Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Charting the development of crusading ideolgy : an examination of proto-crusade primary sources
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a study of the development of crusading ideology. First Crusade source materials are examined initially in order to identify the ideological elements that underpinned the crusading movement. Four concepts ... -
Church and polity in pre-Norman Ireland : the case of Glendalough
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Classical erudition in the letters of Peter of Blois
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)Peter of Blois (c. 1135-1212) is best known for the collection of letters dedicated by him to King Henry II of England. Regarded as a model of the art of medieval letter-writing, his collection influenced subsequent ... -
Clerical opposition to the Franco regime in the dioceses of Barcelona, Vitoria and Bilbao after the civil war (1939-1975)
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Colonial nationalism in Ireland, 1692-1725 : from Common Law to Natural Right
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1985) -
Colonial prisoners of war and Vichy France, 1940-1942 : experiences and politics
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis traces the experience and politics surrounding the prisoners of war from the French colonies captured by the Germans in 1940. These colonial prisoners of war (CPOWs) come from across the French Empire to fight ... -
Commemorating the Past: The Breton Church and its Irish Element, c.800-1100
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)Brittany's beginnings as a refuge for British migrants meant that, historically, Brittany seemed looked to the Insular world for its culture, language, and religion. Beginning in the ninth century, Brittany faced several ... -
Completing the Union : the politics of implementation in Ireland, 1801-1815
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)The Act of Union came into operation on 1 January 1801. Its implementation took years to effect. By examining the administrations of the three viceroys immediately concerned with implementing the union, Hardwicke, Bedford, ... -
Compotus ecclesiasticus an early compotus in its context : edition and commentary
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1992) -
The Computus Einsidlensis: First Edition and Translation with an Introductory Commentary
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)The present thesis consists of three parts: a commentary, edition, and translation of the Computus Einsidlensis (CE), an early medieval textbook on the calculation of the date of Easter (computus) from Ireland. The commentary ... -
Confederate Ireland 1642-1649 : a constitutional and political analysis
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Conscience and allegiance : an investigation into the controversy over Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy during the Reign of William III and William II, 1689 - 1702
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)In the winter of 1688-9 King James II and VII fled Britain and was replaced on the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland by his son-in-law William of Orange and daughter Mary in events known as the Glorious Revolution. ... -
Consuming Behaviours Ireland 1922-1960
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)This thesis addresses consuming behaviours in Ireland 1922-1960. Few works have previously addressed the history of consumption in twentieth century Ireland, and this work aims to redress this lacuna. Consuming behaviours ... -
Consumption and Material Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ireland
(University of BristolUniversity of Bristol, 2011)This thesis argues that Irish consumption underwent major changes over the course of the sixteenth century, based primarily on evidence from eleven annual Bristol `particular? accounts and Port Books. The study uses the ... -
County office and county society in Dublin and Meath, c.1399 - c.1513
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2016)This thesis consists of a study of office-holding across two of the 'four obedient shires' of the Dublin hinterland. To attempt to compensate for the paucity of information on any individual office-holder or office-holding ... -
Crime, law enforcement and punishment in Dublin, 1780-95
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1992)The findings presented in the thesis are based on research carried out at Trinity College, Dublin, in the Department of Modem History under the supervision of Dr. David Dickson from August 1989 to September 1992. The aim ... -
Crown and community on the royal manors of the Liffey valley
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)This thesis investigates the relationship between the English crown and the four royal manors of Crumlin, Esker, Saggart and Newcastle Lyons in the later Middle Ages. These manors were situated in south County Dublin and ... -
Crusader artillery, 1097-1148 : typology, terminology and character
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2011)This thesis aims to investigate the use of artillery in the crusades and the crusader states for the period starting with the 1097 siege of Nicaea and ending with the siege of Damascus in 1148. In this forty-nine year ... -
Culture, politics and the struggle for mastery in Ireland c.1452-1540
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)The fall of the Kildare Geraldines in 1534 has traditionally been seen as the hinge of late medieval and early modern Irish history. In comprehending this period, the collection of documents published in the 1830s as the ... -
Dark spots' in Irish society : unmarried motherhood, crime and prosecution in Ireland, 1900-1950
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2005)This thesis examines unplanned pregnancy in Ireland during the first half of the twentieth century from the perspective of the unmarried women who feature in the judicial records of infanticide and abortion trials. Chapter ...