Browsing by Author "Coleman, Joyce"
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Gender and Jewish Conversion to Christianity in Medieval France and Germany, 1095-1450
Lackner, Jacob (2018)This dissertation argues that gender is an important tool of analysis in understanding Jewish conversion to Christianity in the High Middle Ages. It establishes that Christian sources describe Jewish women as malleable ... -
Primary Rhetoric and the Structure of a Passacaglia
Backman, Samuel (2020-05)The art of the musician is much like that of the orator. Both are charged with the delivery of a sonic medium over the unfolding course of time. Furthermore, both the orator and musician must be attentive to disposition ... -
REPRESENTATIONS OF MALE MEDIEVAL LITERARY CHARACTERS AND THE MEDIEVAL UNDERSTANDING OF GENDERED CHARACTERISTICS
Lubinski, Jason (2019-05)This dissertation analyzes how medieval society understood the way gender characteristics were composed and balanced in a person by applying classical theories on biology, the humors, physiognomy, and astrology to medieval ... -
Virgulae and Distinctiones: A History of Western Notational Systems from Grammar Handbook to Liturgical Leaf
Tharp, Rachel (2022-05-13)I present the history of the virgule or slash (/) as a measure of how students read and interpreted texts first by methods taught in grammar handbooks but then according to scribal-driven innovations to the page. The mark ...