History, Classics and Archaeology, School of: Recent submissions
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Child and adolescent psychiatry in France and Scotland, 1870-1914
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis argues that child and adolescent psychiatry emerged as a relevant medical specialty in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in both France and Scotland. The psychiatric study of the child and ... -
Fragmentation of the Labour Party right, c. 1970-1983
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The purpose of this thesis is to explore the differences that emerged among the social-democratic ‘right’ wing of the British Labour Party in the 1970s and early 1980s. For most of the early post-war period, the Labour ... -
Reception of John Chrysostom in the Middle Byzantine period (9th–13th centuries): a study of the Catechetical homily on Pascha (CPG 4605)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)John Chrysostom was the most prolific Byzantine Church father, reaching high levels of prominence in the Byzantine Church for both his rhetorical prowess and spiritual instruction. Nevertheless, the process itself of the ... -
Quarries of Hadrian's Wall: materials and logistics of a large-scale Imperial building project
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This work examines the geo-archaeological landscape around Hadrian’s Wall, one of Rome’s best-preserved frontiers, and the only monument of its kind in Great Britain. Within the area surrounding Hadrian’s Wall, over ... -
Oria Kastro, an insular medieval settlement and fortress on Kythnos: an architectural, archaeological, and historical investigation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The thesis concerns Oria Kastro a medieval fortified settlement on the island of Kythnos in the western Cyclades. Nested on top of a remote cliff on the north-western coast the Kastro (kastro meaning castle in Greek) ... -
Slaughter was commenced: a study of American Revolutionary War massacres
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis examines massacres that were committed during the American Revolutionary War, seeking to recontextualise their importance within the broader frame of the study of violence while building a narrative that ... -
Quantitative analysis of the Early Christian churches of Central Lycia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Since the publication of R. Martin Harrison’s seminal work, ‘Churches and chapels of Central Lycia’ in 1963, numerous scholars have focused on the region, attracted by the large number of extant remains. From large-scale ... -
That barbarous and mountainous country: the Highlands and government 1745-1760
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis examines the distribution and exercise of power within the Highlands in the fifteen years that followed the Jacobite rising of 1745-6. Critical aspects of the Highlands’ status within the United Kingdom were ... -
Hate or glory: a categorical and experimental consideration of Bronze Age halberds in Scotland in relation to MBA weaponry
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Despite being one of the largest collections of their type in Europe, the Early Bronze Age halberds in Scotland have not been catalogued or analysed since Coles’ 1968-9 work. Accordingly, every halberd in Scotland was ... -
Potential of mechanical and physicochemical analysis of human cortical bone for forensic age estimation
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Age estimation remains one of the most challenging tasks for forensic practitioners when establishing the biological profile of unknown skeletonised remains. Morphological methods based on developmental markers of bones ... -
Iconoclast imperial authority and its contested legacy: from the Arab siege (717/18) until the death of Michael III (867)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The thesis studies the first two iconoclast Byzantine emperors, Leo III (r. 717-41) and his son Constantine V (r. 741-75), and their highly-contested legacy. It first revisits the evidence for the reigns of Leo III and ... -
Negotiating violence: public discourses about political violence in Interwar Britain and German
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis analyses public discourses about political violence in interwar Britain and Germany. Much of the existing work on political violence in the aftermath of the First World War has focused on the defeated countries ... -
Emotional politics in the Iliad
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis constitutes a systematic analysis of emotion’s role in Iliadic politics. I hereby argue that emotions, which the evidence of Homer’s Iliad reveals as shaping and shaped by communal norms, are constitutive ... -
Cross-confessional captivity in the Later Medieval Eastern Roman world, c.1280-1450
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Around the turn of the fourteenth century, a phenomenon distinct from the larger trans-regional Mediterranean slave trade emerged in the Aegean region: Turkish raiders took Greek Orthodox captive, keeping some as slaves ... -
Spiritual roles in early modern Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis compares how Reformed conversion-centred spirituality was articulated in sermons, conversion narratives and witchcraft confessions, with a particular focus on looking at the broad similarities across these ... -
Anti-Catholicism and the Church of Scotland, c.1690–1745: confronting and contesting Popery
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis examines anti-Catholicism in Scotland in the first half of the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on how the Presbyterian Church of Scotland perceived and responded to popery. ‘Popery’ was a ... -
Quo vadis? Epigraphy, language, and people in the making of Roman Italy
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis offers a novel contribution to the debate on the so-called Romanisation of Italy in the republican period through discussion of one contemporary body of evidence in regard to one highly pertinent theme: the ... -
City of marble, a city of song: Roman monuments and the poetics of space in Ovidian poetry
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis explores the interaction between place and poetry in Ovid’s poetic corpus. Throughout his works, the poet’s repeated depictions of Roman urban space and monumental architecture confirm the fundamental ... -
Black, black, beautiful black: the educational use of African American children’s literature in New York City, 1965-1979
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis examines Black pride, Black history and Black memory in a renaissance of Black-authored US children’s books from 1965 to 1979. African American children’s books had a long history of furthering a Black ... -
Language and politics in the world of the Hellenistic Poleis: the evidence of inscriptions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This dissertation examines the relationship between language and politics in the Hellenistic period, more specifically during the third and second centuries BC, with a particular focus on the shared political language ...
