Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 167-183).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Sydney, 1971. / Title from title screen (viewed December 9, 2009) Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts to the Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 1971; thesis submitted 1970. Consists of 2 vols. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.

Four commissions considered cathedrals during the nineteenth century. The first two gave them their modern structure: a dean, a small number of stipendiary, residentiary, canons, a larger honorary body. But the principal achievement of these commissions was negative; their emphasis was on the removal of wealth. The second two sought to give new corporate and diocesan life to these ancient bodies. Their aspirations, however, never achieved parliamentary enactment. Thus in the early twentieth century there was will for the reform; the establishment of the Church Assembly presented more auspicious circumstances in which to attempt it. The thesis falls into two related parts. The first traces institutional change across the twentieth-century - change which can be measured by the statutory outcome of the proposals of the three commissions which sat during the century. It will be argued that all three were clearly products of their times, showing the influence of context: of social (and technological) change and of the mind-set of the Church: the first two, reflecting that Church, were conservative and respectful of inheritance and tradition. The last, in an age socially, politically, administratively, ecclesiastically, much changed, was radical. It showed less respect for tradition and a greater susceptibility to external factors: markedly to contemporary management theory. Constitutions regulate a life. The second part explores aspects of that life. All the aspects reviewed helped to form, and were in turn re-formed by, the Commissions and the consequent Measures. First among the subjects examined is the fundamental, defining, relationship, that with the bishop and the diocese. Other chapters discuss the force of external, social, change in shaping and moulding the work and witness of cathedrals, and their methods and standards of pastoral care. The ecumenical movement, though scarcely noticed by the first Commission, was already a factor in the work of a few cathedrals. The 1990s commission assumed, and its Measure provided for, ecumenical involvement. The first commission noted the fact of dissension within cathedrals and between them and their bishops; such troubles were the immediate cause of the last commission; the final chapter examines publicly prominent episodes of dissension. Throughout the century, in their witness the cathedrals responded, sometimes profoundly, to a context of change; their historic constitutions and the independence they conferred enabled the cathedrals to conduct a richly varied public ministry The, frequently decisive, force of personalities, especially of deans and provosts, in producing that ministry, is emphasised. The progress of the parish church cathedrals from, early in the century, scant institutional life to, by its end, parity with their ancient counterparts, is traced. The main text is supported by appendices, including two respectively providing biographical notes on those mentioned in the text, and definitions of specialist terms.

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This Master's thesis deals with Czechoslovak house in London, which is known as Velehrad. It is a charity, which was founded in 1949. The organization has worked with Czechoslovak refugees since the beginning of 50's until the year 1989 when it lost its original importance. In the first part I deal with the charity history, formation of Cyrilometodějské ligy and other things such as funding of the charity. In the second part I compare refugees from two different periods, 1948 and 1968. I also deal with the relationship of Czechoslovakia and refugees. The last part is about charity work. I paid attention especially to contacts with homeland, what kind of help charity provided to refugees and how the organization reflected some events which happened in Czechoslovakia. I also mentioned history of czech school which was created by the organization. Key words: Velehrad, St.Wenceslaus House - Velehrad, Father Jan Lang, Father Josef Pazderka, emigration

De 1677 à 1776, la grande congrégation mariale de Munich représentait pendant le Carême des drames musicaux appelés Considerationes ou « méditations dramatiques » pour l’édification morale de ses membres. Ils étaient écrits par le président jésuite de cette sodalité et mis en musique par des compositeurs locaux.Cette thèse s’attache spécifiquement aux Considerationes du jésuite Franz Lang (1654-1725),créées entre 1695 et 1712. Ces œuvres se distinguent effectivement des autres méditations par le fait qu’elle furent intégralement éditées en 1717 sous la forme de trois recueils – Theatrum SolitudinisAsceticæ, Theatrum Affectuum Humanorum et Theatrum Doloris et Amoris - qui totalisent environ 850pages de livrets et plus de 3 000 pages de musique.Les recherches tiennent à expliquer d’abord l’existence de cette source exceptionnelle à tous égards par une étude précise des conditions de représentation, replacées dans le contexte plus général de la vie musicale à Munich. La thèse offre ensuite une analyse dramaturgique du Theatrum Solitudinis Asceticæ qui revendique une filiation directe aux Exercices spirituels de St Ignace de Loyola, fondateur de la Compagnie de Jésus. Après une étude littéraire du recueil de Lang, elle apporte un éclairage musicologique sur les Considerationes mises en musique par Johannes-AndreasRauscher (mort en 1702), exemples remarquables « d’Exercices spirituels musicaux ». / Between 1677 and 1776, the great latin congregation of Munich used to perform musicaldramas during the Lenten season. These dramas were called Considerationes or « DramaticMeditations » and were intended for the moral edification of their congregation members. The dramas’plot was written by the congregation’s Jesuit priest while bavarian musicians composed the music.This work specifically treats the Considerationes by Franz Lang (1654 – 1725), which wereperformed between 1695 and 1712. As opposed to other meditations, Lang’s Considerationes wereentirely printed in the year 1717. They were brought together in three collections – TheatrumSolitudinis Asceticæ, Theatrum Affectuum Humanorum, Theatrum Doloris et Amoris – and togetherthey consist of about 850 pages of text and over 3000 pages of score.This research firstly explains the existance of this extraordinary source thanks to a precisestudy of the history of the performances which is then put in context with Munich’s musical life at thetime. Then follows a dramaturgical analysis of the Theatrum Solitudinis Asceticæ, which waspostulated by Ignatius of Loyola within the Spiritual Exercises. After a part about the literary work ofLang, my work closes with an analysis of the Considerationes – which were composed by Johannes-Andreas Rauscher, who died in 1702 - regarding musicology. These pieces finally are a noteworthyexample of the « musical Spiritual Exercises ».

