Browsing English electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Semester "2013 Summer"
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Oral tradition, Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry, and the fourteenth century : "reading" the oral in the alliterative Morte Arthure and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This project is the first book-length study of the oral traditional aspects of the fourteenth-century long-line alliterative poems the Morte Arthure ... -
Private devotion, common prayer, and the British novel, 1700-1815
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Despite the cultural, social, and political influence of the established church in Britain during the eighteenth century, existing scholarship on the ... -
Style and structure, politics, and preaching : the lives of saints and other alliterative works by Ælfric of Eynsham
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This dissertation centers on selected works of the late Anglo-Saxon author Ælfric of Eynsham. The purpose of the project is to refine our understanding ... -
Yeoman justice :
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)Robin Hood and the Monk, Robin Hood and the Potter, A Gest of Robyn Hode, and Robin Hood and the Guy of Guisborne. I argue the Robin Hood texts critique common medieval conceptions of justice by creating new ones through ...