cultural memory, which usually posits war as a necessary, though brutal, galvanizing force. This dissertation on how novelists depict the Canadian soldier represents a crucial opportunity to examine Canadian cultures of militarization and how Canadian identity has been formed in close identification with the mutable figure of the soldier. The most sophisticated Canadian war novels engage with how militarism functions as a grand narrative in Canadian society, while enabling Canadians to speak about issues related to war that tend to be over-simplified or elided. This dissertation examines emblematic Canadian war novels – The Imperialist by Sara Jeanette Duncan, Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison, Turvey by Earle Birney, Execution by Colin McDougall, The Wars by Timothy Findley, Broken Ground by Jack Hodgins, The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart, etc. – in order to trace how the representation of the Canadian soldier has shifted throughout the twentieth-century. Canadian war novels are culturally cathartic exercises wherein received notions of Canadian moral and military superiority can be safely questioned. The Canadian soldier, often characterized in official discourse as the personification of duty and sacrifice, has been reimagined by war novelists throughout the twentieth century as a site of skepticism and resistance. In many Canadian war novels, the soldier affords the opportunity to claim counter-histories, reject master narratives, and posit new originary myths.

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Silva, Eliana Carlos da. "Atualizações e Ressignificações do Mito da Donzela Guerreira: Uma análise Comparada dos romances Papisa Joana (Donna Wolfolk Cross) e Memorial de Maria Moura (Rachel de Queiroz)." www.teses.ufc.br, 2013. http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/9550.

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SILVA, Eliana Carlos da. Atualizações e Ressignificações do Mito da Donzela Guerreira: Uma análise Comparada dos romances Papisa Joana (Donna Wolfolk Cross) e Memorial de Maria Moura (Rachel de Queiroz). 2013. 156f. – Dissertação (Mestrado) – Universidade Federal do Ceará, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras, Fortaleza (CE), 2013.
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Este trabalho tem como objetivo central analisar os pontos de contato e distanciamento entre as representações do Mito Tradicional da Donzela Guerreira nos romances Papisa Joana, de Donna Woolfolk Cross, e Memorial de Maria Moura, de Rachel de Queiroz. A seleção dos romances citados como corpus desta pesquisa deveu-se às várias semelhanças entre as duas narrativas, mesmo levando em conta o fato de seus enredos estarem inseridos em contextos sócio-históricos bastante diferentes. Partindo dessas premissas, o presente trabalho verifica como as características do Mito da Donzela Guerreira Tradicional se apresentam nas obras Papisa Joana e Memorial de Maria Moura, detectando-se até que ponto elas conseguem contemplar as marcas do referido mito. Para a consecução dos resultados desta pesquisa, alguns construtos teóricos importantes tiveram que ser discutidos e transformados em ferramentas analíticas que permitissem uma melhor apreciação dos romances em foco. Além, logicamente, do Mito da Donzela Guerreira Tradicional, merecem destaque, entre as ideias consideradas como chave para o desenvolvimento desta pesquisa, os conceitos de violência simbólica, corpo disciplinado e/ou dócil e empoderamento. Após a análise das duas obras, confirmou-se a hipótese inicial que norteou o trabalho, ou seja, que as diferenças na forma como o Mito da Donzela Guerreira é representado em Papisa Joana e Memorial de Maria Moura estampam, na verdade, apenas etapas distintas de um mesmo processo: a trajetória das mulheres com vistas ao seu empoderamento.

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Jencks, Alden. "Maccabees on the Baltic : the Biblical apologia of the Teutonic Order /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/10370.

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Kerbawy, Kelli R. "Knights in white satin women of the Ku Klux Klan /." Huntington, WV : [Marshall University Libraries], 2007. http://www.marshall.edu/etd/descript.asp?ref=758.

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Theses (M.A.)--Marshall University, 2007.
Title from document title page. Includes abstract. Document formatted into pages: contains v, 116 pages including illustrations. Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-116).

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Graham, Tom. "Knights and merchants : English cities and the aristocracy, 1377-1509." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2017. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:6cbaed78-e5fb-4b31-94b8-5d9df7a0ef72.