Nous traitons ici de questions d’effectivité dans les problèmes de Mordell-Lang et de Schanuel où la notion de hauteur algébrique joue un rôle central.Dans un premier temps nous revisitions la méthode de Vojta-Faltings dans un cadre général, en y incluant notamment un procédé de descente uniforme qui permet d’optimiser le nombre de recours au pesant mécanisme d’approximation diophantienne. Nous proposons ensuite une application de ce résultat au problème de Mordell-Lang plus Bogomolov dans le tore, qui consiste à décrire un sousensemble algébrique X comme réunion de translatés de sous-tores inclus dans X moyennant de se restreindre à un sous-groupe de rang fini épaissi. Nous nous appuyons en particulier sur un énoncé d’Amoroso et Viada concernant le problème de Bogomolov dans ce contexte et améliorons les bornes antérieures obtenues par Rémond.Dans un second temps, nous établissons une version du théorème de Schanuel dans le cadre d’un espace adélique hermitien sur un corps de nombres. Nous donnons une estimation asymptotique du nombre de points projectifs de hauteur bornée pour une hauteur définie par une famille de normes sur les complétés en chaque place, vérifiant certaines conditions mais sans hypothèse de pureté dans le cas ultramétrique. Le terme reste obtenu est totalement explicite et linéaire en le régulateur du corps de nombres grâce au recours à une méthode introduite par Schmidt. Nous traitons également plusieurs applications de ce résultat, notamment aux problèmes de Dedekind-Weber et de Loher-Masser. / We are dealing here with effectiveness matters about the Mordell-Lang and Schanuel problems where algebraic heights play a central role.At the first time, we modify the Vojta-Faltings method in a general context by including some uniform descending process which has the advantage to optimize the number of iterations of the heavy Diophantine approximation mechanism. We then propose an application to the toric Mordell-Lang plus Bogomolov problem whose aim is to describe an algebraic subset X as the union of translates of closed, irreducible subgroups included in X when restricted to some enlarged, finite rank subgroup. In particular we use a theorem of Amoroso and Viada about the Bogomolov problem in this context and we improve the previous bound given by Rémond.At the second time, we prove a version of the theorem of Schanuel in the setting of a Hermitian adelic vector bundle over a number field. We give an asymptotic estimate for the number of projective points of bounded height for heights given by a family of norms over the completions at each place, satisfying several conditions but no purity hypothesis in the ultrametric case. The error term is totally explicit and linear with respect to the regulator of the number field through the use of Schmidt’s method. We finally give some applications of our result in particular to the Dedekind-Weber and Loher-Masser problems.

Soit X un sous-schéma fermé d'une variété abélienne A sur un corps de nombres K. L'ancienne conjecture de Mordell-Lang nous assure que X(K) est une réunion finie de sous-ensembles a_i+Bj(K) où a_i est un point de X(K) et B_i est une sous-variété abélienne de A de sorte que le translaté aj+Bj soit contenu dans X. Dans cette thèse, nous montrerons un résultat permettant de majorer la hauteur des a_i en fonctions de la hauteur de X. On en déduira une majoration pour la hauteur des solutions d'une équation aux unités. En utilisant les mêmes méthodes, on obtiendra une majoration de la même forme pour la hauteur des points entiers d'une variété abélienne(plongé dans un espace projectif) privé d'un hyperplan. / Let be X a closed subscheme of an abelian variety on a number field K. Faltings proved the Mordell-Lang conjecture: there are points a_1 , ... ,a_n in X(K) and abelian subvarieties 8_1 , ... ,B_nin A such that a_i+B_i is in X and X(K) is equal to the union of aj+B_i(K). In this thesis, we proof a result wich gives a bound for the height of the point a_i with the height of X. We obtain a bound for the solutions of an unit equation. With the same method, we proof a similar result for the height of the integers points on an abelian variety (embedded in a projective space) minus a hyperplane.

