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This dissertation focuses on two generically innovative texts that represent different forms of historical writing in Medieval Europe and the Middle East and situates them in their social, religious, and historical contexts. Where Salimbene's "chronicle" attempted to present the…

Relics and the Eucharist, powerful physical links between the divine and the human, sit at the heart of narratives about twelfth-century English religious conflicts. These conflicts centered around internal strife between Jews and Christians, prior to the Jews' expulsion from En…

This guidebook presents futures, and reconsiders the present, in the Great Lakes Region through exploring relationships to the built environment of sedentary communities. Research into Nomadism uncovered that many nomadic communities have long been cognizant of the relationships…

This thesis is a criticism of chroniclers. As is said at the end of the introduction, this research not only criticizes poor investigative work (whether it be intentionally malicious, or simply lazy) from the past, but also reinforces a standard of expectation for those who wish…