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This thesis examines how English towns and townsmen interacted with the aristocracy in the late middle ages. To do so, it compares the experiences and behaviour of four towns and their inhabitants across a 'long' fifteenth century running from 1377 until 1509. These four examples - Exeter, Norwich, Salisbury and Southampton - represent a cross-section of important provincial towns, with each providing a different picture because of their differing contexts and circumstances, particularly the contrasting political societies of the counties which surrounded them. The first half of the study considers links between individual townsmen and aristocrats. In particular, it discusses the patterns displayed by both groups' property ownership as well as their involvement in royal government, before investigating direct connections which existed between them. It concludes that although links did emerge between these groups, most were short-lived and had few political or social implications. The exception was a group on the boundary of gentility, including lawyers, administrators, royal servants and a small number of prosperous townsmen. These men moved relatively easily between town and country and often had interests in both spheres, but their activities rarely combined the âaristocratic' and the 'urban'. In addition, their low status in landed society meant that they rarely drew wider urban and aristocratic society into contact. The second part of the thesis examines the relationship between aristocrats and town governments. It argues that aristocrats could provide significant benefits to towns, but only if they possessed national influence and local authority. This combination was originally exclusive to regional magnates, but the 'new monarchy' empowered progressively minor figures, and towns ultimately preferred to seek the aid of these junior men. It also argues that aristocrats received some benefit to their prestige and worship from helping towns, and that magnates were perhaps even expected to do so by both towns and the king.

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Hefferan, Matthew. "Edward III's household knights in war and peace, 1327-1377." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2018. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/51579/.

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Over the last thirty years, Edward III has claimed his rightful place amongst the most successful kings of medieval England. A significant aspect of Edward’s reign that has as of yet been largely overlooked, however, is the place of the royal household knights within it. This is a significant omission for the household knights permeated many aspects of Edward’s reign and were integral to the way in which he conducted his wars and governed his kingdom. In order to provide a comprehensive investigation of Edward’s household knights, this thesis consists of four principal sections. The first concerns the composition of the knightly household under Edward III. It considers, in turn, the mechanisms by which the household knights were bound to the king and his household, and who Edward III’s household knights were and why they were retained. The second section focusses on the military duties of the household knights, examining their role in military organisation and financial administration, the conduct of foreign warfare, international diplomacy and defensive warfare. The third section investigates their place in national and local politics and government, and how this changed over Edward’s reign. Finally, the fourth section addresses the rewards on offer to the household knights in return for time in service. By providing a study of Edward’s reign through the prism of this group of knights, this thesis allows for a number of important revisions to be offered concerning late-medieval kingship, politics and warfare.

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Maxson, Brian. "Humanists, Knights, Gifts, Guelfs, and Ghibellines in Fifteenth-Century Florence." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2011. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/6221.

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Amoui, Kalareh Kurosh. "Arabian Knights : punk Islam and selected works of Michael Muhammad Knight." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/46008.

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This thesis is an analysis of Michael Muhammad Knight’s works with a particular focus on The Taqwacores, Blue-Eyed Devil, Osama Van Halen, Impossible Man, William S. Burroughs vs. the Quran, and Tripping with Allah. It differs from earlier critical writing on Knight by taking a Bakhtinian approach to his ground-breaking first novel The Taqwacores and its attempt to open a dialogue on reforming American Islam, focusing on Knight’s relationship to the Beats and their often overlooked Islamic discourses as his ideal model for this artistic/social reform, and tracing a shift in his work from reformist, documentary fiction to self-focused, “cool” autobiography. It argues that what enables Knight to initiate a punk reading of Islam, to cut-up the Quran, and to prescribe ayahuasca (a psychoactive vine native to Amazonian Peru) to pilgrims going to Mecca is his interpretation of the famous statement attributed to Hassan Sabbah: “Nothing is true; everything is permitted.” Meanwhile, Knight’s approach differs from that of many writers from Rabelais and Dostoyevsky to Nietzsche and Burroughs who have cited or paraphrased this statement. While these writers describe how devastating it would be to live in a godless world where everything is permitted with no hereafter, Knight stresses a vague “coolness” in Sabbah’s statement which he uses to guide his own style of living. This is a criticism, not of his belief, but of its consequences. What is absent in Knight’s works is a consideration of the matter of death, and this absence opens a space in which everything is permitted since there would be no final judgment. Moreover, although Knight has successfully brought some marginalized narratives of Islam to public attention, his disrespect towards mainstream, middle class Muslims, whether orthodox or progressive, in his recent works closes off the dialogue which seemed to open with the publication of his first book.

