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    The Reformation in the burgh of St Andrews : property, piety and power

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    This thesis examines the impact of the Reformation on the estates of ecclesiastical institutions and officials based in St Andrews. It argues that land and wealth were redistributed and power structures torn apart, as St Andrews changed from Scotland’s Catholic ecclesiastical capital to a conspicuously Protestant burgh. The rapid dispersal of the pre-Reformation church’s considerable ecclesiastical lands and revenues had long-term ramifications for the lives of local householders, for relations between religious and secular authorities, and for St Andrews’ viability as an urban community. Yet this major redistribution of wealth has had limited attention from scholars. The first part of this study considers the role played by the Catholic Church in St Andrews before the Reformation, and the means by which it was financed, examining the funding of the city’s pre-Reformation ecclesiastical foundations and officials, and arguing that (contrary to some traditional assumptions) the Catholic Church in St Andrews was on a reasonably sound financial footing until the Reformation. The second section considers the immediate disruption to St Andrews’ religious lands and revenues caused by the burgh’s public conversion to Protestantism, and then explores the more planned reorganisation of the 1560s. The disputes and difficulties triggered by the redistribution of ecclesiastical wealth are examined, as well as the longer term impact on St Andrews of the treatment of church revenues at the Reformation. Evidence for this study is chiefly drawn from the extensive body of manuscripts concerning St Andrews held by the National Library of Scotland, the National Records of Scotland, and the University of St Andrews Special Collections

    Lucile E. Haagenrud at Andrews University James White Library Ellen G White Estate branch office

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    Lucile E. Haagenrud searching for Ellen G. White letters at Andrews University James White Library Ellen G. White Estate branch officehttps://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/library-images/1092/thumbnail.jp

    Education in post-Reformation Scotland : Andrew Melville and the University of St Andrews, 1560-1606

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    Andrew Melville (1545-1622) was the leader of the Presbyterian wing of the Scottish Kirk between 1574 and 1607, and he and his colleagues were a perpetual irritant to James VI and I in his attempts to establish a royal and Episcopal dominance over the Kirk. Yet much of Melville’s reputation has been based on the seventeenth-century Presbyterian historical narratives written by the likes of James Melville (Andrew’s nephew) and David Calderwood. These partisan accounts formed the basis of modern historiography in Thomas M’Crie’s monumentally influential Life of Andrew Melville. Modern historians broadly agree that Melville’s portrayal as a powerful and decisive church leader in these narratives is greatly exaggerated, and that he was at best an influential voice in the Kirk who was quickly marginalised by the adult James VI. However, only James Kirk has commented at any length on Melville’s other role in Jacobean Scotland—that of developing and reforming the Scottish universities. Melville revitalised the near-defunct Glasgow University between 1574 and 1580, and from 1580 to 1607 was principal of St Mary’s College, St Andrews, Scotland’s only divinity college. He was also rector of the University of St Andrews between 1590 and 1597. This thesis provides a detailed account of Melville’s personal role in the reform and expansion of the Scottish universities. This includes an analysis of his direct work at Glasgow, but focuses primarily on St Andrews, using the untapped archival sources held there and at the Scottish National Library and Archives to create a detailed picture of the development of the University after the Reformation. This thesis also evaluates the intellectual content of Melville’s reform programme, both as it developed during his time in Paris, Poitiers and Geneva, and as we see it in action in St Andrews

    Andrews University James White Library Ellen G. White Estate branch office vault

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    St Andrews University Library in the eighteenth century : Scottish education and print-culture

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    The context of this thesis is the growth in size and significance of the St Andrews University Library, made possible by the University's entitlement, under the Copyright Acts between 1709 and 1836, to free copies of new publications. Chapter I shows how the University used its improving Library to present to clients and visitors an image of the University's social and intellectual ideology. Both medium and message in this case told of a migration into the printed book of the University's functions, intellectual, spiritual, and moral, a migration which was going forward likewise in the other Scottish universities and in Scottish culture at large. Chapters II and III chart that migration respectively in religious discourse and in moral education. This growing importance of the book prompted some Scottish professors to devise agencies other than consumer demand to control what was read in their universities and beyond, and indeed what was printed. Chapter IV reviews those devices, one of which was the subject Rhetoric, now being reformed to bring modern literature into its discipline. Chapter V argues that the new Rhetoric tended in fact to confirm the hegemony of print by turning literary study from a general literary apprenticeship into the specialist reading of canonical printed texts. That tendency was not without opposition. Chapter VI analyses the challenge from traditional oral culture as it was expressed in the marginalia added to the Library books at St Andrews University by its students, and argues that this dissident culture helped to form the voice of the poet Robert Fergusson while he was one of those students. Chapter VII goes on to show how Fergusson used that voice to warn his countrymen of the threat which print represented to their culture, and to show how it might be resisted in the interests of both literature and conviviality

