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- "But where is his voice?: " The Debate of Pope Pius XII's Silence During the Holocaust.
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Whitman, Kayleigh, Department of History
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For the past sixty years the question of whether or not Pope Pius XII did all that he could to help the victims of the Holocaust has plagued the reputation and memory of his papacy. As the Vatican and Pope Francis continue proceedings towards the canonization of Pius, the question of what judgment can be placed against the pope becomes ever more pressing. My project examines the path that the debate has taken over the past six decades through the work of both the critics and defenders of His...
Show moreFor the past sixty years the question of whether or not Pope Pius XII did all that he could to help the victims of the Holocaust has plagued the reputation and memory of his papacy. As the Vatican and Pope Francis continue proceedings towards the canonization of Pius, the question of what judgment can be placed against the pope becomes ever more pressing. My project examines the path that the debate has taken over the past six decades through the work of both the critics and defenders of His Holiness. While this thesis does not deliver a verdict against Pius, it does address the important question of how the contemporary reader can understand what has been written and the evolution of the charges that have been placed against him. In this paper Rolf Hochhuth serves as the leading example for the critics and Father Robert Graham S.J. serves as his defense counterpart. Beginning with these two men and their arguments, I examine the charges and responses of both the defenders and the critics during the controversial years of the 1960s and 1990s. Through this study I have found that though the Vatican's records remain sealed limiting the pool of information for researchers, the debate has continued to thrive because of the difference in perception of the two sides. The critics place their emphasis on the moral responsibility of the pope and the defenders focus their arguments on the political responsibility and implications of the pope's actions during this uncertain time.
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- 2014
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0346
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- The "Trafalgar Square Conservation Area": Deconstructing Spatial Narratives with/in a Collective Framework.
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Bergholtz, Joel, Department of English
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Abstract: (Key Terms: Collective Framework, Rhetorical Theory, Trafalgar Square, Spatial Narratives) This thesis is a rhetorical examination of language as elicited in spatial narratives. In doing so, it examines the various symbols that public spaces employ in order to rhetorically speak to us, move us, and make us act in certain ways. More specifically, it addresses Trafalgar Square as a problem space, deconstructing the various spatial narratives leading into and within the square. In...
Show moreAbstract: (Key Terms: Collective Framework, Rhetorical Theory, Trafalgar Square, Spatial Narratives) This thesis is a rhetorical examination of language as elicited in spatial narratives. In doing so, it examines the various symbols that public spaces employ in order to rhetorically speak to us, move us, and make us act in certain ways. More specifically, it addresses Trafalgar Square as a problem space, deconstructing the various spatial narratives leading into and within the square. In deconstructing these narratives, it attempts to find implicit meaning in what is explicitly inscribed into the land, and to examine this meaning alongside the social narrative that its occupants hold. This constructed narrative is explored through three frameworks: that of the physical framework of the square, those spatially enacted frameworks leading into it, and the larger collective framework of the city to which the square contributes. It finds that the frameworks of public space generally work toward establishing and authorizing a unifying ideological connection between the present society and societies of the past. However, these narratives are dependent on individual agents participating in the space's various frameworks; the meaning of a space is obfuscated by a society's current participant's usage of the space. In addition to this obfuscation, it discovers that the past role of a space can obfuscate the present meaning and role of the space in the overall framework, and that the present meaning can in turn obfuscate how individuals relate to and interpret the past.
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- 2014
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0294
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- ‘Our Bonaparte?’: Republicanism, Religion, and Paranoia in New England and the Mid-Atlantic, 1789-1830.
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Luke, Tarah L. (Tarah Lorraine), Blaufarb, Rafe, Munro, Martin, Frank, Andrew, Jones, Maxine Deloris, Piehler, G. Kurt, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreLuke, Tarah L. (Tarah Lorraine), Blaufarb, Rafe, Munro, Martin, Frank, Andrew, Jones, Maxine Deloris, Piehler, G. Kurt, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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"‘Our Bonaparte’: Republicanism, Religion, and Paranoia in New England and the Mid-Atlantic, 1789-1830," examines how American politicians used the idea of Napoleon Bonaparte to reflect (or distort) contemporary political issues in the New England and Mid-Atlantic areas of the United States. It shows how Napoleon became a standard piece of political imagery to either support or attack specific political beliefs and opinions during the first three decades of the nineteenth century, depending...
Show more"‘Our Bonaparte’: Republicanism, Religion, and Paranoia in New England and the Mid-Atlantic, 1789-1830," examines how American politicians used the idea of Napoleon Bonaparte to reflect (or distort) contemporary political issues in the New England and Mid-Atlantic areas of the United States. It shows how Napoleon became a standard piece of political imagery to either support or attack specific political beliefs and opinions during the first three decades of the nineteenth century, depending on which political faction was discussing Bonaparte at the time.
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- 2016
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- FSU_FA2016_Luke_fsu_0071E_13559
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- Agency, Gender, and the Law in Slave Narratives.
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Thomas, Alexandra, Department of History
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This thesis examines the presence of legal institutions in the accounts of enslaved and apprenticed people who resided in the British colonies of Jamaica, Antigua and Mauritius. Focusing on the lives of three individuals, Mary Prince, James Williams, and Marie Saladin, this thesis integrates enslaved persons' presence in and interaction with legal institutions into the wider scope of what it meant to be enslaved during the nineteenth century on a British colony. To do so, the thesis observes...
Show moreThis thesis examines the presence of legal institutions in the accounts of enslaved and apprenticed people who resided in the British colonies of Jamaica, Antigua and Mauritius. Focusing on the lives of three individuals, Mary Prince, James Williams, and Marie Saladin, this thesis integrates enslaved persons' presence in and interaction with legal institutions into the wider scope of what it meant to be enslaved during the nineteenth century on a British colony. To do so, the thesis observes the common elements discussed and represented in accounts of enslaved people and analyses the concept of a slave narrative.
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- 2014
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0400
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- Beyond Assimilation, Before Nationalism: Reformist Ulama and the Constantine Riots of 1934.
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Easterbrook, Rachel Margaret, Hanley, Will, Liebeskind, Claudia, Treacy, Corbin, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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This thesis examines the outbreak of violence between Muslims and Jews in the city of Constantine in August 1934. What has been termed a riot or a pogrom was, for the reformist ulama arguing for association with the French colonial state, a tragic rupture in the colonial civic order. By examining the Arabic and French language rhetoric of the ulama in the aftermath of the violence, one can elucidate not only the sociopolitical context of the riots, but also the political agenda of the...