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Lucas, Karen. "Middle English romance, attitudes to kingship and political crisis, c.l272-c.l350." Thesis, Durham University, 1997. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/4637/.

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This study used mostly printed sources to investigate wider attitudes to kingship than those of the political philosophers and to consider their implications for the understanding of the political crises of 1297, 1326 and 1340-41.Middle English romances are suitable for determining more 'popular' attitudes to kingship because of their subject matter, the length of texts, their dissemination and their receptivity to contemporary opinion. These 'popular' attitudes were those belonging to the audience of the romances, being the large and increasingly politically influential group comprising knights and gentry. The romances contain substantial images and concepts of kingship, revealing strong expectations of the king in the areas of justice, good government and defence. They reveal an understanding of questions such as the nature of royal power and the king’s position with regard to will and law. The perception of kingship which animated the relationship between king and people was shown to be that of familiar social bonds. The images of kingship found in the romances are supported by those in a second type of popular literature, the legendary histories of Britain. The romance images provide legitimate evidence for the attitudes to kingship of knights and gentry. They are both representative of the opinions of this social group and capable of influencing the opinions of the people who had contact with the romances. Edward 1 was familiar with the attitudes of his people towards kingship and he appealed to these extensively to gain support for his requests for military service, money and supplies in 1297. The deposition of Edward II in 1326 showed royal opposition to be equally at ease in appealing to 'popular' attitudes to generate public support for the rebellion. The attitudes also created a receptive background for the removal of the king. In 1340-41 Edward III and his opponent Archbishop Stratford appealed to royal subjects' attitudes on kingship in order to try to achieve their practical and political aims. 'Popular' attitudes towards kingship became strengthened by association with particular kings and events.

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de, Blois Mallory. "Dark Horses or White Knights: Donors and Gender Projects in the oPt." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23266.

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Financial dependency and a trend in donor-driven gender equality and women’s empowerment projects in the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) have undoubtedly had an effect on the way in which NGOs are working and evolving: often projects are designed to fulfill donor requirements – and thereby policies - instead of creating an agenda which is politically and socially “home grown”. This paper analyses the USAID gender policy paper (as an example of foreign donor policy) and interviews conducted with legal, programme and gender experts in the oPt, exploring the challenges and gaps between policy and practice. The research uses qualitative research methods to analyze USAID discourse - exploring concepts such as representation, ideology and power - and general assumptions and perspectives towards women’s equality and empowerment in the Opt versus how this translates into practice.

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Anley, Maxwell Lydston. "The wisdom of brainless knights : paradox, dialectics and literature's conditions of possibility." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11003/.

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This product of doctoral labour is a reappraisal of Russian Formalism. It establishes the convergences between the thought of key Formalists Viktor Shklovsky, Boris Eikhenbaum, Yury Tynianov and German Idealist Philosophers Immanuel Kant and Georg Hegel. The Formalists’ conceptualization of literary art is shown to be consistent with Kant’s programme of practical critique and Hegel’s objective dialectics, albeit without the reductive closures which Kant and Hegel programme into aesthetic theory. On this basis, the Formalists’ dialogue with the Bakhtin School is reconsidered, along with the utility of Formalist critique for how we are to understand the cultural environment of the Soviet 1920s, and the practice of theory in the present context of its own death.

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Fernandes, Vincent John. "Volunteer Motivation, Organizational Commitment, and Engagement| Knights of Columbus Explanatory Case Study." Thesis, University of Phoenix, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10748228.

