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Lincoln, George William. "Settlements in pre-Norman and Norman Sicily." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.658048.
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The primary focus of this thesis is the written evidence relating to settlements in the pre-Norman and Norman periods and what this demonstrates about settlements. Of particular focus are the forms and functions which settlements had and the developments which took place to these facets. Some account of the wider reasons for these changes and what they reflected are given. Amongst the Arabic, Greek and Latin sources drawn upon are geographical accounts, narrative histories and charter evidence. The thesis examines the data in relation to the different explanations these sources give for settlements, drawing on contextual and linguistic factors to assist in reconciling this data. Place-names, especially those derived from Arabic, form a key data-set. Their study in relation to Sicily is under-developed. This gap is partly filled by bringing together the largest corpus of Arabic place-names compiled for Sicily and discussing their earliest instances. In addition to the analysis of evidence directly relating to settlements, the thesis also discusses factors relating to administration, economy, land tenure and warfare which impacted upon and influenced developments to settlements and the ways these were explained. In reflecting the importance of administration and land tenure, the relationship between units of land and settlements is also considered.
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Wilson, Andrew. "Norman Mailer : an American aesthetic /." Oxford : P. Lang, 2008. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb414171710.
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Villegas-Aristizabal, Lucas. "Norman and Anglo-Norman participation in the Iberian Reconquista, c.1018 - c.1248." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2007. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/10283/.
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This thesis covers the Norman and Anglo-Norman contribution to the Iberian Reconquista from the early eleventh to the mid-thirteenth centuries. It explores the involvement of these groups as part of the changing ideas of Holy War and their transformation as result of the First Crusade. It shows that although the Reconquista was the result of important political and economic factors within the Iberian realms, the theological aura that the papacy started placing on this conflict was a powerful motivator increasing the interest of the Normans and later Anglo-Normans, especially when coincidental with the general call for crusade in western Europe that resulted in the large expeditions that are known to us as the crusades. To cover these areas, this work is divided in four main sections: the first, Chapter II, pursues chronologically the careers of individual members of the Norman nobility such as Roger of Tosny, Robert Crispin and Robert Burdet as they became involved. It also addresses the influence that institutions like Cluny and the papacy might have had in the creation of the idea of the Reconquista in the minds of those involved. The second section, Chapter III explores the brief decline of the Norman interest in the peninsula as a result of the Norman conquest of England and the First Crusade. It also explores the revitalization of the Norman interest in the peninsular conflict with the careers of Rotrou of Perche and Robert Burdet. Chapter IV, addresses the large contribution of the Anglo-Normans as part of the Second Crusade and their motivations and the impact of their arrival on the Iberian realms. Chapter V explores the participation of the lower aristocracy and merchants from the mid-twelfth century onwards in the coastal actions on both the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of Iberia, showing the impact that these actions had in the Reconquista. Finally, Chapter VI explores how the changing political circumstances in Iberia and the Anglo-Norman domains helped to increase awareness during the rise of the Angevin empire and the newly found diplomatic relations between the two regions. However, it also shows that although by the thirteenth century the Reconquista was perceived as a legitimate area of crusading, the political and economic circumstances on the peninsula as well as of the English Crown had important repercussions for the drastic decline in the number of participants.
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Simmonds, Helen Margaret. "Channelling change : evolution in Guernsey Norman French phonology." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/9246.
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This thesis examines evolution in the phonology of Guernesiais, the endangered variety of Norman French indigenous to the Channel Island of Guernsey. It identifies ways in which modern Guernesiais phonology differs from previous descriptions of the variety written between 1870 and 2008, and identifies new patterns of phonological variation which correlate with speaker place of origin within the island. This is accomplished through a combination of quantitative and qualitative analyses of a new corpus of speech data. The relationship between the data and other extralinguistic variables such as age and gender is also explored. The Guernsey 2010 corpus was gathered during linguistic interviews held with forty-nine adult native speakers of Guernesiais between July and September 2010. The interviews featured a word list translation task (English > Guernesiais), a series of socio-biographical questions, and a self-assessment questionnaire which sought to elicit information about the participants’ use of Guernesiais as well as their responses to questions relating to language revitalisation issues. The interviews resulted in over 40 hours of recorded material in addition to a bank of written socio-biographical, behavioural and attitudinal data. Analysis of the phonetically transcribed data revealed that a number of phonological features of Guernesiais have evolved, perhaps owing to greater contact with English or through other processes of language change such as levelling. Shifting patterns of diatopic variation indicate that south-western Guernesiais forms are spreading northwards, and this is echoed in the findings of the socio-biographical data. New evidence of diatopic variation in final consonant devoicing and word-final post-obstruent liquid deletion was also found. This thesis concludes that there is still considerable variation in the pronunciation of modern native speakers of Guernesiais, and that this correlates with place of origin within the island. While northern Guernesiais forms have not disappeared entirely, south-western Guernesiais appears set to become the de facto standard for the variety, especially as the political impetus for revitalisation is generated from this area of the island.
