School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
Now showing items 61-80 of 7929
-
The depiction of Muslims in contemporary Latin narratives of the First Crusade
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)Although they undoubtedly drew on knowledge that existed in Western Europe, the authors of histories the First Crusade lacked an authoritative source on Islam. As such, in trying to give more complete depictions of Muslims, ... -
The Decorative Wooden Ceilings of Nasrid Granada and the Alhambra
(2024)This article examines the role of Nasrid Granada in the development and spread of decorative wooden ceilings or artesonados in the late medieval and early modern periods. It argues that it was in the intensive building ... -
Bishop and chapter : the organisation of Irish medieval cathedrals, c.1111 - 1378
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)This thesis explores the organisation of Irish cathedral chapters and places them within the wider European context of medieval cathedral studies. As the seat of the bishop, cathedrals were the focal point in every diocese ... -
Power and patronage across the Plantagenet dominions: the making and breaking of the Marshal assemblage, 1189-1245
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis offers an original analysis of a transnational lordship which spanned thirteenth-century Britain, France, and Ireland. The focus of this study is the Marshal family, who were earls of Pembroke and lords of ... -
Reimagining the Dutch Borderlands: State Formation in Eighteenth-Century Europe, 1713-1763.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)Attaching workable definitions to modern statehood and exploring the manners in which modern states developed have been key areas of debate within the historiography of the early modern period. While the discussion has ... -
Gender, Power and the Politics of Access in the Fourteenth Century
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The central thesis of this study is the analytical interrogation of the relationship between gender, power and the politics of access in the fourteenth century. It concludes that, though there were undeniably gendered ... -
The Moxon Tennyson: Illustration and the Making of Meaning. A Contextualisation of the 1857 Illustrated Edition of Alfred Tennyson's Poems, Consisting of a Formal, Art Historical Investigation into its Designs and Engravings with a View to Assessing the Agency of the Image in the Reading of the Poetry
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)This doctoral thesis investigates the illustration in the illustrated edition of Alfred Tennyson's Poems (`The Moxon Tennyson') first published in 1857 by Edward Moxon. The 1857 edition contains a total of eighty poems, ... -
Villainy and Gender in the Íslendingasögur
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This doctoral thesis explores how villainy and violence are presented in the sagas of Icelanders (Íslendingasögur), and the different ways these depictions are affected by the gender of the character performing these ... -
“Little Guests” Transnational “Humanitarian Hospitality” and Children’s Lives in the Aftermath of the Second World War
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)In the dying days and immediate aftermath of the Second World War, thousands of children criss-crossed Europe for the purposes of rest and recuperation. This thesis examines the welcome of children in Britain and Ireland, ... -
Margins of Learning: A Critical Analysis of the Scholia on Apollonius' Argonautica
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)The scholia on Apollonius’ Argonautica constitute a substantial and varied corpus but have been overlooked by modern scholarship. This thesis seeks to fill that gap by providing a critical evaluation of the Argonautica ... -
European Architectural Draughtsmen in Early Eighteenth-Century Britain and Ireland: Training, Methods, Office Practice
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)The thesis examines the careers of Richard Castle and Johann Gottlieb Borlach, two German draughtsmen who joined the architectural practices of Sir Edward Lovett Pearce and James Gibbs in the first half of the eighteenth ... -
The Irish Record Commission (1810-1830) Medievalism and the Emergence of Archivism in Ireland
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The aim of this study is to investigate the role and remit of the Irish Record Commission 1810-1830, a commission set up to look into the state of record repositories in Ireland and organise and make accessible the records ... -
Cuneiform to Computer: Meteorological Data from Ancient Babylon.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The Astronomical Diaries and Related Texts from Babylonia is a seven-volume published transliteration and translation of collected cuneiform clay tablets originating in Babylon from 652-61 BCE and written in Akkadian ... -
Costume and Practice: Evolution in Design and Use of the Chancellor's and Pro-Chancellor's Robes at the University of Dublin, Trinity College (1800-2020)
(2023)The University of Dublin is the degree-awarding body for Trinity College, Dublin and maintains a long tradition of academic dress and ceremonial. Commencements are formal meetings of the Senate chaired by the Chancellor ... -
Animals in Roman Spectacles: A Study of the Interplay Between Spectacle Design and Animal Behaviour
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)This thesis explores the active role that animals played in influencing the design of hunting spectacles (venationes) that were staged in Rome and throughout the Empire from the end of the 1st century BCE to the early 6th ... -
The Testament of Stone: Understanding the past, present, and future cultural significance of the long lives of the Irish high crosses.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2024)The Irish High Crosses are a unique group of monuments that, relative to their size, convey a exceptional amount of information about the early Christian period in which they were made. Over the past one hundred and fifty ... -
CHCI-Mellon Crises of Democracy Global Humanities Institute Curriculum
(Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, 2019)The Crises of Democracy Global Humanities Institute (GHI) was an 18-month project (2018-19) funded by the Consortium of Humanities and Centres institutes and the A.W. Mellon Foundation. The GHI brought together a consortium ... -
`Punishment and Service to the Injured State' - Irish Convicts Sentenced to Transportation, 1840-1852
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)The objective of this thesis is to present a comprehensive exploration of the Irish convict transportation system in the period 1840 to 1852. In a two strand approach this subject is examined from the perspective of the ... -
A New Epic Humour: The Influence of Comic Literature on Apollonius' Argonautica
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2024)This thesis offers a new reading of Apollonius’ Argonautica which pays special attention to the role of humour and the influence of comic literature. To demonstrate the importance of these two elements, I make three main ... -
'It will not stop me or anyone like me': Women and Imprisonment in Ireland, c.1922-1947.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2024)This thesis explores the experience of the female prisoner in the Irish justice system from c.1922-1947. It focuses on that group of women who made up the bulk of those imprisoned by the state -those convicted of relatively ...