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The purpose of this qualitative explanatory single case study was to understand why Knights of Columbus (KofC) volunteers in Ontario, Canada demonstrate motivation, organizational commitment, and engagement. The scope of the study was guided by two main research questions: “Why do KofC members volunteer?” and “How do KofC members combine elements of motivation, organizational commitment, and engagement in their volunteer activity?” The triangulation of participant interviews, observations from KofC general meetings, and online archived documents supported the study’s qualitative methodology that required rich, descriptive data. For feasibility, the population of this study was comprised of KofC volunteers within three councils in Ontario, Canada and 17 KofC members were selected purposively based on age and experience criteria for face-to-face interviews. Transcribed interview data, observational field notes and archival documents were analyzed and coded using NVivo 11 to uncover three emerging themes: living one’s faith, loyalty, and flexibility. The findings indicated that KofC members have alignment between personal and organizational values, intend to follow Biblical scripture to live their faith in the public square, and feel obligated to help others in need. Fraternity and unity were welcomed benefits that KofC members enjoyed while volunteering. KofC provides volunteers with role and task variety, which allows volunteers to choose the activities that suit their interest, skill set, and time commitment. By gaining insights from these themes, organizational leaders can improve their communication to potential and existing volunteers, foster stronger relationships among volunteers, and develop programs that engage volunteers through catered recruitment and retention strategies.

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Orr, Eric D. "Six degrees of Guillelmus Mancip : a study of connections between donors to the military orders in 12th century Toulouse /." View online, 2008. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131458162.pdf.

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Strickland, Matthew James. "The conduct and perception of war under the Anglo-Norman and Angevin kings, 1075-1217." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1989. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/272192.

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Church, Stephen David. "The household knights of King John, 1199-1216 : a study of Angevin kingship." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.367215.

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Zhang, Jun. "Rendering and Image Processing for Micro Lithography on Xeon Phi Knights Landing Processor." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-241088.

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The Segment program in Mycronics laser mask writers converts vector graphics into raster image with high computation intensity. IntelR Xeon PhiTM Knights Landing (KNL) is a many-core processor delivering massive thread and data parallelism. This project explores whether KNL can be a good candidate as a data processing platform in microlithography applications. The feasibility is studied through profiling the program on KNL together with comparing the performance on KNL with other architectures, including the current platform. Several optimization methods are implemented targeting KNL, resulting in speed-up up to 5%. The cost of the systems is taken into consideration. The high-level parallel application can take the advantage of the huge number of cores, leading to the high performance per cost together with the relatively low price of KNL. Hence, KNL can be a nice replacement for the current platform as a high-performance patterngenerator.
Segmentprogrammet i Mycronics laserskrivare omvandlar vektorgrafik till rasterbild med hög beräkningsintensitet. IntelR Xeon PhiTM Knights Landing (KNL) är en process med många kärnor som levererar omfattande tråd och dataparallellitet. Detta projekt undersöker om KNL kan vara en bra kandidat som databehandlingsplattform i mikrolitografiska applikationer. Genomförbarheten studeras genom att profilera programmet på KNL tillsammans med att jämföra prestanda på KNL med andra arkitekturer, inklusive den nuvarande plattformen. Flera optimeringsmetoder implementeras med inriktning på KNL, vilket resulterar i effektivitetshöjningar upp till 5 %. Kostnaden för systemen beaktas. Den högt parallelliserade applikationen kan dra fördel av det stora antalet kärnor, vilket leder till hög prestanda per kostnad tillsammans med det relativt låga priset på KNL. Därför kan KNL vara en bra ersättare för den nuvarande plattformen som en högpresteran-de mönstergenerator.

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Case, Theresa Ann. "Free labor on the southwestern railroads the 1885-1886 Gould system strikes /." Access restricted to users with UT Austin EID Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3077430.

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Seybolt, Taylor. "Knights in shining armor? : when humanitarian military intervention works and when it does not." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/9699.