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Allen, Richard. "The Norman episcopate, 989-1110." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 2009. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/1218/.
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The episcopal office, and the individuals who held it, were fundamental to the political, religious, social and cultural development of ducal Normandy. Not only men of great political power, many strove to create vibrant centres of learning in their dioceses, and accounts of their efforts to reform the Norman Church spread throughout Europe. However, while the episcopate of twelfth-century Normandy continues to be the subject of various studies, such as that published recently by Jörg Peltzer, there are few works, especially in English, which examine the careers of their predecessors in any real detail. This thesis is intended, therefore, as the first comprehensive analysis of the tenth and eleventh-century episcopate, and their role in the emergence of the Norman and Anglo-Norman realms. Using chronicles, ducal and episcopal acta, published conciliar records, architecture, and a wide variety of unpublished material in both French and English archives, this thesis traces the origins of the bishops, their recruitment and relations with the dukes of Normandy, their role in Normandy before the Conquest of England and in the governance of the Anglo-Norman realm, their secular role and connections, and their role as cultural patrons. It also includes, in various appendices, critical editions of texts either associated with, or created by, members of the episcopate, including the texts of over eighty episcopal acta.
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Wilson, Andrew J. "Norman Mailer : an American aesthetic." Thesis, University of Essex, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.435625.
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Sykes, Naomi Jane. "Norman conquest : a zooarchaeological perspective." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394092.
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Metcalfe, Alexander James. "Arabic-speakers in Norman Sicily." Thesis, University of Leeds, 1999. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/537/.
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The linguistic history of medieval Sicily is both intriguing and complex. From the classical Roman and Byzantine periods until the Arab invasions of 827, the majority of the island's population spoke either dialects of Greek or Latin or both. On the arrival of the Normans around 1060, Arabic was the dominant language but by 1250 prestigious Romance vernaculars could be heard almost everywhere. Of particular importance is the formative period of Norman rule (1061-1194), when the key transitions from an Arab-Muslim to a Latin-Christian island were made. During that time Romance dialects were spoken by many among the ruling elite but most of the indigenous population continued to communicate in Arabic except in the north-eastern corner of the island where Greek was still used. The conventional wisdom is that, under Norman rule, Sicily became a social and linguistic 'melting pot'. My thesis challenges this idea by showing how the extant linguistic data does not always present an accurate picture of the wider language situation and by arguing that Norman Sicilian society was often highly fragmented and characterised by a good deal of local variation. To illustrate this, the thesis traces the distribution and shifting margins of the Arabic-speaking communities and the effects that social change and religious conversion had on these groups. These findings are integrated with sociolinguistic considerations that surround language, identity and bilingualism. From a purely linguistic perspective, the thesis has a significant technical component and examines the bilingual deeds (Arabic/Greek or Arabic/Latin) that were issued by the royal administration. Particular attention is given to the type, status and consistency of this unique data and the extent to which it accurately reflects elements of vernacular speech. As such, the research makes a number of significant contributions to our understanding of the sources for medieval Arabic and the fate of Arabicspeakers in this region. It also adds to our knowledge of how a minority group of northern Europeans came to impose their control over a population of Arabic-speaking Muslims, Arabicised Christians, Greek-speakers, Berbers and Jews on the eve of the expansion that the Crusades would bring to the southern Mediterranean.
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Ganschow, Constantin Alexander [Verfasser], Norman [Akademischer Betreuer] Weiß, Norman [Gutachter] Weiß, and Marcus [Gutachter] Schladebach. "Die Konversion im Asylverfahren / Constantin Alexander Ganschow ; Gutachter: Norman Weiß, Marcus Schladebach ; Betreuer: Norman Weiß." Potsdam : Universität Potsdam, 2021. http://d-nb.info/1237319900/34.
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Cengel, Lauren. "Partners in Rule: A Study of Twelfth-Century Queens of England." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1338305706.
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Dobson, Terence. "The film-work of Norman McLaren." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/4864.
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This thesis examines the film-work of Norman Mclaren in the context of his objectives. The thesis is divided into three parts, based on chronological divisions in McLaren's life. The first part deals with McLaren's formative years in Scotland and England and examines his early exposure to the social, artistic and institutional influences that were to shape his filmic output. The second part deals with Mclaren's maturation in the USA and Canada. His reaction to the contrasting working environment he found in each of the two countries is examined. In order to show McLaren's development more clearly, both parts one and two are based on a chronological sequencing. The third part of the thesis examines specific issues in relation to Mclaren and his work and as such is concerned principally with his mature output. McLaren's films contain incongruities, conflicts and apparent inconsistencies. In
exploring these aspects of his work, this thesis examines the technical processes
McLaren used in making his films, the oscillation shown in his films between abstract
and representational imagery, and the degree of accord between McLaren's social
objectives, his artistic objectives and his filmic achievements. The strands of the
exploration often interweave as common causes or explanations arise. As a greater
understanding of McLaren's motivation, influences and working methods develops, a
surprising measure of consistency on Mclaren's part becomes apparent. Through an
understanding of the dichotomous tensions in McLaren's works, a clearer
comprehension of the paradox of the divergent treatments accorded to McLaren and
his works is also reached.
