41 research outputs found
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No full textCovers OCLC #898045894 and OCLC #898045869.Appendicies include financial reports from the Los Angeles County Fair Association, the Calgary Stampede and the Minnesota State Agricultural Society; a facility inventory of the Oregon state fairgrounds; and a list of example Oregon independent state agencies.This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English.Text in English
The liturgical vision of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
No full textThe aim of this thesis is to argue that Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) was a liturgist who had a liturgical vision. He is commonly regarded as an architect and designer per se, but many believe he had eccentric ideas, was a fanatic for the Gothic style of architecture and that while he was religious, he had little impact on the religious controversy and events of his time. The thesis will bring forward a different picture of him. The reasons put forward to support the claim that he was a liturgist are that he had a particularly definition of liturgy; he studied liturgy for three years; he employed a particular method of writing, which was commonly used by past liturgists; many of his authorities were liturgists and historians, as well as architects and designers, and his sources related to liturgy. Pugin went from attacking Protestants, to defending his views against Roman Catholics. To argue for his views, Pugin employed a particular methodology, which included a vast number of authorities and sources. He offered to England an alternative setting of the Roman rite. The new converts who had seceded from the Church of England to the Church of Rome, including John Henry Newman and his circle, did not support him and this led to a major conflict. Their different views of liturgy became a matter of judgement for the Roman Catholic Church. Pugin was influenced by Continental, particularly French, Roman Catholic scholars and liturgists. The influence of the leader of the liberal Catholics in France, Charles-Forbes-Rene, Count de Montalembert, is also brought to light. The thesis will argue that Pugin sought to implement his views on liturgy in England and had a vision of a future England that could act as an example to the rest of Catholic Christendom, including the Church of Rome. He initially had a measure of success, but finally failed and bowed to the judgement of the Roman Catholic Church
The diocese of Coventry and Lichfield, 1603-1642
No full textThis thesis investigates religious life among the clergy and laity in the diocese of
Lichfield, 1603-1642, including the role of Puritans, Catholics and Church
Papists. Nicholas Tyacke has maintained that the implementation of Laudianism
in Charles I's reign proved contentious, an interpretation criticised by some
historians who aver that the Church continued to maintain a 'middle way'. This
study finds that the evidence from the diocese largely supports Tyacke's
interpretation.
Proto-Laudian reforms were implemented in the see some years before the
Laudian ascendancy through the episcopates of Neile and Overall. Every bishop
in the period who undertook a programme of reform met local hostility and
indifference, and sometimes the opposition of his ecclesiastical and lay superiors.
Every religious group underwent change and development. Puritans and
Catholics pursued strategies for survival, supported by their respective religious
networks. Official opposition often had the effect of strengthening their resolve
and confirming them in their beliefs. Local conformists' commitment to the
established Church deepened during this period. They respected the Church's role
as the official purveyor of religion, morality and the ecclesiastical rites of passage,
without evidencing much theological understanding.
In the 1630s Bishop Wright oversaw the Laudian programme of
sacramental, sacerdotal and liturgical reform, but his lack of organisation, zeal and
commitment frustrated Charles, Laud and some local diocesan officials. The
changes met resistance, which gathered strength with the collapse of the Personal
Rule and manifested itself either in a desire to return to the pre-Laudian Church,
or in its root and branch reform. The strength of an individual's anti-Catholicism
indicated which religious solution s/he supported. When war came, for the most
part Puritans predictably supported Parliament, but a number of moderate Puritans
supported the King. Even among the 'godly' fraternity allegiance could
sometimes be determined by a variety of considerations
Gender and technology in the East Midlands boot and shoe industry : 1850-1911
No full textMany scholars now consider that gender is an important category in historical study,
but unfortunately many do not practice what they preach. Feminists have recognised
for some time the importance of some form of historical analysis to feminism, or at
least what Judith Allen calls 'a historically grounded feminism'. The protagonists in
the debate disagree considerably, however, over the methodology which feminist
historians should adopt. The various positions taken up have led to a schism between
those who believe the feminist challenge to mainstream, or what Elizabeth Fox-
Genovese calls 'official' history, should be mounted from within the discipline of
history or from outside it. Judith Allen claims that the work which has been done in
women's history to date serves to raise considerable doubt that accepting the
discipline of history as presently constituted is a viable option for feminism. She sees
the phallocentric characteristics of history as an obstacle to feminists using history.
