Browsing Theses (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Huneycutt, Lois L."
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Carolingian imperial authority : consolidation to dissolution, 751-870
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This thesis examines the development and breakdown of Carolingian imperial authority from the reign of Pepin the Short (751-768) to the death of Lothar I in 855. This work incorporates a variety of source materials, including ... -
Exchange and settlement patterns as evidence for social stratification and developing complexity in prehistoric and early Christian Ireland
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2007)There exists no economic study of prehistoric Ireland, nor a history focused on the island's early international relations, nor one that studies how its early elites came to power. This study seeks to bridge that gap by ... -
From Norwegian invasion to Anglo-Saxon Rebellion : forging memories of Conquest England, c. 1066-1235
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] The Norman Conquest of England (CE 1066-1085) has been a hotbed of historical debate since as early as the eleventh century. In modernity, the ... -
Holding the border: power, identity, and the conversion of Mercia
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)Recent scholarship, particularly that of Nicholas Higham, proposes that the seventh-century conversion of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms to Christianity occurred because Christianity offered methods for accessing and using power ... -
"The kingdom of the English is of God" : the effects of the Norman conquest on the cult of the saints in England
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)This thesis looks at the process of saint-making in England after the Norman Conquest, examining both new saints whose cults were accepted and potential saints who did not succeed in becoming officially canonized. In chapter ... -
Late-Medieval perception of abnormal behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] This study looks at late-medieval medical texts as well as Inquisition manuals and other ecclesiastical sources to explore the reactions of late-medieval ... -
The making of a frontier society : northeastern Wales between the Norman and Edwardian conquests
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2011)In the last thirty years the field of frontier studies has shifted away from viewing frontiers as fortress lines to studying them as zones of cultural interaction. Northeastern Wales, on the periphery of English territory, ... -
Portrayals of women in violent situations in texts of the High Middle Ages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)This thesis examines the traditional feminine roles as inciters of violence, actors in violence, and as peacemakers. Scandinavian sagas, Anglo-Norman chronicles, and Crusader chronicles of the twelfth century are analyzed ... -
The sword of god: Plague and episcopal authority in the Late Antique West
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)This thesis examines three major historical figures of Early Medieval Europe to discover the attitudes and responses to the plague: Pope Gregory the Great, Gregory of Tours, and the Venerable Bede. Gregory the Great provides ... -
An unintended order : the centrality of character and circumstance in the twelfth-century Gilbertine communities
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2010)This thesis examines questions related to the emergence of the Gilbertine Order in twelfth-century England. While scholars have noted the importance of circumstantial necessity in the order's early history, I believe that ... -
We have chosen a few things from among many: the adaptations and suitability of nuns' rules in Merovingian Gaul
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)The nuns' rules of Caesarius of Arles (470-542), Donatus of Besanc̜on (fl. 624), and Waldebert of Luxeuil (d. c. 668) suggest that for the early medieval female community in Merovingian Gaul, the monastic rule was a versatile ...