Thesis (Ph.D.)--Bowling Green State University, 2007. / Document formatted into pages; contains x, 268 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2010. / Title from title screen (site viewed May 18, 2010). PDF text: viii, p. : ill. (some col.), map. Publication: Anthropology Department Theses and Dissertations. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2007. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 100-104). Also available on the World Wide Web.

<p>This master essay deals with the changes in the use of and the abandonment of the Avebury monument and the change of the surrounding landscape during the late Neolitihic, about 3000 B.C, and into the Bronze age, about 1500 B.C. The change in the way people supported themselves, the development of agriculture, brought along many other changes as well. I am in this paper dealing with these issues, how and what lead up to these changes, the peoples own part in the development, and I am also looking into the fact that these changes might not have meant an end of old ideologies, but rather a development in the expression of beliefs where the monuments of the neolithic no longer had a place in society.</p>

The theoretical part of this thesis describes "project teaching" as one of the methods that enhance the activity of students and improve the learning process. Furthermore, technical education and its role in primary school is described. The last section of the theoretical part deals with the technical monuments, which were used in the creation of learning projects. The practical part presents the various training projects designed for the primary schools, which are thematically based on the technologically important buildings of the South Bohemian region. Projects also includes teaching materials and information basis for teachers.

Comme toute civilisation, l'Occident médiéval confère au tombeau un sens particulier. Basée sur les dessins de la collection Gaignières, l'étude sérielle de plus de 1500 monuments funéraires permet d'explorer la construction et les usages de cette image-objet entre le XIIe et le XVe siècle. En combinant les méthodes quantitative et qualitative, l'analyse fait ressortir de ce corpus hétérogène des structures et des dynamiques qui opposent deux approches monumentales du tombeau : une approche verticale qui implique l'usage de structures en élévation et de la statuaire, et une approche horizontale qui concerne spécifiquement les dalles funéraires. Cette bipolarisation est socialement déterminée. Les tombeaux verticaux sont privilégiés par la haute hiérarchie ecclésiastique et laïque et les tombeaux horizontaux par le reste des clercs et des aristocrates, ainsi que par les bourgeois. En plus de refléter et de reproduire la hiérarchie sociale, une telle répartition des tombeaux renvoie à deux types de constructions mémorielles. En s'imposant physiquement dans l'espace ecclésial et en refoulant les références à la mort, les tombeaux verticaux participent surtout à une commémoration rétrospective du défunt dont les finalités sont temporelles (identité et légitimation sociale). En entretenant avec le lieu de la tombe un rapport direct et évocateur, les tombeaux horizontaux répondent davantage aux besoins d'une commémoration prospective, orientée vers le salut de l'âme. Ces tendances commémoratives ne s'excluent pas mutuellement mais constituent, en définitive, les deux pôles entre lesquels se développe la variété formelle et iconographique des tombeaux. / As with all civilizations, the Medieval West gave a specific meaning to the funeral monument. Based on drawings from the Gaignières Collection, the serial study of over 1500 tombs helps to explore the construction and uses of this particular « image-object » between the 12th and 15th century. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods which help reveal the structures and dynamics of the documents, the analysis identifies two ways of approaching the tomb as monument : a vertical approach characterized by the use of elevated structures and statues, and a horizontal approach entirely associated with funeral slabs. The bipolarization is socially determined. Vertical tombs are favored by the upper echelons of the religious and lay hierarchies, while horizontal tombs are used by the remaining clerics and aristocrats as well as by the burghers. In addition to reflecting and reproducing the social hierarchy, these tendencies express two types of memorial constructions. By physically imposing themselves in church space et by avoiding direct references to death, vertical monuments mostly answer to a retrospective commemoration by which the glorified memory of the deceased serves temporal ends (i.e. social identity and legitimacy). By maintaining a close and suggestive relation with the site and content of the tomb, horizontal monuments favor a prospective commemoration orientated towards the soul's salvation. Far from being mutually exclusive, these two types of commemoration rather constitute the poles between which the Medieval tomb expresses its formal and iconographic diversity.

The natural monument Vrbenská tůň is located in České Vrbné on the northwest edge of České Budějovice. It is the remainder of the winding original stream Dehtářský potok in the wide flat alluvium of the Vltava river. This thesis provides essential information behind development of a project about public nature trails and information boards in the wildlife. A first section describes natural characteristics of an area, foundation of projects, history of public footpaths in the Czech Republic, their types and signage. The main part is devoted to a proposal of a specific type of design of a nature trail, terrain mapping and consequent selection of the best route, creating designs and texts of individual noticeboards including visual documentation and signage. The appendix covers anticipated budgets of the project, photographic documentation, maps, spatial designs that graphically demonstrates the given location.

The thesis is focused on technical monuments in South Bohemia. Selected monuments are applied in lower secondary school teaching by means of excursions and projects. The theoretical part deals with the project teaching and its use in education. Subsequently the attention is paid to technical education, technological literacy and their roles in lower secondary schools. The last chapter of the theoretical part deals with technical monuments, their official status and typology. The final section is devoted to selected technical monuments and attractions, which are briefly described. Individual excursions and projects for teaching in lower secondary schools are developed in the practical part of the thesis. The information base for teachers and expansion options of individual excursions to other objects are also included in excursions and projects. The supplement of the thesis includes maps and other documents for successful realisation of excursions or projects.

This thesis deals with the evaluation of options for the revitalisation of brownfields. Goal of the thesis is to propose a conceptual project for the revitalisation of brownfield object for use in tourism, based on the analysis of conditions for the use of brown-field in the Czech Republic . For ideological project was selected a former brewery in Plavnice in the Kamenný Újezd. At the proposal part of this thesis is compiled its revitalisation by using it as a microbrewery, restaurant or accommodation facility.

A presente pesquisa tem como objetivo abordar a História Eclesiástica, obra pioneira de Eusébio de Cesareia, a partir do ponto de vista de sua monumentalidade. Isto é: contemplando a maneira com que os temas abordados, e sobretudo a maneira como esses temas foram expostos nas páginas da História Eclesiástica, contribuíram para a constituição de uma identidade cristã em um período em que se deu uma passagem geracional de um contexto em que os cristãos eram perseguidos pelas autoridades romanas para um período em que o cristianismo adquiriu um novo status dentro do Império Romano. Para que essa abordagem seja possível, para que seja possível tratar da História Eclesiástica como uma referência para o mundo cristão do século IV e para as futuras gerações cristãs, será considerado todo o entorno religioso e cultural que de alguma maneira influenciou o desenvolvimento e a difusão do cristianismo e esteve presente na obra monumental do bispo de Cesareia, assim como autores cristãos de diferentes períodos que encontraram na História Eclesiástica uma referência para compreender os conflitos religiosos de seu próprio tempo. / The present research aims to approach the Ecclesiastical History, a pioneer historical work written by Eusebius of Caesarea, from the point of view of its monumentality. In other words, comprising the way that the addressed subjects, especially the way those subjects were exposed on the pages of the Ecclesiastical History, contributed to the formation of a christian identity in a period in which there was a generational transition from a context when christians were pursued by the roman authorities to a period when the christian religion acquired a new status in the Roman Empire. In order to succeed in this approach, in order to make possible to consider the Ecclesiastical History a refference to the christian world from the 4th century and for future christian generations, it will be taken into account the whole religious environment that somehow influenced the growth and spread of christianity and was present in the monumental work of the bishop of Caesarea, as well as christian authors from different historical periods that found in the Ecclesiastical Historial a refference to understand the religious conflicts from their own time.