Show moreThis thesis examines the outbreak of violence between Muslims and Jews in the city of Constantine in August 1934. What has been termed a riot or a pogrom was, for the reformist ulama arguing for association with the French colonial state, a tragic rupture in the colonial civic order. By examining the Arabic and French language rhetoric of the ulama in the aftermath of the violence, one can elucidate not only the sociopolitical context of the riots, but also the political agenda of the reformist ulama. Their attempts to rationalize the violence and avert culpability from the Muslim population of Constantine should not be understood as evidence of their inchoate Arab nationalism and latent anti-Semitism. Rather, their rhetoric revealed the historical and political underpinnings of their reformist platform, which was rooted in a conception of Algerian history galvanized by wider narratives of Islamic reform. Thus the reformers believed that for Algerian Muslims, the French themselves and their Jewish neighbors were not their enemies but rather their allies. Their enemies were ignorance itself and the alleged propagators of such ignorance, those who practiced and promulgated sufi Islam, which the reformers saw as antithetical to modernity and progress. But in August 1934, Constantine's Muslims perpetrated attacks against these ostensible allies, and the reformist ulama were left to rationalize this transgression in the wake of the riots. An analysis of this rhetoric reconstructs the politics of belonging at play in the interwar period, deepening our historical understanding of the evolution of the platform of the reformist ulama, many of whom in 1934 still imagined a positive future for French Algeria.
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- 2016
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- FSU_2016SP_Easterbrook_fsu_0071N_13227
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- Confessions in Fiction, Opera, and Memoir: Subversive Elements of Courtesan Celebrity in Nineteenth-Century Paris.
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Sasson, Renée-Michèle , Boutin, Aimée, O'Rourke, James L., Cloonan, William J., Pietralunga, Mark, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in...
Show moreSasson, Renée-Michèle , Boutin, Aimée, O'Rourke, James L., Cloonan, William J., Pietralunga, Mark, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities
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The present study aims to investigate various writers of nineteenth-century France whose topic is that of the courtesan, or public woman. The question proposed is: Can a woman ever recover from a fall into prostitution? The rehabilitation of the courtesan assumes a moral framework and therefore the fallen woman can never be redeemed in the nineteenth-century imaginary. The dame aux camélias myth elicits the sympathy of the reader but traps the protagonist in the moral framework and her only...
Show moreThe present study aims to investigate various writers of nineteenth-century France whose topic is that of the courtesan, or public woman. The question proposed is: Can a woman ever recover from a fall into prostitution? The rehabilitation of the courtesan assumes a moral framework and therefore the fallen woman can never be redeemed in the nineteenth-century imaginary. The dame aux camélias myth elicits the sympathy of the reader but traps the protagonist in the moral framework and her only option is death. To counter the myth, the courtesan's confessional narrative uses celebrity to free herself from the framework and re-invent herself. The study argues whether a "fallen" woman can ever be truly rehabilitated and if so, how? What are the limitations of rehabilitation?
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- 2016
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- FSU_2017SP_Sasson_fsu_0071E_13692
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- The Cost of a Moral Army Masculinity and the Construction of a Respectable British Army 1850-1885.
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Shipe, Jonathan Lee, Upchurch, Charles, Faulk, Barry J., Sinke, Suzanne M., Herrera, Robinson A., Grant, Jonathan A., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences,...
Show moreShipe, Jonathan Lee, Upchurch, Charles, Faulk, Barry J., Sinke, Suzanne M., Herrera, Robinson A., Grant, Jonathan A., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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The Crimean War (1854-1856) followed quickly by the Indian Revolt (1857-1858) caused many civilians to become interested in the affairs of the army and the lives of soldiers. The increased visibility of the army created numerous calls for reform. Civilian moral reformers and government officials embarked on a project to create a more ‘respectable' army. This project was not teleological, nor was it voiced in a unified or always consistent manner. Furthermore, movements for moral reform...
Show moreThe Crimean War (1854-1856) followed quickly by the Indian Revolt (1857-1858) caused many civilians to become interested in the affairs of the army and the lives of soldiers. The increased visibility of the army created numerous calls for reform. Civilian moral reformers and government officials embarked on a project to create a more ‘respectable' army. This project was not teleological, nor was it voiced in a unified or always consistent manner. Furthermore, movements for moral reform consistently faced the realities of the financial constraints of the mid-Victorian Liberal State. The project was gendered, and it involved competing discourses of masculinity. This dissertation offers a thick description of key debates involving corporal punishment, soldiers' sexuality, the desirability/inability of soldiers to marry, and programs to assist their wives and children. It argues that one cannot understand the Victorian Army without considering what occurred in civilian society. These two worlds intersected and intertwined in numerous ways throughout the mid-nineteenth century.
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- 2016
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- FSU_2016SP_Shipe_fsu_0071E_13089
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- The Debate of Pope Pius XII's Silence in the Holocaust.
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Whitman, Kayleigh, Department of History
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- 2013
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- FSU_migr_undergradresearch-0032
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- The Development of Labor Camp Literature: A Cultural Analysis of the House of the Dead and the Gulag Archipelago.
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Peterson, Lauren, Program in Russian and East European Studies
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This thesis examines the changing conditions between Russian labor camps from the Tsarist to Soviet regime. Shifts in labor condtions, quality of life and role of relationships within labor camps are illustrated through critical analysis of The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Gulag Archieplago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In the scope of this thesis, descriptions in The House of the Dead epitimize Tsarist rule up to 1917 and descriptions in The Gulag Archipelago span the Soviet...
Show moreThis thesis examines the changing conditions between Russian labor camps from the Tsarist to Soviet regime. Shifts in labor condtions, quality of life and role of relationships within labor camps are illustrated through critical analysis of The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky and The Gulag Archieplago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In the scope of this thesis, descriptions in The House of the Dead epitimize Tsarist rule up to 1917 and descriptions in The Gulag Archipelago span the Soviet Era from 1918-1956. This thesis includes the literary significance and cultural impact of each novel as a foundation for discussion of the political and social consequences of labor camps in Russia during Tsarist and Soviet rule.
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- 2012
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0067
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- Doing a Real Job: The Evolution in Women's Roles in British Society through the Lens of Female Spies, 1914-1945.
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Wirsansky, Danielle, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Upchurch, Charles, Roberts, Diane, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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The first half of the twentieth century was in many ways a watershed era for women and their role in British society. The world wars ushered in a time of unprecedented change. The wars opened positions for women outside of the home, making it a more accepted practice; the government recruited and drafted women not just for work but for active service. Looking at these changes, the shifts in women’s roles in British society can be reflected by the more extreme cases of this shift, focusing on...
