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'On the Streets and in the Book': Text, Subtext and Context in Lyon's La Chevauchée de l'asne, 1566
DownloadFall 2013
This thesis examines the relationship between text and context in a booklet describing a charivari held in Lyon, in 1566, published in a period of heightened civic social tensions between the first two episodes of armed conflict of the French Wars of Religion. By looking at the printed account...
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Spring 2023
The identity of the mysterious Nephilim found in the Hebrew Bible has puzzled biblical readers for over two thousand years, and in the last half-century significant interest in these shadowy beings has been displayed both in religious settings and popular culture. The biblical text contains only...
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Fall 2016
This dissertation studies the rise of undercover journalism in the Victorian period. Beginning in the 1860s, British journalists donned disguises to investigate the urban poor, and published their reports in a variety of newspapers. Scholars have traditionally studied incognito investigations...