Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection

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Signalling Beliefs in Ogilby's AFRICA: Representations of Religion and Group Identities in West-Central Africa

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Year: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): McGill, Michael Timothy, Thesis advisor (ths): Elbl, Ivana, Degree committee member (dgc): Keefer, Katrina, Degree committee member (dgc): Siena, Kevin, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This study analyzes Christian European perceptions of group identity and beliefs in early modern geographic literature, as exemplified by John Ogilby's Africa (1670), a selective translation of Olfert Dapper's 1668 work, and its descriptions of West-Central Africa. Ogilby's work, congruently with contemporary geographic literature, employed the Christian religion as a key… more
Full Text: SIGNALLING BELIEFS IN OGILBY’S AFRICA: REPRESENTATIONS OF RELIGION AND GROUP IDENTITIES IN WEST-CENTRAL AFRICA A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the …

Hearing the Invisible Empire: Music and Hatred in Progressive Era Indiana

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Year: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Asser, Jared, Thesis advisor (ths): Sheinin, David, Degree committee member (dgc): Wright, Robert, Degree committee member (dgc): Cazorla-Sanchez, Antonio, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This study investigates the origins of the music produced by the 1920s Ku Klux Klan in Indiana as well as trying to understand how it facilitated recruitment into the Klan and how it was used as a tool for wider social and political change. The Indiana Klan's newspaper The Fiery Cross is awash in reports of parades and other public performances of music, yet this phenomenon has… more
Full Text: Hearing the Invisible Empire: Music and Hatred in Progressive Era Indiana A Thesis Submitted to the Committee of Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science Trent …

A knight and his horse: The social impact of horses in medieval France, 1150-1300

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Year: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Seabolt, Amanda Peyton, Thesis advisor (ths): Harris-Stoertz, Fiona, Degree committee member (dgc): Findon, Joanne, Degree committee member (dgc): Elbl, Ivana, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis examines the social impact of horses on French elites between 1150 and 1300. Using courtly literature, a veterinary treatise, manuscript illuminations, archeological studies, material artefacts, and account books, it explores the place of horses in elite society—practical and symbolic—and assesses the social costs of elite use and ownership of horses. While horses served… more
Full Text: A KNIGHT AND HIS HORSE: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF HORSES IN MEDIEVAL FRANCE, 1150-1300 A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Faculty of Arts and Science TRENT …

The Material Worlds of the Idle and the Industrious: Eighteenth-Century Middling Reform-Minded Representations of Plebeian Children

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Year: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Hennig, Melissa Lorraine, Thesis advisor (ths): Hurl-Eamon, Jennine, Degree committee member (dgc): McGuire, Kelly, Degree committee member (dgc): Siena, Kevin, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University
Abstract: <p>This thesis explores middling reform-minded representations of plebeian children's material worlds in England from 1720 to 1780. Specifically, it examines depictions of chattel and place in imagery of children, to convey messages aligned with the reform initiatives of the eighteenth century. Using the Old Bailey Proceedings, prints by William Hogarth, and novels, it argues that… more
Full Text: THE MATERIAL WORLDS OF THE IDLE AND THE INDUSTRIOUS: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MIDDLING REFORM-MINDED REPRESENTATIONS OF PLEBEIAN CHILDREN A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirement for the Degree of Master …