Show moreThe first half of the twentieth century was in many ways a watershed era for women and their role in British society. The world wars ushered in a time of unprecedented change. The wars opened positions for women outside of the home, making it a more accepted practice; the government recruited and drafted women not just for work but for active service. Looking at these changes, the shifts in women’s roles in British society can be reflected by the more extreme cases of this shift, focusing on the experiences of female spies. This paper serves to demonstrate that the involvement of female spies in WWI and WWII is a useful indicator in the shift of women’s role in British society during this span of time. Alongside the goals of the government, this paper aims to analyze the broader shift in gender roles. Focusing in on the micro-history of spies, this study explores the evolution of the experience of female spies from WWI to WWII, reflecting the same kinds of changes taking place in the experience of the everyday British woman. Then, by focusing in on the struggle for agency that British female spies faced in the second world war, the study directly relates their attempts with those of the everyday British woman. War did not simply generate a change, a quick and sudden reversal of gender roles. Instead, the war afforded women opportunities to prove themselves and make strides towards being the kind of woman they wanted to be.
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- 2018
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- 2018_Sp_Wirsansky_fsu_0071N_14327
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- Europa and the Bull: Gendering Europe and the Process of European Integration, 1919-1939.
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Shriver, Rebecca Rae, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Souva, Mark A., Sinke, Suzanne M., Hanley, Will, Upchurch, Charles, Kurlander, Eric, Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreShriver, Rebecca Rae, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Souva, Mark A., Sinke, Suzanne M., Hanley, Will, Upchurch, Charles, Kurlander, Eric, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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This study examines the role of women and gender in German and British sections of three antiwar organizations that advocated for a European polity during the 1920s and 1930s: the Pan-European Union (PEU), the New Europe Group (NEG), and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). This project relies on extensive archival research using collections located throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada, some of which were only very recently cataloged. My findings...
Show moreThis study examines the role of women and gender in German and British sections of three antiwar organizations that advocated for a European polity during the 1920s and 1930s: the Pan-European Union (PEU), the New Europe Group (NEG), and the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). This project relies on extensive archival research using collections located throughout Europe, the United States, and Canada, some of which were only very recently cataloged. My findings fundamentally change our understanding of interwar integration advocates, who historians previously characterized as a small group of intellectual men. An analysis of the PEU and NEG reveals that women were a significant proportion of their members and leaders. Further complicating the traditional narrative that these were “male” driven groups, this study finds they stressed the “feminine” qualities their proposed system of governance required. Integration advocates blamed the perception of crisis between the wars on the belief that the political system was man-made. Many of these individuals believed women offered new ideas and an alternative source of leadership; thus, the role of women in developing a European polity was a popular topic among important segments of unification advocates. This argument resonated with many members and national sections of WILPF, which led them to collaborate with both the NEG and PEU. Although well known for its feminist pacifist activism, Europa and the Bull is the first study to examine the ways in which WILPF contributed to movements aimed at creating a European polity. By addressing all three of these organizations, this study challenges our understanding of the interwar movement for a federal European government, as well as the social and cultural forces that motivated them.
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- 2018
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- 2018_Sp_Shriver_fsu_0071E_14311
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- The Fight Against 'Satan's Dominion': An Examination of Jesuit Missions in New France Through the Lens of the Jesuit Relations.
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Moran, Adam Michael, Grant, Jonathan A., Koslow, Jennifer Lisa, Blaufarb, Rafe, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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This thesis examines the Jesuit mission to New France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The various sources of support and opposition are described using the lens of the massive set of primary documents preserved in The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, translated and compiled under the direction of Reuben G. Thwaites between 1896 and 1901. The central argument of this thesis is that the Jesuit reductions of New France, where Amerindian converts of various tribes lived...
Show moreThis thesis examines the Jesuit mission to New France in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The various sources of support and opposition are described using the lens of the massive set of primary documents preserved in The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, translated and compiled under the direction of Reuben G. Thwaites between 1896 and 1901. The central argument of this thesis is that the Jesuit reductions of New France, where Amerindian converts of various tribes lived together, acted as microcosms of the broader French-Canadian colonial milieu. Each of the sources of support and opposition for the Jesuit missions can be found in these reduction towns. This approach to the Jesuit missions in New France could also have a broader use for historians examining similar colonial contexts.
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- 2017
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- FSU_2017SP_Moran_fsu_0071N_13897
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- From Rubrication to Typography: Die geesten of geschiedenis van Romen and the History of the Book in the Low Countries.
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Gibbons, Jacob, Department of English
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The development of printing in the fifteenth century did not transform the medieval Book from the manuscript to the modern mass-market paperback overnight—instead, changes in the design of late medieval texts occurred gradually over the first decades of printing in Europe. This has significant repercussions for the way we should evaluate terms like "print culture" and how we understand features of book production traditionally assigned to manuscript or print. To illuminate this transition, I...
Show moreThe development of printing in the fifteenth century did not transform the medieval Book from the manuscript to the modern mass-market paperback overnight—instead, changes in the design of late medieval texts occurred gradually over the first decades of printing in Europe. This has significant repercussions for the way we should evaluate terms like "print culture" and how we understand features of book production traditionally assigned to manuscript or print. To illuminate this transition, I will discuss the changes in the structuring and layout of books at the end of the fifteenth century, with a particular focus on "rubrication," the strategic use of red ink to guide readers' eyes through the pages of the medieval manuscript. Despite the development of printing and its affordances for using font, size, and spatial arrangement of the text to orient the reader, rubrication continued to be used in complex and multivalent ways throughout early printing. A detailed case study of several early print and manuscript editions of the Gesta Romanorum—one of the most popular storybooks of the Late Middle Ages—reveals a gradual transition from the use of rubrication and other visual cues in the medieval manuscript to the spatially-typographically oriented printed book. This transition was characterized by continuity and measured evolution—rather than an abrupt shift to something as concrete as "print culture"—in which the new technology emulated its predecessor as it progressively developed its own identity and made its own imprint on literate society.
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- 2013
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0207
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- The Gestapo, Critics, and Social Control Selective Enforcement in the Rhineland, 1933-1944.
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Stackhouse, J. Ryan (John Ryan), Gellately, Robert, Stults, Brian J., Stoltzfus, Nathan, Williamson, George S., Creswell, Michael, Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreStackhouse, J. Ryan (John Ryan), Gellately, Robert, Stults, Brian J., Stoltzfus, Nathan, Williamson, George S., Creswell, Michael, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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How did the Secret State Police (Gestapo) enforce laws governing opinion in Nazi Germany? This dissertation argues that lenience rather than terror defined the relationship between state and society for Germans who fit into the so-called racial community (Volksgemeinschaft). The work sheds new light on the Gestapo's changing role in the broader system of social control as well as its standard practices, decision making processes, and enforcement criteria when investigating different socio...
