This work deals with the person and period of Přemysl Otakar I and above all with the Bohemian church, which at this time was fighting for its independence. I attempt here to describe Přemysl's achievement of a great success in the form of the Golden Bull of Sicily. I also address the ecclesiastical struggle that Bishop Ondřej conducted with the king. This whole struggle between church and state culminated in great privileges issued to the church by Přemysl Otakar I. In this work I describe both these successes, ecclesiastical and statebuilding. I approach this struggle from the position of the church and from the position of the state and in conclusion I summarise the impact the result of this struggle had on the Bohemian church. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)

The Hat Lady Equation is a collection of poems by Lauren Capone. As influences she cites Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, among the exquisite minutiae of day-to-day living. The poems explore works of visual art by Alberto Giacometti, James Taylor Bonds, Chris Dennis, Blaine Capone (her brother), and creatures of the natural world including fish, the rhinoceros, a lettered olive shell. . . . Lauren shows a preoccupation with disassembling through the poems whether it's her identity, art, or happenings of everyday life.

Thesis advisor: Paul Mariani / Robert Lowell, Lyric and Life investigates the meaning of autobiography as it is represented and produced by the work of art. I begin by tracing Lowell's poetics to the highly personal Romanticism of William Wordsworth and the highly impersonal Modernism of T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and Allen Tate. Reading Lowell's writing in light of this dual inheritance, I am able to point out the limitations of calling Lowell's poetry "confessional" and to propose a model of the lyric self that accounts for the significant semiotic and psychological complexity that goes into the making of a lyric "I." I argue that, from a reader's point of view, Lowell's autobiographical poems are more creations of experience than they are records of experience; that, although the reader is supposed to believe he is "getting the real Robert Lowell," what he really gets is a fictive representation. Taking hold of what Robert Lowell called the "thread of autobiography" that strings together his life's work, I then trace the changing role of Lowell's autobiographical lyric self in a series of three chapters. The first of these chapters concerns the manuscript drafts and published poems of Life Studies (composed from 1953-1959) and, through attention to Lowell's revisions, demonstrates the great extent to which Lowell fictionalized his experience: for instance, by omitting some of the most personal details of the poems in favor of elegant prosodic or thematic composition. The next chapter takes up what I designate "the Notebook poems" (the sonnets published between 1967 and 1972 in the volumes Notebook 1967-68, Notebook, History, and For Lizzie & Harriet), examining the ways in which Lowell's move to New York City and his readings of Hannah Arendt, Eric Auerbach, Simone Weil, and Herbert Marcuse (among others) affected his views of the lyric self in relation to history. This chapter ends by arguing for the Dantesque contours of the Notebook poems, and again takes a close look at Lowell's drafts, including an unpublished essay on Dante. A final chapter examines two ekphrastic autobiographical poems ("Marriage" and "Epilogue"), from Lowell's final volume, Day by Day (1977), in relation to poems by Elizabeth Bishop and William Wordsworth. It concludes by showing, through a close reading of "Epilogue" and its drafts, Lowell's own retrospective concern to question and doubt the autobiographical pursuits of his poetry. A brief epilogue draws the variegated threads of these chapters together and offers a final reflection on the inextricable knot of Lowell's lyrics and his life by way of reading his final poems and the biographical record of his death. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2013. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: English.

A presente tese busca apresentar o governo diocesano de D. Epaminondas Nunes de Ávila e Silva, primeiro bispo de Taubaté. Em 1908 assiste-se à criação de cinco dioceses no estado de São Paulo, entre elas Taubaté. Em seu espaço territorial encontrava-se o Santuário de Nossa Senhora Aparecida, cuja administração coube, por decreto, à Arquidiocese de São Paulo. Iniciava-se uma disputa pela administração desse santuário entre o bispo de Taubaté e o arcebispo de São Paulo, cada qual visando defender seus interesses diocesanos. Além da atuação comum aos bispos da época, quais sejam, o controle sobre o clero, o enquadramento das irmandades leigas e a burocratização da diocese, a ação romanizadora de D. Epaminondas, como resposta ao confronto com D. Duarte, focou-se na devoção a Santa Teresinha, sendo construído em Taubaté o primeiro santuário do mundo em sua honra / The present thesis tries to shed some light on the government of the diocese of Taubaté by its first bishop, Dom Epaminondas Nunes de Ávila e Silva. In the year of 1908 five new dioceses have been established in the State of S. Paulo, including the Diocese of Taubaté. The sanctuary of Our Lady Aparecida comes to be located inside the territorial space of the newly established diocese. The administration of the sanctuary however was, by decree, under the government of the Archdiocese of S. Paulo. This conflicting situation incited a dispute between the Bishop of Taubaté and the Archbishop of S. Paulo with regards to whom the administration of the sanctuary should belong to. In addition to the usual diocesan obligations such as to exercise control over the clergy and give legal support to the laity brotherhoods, the \"Roman\" activity of D. Epaminondas, as an answer to the conflict with Dom Duarte, came to being focused on the devotion to St. Teresinha. This focus has then lead to building the very first world sanctuary devoted to St. Teresinha in the city of Taubaté

