Faculty of History: Recent submissions
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Religious Mobility and the Development of English Catholicism, 1532-1558
(2020-03-21)This thesis explores the role of mobility and displacement in shaping the development of English Catholicism from the beginnings of Henry VIII’s break with Rome, to the death of Mary I. The state-driven religious innovations ... -
Julius Caesar, Fortune, and Latin Historiography in Twelfth-Century England
(2020-03-28)This thesis suggests that four twelfth-century English historians – Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Robert of Lewes (as probable author of the Gesta Stephani) – believed that they had ... -
The European Revolutions of 1848 and the Danubian Principality of Wallachia
(2020-04-25)This thesis uses the Wallachian Revolution of 1848 as a window through which to see and study questions about time, revolution, national and European identity, personal and popular sovereignty, and the relationship between ... -
The Prester John Legend and European conceptions of Alterity before 1800.
(2020-03-28)Prester John was said to have been an Eastern Christian monarch who ruled over a fantastical Empire in the Far East, containing both marvels and treasure. Originating in the twelfth century, this legend captivated the mind ...