Show moreHow did the Secret State Police (Gestapo) enforce laws governing opinion in Nazi Germany? This dissertation argues that lenience rather than terror defined the relationship between state and society for Germans who fit into the so-called racial community (Volksgemeinschaft). The work sheds new light on the Gestapo's changing role in the broader system of social control as well as its standard practices, decision making processes, and enforcement criteria when investigating different socio-political groups. A statistically grounded system immanent analysis of 200 case files from government district Düsseldorf reveals that political police reserved arbitrary detention, surveillance, and torture to unravel networks of organized resistance. The Gestapo's initial reliance on terror against the underground communist party proved unsuited for policing society at large. New laws criminalizing all criticism meanwhile raised concerns about alienating support. The Gestapo, in cooperation with the Nazi Party and the judiciary, compensated with an explicit policy of selective enforcement. Authorities punished "subversives" and warned "supporters" based on perceptions of motive extrapolated from an evaluation of "political reliability" grounded in the concept of racial community. The Gestapo focused harsher forms of social control against "subversives" while reintegrating "otherwise upstanding" Germans with stern warnings to correct their "momentary weakness." The judiciary initially consulted with the Nazi Party on enforcement decisions, but police increasingly prescribed outcomes to state prosecutors after Himmler became Chief of German Police in June 1936 and issued warning independently after the declaration of war in September 1939. The Nazi Party assumed greater responsibility for investigating and warning critics after early 1943 with significantly harsher consequences in cases that filtered upward to political police thereafter. The regime thereby suppressed open discussion of political alternatives without risking backlash from blanket enforcement. The findings break with the view that pervasive terror defined life in Nazi Germany by demonstrating vastly different outcomes depending on the nature of criticism as well as the suspect's personal and political background. By exposing who experienced terror and who remained immune, the conclusions support recent scholarship that argues Hitler established and maintained power through consent and compromise rather than coercion of the social majority.
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- 2017
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- FSU_2017SP_Stackhouse_fsu_0071E_13928
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- In the Footsteps of Clara Schumann.
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Falling, Frances, College of Music
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I first became interested in Clara Schumann when I heard her setting of Friedrich Rückert's beautiful poem "Liebst du um Schönheit" during voice seminar at Florida State a few years ago. When I had the opportunity to choose a research topic in my music history class last year, I chose Clara – focusing on her growth from Wunderkind to mature artist, how she has greatly influenced the customs of concerts, and how she championed composers that we consider "greats" today. Throughout the research...
Show moreI first became interested in Clara Schumann when I heard her setting of Friedrich Rückert's beautiful poem "Liebst du um Schönheit" during voice seminar at Florida State a few years ago. When I had the opportunity to choose a research topic in my music history class last year, I chose Clara – focusing on her growth from Wunderkind to mature artist, how she has greatly influenced the customs of concerts, and how she championed composers that we consider "greats" today. Throughout the research process I became more and more intrigued by Clara. She was not only a female performer and composer, and therefore pioneer in her time, but she also carved out a unique partnership with her husband, Robert Schumann. This paper led to my idea for an Honors Thesis Project. Many of the current scholarly works about Clara Schumann have not been translated into English. I was able to contact four of the living research authors and they were amazingly receptive and supportive of my inquiries. This film not only traces the footsteps of Clara Schumann, it also introduces these German scholars to the Florida State University community. Interviews with them bring the life and times of Clara Schumann to life, while also providing valuable insight into how music scholars work. The enthusiasm of these musicologists who live, breathe, and study their subject, certainly inspired me and I believe their insights will spark curiosity in those who have not yet heard of Clara Schumann. This project encompasses not only a short version of all the footage and interviews I took during my journey, but also full-length documentary film, to be available in the music library before I graduate.
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- 2014
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- FSU_migr_uhm-0422
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- Interpreting Gabriele d'Annunzio: A Song Companion.
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Gavilanes, Felicia Plunkett, Okerlund, David, Thomas, Andre J. (Andre Jerome), Fisher, Douglas L., Jones, Evan T. (Evan Thomas), Florida State University, College of Music
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Italy has a rich history of excellent literature and, perhaps most significantly, excellent poetry. The poetry of Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938) is sensual, evocative, and evokes powerful images. Not surprisingly, his poetry was highly sought after as the basis for art song compositions, and has been set to music by a number of notable Italian composers. In large part due to Italy's grand operatic tradition, Italian art song has long been overshadowed and has failed to receive the attention...
Show moreItaly has a rich history of excellent literature and, perhaps most significantly, excellent poetry. The poetry of Gabriele d'Annunzio (1863-1938) is sensual, evocative, and evokes powerful images. Not surprisingly, his poetry was highly sought after as the basis for art song compositions, and has been set to music by a number of notable Italian composers. In large part due to Italy's grand operatic tradition, Italian art song has long been overshadowed and has failed to receive the attention or programming energies enjoyed by art song literature from France, Germany and England. A singer wishing to further explore this repertoire will not easily find the resources he or she needs to perform in an artistically informed manner. Accurate English translations of d'Annunzio's poems are difficult to find or nonexistent. Without a comprehensive resource to provide critical information such as poetic translations, word-for-word translations, and International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions, this excellent repertoire will remain inaccessible to many singers and unknown to audiences. This document will serve to supply singers, coaches, and teachers with a thorough background of all of the significant Italian song settings of the poetry of Gabriele d'Annunzio, including full text, word-for-word translations, poetic translations and IPA transcriptions, as well as contextual material. Readers will have at their fingertips information on a range of compositions by Italian composers, from Francesco Paolo Tosti to Ottorino Respighi, all based on poetry written by Gabriele d'Annunzio.
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- 2017
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- FSU_2017SP_Gavilanes_fsu_0071E_13824
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- James Fenimore Cooper 1820-1852 Book History, Bibliography, and the Political Novel.
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Lenz, Bradley Andrew, Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, François, Hellweg, Joseph, Faulk, Barry J., Gontarski, S. E., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in...
Show moreLenz, Bradley Andrew, Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, François, Hellweg, Joseph, Faulk, Barry J., Gontarski, S. E., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Program in Interdisciplinary Humanities
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James Fenimore Cooper’s work as a political activist is the underlying subject of this monograph. This study looks at how Cooper used his political writing to disseminate the ideology of the radical enlightenment. Cooper’s specific support for the independence of Poland is examined within its historical context. This work explores Cooper’s relationship to the Polish cause. It is an aspect of Cooper scholarship that is necessary to understand his political activity. This study is primarily...
