Search for dissertations about: "imperial"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 60 swedish dissertations containing the word imperial.

2. 6. Rule by Association : Japan in the Global Trans-Imperial Culture, 1868-1912

   Author : John Hennessey; Hans Hägerdal; Alexis Dudden; Linnéuniversitetet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; global trans-imperial culture; association; assimilation; Hokkaido; Taiwan; expositions; Japanese colonialism; Japanese Empire; colonial history; colonial administration; Historia; History;

   Abstract : Criticizing one-empire approaches, calls to apply much-needed transnational perspectives and methodologies to colonial history have recently emerged. This groundbreaking scholarship has already revealed that the competition between different European empires after 1850 has typically been overemphasized; in fact, a transnational perspective reveals extensive cooperation between the “great powers” of the age, along with myriad examples of exchanges and transfers of colonial knowledge. READ MORE

4. 7. Dazzling Dining : Banquets as an Expression of Imperial Legitimacy

   Author : Simon Malmberg; Averil Cameron; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Banquets; emperor; legitimation; rituals; ideology; propaganda; Domus Augustana; Great Palace; triclinium; Rome; Constantinople; virtues; Christianity; precedence; consensus; tradition; court; late antiquity.; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; Classical archaeology and ancient history; Antikens kultur och samhälle; Classical Archaeology and Ancient History; antikens kultur och samhällsliv;

   Abstract : This study examines how banquets hosted by the Roman emperor were vehicles of imperial propaganda and expressions of the ruler’s political legitimation. The focus will be on the banquets held in the palace of Domus Augustana in Rome and in the Great Palace in Constantinople during the period AD 330-580. READ MORE

5. 8. Gods, Grammars, and Genres : Towards an Ethics of English Studies in Imperial Sovereignty

   Author : Noah Roderick; Janice Neuleib; USA IL Normal Illinois State University Department of English; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Grammar; genre; sovereignty; english studies; rhetoric; language; pedagogy; Engelska; English; Retorik; Rhetoric; Education; Pedagogik; Idé- och lärdomshistoria; History Of Sciences and Ideas;

   Abstract : In this dissertation, the author argues that the post-process movement towards genre-based writing pedagogies is reproducing the logic of neoliberal or free-market ideology. By analyzing the relationship between three paradigms of sovereignty (feudalism, the nation-state, and globalization) and institutionalized language, the author demonstrates that teaching writing as multiple and genred as opposed to teaching it as a single, abstract skill is no a more rational approach, but rather a differently rational approach. READ MORE

6. 9. The green shadow of Christ : a reception-exegetical study of Jesus and Pan in the gospel of Mark

   Author : David Wiljebrand; Karin Neutel; Mikael Tellbe; David Horrell; Sylvia Keesmaat; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gospel of Mark; Pan; Ecological Hermeneutics; eco-critisism; reception exegesis; agrarian culture; agrarianism; imperial ideology; pastoral poetry; Greco-Roman religion; nature discourses; Satan; demonology; Environmental History; nya testamentets exegetik; New Testament Exegesis;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates presentations of Jesus in the gospel of Mark, mainly chapter 6 and 9, in the light of the juxtaposition of Christ and the Greek nature god Pan. This juxtaposition recurs in the reception history of Pan in Western European culture. READ MORE

7. 10. Order and Adornment : The Role of Dress in Plutarch

   Author : Peder Flemestad; Antikens kultur och samhällsliv; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Plutarch; ancient dress; textile terminology; dress terminology; Imperial Greece; ancient Greek literature; Latin literature; inscriptions; Greek papyri;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates the role of dress in the ancient Greek author and intellectual Plutarch. The works of Plutarch comprise one of the most prolific authorships preserved to us from classical antiquity. READ MORE