The last twenty to thirty years of confraternal research have yielded ground breaking results in the field. However, while historiographical surveys appear throughout the literature of confraternal scholars, both contemporary ...

This thesis examines the Jewish Other in thirteenth-century Europe and argues that it was a proto-colonial Other. It examines a period of great upheaval within the Church and argues that the anxiety resulted in a more ...

Music historians have commented on the lack of research regarding the history of sacred music in nineteenth-century Italy. Fewer musicologists have explored the even more intimate category within this lacuna-- the music ...

While England has long been known for its trades in Indian calico cloth and Chinese tea, less attention has been dedicated to its trade in spices during the early modern era. This thesis attempts to address this issue. It ...

Prologues are textual features that can occur before the main part of a work in virtually every genre of literature. In ancient Greece, history was the first genre to develop a standard form for the prologue, and histories ...

Examines the creation and dissemination of Mary Tudor's pro-Catholic and pro-Habsburg images and the successes and failures of her religious policies in England. Further examines how Mary's propaganda campaign was transformed ...