Allen feels that 'no less than Marxism, feminism is opposed by professional historians
as an ahistorical grid of abstraction and prescription, threatening the integrity of the
historical evidence.
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On stage at the theatre of state: the monuments and memorials in Parliament Square, London
No full textThis thesis concerns Parliament Square in the City of Westminster, London. It is situated to the west of the Houses of Parliament (or New Palace at Westminster) and to the north of St. Margaret’s Church and Westminster Abbey. This urban space was first cleared at the start of the nineteenth-century and became a “square” in the 1860s according to designs by Edward Middleton Barry (1830-80). It was replanned by George Grey Wornum (1888-1957) in association with the Festival of Britain (1951). In 1998 Norman Foster and Partners drew up an (as yet) unrealised scheme to pedestrianise the south side closest to the Abbey
English Romanesque tympana : a study of architectural sculpture in church portals c.1050-c.1200
No full textThis thesis presents a study of the use made of tympana in English Romanesque
portals and the evidence they offer for religious, social and cultural expression in village
churches where the vast majority of examples are preserved. In order to achieve this a
significant proportion of the analysis has been addressed to the manner in which people
may have interpreted what they saw. For the convenience of the reader basic descriptions
of all examples noted during the course of the research and details of manorial and patronal
circumstances are given as the Handlist in Volume 2.
The first two chapters establish the parameters of the research, outline the social
and religious environment during the period, and the art historical principles underpinning
the research. Chapter III examines the distribution of examples in geographical terms and
the use made of tympana in different categories of building. In chapter IV the structural
and compositional formulation of tympana is analysed and the use made of geometric
ornament. Chapter V assesses images of Christ and the relationship between these and the
representation of power. Chapter VI examines other human figural iconography through
the categories of figure-types depicted. The subject of chapter VII is the use of
compositional types as a means to assess the use made of beast imagery.
The thesis demonstrates for the first time in a systematic and quantified manner
that tympana are a significant feature of English Romanesque portals and that a strong
decorative character is shared by all tympana, thus contributing to the adornment of the
house of God in a befitting manner. It argues that the iconography was composed so as to
ensure the utility of the images as a focus for devotion for a wide variety of audiences and
as a means of expressing social values, particularly through the relationship between the
figures depicted and the representation of temporal power. The thesis also confirms that
the religion presented by examples with figural sculpture is centred on the authority of God
and the saints and on iconic symbols, rather than exemplars for emulation, reflecting the
conservative nature of devotion in local communities. The thesis therefore raises
important issues in relation to our understanding of portals as architectural features, the
expression of religious devotion and social values in local communities during the period,
and the use of portals in the practice of religious devotion
The evolving reputation of Richard Hooker : an examination of responses to the Ecclesiastical Polity, 1640-1714.
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Economic strategies for coastal disaster risk reduction: A case study of Exmouth, Western Australia
No full textRecent major natural disasters in Australia have highlighted how some of the economic costs of living in risk-prone areas are borne by the rest of society. This study used the town of Exmouth, in north-western Australia, to investigate economic strategies for coastal disaster risk reduction, as it typifies expanding development in coastal areas prone to extreme weather events. Using a GIS, coastal inundation scenarios from cyclonic storm-surge were investigated relative to coastal property, infrastructure and shire planning. It showed that some areas developed in the past decade are at high risk of storm-surge inundation. There has been a loss of disastermitigating ecosystem functions as well as increased risk to previously unaffected areas. The extent to which risk perceptions of cyclonic storm-surge inundation and flooding influenced the price buyers paid for residential property in Exmouth over the period 1988-2010 was examined using a Hedonic Price Model. This incorporated dwelling variables, proximity to the coast, cyclone Vance storm-surge and 1-in-100 year flood levels and indicated that prices did not reflect the real societal cost of risk. To internalize these costs, a mandatory private insurance scheme for high-risk properties (with a time-phased government subsidy) and penalties for local councils undertaking new high-risk developments are proposed. Further, a hybrid economic instrument aimed at correcting the market failure in coastal land which comprises an environmental offset by developers, a propertyowner tax and special disaster risk mitigation fund, is also proposed. This study is highly relevant in view of the planned revision of the Western Australian Coastal Planning Policy, the expansion of industry along the coast of northern Australia and the predicted effects of climate change on sea levels and extreme weather events
The view from the backbench : Irish Nationalist MPs and their work, 1910-1914
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