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The Last Patron of Tintern Abbey: The Family and Piety of Roger Bigod
(University of Missouri–Kansas City, 2016)
The purpose of this study is to assess the life of Roger Bigod with particular attention
given to his piety, demonstrated through patronage and family connection. His political life is
first examined with regards to his ...
Smokey the ‘Praying’ Bear: Changing Cultural Attitudes Towards Nature in America During the Postwar Era, 1948 - 1958
(2016)
Smokey Bear is one of America’s most beloved icons. Today, only the image of Santa
Clause is more widely recognized. He is featured in all forms of media, and his fire prevention
message, “Only You Can Prevent Forest ...
Margaret Roper and Mary Basset: The Influence of Christian Humanism on the Education of Thomas More's Daughter and Granddaughter
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
Margaret Roper's schooling reflected the standards of early sixteenth century English
humanist views on education, while her daughter Mary Basset's education was a continuation of
the pedagogical tradition that Margaret ...
A Matter of Faith and Works: Byzantine Leaders and Christian Leadership in the Historia Langobardorum
(2016)
The late eighth-century Historia Langobardorum by Paul the Deacon is a narrative
history of the Lombard people from their mythic origins up to the reign of King Liutprand in
Italy in 744. As the only history of its ...
Strings of Hope: The Meanings of the Violin in Jewish and Holocaust History
(2015)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the impact of orchestra music, specifically the violin,
in concentration camps during the era of Nazi rule. What impact did the violin have on
Jewish music and culture prior to Nazi ...
Fanning the Flames of Discontent: The Free Speech Fight of the Kansas City Industrial Workers of the World and the Making of Midwestern Radicalism
(2016)
This project deals with the free speech fight of 1911 that occurred in Kansas City
and was organized and led by the Industrial Workers of the World. The free speech fight
serves as a case study in localized Midwestern ...
Agents unto Themselves: Reconstructing the Narrative of Women’s Roles in the Anglo-Saxon Conversion
(2015)
The legacy of Christianity in Britain is unique, as that region is one of very few
known to have converted to the Christian faith twice. The conversion of Britain’s Anglo-
Saxon newcomers demonstrates a confluence of ...
Feminizing Grief: Victorian Women and the Appropriation of Mourning
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2016)
The Victorians didn’t invent the culture of mourning. But they certainly codified how the culture of grief should be one largely shouldered and sustained by women. Mourning rules for women were characterized by restraint ...
The Victorian Preacher’s Malady: The Metaphorical Usage of Gout in the Life of Charles Haddon Spurgeon
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
This dissertation examines the use of the gout metaphor in the life and writings of
one of Victorian England’s most eminent preachers and gout sufferers, the Baptist Charles
Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892). Careful scrutiny ...
Elegit Domum sibi Placabilem: Choice and the Twelfth-Century Religious Woman
(2015)
hand and family obligations and personal ambition on the other. Relevant themes—such a child
oblation, the holy veil and enclosure, legal and illegal marriage—frame Marie and create a microhistory of
the world that she inhabited. Other historical...
The Theological Edifice of Modern Experiential Protestantism: Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, and Palmer’s Reconstruction of nineteenth Century Pietism
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
The aim of this work is to address the development of experiential Protestantism
in the nineteenth century, commonly called Pietism, through the theological contributions
of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Søren Kierkegaard, ...
"Loving all People Regardless of Race, Creed, or Color": James L. Delk and the Lost History of Pentecostal Interracialism
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
Many historians of Pentecostalism have observed that following the initial potential
for interracial religion among early Pentecostals following the Azusa Street Revival in 1906,
most white Pentecostals progressively ...
The Work and the Glory: Historical Fiction and Cultural Narrative in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)
In October 1838, Governor Lilburn Boggs of Missouri sanctioned the extermination
of the “Mormon” settlers who had been pouring into the state beginning in 1831. His
infamous “Extermination Order” quickly put an end to ...
Constructing Comanche: Imperialism, Print Culture, and the Creation of the Most Dangerous Indian in Antebellum America
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2018)
Anglo-American print sources during the antebellum era framed the Comanche as
“the most powerful” or “the most dreaded” Indian whom settlers encountered on the frontier.
This research examines the pivotal role that ...
World to Word: Nomenclature Systems of Color and Species
(University of Missouri--Kansas City, 2017)
As the digitization of information accelerates, the push to encode our surrounding
numerically instead of linguistically increases. The role that language has traditionally
played in the nomenclature of an integrative ...