History and Classics PhD thesis collection
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Becoming argonauts: Scots in the California Gold Rush, 1848-1860
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-17)This thesis examines the Scottish experience in the California Gold Rush through the lens of the Scottish diaspora. From 1848 to 1860, at least 3,000 Scots from across Scotland and its wider diaspora funnelled into the ... -
Material culture of Scottish reform politics, 1820-1884
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-26)Material culture is an underused source base for the analysis of nineteenth-century mass politics. While much has been written on the speeches of political leaders, the arguments on newspaper pages, and the memoirs of ... -
Learning and power: a cultural history of education in Late Antique Gaul
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Conflict and authority in the eleventh-century Anglo-Norman Church: a case study of Lanfranc of Caterbury (c.1010-1089)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-25)This thesis examines the relationship between conflict and authority in the Middle Ages by exploring how Lanfranc of Canterbury managed conflicts during his career and how his authority was changed by those processes. ... -
'It was greatly feared that the queen was barren': perceptions and management of royal fertility in thirteenth- and fourteenth-century England and Scotland
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-04)Scholars of kingship and queenship have long acknowledged that producing an heir was an expected duty for medieval queens and kings. Indeed, motherhood has been a focal point in medieval queenship scholarship since the ... -
Beyond the grave: the funerary landscapes of the Italian peninsula, ca. 1-700 CE
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-24)Much of our understanding of the funerary archaeology of Roman, late antique, and early medieval Italy is based upon a restricted number of case study sites. Where regional syntheses have been undertaken, these typically ... -
'Most Roman of the Romanists': Thomas Jefferson's classical taste, 1768-1826
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-18)This thesis is about Thomas Jefferson and his classical taste in architecture, ornamented gardens and the locus amoenus. Thomas Jefferson curated a classical world in Virginia, for himself and later for others. He created ... -
Political thought of Friedrich von Gentz, 1800-1812
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-01)This thesis focuses on the political writings of Friedrich von Gentz, a German writer and political advisor, between the years 1800 and 1812. Scholarship has tended to focus on the years 17911801 and Gentz’s political ... -
Clash of colour: a dialogue on race, caste, and class in the United States and India (1893-1954)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-02-22)This dissertation examines the relationship between Indian independence activists, Indian anti-caste advocates, and black American civil rights activists between Swami Vivekananda’s first visit to the United States in ... -
Aspect's of Irish immigration into two Scottish towns (Dundee and Paisley) during the mid-nineteenth century
(The University of Edinburgh, 1978)The Paisley in the mid-nineteenth century is discussed in terms of the patterns of living which the immigrants adopted in aspects of migration analysis and also the background of Irish immigration to Great Britain during ... -
Earning the fruits of honour: a study of social mobility among the freeborn sub-elite in the Roman West
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)This thesis examines the extent of, and attitude toward, upward social mobility among the sub-elite, freeborn, urban population of the Roman west during the first two centuries AD. ‘Upward social mobility’ is defined ... -
Radical Left and the Scottish Nation: print-cultures of left-wing nationalism, 1967-1983
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)This thesis examines the origins of the discourse of ‘Radical Scotland’, which presumes a significant link between radicalism and Scottish nationhood. It identifies the origins of this discourse in the period 1967-1983, ... -
Settlements and economy in Britain during the first millennium B.C.
(The University of Edinburgh, 1970)•....Celtic Britain retained an archaism of tradition in that fundamental element of human culture, the home, (Piggott, 1965, 236). In writing those words, Piggott was referring to one specific artefact, the house-type, ... -
Sole rule and the Greek polis: legitimising monocratic power from the Archaic Period to the Early Hellenistic Period
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)My thesis investigates the discourse of sole rule in the Greek polis from the Archaic Period to the Early Hellenistic Period. In particular, the thesis analyses how sole rulers were able to legitimise their position ... -
Claudian, Bellum Geticum: a literary and historical commentary (Preface and ll. 1 - 123)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)This thesis contains a literary and historical commentary on the preface and on the first 123 verses of the poem Bellum Geticum, composed by the Latin poet Claudian to celebrate Stilicho’s defeat of Alaric’s Gothic ... -
Elite laywomen and the Ideals of Crusade support in England, c.1187-1291
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)Defining exactly what crusade was and what it meant to participate in it has become an archetypal quandary of medieval study. Scholars have increasingly sought to examine the ideals of crusade, typically focusing on the ... -
Life and work of James McCune Smith (1813-1865)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-12-04)James McCune Smith (1813-1865) was the first African American physician to practice in the United States with a medical degree. He was among the most educated African Americans of his day, having earned three degrees at ... -
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 ...