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1999.
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Military intervention for stated humanitarian purposes has been undertaken on several occasions since the end of the Cold War. It is bound to be attempted again, yet academics and policy makers have left fundamental questions unanswered. Have past humanitarian military interventions saved lives? Under what conditions is humanitarian intervention likely to save lives in the future? Case studies of humanitarian interventions in northern Iraq from 1991 through 1996, Somalia from 1992 to 1995, and Rwanda in 1994 reveal that seven out of ten military operations saved more lives than would have been saved in the absence of intervention. However, the number of lives saved was lower than is commonly believed, ranging from thousands in Iraq to tens of thousands in Rwanda, not the hundreds of thousands governments claim. Humanitarian intervention saved lives in all three countries, suggesting that contextual variables -- such as the immediate causes of death and the particular causes of political break down -- do not determine success or failure. Five factors determine success and failure. They are the (1) balance between an intervenor's humanitarian and political objectives, (2) strategy employed by the intervening force, (3) intervenor's capabilities, (4) level of coordination between humanitarian and military organizations, and (5) length of delay before an international response. My research suggests humanitarian.an intervention is very likely to save lives when the intervenor(s) has political objectives as well as humanitarian ones, follows an operational strategy that is determined by needs on the ground rather than preconceptions, has the capability to dominate the battlefield and communicate with the local population, actively coordinates the interaction between humanitarian and military organizations, and responds to a humanitarian emergency quickly. In most cases, the optimal conditions for humanitarian intervention are not present because the states that are capable of intervening do not feel their national interests are engaged. As a result, they respond slowly (timing), do not plan their actions well (strategy and coordination), and have little motivation to persist when costs begin to rise (objectives and capabilities).
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Hartland, Beth. "English rule in Ireland, c.1272-c.1315 : aspects of royal and aristocratic lordship." Thesis, Durham University, 2001. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1662/.

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Hild, Matthew George. "Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists : farmer-labor insurgency in the late-nineteenth-century South." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/25691.

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Selwood, Dominic Kim. "Knights of the Cloister : Templars and Hospitallers in central-southern Occitania c.1100 - c.1300." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.359954.

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Spencer, Claire Lucy. "A generalization of Talbot's theorem about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table." Thesis, University of Reading, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.494448.

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A theorem of Talbot, stated in terms of graph theory, is as follows: Let G be a cycle on n vertices raised to the power k > 1. If A is a family of intersecting independent r-subsets of the vertices of G where r > 1 and n > (k: + 1)r then [A] < (n-kr-1 / r-1).

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Fernandes, Mario Joseph. "The role of the Midland knights in the period of reform and rebellion 1258-67." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2000. https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/the-role-of-the-midland-knights-in-the-period-of-reform-and-rebellion-125867(2359d2c3-a9cd-4041-8b79-074ca181a036).html.

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Hunter, Timothy John. "The visual appearance of knights in the twelfth century with particular reference to romance and colour." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1994. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.386476.

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Graves, Greg (Gregory Alfred) Carleton University Dissertation Sociology. "Competing perspectives on the Knights of Labor : with special reference to South-Central Ontario, 1883-1886." Ottawa, 1990.

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Kinštová, Veronika. "The impact of POS materials on sales: LEGO Nexo Knights 2016 campaign in toy specialist stores." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-264321.

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In today's highly competitive and cluttered marketing environment it becomes increasingly harder for brands to differentiate themselves form others. This is especially pronounced in the retail space. Shopper marketing is a discipline that focuses on shoppers and their needs to create a unique shopping experience and thereby increase in-store communication effectiveness. Keeping in mind the challenges of marketing to children, LEGO aims to communicate to its shoppers as well as consumers through the platform of in-store its core values of creative play, fun and learning. The thesis discusses the effectiveness of LEGO shopper marketing, specifically the engagement elements it uses in various channels. The aim is to test and evaluate the impact of these materials on the target audience and sales as well as define the hierarchy of LEGO in-store communication materials. In the theoretical part shopper marketing concepts, shopper beaviour and marketing in the toy industry are discussed.

