History and Classics PhD thesis collection
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Greek epic parody
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-26)In this work, I will investigate the historical origins and the most essential features of Greek epic parody, a literary genre that has its roots in the archaic stages of Greek literature but that was formally codified in ... -
Language and identity amongst Irish migrants in London, Philadelphia and San Francisco, 1850-1920
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-26)This thesis examines the Irish language in London, Philadelphia and San Francisco in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Exploring the ways in which Irish speakers used and maintained their language in the ... -
Muslim men in the imagination of the Medieval West, c. 1000 – c. 1250
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-26)This thesis focuses on how Muslims, specifically men, were represented in terms of gender, ethnicity, and religion in the central Middle Ages. While the scope of the issue is wide, the focus is on the twelfth century, when ... -
British policy and the protection of minorities 1878-1939
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-26)This thesis considers the question of the protection of vulnerable minority populations in the Ottoman Empire and in Europe, in the context of Britain’s role as a global manager of the international system. It addresses ... -
Ribemont-sur-Ancre, ritual practice, and northern Gallic sanctuaries from the third through first century B.C.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-06-26)The following thesis addresses the Iron Age origins and development of the northern Gallic sanctuary of Ribemont-sur-Ancre, exploring the material remains of ritual practice it provides in comparison with material ... -
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 ...
