This thesis examines Augustine of Hippo's support of the cult of relics through the lens of Peter Brown's revision of the two-tiered model which was proposed in his 1981 book The Cult of Saints. More specifically, this thesis attempts to explain the introduction of saint's relics in the final book, book 22, of Augustine's magnum opus The City of God (De Civitate Dei). After providing proof of the theologian's opposition to the cult of relics in his youth, historical, biographical, and textual evidence is used to trace his later change of heart. This change in position is crystallized in a series of miracle accounts in the 8th chapter of the 22nd book. The analysis of this 'chain of miracles' is essential in understanding the purpose of the City of God as a whole and Augustine's own theories of death and resurrection.

This thesis contains my writings and concept development, as it relates to personal history, time and animated art. This is explored through various methodologies, including short story and Zen meditative writing. As a companion to my recent thesis exhibition, this paper looks to make logical, emotional and spiritual connections between my art practice, ritualized cultural tropes and contemporary views of mortality.

Title: Criteriafor the comparison ofsportand art Objectives:The aim of this thesis is to develop its own criteria that enable sport and arts closer comparison. The criteria for comparison should be based on the sources studied, indicating the definition of sport and art. The sub-objectives include a definition of the field of sport and art that best suits examined issue. The work also aims to demonstrate that the issues examined are a topic that interested personalities such as Pierre de Coubertin and are still current as in the case of New Circus. Methods:The basicmethodologyof theoretical work, see chaptermethodology. Results: A close examinationof the literaturefocused onthedivisionof sport onpurposeandaesthetic. Comparisonaestheticssportswith artandcreate your owncomparison criteriaforthe sportandartusedon a specificexample of a newcircus. Keywords: Sport, art, visual culture, kalokagathia, olympism, the cult of the body. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

5A Abstract This work gives the analysis of iconographic elements which are found on five gold foils. These foils depict two figures which look at each other from their profile. Foils were found in the foundations of the chieftain house in Lofot's islands in Northern Norway, which is from the Migration to the Viking period. For the reason of analysis the author demonstrates three main groups of gold objects - gold bracteates, gold foils and one medallion. On these objects we can find a pair of two figures and these objects were found in Scandinavia. The author presents here the context of such finds, iconographic elements and academic interpretations of the depiction. Author compares the elements such as type of foil, appearance of eyes, posture of man and woman, their dress and haidress with 91 foils from Scandinavia, and also with bracteates and other objects. She notices the partial concordance among these elements and the other objects and she seeks the iconographic essence and function of each foil from Borg which is later confronted with the theories of the influence of religion. Because of lack of attributes on the foils, the author's assumption is that there is no general depiction of gods on the foil. On the other hand, each foil has its own story showing people from their common life. According to...

This paper details the process of creating the UNO Graduate thesis film Alien on a Savage Planet. Each major step in the filmmaking process is covered: screenwriting, producing, directing, cinematography, sound, production design, costumes, hair and makeup, workflow, editing, color correction, music and post- sound. A comprehensive assessment of the filmmaking process and the successes and failures of the project are discussed in length.

During the Vendel period the elite started to bury their men and women in the boat graves. The boat graves have been interpreted differently depending on if the graves were made for men or women. But the grave goods have one thing in common. The grave goods, consisted of weapons, jewelry, riding equipment, gaming pieces and hand craft tools, proves that the buried persons belonged to an upper-class with a connection to the religion, the gods and the fertility cult.

A presente pesquisa visa a estudar o tratamento da variação linguística nos livros didáticos, considerando a apresentação e sistematização de fatos linguísticos em variação no português brasileiro culto. Nossas reflexões baseiam-se nas concepções de que a língua apresenta variação e mudança (Labov 1972, 2001) e que as gramáticas podem competir nos diferentes usos (Kroch, 1989, 2001). Também consideramos as orientações presentes nos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais (PCN 1998) e os diversos estudos produzidos nas últimas décadas nas grandes universidades do país. Os livros didáticos que constituem nosso corpus são as coleções Tudo é Linguagem, de Borgatto, Bertin e Marchezi (2010), e Gramática Reflexiva, de Cereja e Magalhães (2008). Ambas são adotadas nas escolas privadas, e se referem ao Ensino Fundamental do 6.º ao 9.º ano. Os fatos gramaticais que constituem o objeto de investigação desta pesquisa referem-se ao emprego dos termos você/vocês e a gente como constituintes do atual quadro pronominal do português brasileiro, e ao uso de pronomes na função de objeto direto. Verifica-se ainda se a diversidade de gêneros textuais, presente no material didático examinado, contribui para a veiculação dos fenômenos em variação escolhidos para nosso estudo. Pretende-se discutir se os livros didáticos incorporaram as pesquisas recentes, promovendo a sistematização e reflexão dos aspectos gramaticais em variação no português culto brasileiro / The main goal of this dissertation is to discuss the treatment of linguistic variation in didactic books, related to two aspects of the pronominal system of writen and spoken standard Brazilian Portuguese. The first aspect refers to the variable use of the pronominal forms você/vocês and a gente, in subject position; the second one to the strategies that alternates with the forms o, a, os, as accusative second and third person clitics. The didactic books that constitute our corpus are part of the two collections Tudo é Linguagem, by Borgatto, Bertin e Marchezi (2010), and Gramática Reflexiva, by Cereja e Magalhães (2008), from the 6th to the 9th grades of the Middle School (Ensino Fundamental), and adopted in private schools. We adopetd the ideas and the theorectical concepts formulated in the Theory of Linguistic Variation and Change (Labov 1972, 2001) and in the Theory of Principles and Parameters, under the perspective of competing grammars (Kroch, 1989, 2001). We also based our discussion of linguistic variation on the guidelines found in the National Curriculum Parameters (PCN, 1998), and in the results of recent quantitative studies. Moreover, it will be checked whether the diversity of textual gender contributes to the systematization of the variants that characterize the linguistic variation in Brazilian Portuguese