The poems in A Rat-Shaped Tear consider wide-ranging ideas of otherness using character and voice. Through misdirection, understatement and unexpected imagery I confront ideas of animal and female otherness in playful ways as a means of subverting traditional impressions of both. The othering effects of grief are also examined in poems that reflect on bereavement and mortality. Human-animal interaction is used to further explore the effects of death and disappointment, though overtones of cartoonish extravagance, dark humour and the surreal temper the more serious themes of loss, disillusionment and loneliness that recur within the collection. In the accompanying thesis, I focus on the work of three poets - D.H Lawrence, Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop - each of whom confront animal otherness in their work. Through close examinations of their individual works, I explore the differences in approach to human-animal interaction, and the ways in which these poets draw meaning from animal otherness. It is suggested that although they engage with the concept using varied poetic techniques, they are drawn together by the intimations of spiritual transcendence that permeate each of their animal poetics.

A presente tese busca apresentar o governo diocesano de D. Epaminondas Nunes de Ávila e Silva, primeiro bispo de Taubaté. Em 1908 assiste-se à criação de cinco dioceses no estado de São Paulo, entre elas Taubaté. Em seu espaço territorial encontrava-se o Santuário de Nossa Senhora Aparecida, cuja administração coube, por decreto, à Arquidiocese de São Paulo. Iniciava-se uma disputa pela administração desse santuário entre o bispo de Taubaté e o arcebispo de São Paulo, cada qual visando defender seus interesses diocesanos. Além da atuação comum aos bispos da época, quais sejam, o controle sobre o clero, o enquadramento das irmandades leigas e a burocratização da diocese, a ação romanizadora de D. Epaminondas, como resposta ao confronto com D. Duarte, focou-se na devoção a Santa Teresinha, sendo construído em Taubaté o primeiro santuário do mundo em sua honra / The present thesis tries to shed some light on the government of the diocese of Taubaté by its first bishop, Dom Epaminondas Nunes de Ávila e Silva. In the year of 1908 five new dioceses have been established in the State of S. Paulo, including the Diocese of Taubaté. The sanctuary of Our Lady Aparecida comes to be located inside the territorial space of the newly established diocese. The administration of the sanctuary however was, by decree, under the government of the Archdiocese of S. Paulo. This conflicting situation incited a dispute between the Bishop of Taubaté and the Archbishop of S. Paulo with regards to whom the administration of the sanctuary should belong to. In addition to the usual diocesan obligations such as to exercise control over the clergy and give legal support to the laity brotherhoods, the \"Roman\" activity of D. Epaminondas, as an answer to the conflict with Dom Duarte, came to being focused on the devotion to St. Teresinha. This focus has then lead to building the very first world sanctuary devoted to St. Teresinha in the city of Taubaté

Tese de mestrado integrado. Engenharia Civil (Geotecnia). Universidade do Porto. Faculdade de Engenharia. 2011

Bibliography: leaves 276-298.

Bibliography: leaves 276-298. / 298 leaves ; 30 cm. / Title page, contents and abstract only. The complete thesis in print form is available from the University Library. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of European Studies, 2001

<p>Ambrose, bishop of Milan, was one of the most outspoken advocates of Christian female virginity in the fourth century C.E. This dissertation examines his writings on virginity in the interest of illuminating the historical and social contexts of his teachings. Considering Ambrose's treatises on virginity as literary productions with social, political, and theological functions in Milanese society, I look at the various ways in which the bishop of Milan formulated ascetic discourse in response to the needs and expectations of his audience. Furthermore, I attend to the various discontinuities in Ambrose's ascetic writings in the hope of illuminating what kinds of ideological work these texts were intended to perform by the bishop within Milanese society and beyond.</p> <p> In the first part of this dissertation, I consider the mechanisms of language and rhetoric promoting virginity in context of the Nicene-Homoian debate, highlighting the fluidity and flexibility of ascetic language in the late fourth century. While in his earliest teachings Ambrose expounds virginity in ways that reflect and support a Nicene understanding of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, his later ascetic writings display his use of anti-Homoian rhetoric in order to support his virginal ideals when they are challenged by Jovinian and others. In the second part, I examine some of the various ways in which the bishop formulated his teachings of virginity in response to the complaints and criticisms of lay members of the Christian community in Milan and elsewhere. I scrutinize the bishop's rhetorical expositions of Biblical figures such as Mary, Eve, the bride of the Song of Songs, and the Jews as a means of furthering his ascetic agenda, and consider his adaptation of a female voice to avoid incurring further criticism. Finally, I consider the role that the bishop's ascetic interests may have played in the so-called Altar of Victory controversy of 384. Largely at stake in Ambrose's dispute with the Roman senator Symmachus, I argue, were the rights and privileges of the Vestal Virgins, a well-established pagan ideology of virginity whose continued prominence and existence was largely unconscionable to the bishop. Ambrose's involvement in the controversy was partly attributable to his interest in ensuring the restriction of Vestal privileges as he perceived the cult to be in direct social and ideological competition with Christian virginity. Together, these three parts attempt to demonstrate the highly fluid and flexible nature of virginity discourse in the late fourth century and to draw attention to some of the socio-theological negotiations that took place as the cult of virginity gained increasing prominence in the Christian church.</p> / Dissertation