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Sykes, Naomi Jane. "The Norman conquest : a zoological perspective /." Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41143328j.
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O'Donoghue, Neil Xavier. "Eucharistic spirituality in pre-Norman Ireland." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.
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Lohmeyer, Susan E. "Dialectical structures in the work of Norman Mailer /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1988. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09arml8325.pdf.
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Reich, Norman [Verfasser]. "Rückführung staatlicher Altschulden als Rechtsproblem / Norman Reich." Baden-Baden : Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1160310068/34.
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Webber, Nicholas Michael. "The evolution of Norman identity, 911-1154." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.251888.
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Chadwick, Thomas Harry. "'Normanitas' revisited : reconsidering Norman ethnicity, 996-1159." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10871/31731.
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This thesis investigates the extent to which the Norman gens was understood by contemporaries to share agreed features of ethnic identity. The term Normanitas, associated with significant Latin descriptive traits, including ferox, ferus, bellicosus, audax, strennus, astutus and callidus, has been in use since the 1980s, when scholars identified a shared Norman ethnic identity dispersed across eleventh- and twelfth-century Europe. However, work on Normanitas fails to take into account insights from more recent research, led by Walter Pohl, on the construction of early medieval ethnic identity. This thesis explores whether Normanitas is the same across various boundaries of time and geographical space and to what extent it was a unique phenomenon or subject to outside influences. Is it distinctive from male elite military behaviour and traditional models from earlier non-Norman texts or a response to the contextual circumstances surrounding specific authors? I argue that a shared understanding of Norman identity is less consistent within these texts than previously suggested nor is it unique, being based on traditional classical, biblical and early medieval models concerning identity and ideal male military behaviour. The critical consensus of a distinct Norman ethnic identity known as Normanitas is, in fact, a misdiagnosis of a series of traditional models and typical medieval attitudes concerning the Normans as exemplars of a successful male-dominated military aristocracy and encouraged by the proliferation of Norman sources on their own terms. This research uncovers the complicated synthesis of topoi used to construct an authoritative masculine military identity that was commonly employed across ethnic boundaries and appealed strongly to diverse audiences because it incorporated long- established language that emphasised entertaining martial and heroic values. This thesis explores historical texts from Normandy, England, southern Italy, Sicily, Wales, France and Germany in the period 996-1159. Part One examines Normandy itself, identifying both core and peripheral texts that belong to a similar literary tradition but present divergent attitudes to Norman ethnicity. Parts Two and Three explore histories outside of Normandy which, through their aims, influences and contexts, demonstrate that Normanitas failed to be effectively exported to other Norman spheres of influence and beyond.
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Tailleur, Louis Jean-Pierre. "Norman Mailer : journaliste-écrivain ou écrivain-journaliste ?" Bordeaux 3, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996BOR30067.
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Norman mailer est tour a tour ecrivain et journaliste. Un journaliste unique : il ne se limite pas au reportage traditionnel. Il aime suggerer, rechercher la verite, en utilisant un style tres direct. Il presente une vision interieure des etres qui peuplent son recit. Il cree une relation privilegiee entre lui, personnage-narrateur et l'evenement. Il se libere de ses obligations de creer un travail objectif. Il prefere creer des ouvrages qui sont autant des romans que de l'histoire. L'ecrivain est passe du stade de l'"enfant terrible" de ses debuts a "papa mailer", l'admirateur d'hemingway ; il s'est ainsi passionne pour les activites viriles, le football et la boxe. Les annees ont passe, le tigre a ete apprivoise ; il est devenu plus lucide, moins contestataire. Mailer possede une personnalite peu ordinaire : le verbe volontiers incisif, il est nombriliste, egocentrique, narcissique, provocateur, pretentieux, fougueux, impertinent, vulgaire, ambitieux ou modeste. Artiste, homme politique, poete, boxeur, acteur, metteur en scene, l'ecrivain est tres eclectique. Il est aussi neo-journaliste de nouvelle non-fiction. . Dote d'une imagination debordante et d'une perspicacite etonnanteNorman mailer's literary career is unmatched. His journalistic writings are original. He does not limit his reportage to sheer facts. In sharp contrast with traditional journalists he likes to suggest, to give his own opinion, to be "hip", to speak direstly to the reader and to rewrite events in order to mould history. His nonfiction novels are all but objective. There has been an evolution in the writer's life : from the one-time "enfant terrible" -critical of the status quo- to the passionate lover of boxing, football, baseball and bullfighting to the mature writer of later works. Norman mailer has become a living legend, a theoretician of his own work, an artist, a politician, a poet, a boxer, an actor, a stage-director. . . . At last, norman mailer can be considered -at least for his nonfiction novels- as a new journalist of new non-fiction, endowed with a powerful imagination, journalistic flair, a deep insight. He has succeeded in creating a style of his own and a voice powerful enough to bring a fresh vision to the american nation
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Medley, Susan Annette. "THE CHORAL MUSIC OF NORMAN DELLO JOIO." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2000. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin962990468.
