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Ambassador at war: John J. Muccio and the Korean War (1948-1952)
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)The United States of America sent eight ministers to Korea’s Chosŏn Dynasty and Korean Empire from 1883 until 1905. John J. Muccio was the first Ambassador that the U.S. dispatched to the Republic of Korea. What made Muccio ... -
Aspects of thirteenth century Franciscan education with special regard to the province of Anglia
(Bilkent University, 1997)The transformation of the Order of Friars Minor in the course of the thirteenth century is well known-from a group consisting mostly of laymen vowed to poverty and mendicancy, into well-established Order throughout Europe, ... -
Behind the history: English etiquette books and nineteenth century's perceptions of women
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)The Victorian era is a vital period in terms of intellectual and social changes, in addition to the industrial revolution and urbanization. This study aims to analyze nineteenth century English etiquette books and perceptions ... -
British ambitions in the Mediterranean and their effect on the allied quest for Turkish belligerency in WWII
(Bilkent University, 2020-12)Turkish belligerency which was not quite desired by Britain during the World War II was interwoven with the British ambitions in the Mediterranean including the post- World War II settlement of the region into the British ... -
The cinque ports in the reigns of King John and King Henry III, with a focus on the two civil wars of the thirteenth century
(Bilkent University, 2019-08)Situated on the shores of the historic counties of Kent and Sussex on the South-East coast of England, the Cinque Ports were a group of port towns which provided ship service to the kings in exchange for certain privileges ... -
Conquest, colonization and cultural change in Eastern Suffolk, 1066-1166
(Bilkent University, 2002)In the period between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries migrations from the Frankish heartland into different parts of Europe created a situation in which we see the “Europeanization of Europe”. In the course of ... -
The Crescent, the Lion and the Eagle: re-analyzing the Ottoman Apulian Campaign and Attack on Corfu (1537) in the context of Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry
(Bilkent University, 2018-01)This dissertation produces a detailed historical narrative of the Ottoman Apulian Campaign and the Attack on Corfu in 1537. Although the Apulian Campaign, a natural consequence of the Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, which ... -
Curing the body, curing the society : the miracle stories of Gregory of Tours in the service of ascetical socio-moral reform in sixth-century Gaul
(Bilkent University, 2004)The saints in Gregory of Tours’s miracle stories frequently transfer such values as peacefulness, charity and mercy from theory into public action by their miracles. This exemplary function of the miracles in the Histories ... -
The demise of the walking dead : the rise of purgatory and the end of revenancy
(Bilkent University, 2007)Folklore and popular belief strongly affect human behavior in any age, showing how people think, what they fear and how they react. The belief in the existence of the walking dead, that is, revenants, is no exception. ... -
Identification of NO subscript x species adsorbed on cobalt(II)-supported zirconia and sulfated zirconia and investigation of their reactivity toward methane
(Bilkent University, 2002)In the period between the eleventh and the thirteenth centuries migrations from the Frankish heartland into different parts of Europe created a situation in which we see the “Europeanization of Europe”. In the course of ... -
“In Dominio Sunt III Carrucae Et Vi Serui Et III Ancillae”: understanding female slaves in Early Medieval England through Domesday Book
(Bilkent University, 2019-09)The aim of this thesis is to provide an insight into the place and role of female slaves in eleventh-century England by examining the records of six counties in Domesday Book. In a general sense, medieval women are ... -
"In muliere exhibeas virum" : women, power and authority in early twelfth-century Anglo-Norman chronicles
(Bilkent University, 2007)This thesis analyses the relationship of women with power and authority within the context of the evidence provided by early twelfth-century Anglo-Norman chronicles between 1095 and 1154. It discusses the basic factors ... -
In search of “gentlemen” in the fifteenth century: “The Boke of St. Albans”
(Bilkent University, 2022-07)This thesis explains the concept of “gentleman” and its place in the social and cultural world of fifteenth-century England. To this end it examines the Book of St. Albans, compiled by a mysterious individual towards the ... -
Interpreting warfare and knighthood in late medieval France : writers and their sources in the reign of king Charles VI (1380-1422)
(Bilkent University, 2012)This thesis makes an analysis of different views on warfare and knighthood focusing on the late Middle Ages, though looking back to what came before, with an argument that a ‘new view’ was held by certain authors during ... -
Jihad in a context of shifting alliances and enmities : study on the relations of the early Artukids and crusaders as reflected in contemporary Muslim and Christian historiography, 1098-1124
(Bilkent University, 2013)This thesis is a study of the relations of the early Artukids with the Crusaders, with the aim of seeing how they fit into the general context of the reaction of the Muslim world to the Frankish presence in the Middle ... -
The “King’s Bloody Advocate” or “Noble wit of Scotland”? Restoration Scotland and the case of Sir George Mackenzie of Rosehaugh, 1636/38-1691 : neostoicism, politics and the origins of the Scottish enlightenment
(Bilkent University, 2017-01)The aim of this thesis is to assess Sir George Mackenzie’s (1636/38-1691) life allinclusively, deed and word, by taking his professed stoicism as the unifying force in his struggles to combat a “bigot age”. Remembered ... -
The late twelfth-century knightly ethic in North-Western Europe in life and in literature
(Bilkent University, 2008)By the end of the twelfth-century, a new type of literature had come into being in North-western Europe, combining an older warrior ethic with the newly formed refined culture of the courts. This literature centred on a ... -
"The letter kills, but the spirit gives life" : the rise of learning in the Franciscan order, 1210-1310
(Bilkent University, 2001)The historiography of medieval Franciscan education has been dominated by two general approaches that appear unjustifiable. The first has been to assume that the Franciscan educational organization was a later copy of ... -
The Meanings of the terms used for the muslims in the accounts of the first and third crusades
(Bilkent University, 2005)Although most people who encounter terms such as identity, group identity, ethnic, groups, nations or religious groups believe that they know, at least roughly, what these terms mean, the terms are in fact slippery and ... -
Possession, dispossession, and exorcism in early modern England: Casting out divells in the light of John Darrell’s cases
(Bilkent University, 2018-05)This study analyzes the phenomenon of demonic possession and the rite of exorcism in early modern England and traces the debates over the reality of demonic activity such as possession in both Catholic and Protestant ...