Show moreJames Fenimore Cooper’s work as a political activist is the underlying subject of this monograph. This study looks at how Cooper used his political writing to disseminate the ideology of the radical enlightenment. Cooper’s specific support for the independence of Poland is examined within its historical context. This work explores Cooper’s relationship to the Polish cause. It is an aspect of Cooper scholarship that is necessary to understand his political activity. This study is primarily interested in Cooper’s use of the political writing to disperse the tenets of American political and social life into European populations. Cooper’s critical heritage is examined in this study. The personal relationship between Cooper and Walter Scott is examined. This relationship grew to personify the cultural war that divided England and America. Cooper’s literary reputation was harmed by English critics that resented his political activism. Bibliographical analysis supplied the quantitative data needed to develop Cooper’s imprint distribution frequencies. The data from Cooper’s enumerative bibliography allowed contrasts to be made between political and non-political fiction and non-fiction. Analysis of distribution frequencies supplied answers to questions concerning the popularity of Cooper’s political novels compared to his non-political novels. Bibliographical data in this study supplies facts about the distribution of Cooper’s texts. Cooper’s activism and political ideology is placed in the context of American philosophy as proto-pragmatism. Resistance to hereditary monarchy and European political systems is indicative of an evasion of European philosophy that characterized American intellectual circles. Cooper is placed in the tradition of American thought that founded the philosophy of pragmatism.
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- 2017
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- FSU_SUMMER2017_Lenz_fsu_0071E_13927
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- Jean Devémy and the Paris Conservatory Morceaux de Concours for Horn, 1938-1969.
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Britton, Emily, Stebleton, Michelle, Clendinning, Jane Piper, Moore, Christopher, Clary, Richard, Florida State University, College of Music, College of Music
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This treatise examines the legacy of French horn player, Jean Devémy, who taught at the Paris Conservatory from 1967 to 1969. Thirty-one pieces for horn by twenty-six composers were used during those years in the Concours de Prix, an annual competition for students. Many of these pieces have been forgotten and deserve to be revived. The first chapter of the treatise contains an introduction explaining the significance of the treatise. Additionally, it includes information about the history of...
Show moreThis treatise examines the legacy of French horn player, Jean Devémy, who taught at the Paris Conservatory from 1967 to 1969. Thirty-one pieces for horn by twenty-six composers were used during those years in the Concours de Prix, an annual competition for students. Many of these pieces have been forgotten and deserve to be revived. The first chapter of the treatise contains an introduction explaining the significance of the treatise. Additionally, it includes information about the history of the horn in France and the Paris Conservatory Concours de Prix. The second chapter presents biographical information for Jean Devémy, and the third chapter examines his teaching. The fourth chapter begins with an overview of the thirty-one pieces written for Devémy's classes and the twenty-six composers who wrote them. It is followed by smaller sections about each piece and its composer. The two appendices attached to this document are a discography of Jean Devémy's recordings and a chronological list of the morceaux de concours examined in this document, along with their respective ranges.
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- 2014
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- FSU_migr_etd-9150
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- Thesis
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- Letter from Boni to Giulia Kortischoner, 1946-07-15.
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, Boni, Kortischoner, Giulia
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Boni writes to Giulia Kortischoner about America and Europe and how he is doing and how Austria is rebuilding after the war.
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- FSU_WW2_98_0729_512_parent
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- Set of related objects
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- Letter from Giulia Kortischoner to Mia Hasterlik, 1946-02-07-1946-02-09.
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Kortischoner, Giulia, Hasterlik, Mia
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Giulia Kortischoner writes to Mia Hasterlik, telling her that, with the help of Munk, she finally has a departure date arranged for March 15. She says that Munk is very nice and talks about her further difficulties with Frau Wetter, who fired her from her bookbinding job and is planning on kicking her out of the apartment. She also says that she has heard that the antisemitism in Vienna is almost as bad as under the Nazis.
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- FSU_WW2_98_0729_472_parent
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- Set of related objects
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- Letter from Kurt Bergheimerer to Giulia Kortischoner, 1946-09.
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Bergheimer, Kurt, Kortischoner, Giulia
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Kurt Bergheimer writes to Giulia Kortischoner about his schooling in Bern. In his free time he writes for the newspaper and is publishing a piece on concentration camps and pogroms. He also tells Giulia about what their mutual friends who went back to Germany are doing these days. Kurt feels guilty for not being in Germany to help clean up the worst of the mess and is frustrated with his countrymen who feel blameless for the whole war and blame it on Hitler entirely.
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- FSU_WW2_98_0729_516_parent
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- Set of related objects
- Title
- Letter from Margrit Wolf to Giulia Kortischoner, 1947-05-08.
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Wolf, Margrit, Kortischoner, Giulia
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Margrit Wolf, a friend from Schaffhausen, writes to Giulia Kortischoner about her new job as a laboratory technician and all the schooling it took to get there.
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- FSU_WW2_98_0729_524_parent
- Format
- Set of related objects
- Title
- Now I Am in Distant Germany, It Could Be That I Will Die: Colonial Precedent, Wartime Contingency, and Crisis Mentality in the Transition from Subjugation to Decimation of Foreign Workers in the Nazi Ruhr.
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Osmar, Christopher Michael, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Maier-Katkin, Daniel, Williamson, George S., Hanley, Will, Grant, Jonathan A., Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreOsmar, Christopher Michael, Stoltzfus, Nathan, Maier-Katkin, Daniel, Williamson, George S., Hanley, Will, Grant, Jonathan A., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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By the end of the Second World War over half a million foreign civilians were living within the confines of a system of forced labor in and around the Ruhr region of Germany. While the use of some degree of coercion had characterized this foreign labor deployment scheme since its institution in 1939, mass execution was not introduced as a tool for controlling foreign workers until September 1944. What prompted this resort to extreme violence? The conventional explanation for so-called crimes...
