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Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of History, 2007. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: A, page: 4830. Adviser: Carl Ipsen. Title from dissertation home page (viewed May 22, 2008).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Theatre and Drama, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 28, 2009). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 69-12, Section: A, page: 4569. Adviser: Roger W. Herzel.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of English, 2009. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 6, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-10, Section: A, page: 3862. Advisers: Deidre Lynch; Nicholas Williams.

Les historiens qui ont produit l'histoire du notariat français ont isolé cette institution du monde judiciaire médiéval, alors que dans la pratique, un lien étroit unissait le notaire et la justice. Ce lien est perceptible à Orléans grâce aux registres du notaire Pierre Christofle, qui pratiqua dans le deuxième quart du XVe siècle. Sa principale tâche était de donner un caractère authentique à tout acte que les justiciables jugeaient opportuns. Cette fonction d'authentification, le notaire Christofle la devait au prévôt, seigneur judiciaire de la ville d'Orléans. À titre de clerc de la prévôté, et afin de répondre aux différents besoins des justiciables, Pierre Christofle rédigea plusieurs minutes qui touchaient de prés le monde judiciaire. Ce notaire doit par conséquent être considéré comme un auxiliaire de la justice et non pas comme un simple intermédiaire entre la justice et les justiciables. En plus de la faculté d'authentifier, le prévôt détenait la faculté de juger, faculté dont il dut se départir au profit des juges. Certains historiens ont vu à tort cette attribution des fonctions du prévôt comme une division de la justice en deux juridictions, la première contentieuse, relevant des juges, et la deuxième gracieuse, relevant des notaires. Les accords de Pierre Christofle démontrent que ce notaire possédait les deux compétences; de plus, ces accords possédaient la même force probante et exécutoire que les jugements rendus par les juges, ce qui invalide la distinction historiographique entre les décisions rendues en justice et celles rendues par des pratiques infra judiciaires. Il faut plutôt voir les facultés de juger des juges et celles d'authentification des notaires comme des composantes complémentaires de ce que nous avons défini comme un appareil judiciaire médiéval. Cette conclusion renforce par conséquent le lien entre justice et notariat au Moyen Âge et rétablit le rôle et la place de Pierre Christofle au coeur du monde judiciaire orléanais.

This thesis re-evaluates the impact of the Statute of Pleading and its legislation of the languages of the law on the legal actors who worked in England's royal courts in the fourteenth century. In order to broaden the scope of existing research on the subject, this project puts forth a new interpretation of the Statute by proposing a different hypothesis for why the law exists in two linguistically variable forms on the records of the Parliament and statute rolls. By studying the legal professionals who worked in England's legal realm and their use of languages, this thesis argues that the Statute of Pleading---in each of its versions---is indicative of the legal training and education received by these individuals in the later medieval period, and also as an expression of their resistance to changing the written languages of the law.

This dissertation analyzes filmic environments within Weimar cinema and argues for a concept of Heimat in which the landscapes of modernity are embedded into the environments of home. Mountain films such as Der heilige Berg enact a visual mechanization of the Alpine landscape; industrial films such as Sprengbagger 1010 constellate pastoral and modernized scenes in a similar fashion to contemporary Heimat club journals; and urban films such as Menschen am Sonntag reveal the ways in which the city figures as Heimat within Weimar film. Further, film journals display contradictory discourses surrounding Heimat before the standardization of idyllic rural scenes in the postwar Heimatfilm genre. These filmic environments interact with the real-world environment in complex and multi-directional ways. They participate in the development of new ways of seeing, marketing, and using the environment and function as nodes within sociopolitical debates regarding human communities and physical landscapes. These findings complicate arguments made by environmental historians who have claimed that the German notion of Heimat, encompassing both natural and cultural elements, might offer a useful alternative to the essentialism of the American wilderness ideal. In fact, the image of Heimat as a rural nature-culture hybrid, at least within film, only became dominant in the Nazi era. Within Weimar cinema, the term Heimat represents the focal point of a much more diverse and open discussion of environmental values. / Germanic Languages and Literatures

This dissertation examines the impact of Catholic theology on French politics after the separation of Church and state in 1905, approaching this moment as a beginning rather than an endpoint in the political history of the Church. It argues for the productive relationship between secularization and theology, showing how the secularization of public institutions inspired new politico-theological configurations and opened up new modes of religious engagement in political life. As I demonstrate, the events of 1905 provided both the institutional and intellectual impetus for one of the most important movements in twentieth-century Catholic theology, known as the “nouvelle théologie,” which would eventually become the leading theological force behind the Second Vatican Council. This dissertation tells the story of that movement, which was elaborated in part by a group of French Jesuits around Henri de Lubac. These theologians sought to develop a new approach to Catholic politics—one that would allow the Church to be in the newly secular public sphere, but not of it. Rejecting both secular party politics and the royalist dream of restoring the confessional state, they looked to the Church as an alternative site of collective mobilization capable of transcending the limitations of political ideologies and warring nation-states. It was this vision which inspired these Jesuits to lead the “spiritual resistance” to Nazism in France during the Second World War, just as it led them to oppose Communism in the postwar period. But despite their staunch anti-totalitarianism, these priests also rejected the basic premises of liberal politics, including the distinction between the private and public spheres, the primacy of the individual, and the sovereignty of the state. Instead, I show how de Lubac’s circle deployed the resources ecclesiology, eschatology, theological anthropology, and biblical studies to fashion what I call a “counter-politics”—a way of intervening in questions traditionally classified as political while engaging in a critique of politics itself. As a result, I argue, their work requires us to re-imagine what constitutes a political act and where the boundaries of the political lie, by revealing a dimension of modern European politics beyond the remit of secular parties and ideologies. / History

This dissertation is about the impact on Enlightenment political thought of the elimination of Poland from the map of Europe. It is about how the partitions of Poland (1772-95) affected the thinking of every major European political theorist, from Rousseau to Kant and beyond, because Poland's destruction raised questions about how states could achieve the prosperity necessary to retain their independence while also respecting the independence of others. The dissertation surveys the different theoretical approaches that were brought to bear on debates about how to implement reform in Poland and Russia. These ideas shaped subsequent discourses about the problems of international economic competition and constitutional government during the American and French Revolutions and into the nineteenth century. Rousseau's Considerations on the Government of Poland in particular had an important impact on later thinkers. The book represented a scaling-up of the Social Contract for a large state along lines that Rousseau planned to develop in his unfinished treatise, the Political Institutions. / Government

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