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Steffan, Andrea Jeanne. "SELECTED PIANO WORKS BY NORMAN DELLO JOIO." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin999024532.
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Ingrassia, Nathalie Sylvie. "Norman MacCaig and the fascination of existence." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/9490.
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This thesis is a comprehensive study of the poetry of Norman MacCaig. His poems have received relatively little critical attention and scholars appear to have concentrated on a few specific points such as MacCaig’s characteristic restraint or his inscription in a given literary tradition. Critics have notably pointed out different dichotomies in his works. I argue that these dichotomies are fundamentally interrelated. It is characteristic of MacCaig’s writing to simultaneously engage with and challenge philosophical and linguistic concepts and positions as well as literary traditions and stylistic choices. These dichotomies are both a cause and a symptom of this phenomenon. They take on a structuring role in a body of works often regarded as a collection of independent lyrics rather than a cohesive totality. The first half of the thesis will follow a thematic approach: considering first the poetic project MacCaig outlines and the interplay of celebration, faithfulness to the object and the problem of perception; then the treatment of religion and the divine by this notoriously atheist author and how it relates to his worldview. This will provide a basis to address MacCaig’s lifelong concern with the relationship between perception, language and description and what this entails for both his writing and his philosophical positions. In the second half of this study, I will address MacCaig’s engagement with tradition – and its limits – through consideration of three different modes and how they relate to his writing project: elegy, pastoral and amatory verse, regarding the latter two as specific examples of the former. Through these interconnected studies of MacCaig’s poetry, I argue that the critical tendency to either undervalue his central place or treat his works in a fragmentary fashion originates in MacCaig’s sense of the instability of our perceptions and our possible discourses about the world. This uncertainty at the root of his writing reflects his constant and often uncomfortable awareness of the elusive nature of existence and meaning – death and the limits of language threatening both his perception of the world he evinces such fondness for and his ability to write about it.
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Dalton, Paul. "Feudal politics in Yorkshire 1066-1154." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 1990. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/1870/.
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This thesis provides a broad study of the tenurial, administrative and political history of Yorkshire in the first century of English feudalism. It begins by providing a new and more precise chronology for the Norman conquest of Yorkshire and illustrates the importance of castleries and hundreds in the process of take-over. In Chapter 2 the thesis reveals that in the fifty years following the Domesday survey the Normans extended the system of compact lordships based upon castleries, hundreds and hundredal castleries in order to bring the more remote parts of the county under control and to provide protection for its borders. The new men placed in control of these lordships played a vital role in the integration of Yorkshire within the royal system ofjustice and administration. Attention is then paid in Chapter 3 to the scale and pattern of Norman sub-enfeoffment in the period 1086 x 1135. The study throws new light on both the purpose of the system of military service introduced by the Normans and the reasons for the rapid expansion of monasticism in Yorkshire after 1100. Chapter 4 illustrates how after 1135 royal control over the local administration of Yorkshire disintegrated in the face of the political difficulties of King Stephen and the growing power of William earl of York, and Chapter 5 examines how King David of Scotland exploited Stephen's weakness in the northern England to extend his influence within the area. Chapter 6 considers the nature of some of the new enfeoffment tenancies recorded in the 1166 inquest and elucidates the reasons behind the reluctance of magnates to acknowledge their existence and pay scutage upon them. And finally, the thesis concludes in Chapter 7 with a major re-assessment of the nature and strength of lordship and the emergence of property right in the first century of English feudalism.
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De, Ville Oscar. "Deyville : a family in a century of rebellion." Thesis, Birkbeck (University of London), 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.286942.
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Dickson, Morgan Elizabeth May. "Twelfth-century insular narrative : the Romance of Horn and related texts." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.272566.
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Leyland, Martin. "The origins and development of Durham Castle to AD 1217 : the archaeological and architectural record." Thesis, Durham University, 1994. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/1707/.
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Kleopfer, Kirstie Lane. "Norman Rockwell's civil rights paintings of the 1960s." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2007. http://www.ohiolink.edu/etd/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=ucin1179431918.
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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Cincinnati, 2007.Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed July 13, 2007). Includes abstract. Keywords: Norman Rockwell; civil rights; illustrations; African Americans. Includes bibliographical references.
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Bickford, Smith James. "Orderic Vitalis and Norman society : c.1035-1087." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.431006.
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Spence, John Benjamin William. "Re-imagining history in Anglo-Norman prose chronicles." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2006. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.613968.
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Wagner, Norman [Verfasser], and Stefan [Akademischer Betreuer] Lötters. "Amphibienschutz und Pestizideinsätze / Norman Wagner ; Betreuer: Stefan Lötters." Trier : Universität Trier, 2015. http://d-nb.info/1197701737/34.
