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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 ... -
“The Island Belonged to Them” Slave Provisioning and Empire in the British West Indies, 1679-1833
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)Recent scholarship on New World slavery has emphasized both the violent and non-violent means by which the enslaved reacted to, and shaped, their circumstances. This thesis explores how the enslaved of the British West ... -
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 ... -
"Longing in vain to climb into the ducal bed": gossip and rumor in Orderic Vitalis' Ecclesiastical History
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)For twelfth century Christians talk was an important tool and potential snare. The monastic chronicler Orderic Vitalis viewed talk as a potentially powerful tool and the EH reflected his belief that a sensible person, ... -
Social contract, civic organicism, and Antebellum Southern political thought
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] Though of a river of ink has been expended describing the long, multifaceted road to the Souths secession from the American Union, the political ... -
From Gastarbeiter to Muslims: representations of Turkish migrants in West Germany from 1961-1989
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This thesis explores how (West) Germans viewed both male and female Turkish Gastarbeiter (guest workers), as well as their second and third generations, ... -
The missional ground : Indians, missionaries, and the forging of the antebellum frontiers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] When historians search for Native agency, they often look in places where indigenous and colonial forces were evenly matched, as in Richard White's ... -
Total salvation : the gospel of the abundant life and American culture, 1947-1989
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] My dissertation places the gospel of the abundant life, most popularly known as the prosperity gospel, at the center of American religious and cultural ... -
The exploration of Africa and the construction of imperial masculinity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This thesis argues that an imperial masculinity emerged in the late nineteenth century as a response to a growing women's rights movement. The roots ... -
The development of religious education in the Baptist Sunday schools of the United States
(University of Missouri, 1917)The purpose of this study is to find out how the Sunday school in the Baptist churches in the United States has developed in religious education. The main features with regard to which the study is made are 1) the ... -
"Guarding Innocence" : age of consent, gender, and progressivism
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This paper details the reform activities of suffragists, social hygienists, and Women's Christian Temperance Union members during the Progressive Era, especially those pertaining to age of sexual consent laws. Along with ... -
At home in Babylon : Billy Sunday's revival team and evangelicalism in modern America
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)This dissertation offers a provocative reassessment of Billy Sunday and his big-tent revivals in the Progressive Era. Departing from the dominant fundamentalist caricature of the evangelist, it argues that Sunday and his ... -
Indian sovereignty and religious freedom : United States public land management and Indian sacred sites, 1978-2014
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2016)Combining historical and policy analysis, this study argues that executive and congressional actions have strengthened and deepened the consultation process instituted by the American Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978, ... -
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 AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] 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 ... -
Technology towards transcendence: apocalyptic spiritualities & the genesis of science fiction in Weimar Germany
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This thesis seeks to understand how, in the early twentieth century, esoteric schools in German-speaking Europe influenced the proto-science fiction genre, especially the cinema of Weimar Germany. It is inspired by the ... -
Up to freedom: slavery, emancipation, and the making of freedom in Howard County, Missouri, 1860 to 1865
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This thesis is an investigation of the social history of slavery and freedom in Howard County, Missouri with an eye toward the social and familial relationships of the enslaved, their existence in slavery and their role ... -
“So many foolish virgins”: nuns and anti-Catholicism from Maria Monk to the Know-Nothings
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)This dissertation examines opposition to nuns and convent life in America as it was expressed through vigilante violence, propaganda literature, and party politics. While nuns may seem like an unlikely target of hostility, ... -
"Once Mistress of the World:" Rome, St. Peter, and female devotion in the early Middle Ages
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] I reassess the reception of Rome in the early medieval west from the historiographical background of women's history. Women's conception of Rome as a ... -
Per dilectam coniugem et regnorum consortem : empresses' roles in building the Salian dynasty, 1024 1125
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2014)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] The Salian dynasty amassed a great amount of power, expanded its territories, and established new concepts of kingship and rulership throughout its ... -
Late-Medieval Perception of Abnormal Behavior
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2015)[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This study looks at late-medieval medical texts as well as Inquisition manuals and other ecclesiastical sources to explore the reactions of late-medieval ...