Browsing by Author "D'Amico, Stefano"

1967: The year that created ‘68 media perspectives and student outcries

Strong, Ryan R. (2011-05)

In 1967, Italian students developed the principles and practices that led to the monumental events of '68. Students occupied faculty buildings and demonstrated in the streets of major Italian cities. Following every events ...

A historiographical and artistic survey of confraternities from the later Middle Ages to the early Renaissance

Ziegler, Tiffany A. (2005-05)

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 ...

Amusing instruction: Constructing the modern child in England during the long Eighteenth Century

Lack, Samantha K. (2015-08)

England experienced drastic changes during the long-eighteenth century, including how the phase of life known of childhood was perceived. Before this time period, children were mostly viewed as miniature adults, but as the ...

Jews through Christian eyes: The Jewish 'Other' in thirteenth-century papal documents, artwork, and sermons

Lackner, Jacob (2012-05)

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 ...

“Let then this primitive practice be restored to its purity”: The polemics of primitive Christianity and the preservation of sacramental boundaries in Puritan New England from the antinomian controversy to the Protestant interest

Eldridge, Stephen William (2019-08)

This dissertation attempts to explain the complicated nexus that exists between rhetorical primitivism, Reformed sacramental theology, and the sociological behaviors driven by the sacred-profane dichotomy. Though there ...

The memory of George Castriota Scanderbeg among the Arberesh of Italy: A study on the role of diaspora in the creation of Albanian national identity

Kabashi, Artemida (Texas Tech University, 2005-08)

Since his death in 1468, Scanderbeg's life served as the source of many tales and myths in Albania and Europe. It is my contention that even though, Albanians and the Albanian diaspora in the world kept his memory alive, ...