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Scheel, Norman [Verfasser]. "Gehirn im Ruhezustand - Signal oder Rauschen? / Norman Scheel." Lübeck : Zentrale Hochschulbibliothek Lübeck, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1153844567/34.
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Takayama, Hiroshi. "The administration of the Norman kingdom of Sicily /." Leiden ; New York ; Köln : E.J. Brill, 1993. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb369566497.
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Texte remanié de: Th. Ph. D.--New Haven (Conn.)--Yale University, 1990. Titre de soutenance : Exploring a medieval kingdom of mystery: the Norman kindom of Sicily and its administration.Bibliogr. p. 229-261. Index.
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Fernández, Aceves Hervin. "County and nobility in Norman Italy (1130-1189)." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2017. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/19719/.
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This research offers a rounded account of the local ruling elite in mainland Southern Italy during the first dynasty of the Sicilian kingdom. It does so through a chronological, in-breadth exploration of the counts' activities, and an in-depth analysis of both the role the counts played during the development of the kingdom's nobility and government, and the function the county acquired in the establishment of social control on the mainland. This study is supported by an extensive and detailed survey of the vast relevant diplomatic material, both edited and unedited, combined with a comparison of the diverse available narrative sources, both local and external. The study has two central objectives. The first is to suggest the composition of the peninsular nobility and its continuities and discontinuities, by revealing how lordships were reorganised through the appointment and confirmation of counts, the total number of counties after this reorganisation, and the transactions and major events in which the counts were involved throughout the kingdom's Norman period. The second is to interpret how territorial leaderships operated between the upper echelon of the peninsular aristocracy and the other economic and political agents, such as lesser barons, royal officials, and ecclesiastical institutions. I argue that the creation of the Kingdom of Sicily did not hinder the development of the nobility's leadership in southern Italy, but, in fact, the Sicilian monarchy relied on the county as both a military cluster and an economic unit, and, eventually, on the counts' authority, in order to keep the realm united and exercise effective control over the mainland provinces - especially in Apulia and the Terra di Lavoro. Such a finding should encourage further revision of the traditional interpretation of the kingdom's social mechanisms for military mobilisation, administration of justice, and political stability. By emphasising the importance of the comital class and the changeability and endurance of the peninsular nobility, this study underlines the complexity of medieval, South Italian societies, and the multi-layered structures which allowed the Kingdom of Sicily to be a viable polity.
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Vernon, Clare Mary. "Visual culture in Norman Puglia c.1030-1130." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708775.
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KLEOPFER, KIRSTIE L. "NORMAN ROCKWELL'S CIVIL RIGHTS PAINTINGS OF THE 1960s." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179431918.
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Jönsson, Ola. "Autobiographical Existentialism in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song." Thesis, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, Institutionen för humaniora, 2003. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:bth-1666.
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This essay investigates how Norman Mailer’s “true-life” novel The Executioner’s Song may also be read as an autobiography. The novel contains strong traces of Mailer’s existential philosophy as related to sexuality, non-conformity and death. The essay discusses the nature of the relationship between truth as defined by the author and the function of autobiography to tell the truth about a life. The discussion centres around Mailer’s conviction that the novel is a better, i.e. more accurate vehicle for truth than is the autobiography. The essay argues that the truth which Mailer imparts is less the “true” story of Gary Gilmore and more the “true” story of Norman Mailer.
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O'Rourke, Samuel. "Episcopal power in Anglo-Norman England, 1066-1135." Thesis, University of East Anglia, 2014. https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/48695/.
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The thesis presents an empirical view of episcopal power in England from 1066 to 1135. For simplicity’s sake, ‘power’ is defined as efficacy, or the ability to achieve one’s ends. No formal distinction is made here between ‘power’ and ‘authority’. The bulk of the thesis (Chapters 3-5) consists of three case studies: the first examines the political relationship between bishops, the papacy and the kings of England; the second looks at episcopal landholding; and the third considers disputes between bishoprics and abbeys. These case studies start by asking what bishops did: what their political goals were and the extent to which they achieved them. They then ask how bishops did what they did: what resources bishops deployed; why certain actions were possible; why certain strategies were or were not successful. By doing this it is possible to determine the nature of the power which bishops exercised. Three conclusions emerge: firstly, that episcopal power was highly dependent on royal power in this period; secondly, that the basis of episcopal power was often intangible (ideology or personality), rather than material (land or money); and thirdly, that episcopal power was inherently limited, in that bishops sometimes had very little freedom of action. Chapters 1 and 2 are not case studies. They are concerned with ideals of episcopal power. Chapter 1 shows that ideals of episcopal conduct and episcopal power (as expressed in contemporary hagiography) changed in eleventh-century England. It attempts to link these changes to historical developments in this period. Chapter 2 shows that these changing ideals were reflected in the narrative sources for the episcopate of Anglo-Norman England, but not in the reality of episcopal conduct, and that historians have often been misled by these narrative sources, reproducing a model of episcopal power which was little more than a monastic fantasy.