Show moreBy the end of the Second World War over half a million foreign civilians were living within the confines of a system of forced labor in and around the Ruhr region of Germany. While the use of some degree of coercion had characterized this foreign labor deployment scheme since its institution in 1939, mass execution was not introduced as a tool for controlling foreign workers until September 1944. What prompted this resort to extreme violence? The conventional explanation for so-called crimes of the end phase of this sort has been that the collapse of German society at the end of the war removed constraints on ideologically committed perpetrators who had become increasingly radicalized and brutalized by the war, creating a vacuum of authority where they could act on violent impulses. This dissertation seeks to correct the prevailing view, arguing instead that moments of crisis activated longstanding institutional and cultural norms that endorsed specific kinds of violence within specific contexts, and that a series of these crises in western Germany prompted the resort to executions as a temporary measure to prevent societal collapse within a restructured but still functioning system of authority. This dissertation traces the genealogy of end phase violence and the wider system for controlling forced labor back to the German colonial experience. Colonial notions of extracting labor within the tight controls of an apartheid regime persisted into the Third Reich, as did patterns of thinking that criminalized resistance to domination and justified the utilization of extreme violence when resistance occurred within a climate of crisis. Still, there was not a straight line from Africa to the mass execution of foreign workers in the Ruhr, and norms established in the colonies were malleable and subject to change when confronted by historical contingency. Nazi conception of race and community elaborated on the colonial foundation, while the subsequent conquest and subjugation of people in the East, along with the experience of the partisan war in the Soviet Union, further refined ideas about managing coerced labor and resistance to it. The Second World War also introduced problems that had not been encountered in the colonies. With the weaponization of morale, Allied and National Socialist propaganda organizations vied for control of both attitudes about foreign workers and the attitudes of the foreigners themselves. The strategic bombing campaign was an important component of this morale war in which foreign workers would play a role. In considering the protection to afford to foreigners threatened by bombs, German captors were confronted with questions about how to balance economic and ideological needs, and often determined that the lives of foreigners were expendable. In the end, Germany won the morale war, and the will of the people to continue to resist did not break. The Allies were victorious, however, in the propaganda battle over perceptions of foreigners, succeeding in instilling a deep fear of an impending foreigner uprising the minds of German security forces. When the war front finally reached the German border it brought with it a crisis that would prompt a shift in the Gestapo's frame of reference from that of domestic policing to that of rear-area security. This shift activated norms for combating recalcitrant forced laborers developed in the colonies and filtered through the experience of the anti-partisan war. Even in the end phase, however, crisis was not a perpetual state. The Gestapo's reliance on violence fluctuated as the intensity of the emergency ebbed and flowed with the local contingencies of the war. Amidst these crises Berlin reorganized the Gestapo in the Ruhr and relinquished some of its authority over them, but it remained intact and continued to engage with local, regional, and national authorities in negotiating its execution policy.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2018
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- 2018_Fall_Osmar_fsu_0071E_14915
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- The Official Word: Justifying Sensitive Napoleonic Policies, 1804-1815.
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Siegler, Richard J., Blaufarb, Rafe, Piehler, G. Kurt, Grant, Jonathan A., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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My thesis explores how Napoleon and his bureaucrats crafted justifications for five sensitive shifts in domestic policy from 1804 to 1815. More specifically, how the Napoleonic state used the official press organ of the French government, the Gazette Nationale ou le Moniteur Universel, to present those justifications for public consumption is the central aim of this thesis. While largely assumed to be an instrument of propaganda for the Napoleonic regime, Le Moniteur has received few detailed...
Show moreMy thesis explores how Napoleon and his bureaucrats crafted justifications for five sensitive shifts in domestic policy from 1804 to 1815. More specifically, how the Napoleonic state used the official press organ of the French government, the Gazette Nationale ou le Moniteur Universel, to present those justifications for public consumption is the central aim of this thesis. While largely assumed to be an instrument of propaganda for the Napoleonic regime, Le Moniteur has received few detailed studies as to the language, timing, and frequency of articles inserted into the political section of the official journal; of how the Napoleonic state used language to influence public opinion. My thesis will rectify this conspicuous absence and illustrate how Napoleon's government explained its increasingly monarchical character through several key examples: (1) the creation of the hereditary empire in 1804; (2) the creation of an imperial noblesse from 1806 to 1808; (3) the elevation of Joseph Bonaparte to the throne of Spain in 1808; and (4) Napoleon's marriage to Austrian archduchess Marie-Louise in 1810. The fifth chapter on Napoleon's return to France in 1815 during the Cent-Jours is the exception that proves the rule. Returning from Elba, Napoleon used Le Moniteur to justify his return in a new "liberal" light, abandoning the overt monarchical character of his previous rule. This is a story of how the Napoleonic state attempted to carefully package meticulous justifications and extensive explanations for these sensitive changes that marked significant departures from previous domestic policy, for the French reading public.
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- 2015
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- FSU_migr_etd-9454
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- Thesis
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- The Power of Memory and Manipulation in Anglo-Norman England: Symeon, St. Cuthbert, and Durham Cathedra.
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Sauer, Michelle L., Department of History
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Cultural memory is the collective perception of a group on their own history, and the way in which remembrance and emphasis of specific elements of that history build the identity of a culture. The formation and alteration of cultural memory throughout history has become an important area of interest in the field of history, as this building of identity and memory informs how cultures operate and view themselves to this day. English memory has been built and changed throughout time by various...
Show moreCultural memory is the collective perception of a group on their own history, and the way in which remembrance and emphasis of specific elements of that history build the identity of a culture. The formation and alteration of cultural memory throughout history has become an important area of interest in the field of history, as this building of identity and memory informs how cultures operate and view themselves to this day. English memory has been built and changed throughout time by various invading groups, and has contributed to the enduring legacy of the British people that exists to this day. This project seeks to examine the ways in which the cultural memory of the Anglo-Saxon people was altered after the Norman Invasion through historical propaganda, particularly the writings of Symeon of Durham, and the building of Durham Cathedral. Symeon, a Norman monk in Durham, is a figure who shows the power of memory in the middle ages, as he effectively rewrote the history of the monks who came before him, giving the new Norman population of Durham an imagined history of themselves in that place. The Normans also built Durham Cathedral as a way to consolidate power and legitimize their reign through an emphasized devotion to the religious scene in Durham. Through analysis of historical documents and religious art used as a means of political and religious manipulation by the Normans, this thesis examines the pre-Norman cultural memory of Durham and delves into the ways that perception changed to include the Normans and merge the two groups into one.
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- 2015
- Identifier
- FSU_migr_uhm-0563
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- Thesis
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- Progressive Protestants: Representation and Remembrance in France, 1685-1815.
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Banks, Bryan, McMahon, Darrin M., Porterfield, Amanda, Blaufarb, Rafe, Williamson, George S., Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, François, Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreBanks, Bryan, McMahon, Darrin M., Porterfield, Amanda, Blaufarb, Rafe, Williamson, George S., Dupuigrenet Desroussilles, François, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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This dissertation examines representations of Protestantism during a crucial period of legal persecution initiated by Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) and concluded during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era. Drawing on a vast variety of printed sources by Enlightenment writers, social reformers, priests, pastors, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon Bonaparte, this dissertation examines the versatile and fungible nature of Protestantism in the wake of the...