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Trepanier, James. "Battling a Trojan horse: The Ordre de Jacques Cartier and the Knights of Columbus, 1917--1965." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/27561.

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This study examines the creation and growth of the Ordre de Jacques Cartier (OJC) - a French-Canadian Catholic secret society created in Ottawa - and its opposition to the Knights of Columbus - a Catholic fraternity created in Connecticut in the late nineteenth century but which had expanded into Ontario and Quebec by the early twentieth century---from 1917 to 1965. Historians of French-Canadian nationalism in the early to mid twentieth century have largely passed over the Ordre de Jacques Cartier and the Knights of Columbus in their studies of Catholic movements and associations. The few studies that have looked at the OJC have downplayed the influence that the Knights of Columbus had on the secret society and its campaigns. This study seeks to fill that gap in looking at how the OJC anti-Knight campaign reflects shifts in French-Canadian nationalism and conception of French-Canadian identity. More specifically, by taking a closer look at the attitudes of the OJC's leaders towards the Knights of Columbus, a more nuanced picture of relations between French-Canadian nationalists in Quebec and Ontario emerges. This study argues that the OJC's campaign against the Knights reveals the shifting priorities both of its Ottawa-based leadership and its growing Quebec membership base. Differences of opinion over the Knights of Columbus in Quebec and Ontario from the end of the Great War are symptomatic of the eventual schism between neo-nationalists in Quebec and French-Canadian nationalists in Ontario that came to the fore in the 1960s with the Quiet Revolution in Quebec and the dissolution of the OJC. Using both the archives of the Knights of Columbus and the OJC, this study will analyze the increasing emphasis on territorial autonomy in Quebec by nationalists as well as how lay movements both preceded, and were part of, shifting nationalist discourse in the mid-twentieth century.

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Willander, Martin. "KOTOR- en narratologisk smältdegel : En analys av berättarstrukturen i datorspelet Star wars: Knights Of The Old Republic." Thesis, Växjö University, School of Humanities, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:vxu:diva-2648.

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Boysel, Nicholas. "Bernard of Clairvaux and the Knights Templar the new knighthood as a solution to violence in Christianity /." Akron, OH : University of Akron, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=akron1249053482.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Akron, Dept. of History, 2009.
"August, 2009." Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed 10/14/2009) Advisor, Constance Bouchard; Co-Advisor, Michael Levin; Department Chair, Michael Sheng; Dean of the College, Chand Midha; Dean of the Graduate School, George R. Newkome. Includes bibliographical references.

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Boysel, Nicholas A. "Bernard of Clairvaux and the Knights Templar: The New Knighthood as a Solution to Violence in Christianity." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1249053482.

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Purser, Toby S. "The county community of Hampshire, c.1300-c.1530, with special reference to the knights and esquires." Thesis, University of Winchester, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.395331.

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By the beginning of the fourteenth century, the class of landlord pre-eminent in the localities were the knights and esquires. Much debate has occurred over whether these lords were primarily identified as a county elite or whether the county is a false construct. This thesis proposes that the knights and esquires resident and with primary interests in Hampshire formed a landed and political community within a county of communities. They were a close-knit group of some fifty families who held the major county offices sometimes for many generations and formed marriage alliances within their group. The nature of this community was determined by the domination of the county by the WinchesterB ishopric and other ecclesiasticallo rds who held the richeste statesa nd had done so since before the Conquest and would continue to do so until the Dissolution of the Monasteries. There were no great estates belonging to the crown or to the nobility in Hampshire. As a result of this pattern of landholding, many landowners looked to the counties bordering Hampshire, particularly Wiltshire, and this fostered a regional, rather than purely county, outlook. The resident knights and esquires co-existed with other communities in the county. Many landholders with knightly status had estates in Hampshire even though they were based in other counties. Most of them did not hold office in Hampshire, but nevertheless formed a permanent presence alongside those resident lords. These lords had estates from all over England, though most from neighbouring counties, reinforcing the regional, rather than county, outlook most landlords had. This thesis covers two centuries. Continuity is a key theme. The long view illustrates how important heiressesw ere to the survival andd ispersalo f the family estate.I n line with nationalt rends,t he numberso f Hampshirek nights and esquiresd ecreaseds; everal estates suffered dispersal. The resultant parcels of land were not enough to support knightly status. Dispersal and wastage were not, however, means by which outsiders and self-made men could enter this county community. With very few exceptions, most of the familiesa t the start of the sixteenthc entury owed their statust o marriagesb ased on social parity and careful accumulation. The wealthiest estate remained in the hands of the Church; buyers could not amass and maintain blocs of territory. This ended when the Dissolution of the Monasteries opened up the land market and the nature of Hampshire landed society changed irrevocably.

