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Loquacious legislature: are statutes ‘always speaking’?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis concerns: (a) how we should understand legislative words and phrases if they have changed in meaning since they were enacted; and (b) how the UK courts have actually done so. The key question is: should we give ... -
Thread and blood: the fabrication of female devotion in medieval english literature
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis explores the representation and development of female devotion through textiles in medieval English literature. Drawing from a broad range of texts that can be termed as “devotional” narratives (including lives ... -
Most difficult and least glamorous: the politics of style in the late works of Nadine Gordimer
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Much of the established scholarship on Nadine Gordimer regards her as a chronicler of the injustices of apartheid, as scholars like Stephen Clingman and Dominic Head describe her mature works as writing ‘history from the ... -
Instream generation using tethered kites in the carousel configuration
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)In recent years, kites are beginning to be considered as viable alternatives to oshore wind turbines, due to the potential reduction in levelised cost of energy and the increase in exploitable resource due to versatility ... -
ye saidꝭ lettreʒ: the orthographic representation of inflectional morphemes in Older Scots
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The general tendencies characterising Older Scots (OSc) inflectional morphology and differentiating it from that of Middle English (ME) have been described (Minkova 1991; King 1997; Aitken 1977; Aitken and Macafee 2002; ...