Show moreThis dissertation examines representations of Protestantism during a crucial period of legal persecution initiated by Louis XIV's Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685) and concluded during the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Era. Drawing on a vast variety of printed sources by Enlightenment writers, social reformers, priests, pastors, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon Bonaparte, this dissertation examines the versatile and fungible nature of Protestantism in the wake of the Revocation. Consideration of Protestantism permitted the exploration of a variety of pressing issues, including the role of religion in society, the perfectibility of human nature, the characteristics of an ideal citizen, secularism, pluralism, and human rights. This study of representations of Protestants in France during the long eighteenth century-- by both Protestants and non-Protestants -- offers new insights on the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Era, and the history of Protestantism in general. It crosses traditional chronological boundaries, building off of the latest historical scholarship and cultural theory, to argue that an understanding of modern, progressive Protestantism emerged over the course of the eighteenth century, alongside and intertwined with the more secular minded doctrines normally associated with the Enlightenment, culminating in the nineteenth century understanding of liberal, progressive Protestantism. As such, this dissertation argues that Protestantism became attached to and helped shape modern ideals like commercial economics, democracy, republicanism, freedom of conscience, liberalism, progress, and the idea of modernity itself.
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- 2014
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- FSU_migr_etd-9136
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- Thesis
- Title
- The Pursuit of Equality the Continuation of Colonialism in Vietnam.
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Boucher, Robert Arthur, Grant, Jonathan A., Blaufarb, Rafe, Özok-Gündoğan, Nilay, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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Much of the scholarship on the colonial sphere remains focused on the ways that subalterns subverted colonial power and discourse, however little focus has centered on the way that colonized at times reified and perpetuated the ideas of the civilizing mission. In the case of Vietnam, over the course of approximately four decades Vietnamese intellectuals quickly swung from seeing the French as barbarians to a dynamic, modern power that should be learned from. In the process, modernization and...
Show moreMuch of the scholarship on the colonial sphere remains focused on the ways that subalterns subverted colonial power and discourse, however little focus has centered on the way that colonized at times reified and perpetuated the ideas of the civilizing mission. In the case of Vietnam, over the course of approximately four decades Vietnamese intellectuals quickly swung from seeing the French as barbarians to a dynamic, modern power that should be learned from. In the process, modernization and development came to be synonymous with everything from the West while tradition was invented as the old teachings. Importantly, while independence was achieved after much bloodshed and effort, the new Vietnamese state failed in reality to extricate itself from the grasp of European universalist ideas born out of the French Revolution. From efforts to open “New Learning” schools to demands of equality to French citizens and access to basic rights, the Vietnamese vision of a New Vietnam slowly became constrained to the path of the international community of nation-states. Ho Chi Minh would declare independence in the name of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness rather than the loss of the Mandate of Heaven. As such, this paper traces the variety of factors that influenced the manifold nature of colonialism and how rather than existing in a post-colonial world, the ideas of the mission civilisatrice have been continued by the powers which rebelled against it.
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- 2019
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- 2019_Spring_Boucher_fsu_0071N_15209
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- Thesis
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- Re/Inscription and Return: Working Through Historical Trauma in Post-Spanish Civil War Culture.
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Kasten, Jeremy J. (Jeremy James), Álvarez, Enrique, Romanchuk, Robert, Epstein, Andrew, Howard, Keith David, Leushuis, Reinier, Florida State University, College of Arts and...
Show moreKasten, Jeremy J. (Jeremy James), Álvarez, Enrique, Romanchuk, Robert, Epstein, Andrew, Howard, Keith David, Leushuis, Reinier, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
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This dissertation explores the recollection of historical memory in a number of significant literary and cinematic texts produced during the first thirty years of the Francoist dictatorship. Ironically, the first quarter-century of post-war Spain was referred to as "los años de la paz" [The Peaceful Years] by the propagandistic effort of the regime. However, as my dissertation will show, representative texts of the same period articulate trauma that was still lingering in collective memory....
Show moreThis dissertation explores the recollection of historical memory in a number of significant literary and cinematic texts produced during the first thirty years of the Francoist dictatorship. Ironically, the first quarter-century of post-war Spain was referred to as "los años de la paz" [The Peaceful Years] by the propagandistic effort of the regime. However, as my dissertation will show, representative texts of the same period articulate trauma that was still lingering in collective memory. Contrary to the common assumption that the process of recovery of historical memory began after Franco's death in 1975, I will show that this same process had begun almost immediately after the outcome of the Spanish Civil War in April of 1939. Based on a theoretical framework built on the juxtaposition of Lacanian psychoanalysis and recent trauma theory, I argue that the texts object of my study – including some well-known Francoist canonical works – actually work through the painful and traumatic experiences of the war and the violence imposed by the dictatorship. Because of the unspeakable nature of psychological trauma and the censorial machinery set in place by the repressive instruments of the Francoist regime, the traumatic experience is never explicitly recounted in these narratives. However, I will demonstrate how these experiences are expressed in the body of the text in unconventional and unexpected ways such as the tension between chaos and silence, the representation of hyperbolic violence, speech acts, the representation of space, inter-textual empathy, as well as gaps and disruptions of the narratives. In my dissertation, I will describe a double-process of reinscription and return of the traumatic event whereby these texts are able to begin a process of working through, becoming, in Dominick LaCapra´s famous theorization of the concept, an "ethical agent" of history that create a counter-narrative to the Francoist silence surrounding many traumas of the war and resulting dictatorship.
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- 2015
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- FSU_2015fall_Kasten_fsu_0071E_12838
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- Thesis
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- The relationships between several parameters which may be used to represent atmospheric vortices.
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DesJardins, Robert B., Gleeson, Thomas, Florida State University
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"The study was restricted to cyclones which appeared over Europe for at least two consecutive days during 1950"--Page v. The statistical relationships between five parameters which may be used to represent an atmospheric vortex are studied. These parameters are: the central height, ?h, the space change of height, ?h, a size factor, D, the mean gradient, h, and the "gradient-area index", I. The primary purpose of the study is to determine the relationship between the central height and each of...
Show more"The study was restricted to cyclones which appeared over Europe for at least two consecutive days during 1950"--Page v. The statistical relationships between five parameters which may be used to represent an atmospheric vortex are studied. These parameters are: the central height, ?h, the space change of height, ?h, a size factor, D, the mean gradient, h, and the "gradient-area index", I. The primary purpose of the study is to determine the relationship between the central height and each of the other parameters. The study was restricted to cyclones which appeared over Europe for at least two consecutive days during 1950. All measurements were made on the 500-mb chart. Each parameter was evaluated for 263 cyclones and the 24-hr change of each parameter was computed for 208 cyclones. The methods used to evaluate each parameter are discussed. For each pair of parameters, linear correlation coefficients were computed from grouped data.