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Weiß, Norman. "Janusz Synwnides (Hrsg.), Human Rights / [rezensiert von] Norman Weiß." Universität Potsdam, 2002. http://opus.kobv.de/ubp/volltexte/2011/5512/.
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rezensiertes Werk:
Synwnides, Janusz (Hrsg.): Human Rights
Human Rights: New Dimensions and Challenges . - Ashgate : Aldershot et al, 1998. (ISBN 1-84014-426-2)
Human Rights: Concept and Standards. - Ashgate : Aldershot et al, 2000. (ISBN 0-7546-2023-9)
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Dziengel, Norman [Verfasser]. "Distributively Observed Events in Wireless Sensor Networks / Norman Dziengel." Berlin : Freie Universität Berlin, 2016. http://d-nb.info/1095540157/34.
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Lahuerta, Ferrís Javier. "Las emociones en el lenguaje constructivo de Norman Foster." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Jaume I, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/420857.
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La presente tesis investiga acerca del vínculo emocional que se establece entre las personas y la arquitectura y los diseños de Norman Foster. Primero introducimos que las emociones forman parte intrínseca de las decisiones racionales y ello nos lleva a redefinir lo considerado hasta ahora como racional, incluyendo la arquitectura High-Tech.
Asumimos que existe un lenguaje de los objetos, y basándonos en la semiótica y en la teoría de la información, investigamos sobre los mecanismos lingüísticos por los que se consigue la transmisión de ideas y sentimientos por medio del diseño.
Finalmente, podemos defender que la arquitectura racional de Foster, se ve siempre afectada por el nivel subconsciente y emocional de su autor, incluso en sus detalles constructivos. Concluimos que la comunicación establecida mediante códigos compartidos entre el arquitecto y las personas a través de sus obras, forma parte de un espacio intermedio entre lo real y lo imaginario.The present dissertation is a research on the emotional links which are established between the people and Norman Foster's achitecture and designs. We first introduce that emotions are an intrinsec component in all our rational decisions and that makes us making us redefine all the things which until nowadays were considered to be rational, including High-Tech architecture. We asume that there is a language of objects and architecture, and we base our explanation in Semiotics and in the Theory of Communication, investigating on the linguistic mechanisms which allow ideas and feelings to be transmitted via design. As a conclusión, we are able to defend that Foster's architecture, rational and analitic, is always affected by the architect's emotional subconscious level, even in its construction solutions. Communication between the architect and the people, which happens thanks to a shared code, belongs to an intermediate space between the real and the imaginary.
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Bunn, Leanne. "Changing landscapes : Norman Cornish and North East regional identity." Thesis, Northumbria University, 2010. http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/3677/.
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This thesis examines the work of the Durham pitman and artist Norman Cornish whilst analysing the economic and cultural climate which has promoted and sustained his career as a regional artist for over seventy years. Cornish’s depiction of mining life remains widely acknowledged by regional patrons and the local media as an iconic representation of the distinctiveness of North East mining communities. The fact that his work continues to receive considerable media attention whilst maintaining a strong patronage within the region, promotes several issues relating to the understanding of regional culture and identity. Why has Cornish’s work remained so enduringly popular and what does this reveal about the dynamics of North East regional culture? This research considers the interpretation and patronage of Cornish’s work during key periods of the region’s development and in doing so provides the first sustained study of Cornish’s career in relation to regional cultural identity. Industrialisation, economic change, concepts of community and nostalgia are all recognised as fundamental factors which have shaped the region’s cultural identity during the twentieth century. Essentially, it is argued that a sense of ‘Northernness’ is crucial to Cornish’s regional popularity. Significantly, this thesis identifies a variation between Cornish’s regional and national popularity. The artist’s strong local appeal has not been replicated consistently on a broader national level. It is suggested that the varying national interest in Cornish’s career should be considered in relation to wider artistic trends as well as patronage from organisations such as the National Coal Board. On a regional level, a large proportion of Cornish’s continued appeal to local audiences can be attributed to the sympathetic response from the regional media. Whilst the study of regional identity within the scope of visual culture is by no means a new or impoverished field, this study adopts a thematic treatment of culture, identity and representation, in order to understand the contribution of visual culture to regional identity during the twentieth century. By dealing with visual culture in its broadest and most fluid sense, this study consults both social and cultural history sources alongside art historical perspectives.
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Greenham, David. "Norman O. Brown, Herbert Marcuse and the romantic tradition." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2001. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12165/.
