Browsing History electronic theses and dissertations (MU) by Thesis Advisor "Frymire, John"
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Agenda S. Coloniensis : the exorcism rituals of Ferdinand von Bayern
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)"By the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Catholic Counter-Reformation was already well underway in Europe. While Catholic reform had been taking place long before Luther and his ninety-five theses, the Council of ... -
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 ...