    Adrienne G. Andrews Oral History Interview

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    Oral history interview by Mary Heers with Adrienne G. Andrews. Topics include: Her twelve-year career in social justice and diversity at Weber State University, including work with Ogden City; Working with community partners; Facilitating a series of community talks about issues of race; Racial microaggression; Being a member of the Utah MLK Human Rights Commission; Working with local law enforcement to build community networks; Her desire to be an attorney growing up, but discovering her love for advocacy: Actively pursuing a doctorate degree through the University of Utah; Being deliberate in building community relationships; Writing a monthly commentary for the Standard Examiner; The increase of female leadership in the area; Her love of Ogden, and her belief that embracing a shared humanity opens up endless possibilities.Ms. Adrienne Andrews works as Weber State University\u27s chief diversity officer. She has held various diversity-related positions at Weber State University for the last 12 years. She also was selected to serve on Ogden City\u27s new diversity commission. She is also a member of the Utah MLK Human Rights Commission. She talks about her work and her passion in uniting community through inclusion, conversation and understanding

    Alberto R. Timm

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    Alberto R. Timm is professor of historical theology at Brazil University Center�Engenheiro Coelho Campus and director of the Brazilian Ellen G. White Research Center. He completed his PhD degree in Adventist Studies at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University. He has produced numerous scholarly works on Adventist history and theology.https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/qod-images/1021/thumbnail.jp

    Treasures of the University : an examination of the identification, presentation and responses to artefacts of significance at the University of St Andrews, from 1410 to the mid-19th century; with an additional consideration of the development of the portrait collection to the early 21st century

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    Since its foundation between 1410 and 1414 the University of St Andrews has acquired what can be considered to be ‘artefacts of significance’. This somewhat nebulous phrase is used to denote items that have, for a variety of reasons, been deemed to have some special import by the University, and have been displayed or otherwise presented in a context in which this status has been made apparent. The types of artefacts in which particular meaning has been vested during the centuries under consideration include items of silver and gold (including the maces, sacramental vessels of the Collegiate Church of St Salvator, collegiate plate and relics of the Silver Arrow archery competition); church and college furnishings; artworks (particularly portraits); sculpture; and ethnographic specimens and other items described in University records as ‘curiosities’ held in the University Library from c. 1700-1838. The identification of particular artefacts as significant for certain reasons in certain periods, and their presentation and display, may to some extent reflect the University's values, preoccupations and aspirations in these periods, and, to some degree, its identity. Consciously or subconsciously, the objects can be employed or operate as signifiers of meaning, representing or reflecting matters such as the status, authority and history of the University, its breadth of learning and its interest and influence in spheres from science, art and world cultures to national affairs. This thesis provides a comprehensive examination of the growth and development of the University's holdings of 'artefacts of significance' from its foundation to the mid-19th century, and in some cases (especially portraits) beyond this date. It also offers insights into how the University viewed and presented these items and what this reveals about the University of St Andrews, its identity, which changed and developed as the living institution evolved, and the impressions that it wished to project

    Metophthalmus haigi Andrews 1976

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    <i>Metophthalmus haigi</i> Andrews <p>Fig. 8</p> <p> <b>Distribution.</b> MEXICO. Baja California: Sierra San Pedro Martir [CSCA]; 4 mi. S La Rumerosa [CSCA]; Sierra Juarez, 4 mi. S El Rayo [CSCA]; Sierra Juarez, 1 mi. N El Compadre [CSCA].</p>Published as part of <i>Andrews, Fred G., 2001, New Species Of Metophthalmus (Coleoptera: Latridiidae) With Notes On The Genus In The Baja California Peninsula, Mexico, pp. 129-133 in The Coleopterists Bulletin 55 (2)</i> on page 133, DOI: 10.1649/0010-065x(2001)055[0129:nsomcl]2.0.co;2, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4891433">http://zenodo.org/record/4891433</a&gt

    The inferior vena caval compression theory of hypotension in obstetric spinal anaesthesia: studies in normal and preeclamptic pregnancy, a literature review and revision of fundamental concepts

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    Full metadata records and copyright statements for publications contained in this portfolio thesis are available at the identifiers listedThree clinical investigations together with a combined editorial and review of the cardiovascular physiology of spinal anaesthesia in normal and preeclamptic pregnancy form the basis of a thesis to be submitted for the degree of Doctor of Medicine at the University of St Andrews. First, the longstanding consensus that spinal anaesthesia could cause severe hypotension in severe preeclampsia was examined using three approaches. The doses of ephedrine required to maintain systolic blood pressure above predetermined limits were first compared in spinal versus epidural anaesthesia. The doses of ephedrine required were then similarly studied during spinal anaesthesia in preeclamptic versus normal control subjects. The principal outcome of these studies, that preeclamptic patients were resistant to hypotension after a spinal anaesthetic, was then further investigated by studying pulse transit time (PTT) changes in normal versus preeclamptic pregnancy. PTT was explored both as beat-to-beat monitor of cardiovascular function and also as an indicator of changes in arterial stiffness. The cardiovascular physiology of obstetric spinal anaesthesia was then reviewed in the light of the three clinical investigations, developments in reproductive vascular biology and the regulation of venous capacitance. It is argued that the theory of a role for vena caval compression as the single cause of spinal anaesthetic induced hypotension in obstetrics should be revised
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