History, Classics and Archaeology, School of: Recent submissions
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Geoarchaeology of burnt mounds: site formation processes, use patterns, and duration
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)Burnt mounds, accumulations of fire-cracked stone and fuel residues dating largely from the Bronze Age, are a widespread and numerous site type across Britain and Ireland. However, the function, duration, and depositional ... -
Politicising Antigone in twentieth-century Europe: from Hegel to Hochhuth
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)My PhD thesis explores the reception of Sophocles’ Antigone in twentieth-century Europe and focuses on the process by which Antigone is established as a canonical drama of political resistance. I argue that the reasons ... -
First analysis of multiple blunt force weapon-tools using skin-skull-brain models to evaluate inter-personal violence in the European Neolithic
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)The study of violence-related head trauma is often complicated as a variety of weapons can produce similar forms of injury, which has limited the analysis of some forms of violence during the Neolithic in Europe. The ... -
Political and philosophical strategies of Roman Epicureans in the Late Republic
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)This thesis examines the political careers and strategies of the Roman adherents of Epicurean philosophy in the final three decades of the Republic. I offer a detailed exploration of the net ... -
Stalin’s Englishman: the lives of Guy Burgess - biography in intelligence history
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)Stalin’s Englishman: the lives of Guy Burgess, based on over thirty years of research in dozens of archives in Britain, America, Australia, Russia, France and Switzerland as well as over a hundred interviews – many with ... -
Knowledge, language, and communication in Heraclitus
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)The main objective of this thesis is to provide an interpretation of Heraclitus’ epistemology in connection with his ideas of language and communication. It proposes an interpretation of his philosophical doctrine that ... -
Between Africa and Poland: colonial discourses and the Nazi resettlement of ethnic Germans, 1939-1944
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)A significant historical debate regarding the potential structural similarities and continuities between European colonialism and the Third Reich has been ongoing throughout the last decade. Historians have employed ... -
Pro-slavery and the Classics in Antebellum America, 1840 – 1860: Thomas Cobb, Louisa McCord, George Frederick Holmes, George Fitzhugh, and James Henry Hammond under scrutiny
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)In their important contributions to the study of American history, Eugene Genovese and Michael O’Brien noted the significant intellectual culture that existed in the South prior to the Civil War. Scholars such as Caroline ... -
Religious comprehension and toleration in Scotland, 1689-1712
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)This thesis examines the religious divisions that Scotland experienced after the revolution of 1688-89, and how the authorities responded to them. It shows how the nation went from having one established Church in 1689, ... -
Landscape archaeology of St Kilda
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)The archipelago of St Kilda has received more attention from writers than any other in Scotland. Its allure to the Scottish romantic ideal, coupled with its central importance in widely held notions of Scotland’s remote ... -
Feasting and shared drinking practices in the Early Bronze Age II-III (2650-2000 BC) of north-central and western Anatolia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2014-11-26)Feasting and shared drinking are long suspected to have been practiced in Anatolian settlements during the Early Bronze Age (EBA). New drinking vessels of metal and ceramic seem meant for drinking together with others. ... -
From tribes to kingdoms? Society and change in South-West Scotland 0 – 600 AD
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)The prehistory and early history of Scotland have been the subject of academic interest since the antiquarian period, but most of this interest has been focused on the Eastern, Northern and Atlantic regions of Scotland. ... -
A contribution to the Later Prehistoric and Early Medieval (400 BC - AD 650) settlement record of Galloway
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)This critical review concerns a sequence of two archaeological excavations and a regional synthesis undertaken between 2003 and 2012 and subsequently published between 2007 and 2016. The various projects were focussed ... -
Fellow servants in the Lord: Tertullian on women, the body, and sexual difference in Roman Carthage
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)This thesis offers an examination of Tertullian’s views on women, the body and sexual difference that is primarily historical in interest, with the aim of providing an assessment of how the women in his own community ... -
Hammering the world into shape: Scottish volunteers in the International Brigades, 1936–9
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)Over 500 Scots journeyed to Spain to fight on behalf of the Spanish Republic as part of the International Brigades, alongside some 35,000 other foreign volunteers. Their decision to personally intervene in the Spanish ... -
Public commemorations of the Scottish Wars of Independence, 1800-1939
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)Marinell Ash famously referred to the latter half of the nineteenth century as experiencing a ‘strange death’ in interest in the Scottish historical past, but increasing evidence suggests this was not an entirely fair ... -
Economic and social condition of England on the eve of the industrial revolution, with special reference to Lancashire
(The University of Edinburgh, 1921)The economic and social condition of England on the eve of the industrial revolution, with special reference to Lancashire -
John, Duke of Albany: "a man so varied that he seemed to be not one but all mankind's epitome.”
(The University of Edinburgh, 1923)General Introduction. • • Chapter I Title and Family. • • Chapter II Life before 1515 up to his First Regency. • • Chapter III Albany' Foreign Policy: England and France. • • Chapter IV Albany's Foreign Policy ... -
Funerary rites afforded to children in earlier Bronze Age Britain: case studies from Scotland, Yorkshire and Wessex
(The University of Edinburgh, 2012)This thesis discusses the evidence for funerary practices afforded to children in the Earlier Bronze Age in Britain (circa 2500BC to 1400BC) focusing on three key case study areas: Scotland, Yorkshire and Wessex. A long ... -
Signs of shared complexity: glyptic and large scale transformations in the 4th-3rd Milennia Near East
(The University of Edinburgh, 2003)Important social transformations took place during the late 4th - early 3rd millennia BC in the greater Near East. These changes were reflected in the archaeological record, but a component of these transformations was ...