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- 1954
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- FSU_historic_ala5637
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- Schlieffen, Politics, and Strategy: The Influence of Civil-Military Relations on Germany Military Strategy, 1890-1914.
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Bieber, Jason, Creswell, Michael, Souva, Mark A., Grant, Jonathan A., Williamson, George S., Piehler, G. Kurt, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department...
Show moreBieber, Jason, Creswell, Michael, Souva, Mark A., Grant, Jonathan A., Williamson, George S., Piehler, G. Kurt, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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In 1905, Germany's chief of the General Staff, Alfred von Schlieffen crafted the "Schlieffen Plan" in an effort to solve what he saw as the civil-military and strategic problems then facing the country. It was an ambitious strategic plan intended to surround and defeat the French army through a decisive campaign in northern France. Beyond the plan's operational details, Schlieffen also called for political and fiscal changes that he believed were necessary in order to achieve military victory...
Show moreIn 1905, Germany's chief of the General Staff, Alfred von Schlieffen crafted the "Schlieffen Plan" in an effort to solve what he saw as the civil-military and strategic problems then facing the country. It was an ambitious strategic plan intended to surround and defeat the French army through a decisive campaign in northern France. Beyond the plan's operational details, Schlieffen also called for political and fiscal changes that he believed were necessary in order to achieve military victory. These changes, however, entailed sweeping military and political reforms that would dramatically change the political makeup of the German government and its taxation structure. Despite these efforts, Schlieffen and his successors failed to solve the problem they faced in regards to civil-military relations, strategic planning, and army funding. Specifically, the civilian and military spheres of the German state rarely coordinated policy and strategy. This lack of sustained coordination between the two spheres helped to create many of the conditions that led to the creation of the Schlieffen Plan and the eventual failure of the German army in the Great War. The army's political inability to present a unified front in support of the Schlieffen Plan left it internally weak, and vulnerable to later French and Russian counterattacks, and ultimately defeat at the Battle of the Marne in 1914.
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- 2016
- Identifier
- FSU_2017SP_Bieber_fsu_0071E_13673
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- Thesis
- Title
- Some medieval contributions to political theory.
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Looby, Marion Jean, Irish, Marian Doris, Florida State University
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"This paper does not pretend to discuss in detail the contributions of the Middle Ages to political theory. It is not even a detailed analysis of a group of theorists, but is simply an illustration of several typical medieval approaches to political problems. It is intended to show the trends which continue and are developed from the fall of the Roman Empire to the fifteenth century, and to draw attention to the contributions made by these ideas to the history of political thought, as well as...
Show more"This paper does not pretend to discuss in detail the contributions of the Middle Ages to political theory. It is not even a detailed analysis of a group of theorists, but is simply an illustration of several typical medieval approaches to political problems. It is intended to show the trends which continue and are developed from the fall of the Roman Empire to the fifteenth century, and to draw attention to the contributions made by these ideas to the history of political thought, as well as to point out some of their inherent defects. The paper is also an attempt to illustrate the divergent philosophies developed upon the same principles in order to show the variety of interpretation to which a few fundamental ideas rendered themselves"--Introduction.
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- 1949
- Identifier
- FSU_Looby_Marion_Jean
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- Thesis
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- Speech to Kansas City Chapter of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies.
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Pepper, Claude, Edward A. Roche Transcriptions
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Speech on the dangers of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany, Lend Lease Act, World War II, isolationism, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Europe, embargo, and trade. Given to the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies. Hotel Continental, Kansas City, Missouri.
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- FSU_Pepper_AV_A_0008
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- Set of related objects
- Title
- Theophilanthropy: Civil Religion and Secularization in the French Revolution.
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Deverse, Jonathan Douglas, McMahon, Darrin M., Blaufarb, Rafe, Kavka, Martin, Williamson, George S., Grant, Jonathan A., Doel, Ronald Edmund, Florida State University, College...
Show moreDeverse, Jonathan Douglas, McMahon, Darrin M., Blaufarb, Rafe, Kavka, Martin, Williamson, George S., Grant, Jonathan A., Doel, Ronald Edmund, Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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This dissertation examines how the implementation of Enlightenment ideas in the French Revolution gave birth to a new secular conception of the state and the invention of a new religion. I argue that Jean-Jacques Rousseau, representing shared assumptions across the Enlightenment, interpreted religion to be a human construct and thus subject to human intervention. With the onset of 1789 revolutionaries employed this conception to reorganize the Gallican Church and institute the radical Cults...
Show moreThis dissertation examines how the implementation of Enlightenment ideas in the French Revolution gave birth to a new secular conception of the state and the invention of a new religion. I argue that Jean-Jacques Rousseau, representing shared assumptions across the Enlightenment, interpreted religion to be a human construct and thus subject to human intervention. With the onset of 1789 revolutionaries employed this conception to reorganize the Gallican Church and institute the radical Cults of Reason and the Supreme Being. When these endeavors failed revolutionaries refocused on two solutions: the secular laws of 1795 and Theophilanthropy. Revolutionary secularization separated Church and state and confined worship to the private sphere. Consequently Theophilanthropy acquired an independent status and the Revolution acted as a catalyst for the invention of a new religion based on Enlightenment principles. This study explores how Theophilanthropy stood at the foundation of French secularization, modern civil religion and subsequent New Religious Movements (NRM). The historical significance of Theophilanthropy was critical in its own time and bequeathed a legacy that long outlasted the Revolution.
Show less - Date Issued
- 2015
- Identifier
- FSU_2015fall_Deverse_fsu_0071E_12862
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- Thesis
- Title
- A United Divide: Cooperation and Reform in the Military of the German Confederation.
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Brownlee, R. A., Piehler, G. Kurt, Williamson, George S., Grant, Jonathan A., Florida State University, College of Arts and Sciences, Department of History
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This thesis examines the role of the German Confederation in the military affairs of pre-1848 Germany, specifically the Bundesheer, or Federal Army, of the Confederation. By observing the creation of the Federal Army, the military crises of the 1830s and 1840s, and the federal and state military reforms of the Vormärz period, this thesis demonstrates that a number of military reforms and advances occurred at both the federal and state levels and that these reforms were only made possible...
Show moreThis thesis examines the role of the German Confederation in the military affairs of pre-1848 Germany, specifically the Bundesheer, or Federal Army, of the Confederation. By observing the creation of the Federal Army, the military crises of the 1830s and 1840s, and the federal and state military reforms of the Vormärz period, this thesis demonstrates that a number of military reforms and advances occurred at both the federal and state levels and that these reforms were only made possible through the framework and institutions of the German Confederation.
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- 2015
- Identifier
- FSU_migr_etd-9297
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- Thesis
