Browsing by Author "D'Amico, Stefano"
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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 (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 ... -
Marian devotion in music: Three settings of the Ave Maris Stella by selected composers at the Santissima Annunziata, Florence (1700-1900 A.D.)
Holley, Candice Marie (2019-05)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 ... -
Physician prince: Public health strategies and the state-building project during the reign of Duke Maximilian I of Bavaria
Conrad, John Thomas (2021-08)This work is concerned with the expansion of state authority as inspired by political philosophy and the eventual use of coercive power by the state to further ingratiate itself into the lives of its subjects. It does this ... -
Spices, the East India Company, and the origins of anti-Dutch sentiment in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
Turbeville, Heather; 0000-0002-9038-2289 (2017-08)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 ... -
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, ... -
The past in prologues: The origins, form, and function of introductory material in medieval English historical works
Sobehrad, Lane J. (2017-08)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 ... -
The specialty of specialties: Children's medicine and the development of medical authority in America, 1790-1890
Paxton, Jennifer (2015-05)This dissertation examines the development of exclusive medical authority, and medical professionalization, by the mainstream medical profession in America, during approximately the century between 1790 and 1890. In ... -
The vilification of Mary Tudor: Religion, politics, and propaganda in sixteenth-century England
Scott, Lorin (2014-05)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 ...