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This thesis presents the work of Norman O. Brown and Herbert Marcuse as responses to romantic problematic obtained first and foremost from the legacy of Immanuel Kant’s critical philosophy, and, secondly, from the first significant American realisation of this inheritance in the writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. The importance of this romantic reading is that it escapes the usual interpretations of Marcuse and Brown in terms of Marxism and Psychoanalysis, instead tracing the significance of their thought to an earlier philosophical foundation in Europe and America. Kant and Emerson remain touchstones throughout; and it is through them that, in Chapter 1, I have determined what I shall be calling romanticism in an American context, reading Emerson’s essay ‘Experience’ (1844) as an exemplary occasion. In Chapter 2, two of the major works of Marcuse and Brown, Eros and Civilization (1956) and Life Against Death (1959) are examined philosophically in terms of their dialectical rethinking of narcissism, showing how they begin to respond to the romantic question set out in Chapter 1. In Chapter 3, I ex-amine the use of myth and aesthetics, paying particular attention to the integrity of the failings of Marcuse’s aesthetic theory, which stem from its romantic origins in Kant and Schiller. Chapter 4 is a reading of Brown’s Love’s Body (1966), presented against Marcuse’s criticisms (1967), in which I establish the importance of symbolism and originality for Brown, tracing them again to themes present in Kant and Emerson. Chapter 5 interprets Brown’s Closing Time (1973) through an extensive reading of that book’s primary source, the proto-romantic Giambattista Vico’s New Science (1744). The Conclusion locates Brown and Marcuse within the myth and symbol tradition of American Studies, showing how they re-vision America as a romantic ideal.
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Tiller, Kenneth Jack. "Lazamon's "Brut" and the Anglo-Norman vision of history /." Cardiff : University of Wales press, 2007. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb41040855x.
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Ihnat, Kati. "Mary and the Jews in Anglo-Norman monastic culture." Thesis, Queen Mary, University of London, 2011. http://qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle/123456789/2404.
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Anglo-Norman England saw the development of two parallel and related phenomena: the growth of the cult of the Virgin Mary and increasing engagement with ideas about Jews and Judaism. This thesis looks at the ways in which Benedictine monks contributed to the fashioning of images of Jews in sources related to the Marian cult in the post-Conquest period, 1066-1154. Approaching monastic culture from an interdisciplinary perspective, it examines materials as diverse as sermons, liturgy, theological treatises, and art and architecture for the evolution of the Marian cult after the arrival of the Normans, tracing the reform of liturgical practices that spurred considerable innovation in the cult’s development. It explores these same sources for images of Jews, and finds that Jews were at the centre of reflection on Mary in theological and apocryphal traditions dating back to early Christianity, with Jews acting as prototypical doubters of Mary’s sanctity and virginity. Taken up with renewed interest in Anglo-Norman England, theological consideration of Mary’s place in the Christian narrative was complemented by the first compilation of collections of her miracles, part of an impulse to record the lives and miracles of saints in post-Conquest England. As a fundamental yet little explored element of the Marian cult, the miracles showcase liturgical practices worthy of reward, and contrast her devotees with Jews, portrayed as sacrilegious, blaspheming and violent. Through miracle, sermon, liturgy and theology, English monasteries at the turn of the twelfth century helped to construct images of Jews connected with the burdgeoning cult of the Virgin that had a lasting and pervasive legacy
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Shoemake, Danielle. "Dynamic Behavioral Analysis of Malicious Software with Norman Sandbox." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1233.
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Current signature-based Anti-Virus (AV) detection approaches take, on average, two weeks from discovery to definition update release to AV users. In addition, these signatures get stale quickly: AV products miss between 25%-80% of new malicious software within a week of not updating. This thesis researches and develops a detection/classification mechanism for malicious software through statistical analysis of dynamic malware behavior. Several characteristics for each behavior type were stored and analyzed such as function DLL names, function parameters, exception thread ids, exception opcodes, pages accessed during faults, port numbers, connection types, and IP addresses. Behavioral data was collected via Norman Sandbox for storage and analysis. We proposed to find which statistical measures and metrics can be collected for use in the detection and classification of malware. We conclude that our logging and cataloging procedure is a potentially viable method in creating behavior-based malicious software detection and classification mechanisms.
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Munns, John Millington. "The cross of Christ and Anglo-Norman religious imagination." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609002.
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CASTRO, Luciana Andrade Cavalcante de. "O viés estruturalista da abordagem discursiva de Norman Fairclough." Universidade Federal de Goiás, 2011. http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tde/2400.
