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This dissertation provides a study of Henry VII's almshouse at Westminster Abbey from its foundation, c.1500, throughout the Dissolutions of the sixteenth century, up to the Elizabethan Reformation; a period covering just over a hundred years. The almshouse was built in conjunct…

It is the premise of this study that in the Tudor period there developed a new sense of being/feeling ‘cosmopolitan’ – i.e. a citizen of the world - that was distinct from the original, political, meaning of this term and was instead defined by cross cultural engagement, interna…

My dissertation deals with the cultural exchange between England and West Africa during the middle and late 16th century. Morocco's political and military strength was similar to that of England at this time, leading to equal and frequent social, economic, and diplomatic discour…