Robinson, Jon

This thesis examines the ways in which Scottish and English court literature of the early sixteenth century existed within a complex system of entertainment, education, self-fashioning, dissimulation, propaganda and patronage that circumscribed the production and initial perform…

Over the past few decades, the focus of the black church in America has shifted from a communal pursuit of justice and liberation for marginalized people toward a personal pursuit of piety and prosperity. This project offers a theo-political discipleship model that seeks to recl…