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Previous issue date: 2011-10-18The present research intends to explain the constitution of the Structuralist aspects of the discursive approach of Norman Fairclough, one of the most representative authors of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). As a methodological and theoretical approach, whose purpose consists in the study of the language in contemporary societies, Critical Discourse Analysis is derived from Critical Linguistics of 1970, consolidating itself in the decade of 1990s. As it borrowed the Social Theory of Discourse (TSD), developed by Norman Fairclough, CDA has defined itself theoretically and methodologically, and this explains the relevance of the British linguist to CDA. To elaborate the TSD, Fairclough resorted to important authors of the sciences of language like Halliday, Bakhtin and Foucault, and of social sciences like Bourdieu, Giddens, Thompson, Gramsci and others. We approached the four first ones in this work, and the choice of these authors is due to our interest in the Structuralist aspects of the research of Fairclough. When we refer to structuralist bias , we raise up a great number of problematics about Structuralism, which have existed since the moment the Structuralism came to be seen with certain aversion for many language theorists. One of the reasons is the fact that structuralist approaches give priority to the social structures, not admitting the capacity of action and change of the social subject, this criticism is present in Norman Fairclough s books. Another problematic is a kind of self saturation that the proper structuralism allows to be shown. But to explain this, it is necessary to use the division that Umberto Echo (2001) makes between ontological Structuralism and methodological Structuralism. The first one consists, basically, in the incessant search of deeper structures that lead the phenomena, and the second one consists in the application of homogeneous structural models in the analysis of different phenomena. Eco criticizes the first one, showing the impossibility of reassuring, in fact, the real existence of structures, but he presents the second one as a productive methodology for many kinds of researches. In Fairclough s approach, we find the two modalities of structuralism displayed by Eco. During the research we demonstrate how important Bakhtin, Foucault, Bourdieu and Halliday, had been for the constitution of the structuralist bias of Norman Fairclough, allowing the British author to operate with systems of differences in the treatment of discursive phenomena, without neglecting the dialogic bias in the study of the interaction contexts. At last, the bakhtinian dialogism, foucaultian archaeology, the constructivist structuralist sociology of Bourdieu and the functionalist linguistic of Halliday had more been excellent supports for the constitution of the structuralist bias of Norman Fairclough s discursive approach.
A presente pesquisa de tem por objetivo expor como se apresenta o viés estruturalista da abordagem discursiva de Norman Fairclough, um dos maiores expoentes da Análise de Discurso Crítica (ADC). Tida como uma abordagem teórico metodológica, cuja finalidade consiste no estudo da linguagem nas sociedades contemporâneas, a Análise de Discurso Crítica é uma vertente dos estudos do discurso derivada da Linguística Crítica de 1970, consolidando-se a partir da década de 90. Ao se apropriar da Teoria Social do Discurso (TSD) desenvolvida por Norman Fairclough, a ADC se define tanto teórico quanto metodologicamente, o que explica a relevância do linguista britânico para essa corrente de análise discursiva. Para elaborar a TSD, Fairclough recorreu a importantes autores das ciências sociais e da linguagem como Halliday, Bakhtin, Foucault, Bourdieu, Giddens, Thompson, Gramsci, entre outros. Os quatro primeiros foram abordados neste trabalho, e a escolha destes se deu justamente pelo interesse no viés estruturalista da obra de Fairclough. Quando nos referimos a viés estruturalista , terminamos por trazer à tona toda uma problemática que existe desde o momento em que o Estruturalismo passou a ser visto com certa aversão por muitos teóricos da linguagem. E uma das justificativas diz respeito ao fato de abordagens estruturalistas darem primazia às estruturas sociais, não admitindo a capacidade de ação e mudança dos sujeitos sociais, essa é uma crítica presente na obra de Norman Fairclough. Outra problemática estruturalista relevante é uma espécie de auto saturação que o próprio estruturalismo deixou surgir. Mas para explicar tal saturação, convém recorrermos a divisão que Umberto Eco (2001) faz entre estruturalismo ontológico e estruturalismo metodológico. O primeiro consiste, basicamente, na procura incessante de estruturas cada vez mais profundas que regem os fenômenos, e o segundo consiste na aplicação de modelos estruturais homogêneos na análise de diferentes fenômenos. Eco critica o primeiro alegando a impossibilidade de se assegurar, de fato, a existência real de estruturas, mas apresenta o segundo como metodologia produtiva para diversas pesquisas. Em Fairclough encontramos os dois estruturalismo expostos por Eco. Durante a pesquisa, procuramos demonstrar como Bakhtin, Foucault, Bourdieu e Halliday foram fundamentais para a constituição do viés estruturalista de Norman Fairclough, permitindo que o autor britânico operasse com sistemas de diferenças no tratamento de fenômenos discursivos, sem que ele abandonasse os aspectos dialógicos no estudo dos contextos de interação. Enfim, o dialogismo bakhtiniana, a arqueologia foucaultiana, mais a sociologia estruturalista construtivista de Bourdieu e a Linguística Sistêmico Funcional foram suportes relevantes para a constituição do viés estruturalista da abordagem discursiva de Norman Fairclough.
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Hoover, Deborah D. "Norman Rockwell: The Business of Illustrating the American Dream." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1543573493216126.
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Mew, Karin Anne. "'Thro a glass darkly' : the biography of a Domesday landscape; the 'Nova foresta'." Thesis, University of Reading, 1997. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.363660.
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Valentine, Elizabeth Anne. "An edition the Anglo-Norman content of five medical manuscripts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1990. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.279772.
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Reader, Rebecca. "Matthew Paris and Anglo-Saxon England : a thirteenth-century vision of the distant past." Thesis, Durham University, 1994. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/970/.
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