Ma thèse porte sur l’étude de l’évolution du culte des reliques de saint Martin de Tours, du haut Moyen Âge jusqu’à aujourd’hui ; travaillant aussi bien sur les reliques corporelles que les reliques de contact de saint Martin. Pour cela, je dois faire l’inventaire de ses reliques qui existent à travers le monde et expliquer leurs séparations, translations et déplacements. Il s’agit aussi pour moi de les replacer dans leur contexte historique, puis d’analyser à travers elles la diffusion et l’étendue du culte de saint Martin dans le monde en confrontant les différentes sources qui évoquent ces reliques et en menant une réflexion plus générale sur la propagation d’une vénération religieuse. Les reliques Martiniennes demeurent le thème essentiel de mon travail, mais la recherche sera étendue à d’autres figures hagiographiques, dans un souci de comparaison notamment. / My PhD deals with the study of the evolution of the relics cult of Saint Martin of Tours, from the Early Middle Ages to today; I work on corporal relics as well as contact relics of Saint Martin. For that, I must make an inventory of his relics that exist around the world and explain their separations, translations and movements. It is also a question for me of replacing them in their historic context, then of analyzing through them the diffusion and the extent of the worship of Saint Martin in the world by confronting the different sources which talk about these relics and by leading a more general reflection about the spread of religious veneration. The Martinian relics remain the main theme of my work, but the research will be extended to other hagiographic figures, for the sake of comparison in particular.

The main aim of this work is the presentation, characterisation and review of the image of the Greek underworld deity, Hades/Plouton in Greek beliefs of the Archaic and Classical periods, on the basis of comparison of the preserved literary and epigraphic testimonies with the remains of material culture, and the reconstruction of the most coherent possible image of the god, claimed by scholars to be of little importance to Greek beliefs and to have no cult. The present dissertation liberates the god from long-standing scholarly misconceptions and returns him to his proper place within the Greek pantheon. Its main scholarly contribution and originality can be summarised as follows: (i) Hades is mainly an agricultural deity with a clear cult environment and has more in common with the world of the living than that of the dead; (ii) Hades influenced the representation of other male deities connected with earth: his main attribute, paradoxically the cornucopia or 'horn of plenty', appears for the first time in Greek art in the 6th century BC as exclusively his, and is later ascribed to other deities; (iii) Hades and Plouton were the same deity (Plouton - an Attic instantiation - spread throughout Greece with Attic literature and the Eleusinian cult of Demeter and Kore), sharing the same myths, and both, through the properties inscribed in their names (invisibility in Hades' and corn in Plouton's), referring to the earth; both names are products of the conceptualisation of the world of the dead; (iv) contrary to the prevailing scholarly view, the multiplicity of Hades' names is not exclusively the result of euphemism (which I propose to see rather as a by- product): the nomenclature is more complex and depends principally on cultic or mythological contexts and local tradition. My work not only reconstructs the repertoire of Greek ideas and opinions on Hades and the character of his cult, but also advocates a new understanding of the notion of Greek deity, as metonymy: Hades is representative of a wider class of deities who are concrete and abstract at the same time (like Gaia [the Earth], Uranos [the Sky], Okeanos [the Sea]): they denote a place, a god, a property of something, a form of matter.

By reconstructing the interaction between the indigenous people and the Chinese state over a long period of time from the Tang dynasty to the Qing, this thesis argues that the anomaly of indigenous contact with the state in the southwest, unlike the Pearl River delta or even Fujian, is the very long duration of contact and the persistent representation of the indigenous as part of the dominant (Han) tradition, despite the Han claim to superiority. / In my visits to Gaozhou, Leizhou and Hainan, I was attracted by the interesting phenomenon that Madam Xian (Xian Furen) or the God of Thunder (Lei shen) is worshiped not only as a deity, but also as an ancestor. The deities had been blended in with the ancestor because in the late imperial period, local people had changed the foci of their territorial worship as they became become part of the Chinese polity. / This paper draws on a variety of sources---including official documents, the images of the subjection of the natives, the temples, and the performance of ritual and so on---to voice the indigenous point of view. It goes into the history of Hainan, Leizhou and Gaozhou to relate changing religious practices with social changes and the contact between the indigenous and the state. It also relates history to ritual practices as they are currently observed. By bringing together published historical sources, steles and documents found in the field and current observations of ritual practices, this thesis shows that the imperial tradition was made up of many different strands. / 賀喜. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2007. / 參考文獻(p. 261-276). / Adviser: David Faure. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-02, Section: A, page: 0714. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, MI] : ProQuest Information and Learning, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstracts in Chinese and English. / School code: 1307. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2007. / Can kao wen xian (p. 261-276). / He Xi.