This thesis argues that ‘fairy writing’ in the nineteenth-century Scottish literature serves as a peculiar site which accommodates various, often ambiguous and subversive, responses to the processes of constructing new national identities occurring in, and outwith, post-union Scotland. It contends that a pathetic sense of loss, emptiness and absence, together with strong preoccupations with the land, and a desire to perpetuate the nation which has become state-less, commonly underpin the wide variety of fairy writings by Walter Scott, John Black, James Hogg and Andrew Lang. The disappearing fairies and elusive fairy queens who haunt subterranean realms, together with the immaterialised and etherealised homeland, are frequently depicted in the works of fairy writing explored in this study. While they metaphorise the loss of the state, the rightful monarch and the old national identity, they also serve to symbolically, and strategically, immortalise the Scottish nation through mythification and romanticisation within the subliminal textual layers of fairy writing. Choosing four authors in Scottish literature, this thesis explores the spectrum of the wide range of fairy writing created during the long nineteenth century, shedding new light on the contrast, as well as the echoes, between Romantic and Victorian writing. It specifically suggests that fairy narratives by Black and Hogg display ironic self-consciousness of those who were involved in the processes of cultural nation-building in the post-union Britain. This thesis also contends that Scottish fairy writing serves as a problematic site of experimentation where different genres, values and ideas clash and conflict, generating intensified tension, and rarely bringing negotiation without haunting aftertaste. It is contended that genre-mixing is a common methodological feature employed by the four authors, and moreover, that the act of genre-mixing itself is metaphorical of the creation of new and hybrid national identity, which also foregrounds its artificiality, inventedness and internal cracks. This study reassesses a long-forgotten material: The Falls of Clyde (1806) by John Black. It also draws attention to the relatively ‘marginal’ texts by Scott and Hogg, and attempts a radical interpretation of Langian works, arguing that Lang played a significant role in the processes of the diasporic re-imagining of Scottishness which were arguably undertaken outside Scotland by Briticised elites, and are a neglected yet important part of post-Union Scottish nation writing. Drawing on a wide range of texts and paratexts, this study foregrounds a profound complicity in the conceptions of Scotland and national identity inscribed in fairy narratives, perceiving the sub-genre as a site of realism rather than fantasy.

<p>This dissertation deals with the history and memory of the Border War with China in contemporary Vietnam. Due to its particularity as a war between two neighboring socialist countries in Cold War Asia, the Border War has been a sensitive topic in Vietnam. While political sensitivity regarding the national past derives largely from the Party-State, the history and memory of the war has permeated Vietnamese society. The war's legacy can be seen in anti-China sentiments that, in the globalized neoliberal order, appear to be reviving alongside post-Cold War nationalism. The Border War against China represented an important nationalist turn for Vietnam. At the same time, the traumatic breakdown of the socialist fraternity cultivated anxiety over domestic and international relations. The recent territorial dispute over the South China Sea, between Vietnam and China, has recalled the history and memory of the war in 1979. The growing anti-China sentiment in Vietnam also interpellates the war as a near future.</p><p>As an anthropological approach to the history and memory of war, this dissertation addresses five primary questions: 1) how the historyscape of Vietnam's past has been shifted through politics on the Border War; 2) how the memoryscape involving the Border War has been configured as national and local experience; 3) how the Border War has shaped the politics of ethnic minorities in a border province; 4) why the borderscape in Vietnam constantly affects the politics of the nation-state in the globalized world order; and 5) why the border markets and trade activities have been a realm of competing instantiations of post-Cold War nationalism and global neoliberalism. </p><p>In order to tackle these questions, I conducted anthropological fieldwork in Lang Son, a northern border province and Ha Noi, the capital city of Vietnam from 2005 to 2012, and again briefly in 2014. A year of intensive fieldwork from 2008 to 2009 in Lang Son province paved the road to understanding the local history and local people's memory of the Border War in a contemporary social context. This long-term participant observation research in a sensitive border area allowed me to take a comprehensive view of how the memory of the Border War against China plays out in everyday life and affects the livelihood of the border's inhabitants. In Ha Noi, conducting archival research and discussing issues with Vietnamese scholars, I was able to broaden my understanding of Vietnamese national history and the socialist past. Because Vietnam is one of the countries with the fastest growing use of the Internet, I have also closely traced the emergence of on-line debates and the circulation of information over the Internet as a new form of social exchange in Vietnam. </p><p>As a conclusion, I suggest that memory and experience have situated Vietnam as a nation-state in a particular mode of post-Cold War nationalism, one which keeps recalling the memory of the Border War in the post-Cold War era. As the national border has been reconfigured by the legacy of war and by fluctuating border trade, the border challenges unbalanced bilateral relations in the neoliberal world order. The edge of the nation-state becomes the edge of neoliberalism in the contemporary world. The Vietnamese border region will continue to recall the horrors of nationalism and internationalism, through the imaginaries of socialist fraternity or in the practices off contemporary neoliberal multilateralism. </p><p>KEYWORDS: </p><p>Vietnam, China, Lang Son, the Border War, Memory, the Cold War, the post-Cold War, Neoliberalism.</p> / Dissertation