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Musgrove, Lacar E. "Knights, Dudes, and Shadow Steeds: Late Victorian Culture and the Early Cycling Clubs of New Orleans, 1881-1891." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2013. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1753.

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In the 1880s, two cycling clubs formed in New Orleans—the New Orleans Bicycle Club in 1881 and the Louisiana Cycling Club in 1887. These clubs were institutions of Victorian middle class culture that, like other athletic clubs, arose from the conditions of urban modernity and Victorian class anxieties. The NOBC, like other American cycling clubs, conformed to Victorian values of order and respectability. The attitudes and activities of the LCC, whose membership was younger, reflected instead a counter-Victorian ethos. This paper examines these two clubs in the context of late Victorian culture in New Orleans as it responded both to the conditions of urban modernity common to American cities in this period and to the particular cultural situation of New Orleans at the end of the nineteenth century, including proximity to and amalgamation with the recently-dominant, non-Anglo culture of the Creoles.

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Somogyi, Ashley Clara Gabrielle. "Young Knights of the Empire : the impact of chivalry on literature and propaganda of the First World War." Thesis, Durham University, 2018. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12603/.

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The re-emergence of chivalry in the mid-eighteenth century fundamentally altered Britain’s perception of etiquette, duty, masculinity and the ideology surrounding war. This thesis demonstrates the importance and influence of chivalry’s persistence before, during and after World War One. By examining the formative role of chivalry in education and literature in the nineteenth century, we see how it becomes encoded in British culture, contributing not simply to a romanticised idea of war, but becoming an inextricable part of British identity. While many scholars would argue against the continued use or popularity of chivalry during WWI, condemning its role in glamourising conflict, this work demonstrates how organisations such as the War Propaganda Bureau, the Boy Scouts and the public school system strove to encourage the citizens of war-time Britain to adopt the central tenets of chivalry (honour, bravery and self- sacrifice), declaring them crucial to morale and victory. This work evidences how chivalry did not simply survive WWI but by altering the vocabulary and images associated with it, adapted to the demands of Britain’s wartime and post-war environment. Through critical analysis of literature ranging from poetry and plays to pamphlets and meeting minutes, this thesis demonstrates how the central tenets of chivalry are not only ingrained in the British response to war, but helped to provide moral justification of violence, created brotherhood between soldiers, engendered solidarity on the Home Front, and provided an ethical framework through which combatants and non-combatants could understand the need for war. World War One did not destroy chivalry; rather it was refashioned to make a historicizing connection to a legacy of heroism which continues in modern British nationalism, duty and morality.

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Bergqvist, Kim. "[Review of Ana Echevarría, Knights on the Frontier: The Moorish Guard of the Kings of Castile (1410-1467) (2009)]." Stockholms universitet, Historiska institutionen, 2012. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-73715.

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Carter, Nicola Lucy Esdaile. "Knights, poets and soldiers from 1415-1600 : war and antiwar sentiment in the writings of Malory, Gascoigne and Spenser." Thesis, University of London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.407592.

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Stanfill, Emily Marie. "Erring Knights of Desire: The Romance in Santa Teresa's Libro de la vida and Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene." Diss., CLICK HERE for online access, 2007. http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/ETD/image/etd2091.pdf.

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Italia, Iona. "Philosophers, knights-errant, coquettes and old maids : gender and literary self-consciousness in the eighteenth-century periodical (1690-1765)." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343363.

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