History and Classics PhD thesis collection
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Scots in Ireland under the Union: the boundaries of Britishness c.1800-1925
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-26)The aim of this study is to contribute towards historical understanding of how Scottishness, Irishness, and Britishness were constructed and operated within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, c.1800-1925. ... -
Edward Irving, Thomas Carlyle, and the making of the ‘Victorian Prophet’
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-02-11)The concept of the ’Victorian prophet’ has been used by scholars to refer to such figures as Thomas Carlyle and John Ruskin as they secularised the office of the Old Testament prophet for industrialising Britain in the ... -
Political change and Scottish Nationalism in Dundee 1973-2012
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-12)Prior to the 2014 independence referendum, the Scottish National Party’s strongest bastions of support were in rural areas. The sole exception was Dundee, where it has consistently enjoyed levels of support well ahead of ... -
Between the desert and the deep: the lived experience of the funerary landscape of the ancient Maghreb (4th – 1st millennium BCE)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)This thesis focusses on the underlying traditions, inspirations, and influences that led to the creation of the so-called Numidian elite funerary architecture of the 4th to 1st centuries BCE in the ancient Maghreb. Using ... -
Sino-British negotiations and the search for a Post-War settlement, 1942-1949: treaties, Hong Kong, and Tibet
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)Despite the vast research by scholars on international history during the era of the Pacific War, comparatively little has been written about the bi-lateral relationship between the Chinese Nationalist government and the ... -
James Kennedy, Bishop of St. Andrews
(The University of Edinburgh, 1924-07-17)I. ECCLESIASTICAL POLICY. 2. SECULAR POLICY. 3. ST. SALVATOR'S: UNIVERSITY AFFAIRS. 4. GENERAL TRADE, JUSTICE, ECONOMICS. CONCLUSION. 5. APPENDICES. -
Fores et fenestrae. A computational study of doors and windows in Roman domestic space
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)Until very recently the role of doors and windows in shaping the life and structure of Roman private dwellings has been highly underestimated. The reason for this lies primarily in the difficulties linked to their study. ... -
Daniel Defoe’s moral and political thought in its religious context
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)This thesis aims to provide a comprehensive picture of the religious ideas of the famous English journalist and novelist Daniel Defoe. Today, Defoe is best remembered as a novelist, but most of his works are non-fictional ... -
Leucippides in Greek myth: abductions, rituals and weddings
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)This project focuses on the myth of the Leucippides. The two daughters of the Messenian king Leucippus, occasionally identified as Phoibe and Hilaeira, are mostly known for being abducted by the Dioscuri in a secondary ... -
Freedom and citizenship in the Roman Empire: legal and epigraphic approaches to status identification
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)This thesis constitutes a novel attempt to identify different civic statuses in the Roman Empire in key legal and epigraphic sources – especially the so-called Junian Latins, dediticii, Latin citizens and first-generation ... -
Conflict and transition: Pertinax and Imperial society, 160-93 CE
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-29)During the middle and late second century, aristocratic Roman society underwent a transition: from the apparently orderly and settled imperial court of Marcus, through the reign of Commodus, punctuated by plots and purges, ... -
‘For Christ’s crown and covenant’: an historical interpretation of Scottish Covenanting political theology and its contribution to the American Revolution in the backcountry of North Carolina
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)This project examines the Covenanters’ political thought and considers its transmission in Scotland and throughout the American Colonies with a focus particularly on the backcountry of North Carolina. By seeing the ... -
John Kennedy and the Development of Evangelicalism in the Scottish Highlands, 1843–1900
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-07-02)Between the Disruption in 1843 and 1900, the evangelical Presbyterianism of the Highlands of Scotland diverged dramatically and enduringly, in theology, worship, piety and practice, from that of Lowland Scotland. That ... -
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 ... -
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, ...
