Orientador: Dora Isabel Paiva da Costa / Banca: Carlos de Almeida Prado Bacellar / Banca: Paulo Eduardo Teixeira / Banca: Ida Lewkowicz / Banca: Lélio Luiz De Oliveira / Resumo: Este trabalho utiliza os recursos da Demografia Histórica para estudar os padrões familiares numa região de fronteira. A região oeste da Província de São Paulo, em sua área delimitada pelos rios Tietê e Paranapanema, foi a fronteira do povoamento durante boa parte do século XIX, área de conflitos entre a população indígena que ocupava aquela extensa faixa de terreno e os primeiros povoadores brancos que davam início à formação dos primeiros núcleos urbanos. A precariedade das condições de ocupação dos incipientes núcleos urbanos (ausência de um aparato administrativo, judiciário, educacional etc.) que apenas iniciavam a construção da estrutura institucional, aliada à instabilidade representada pelo perigo de ataques indígenas, dava à região características singulares, típicas, no entanto, de áreas de fronteira. Lençóes foi, durante a segunda metade do século XIX, o último núcleo urbano da fronteira, a chamada boca do sertão, ponto de apoio de expedições que demandavam o vasto território desconhecido da porção oeste da província. A análise dos registros paroquiais e cartoriais de Lençóes permitiu traçar um quadro da família na fronteira. Por ele, vemos que a ilegitimidade era baixa, menor do que em outras áreas que serviram de parâmetro, contrariando o que poderia se esperar para uma área de fronteira. Os batismos ocorriam em maior quantidade nos meses finais do ano (novembro e dezembro), seguidos pelo mês inicial, janeiro. Não havia acentuadas variações sazonais com relação aos batismos, embora os meses de outubro, fevereiro e março fossem aqueles de menor ocorrência. Enquanto o domingo era o dia preferido pelos pais para esta cerimônia, concentrando aproximadamente um terço delas, sexta era um dia a ser evitado. O apadrinhamento seguia uma estratégia: os pais escolhiam padrinhos numa faixa de renda superior à sua própria. Os ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This work uses the Historical Demography resources to study the familiar standards in a frontier area. The west region of São Paulo Province, in its area delimitated by the Tietê and the Paranapanema rivers, was a frontier of the settlement during great part of the nineteenth century, area of conflicts between the indigenous people that occupied that large region of land and the first white settlers that started the formation of the first urban nuclei. The precarious conditions of the incipient urban nuclei's occupation (absence from administrative, judicial and educational help etc.) that just began the construction of the institutional structure, allied to the instability represented by danger of indigenous attacks, gave the region singular features, typical, however, of the frontier areas. Lençóes was, during the second half of the nineteenth century, the last urban nucleus of the frontier, the backwoods mouth as it was called, support place of expeditions that demanded the vast unknown territory of the province west portion. The analysis of the parish and registry office Lençóes last registers allowed us to draw a family description in the frontier. Because of this description, we can see that the illegitimacy was low, less than in other areas that were used as a parameter, going against what people could expect from a frontier area. The baptisms used to take place, in a bigger amount, in the final months of the year (November and December), followed by the initial month, January. There weren't accentuate seasonal variations related to the baptisms, although October, February and March were those months with less occurrence. While Sunday was the perfect day for this ceremony, considered by the parents, Friday was a day to avoid, concentrating approximately a third of them. Parents had to follow a strategy in order to choose the godparents: they used to choose people whose ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

The thesis is focused on the communication strategy of the bridal salon La Queen. In the first part of the thesis, to introduce the topic, the theoretical background is described. In the second part of the thesis, an analysis of the current communication activities of the bridal, a survey and evaluation of the questionnaires are presented. The main goal of the theses is to, following the analysis and the processing of the survey data, propose a set of measures that could improve the marketing communication strategy of the chosen company.

The Early Pennsylvanian (Bashkirian/Morrowan) Bridal Veil Limestone of north-central Utah was deposited in the eastern portion of the rapidly subsiding Oquirrh basin. The 420 meter-thick Bridal Veil Limestone displays distinct cyclicity formed by stacked, meter to decameter scale high-frequency sequences and their constituent parasequences. Though no one ideal cycle may be defined for the Bridal Veil Limestone, each high-frequency sequence and parasequence contains a general shallowing upward trend that ranges from anaerobic to dysaerobic mudstone at the base to skeletal wackestone to mud-dominated packstone, capped by heterozoan grain-rich carbonates or siliciclastic tidalites. Cycles bounded by exposure surfaces, indicated by micro-brecciation, rhizoliths, laminated calcite or silica crusts, rip-up clasts, centimeter-scale teepee structures, and/or pronounced erosional relief are termed high-frequency sequences. Those bounded by marine flooding surfaces are defined as parasequences. Thusly defined, the Bridal Veil Limestone is divided into 25 high-frequency sequences designated BVL-1 through BVL-25. Overall, two distinct sets of high-frequency sequences may be observed in the Bridal Veil Limestone. Sequences comprising the lower half of the formation (BVL-1 through BVL-12) are thicker, muddier, and less sand-prone than sequences in the upper half of the formation (BVL-13 through BVL-25), indicating an overall change in oxygenation, depositional texture, and accommodation upward in the section. Tracing of key beds and surfaces between the Thorpe Hills, Lake Mountain, and the Wasatch Range (spanning a distance greater than 50 miles) reveals that deposition was remarkably uniform across the southeastern part of the Oquirrh basin which we herein designate the Bridal Veil sub-basin and distinct from coeval formations in the southern Oquirrh basin, Ely basin, and Wyoming shelf. Mudstone and wackestone textures comprise a large portion of the formation by volume. Grain-rich carbonates are almost exclusively heterozoan in composition, indicating that the sub-basin was subphotic to aphotic through Early Pennsylvanian time.

The subject of my thesis is a little-studied hagiographical work that gives important insights into rewriting processes and their significance in medieval textual culture. The anonymous Life of Christina of Hane, a thirteenth-century Premonstratensian nun from the Palatinate, is an example of bridal mysticism which combines the medieval tradition of the reception of the Song of Songs with hagiographic elements. A codicological and palaeographical analysis of the only manuscript shows it to be a sixteenth-century copy, but the type of mysticism and the theological questions that it discusses suggest that the text was initially composed in the thirteenth century, when Christina is thought to have lived. The theological and spiritual ideas in the text belong to the wider context of communicating the transcendental within the world. My thesis uses performative language analysis to address the problems of textuality and authorization in the Life of Christina of Hane. It yields new insights into the ways in which this mystical text makes use of hagiographic strategies, how gender and vernacular theology are linked, how liturgical elements support the text’s pragmatic nature, and how somatic spirituality is reflected on an allegorical level in the embodiment of God’s bride. An assessment of three communicative aspects – medial, narrative, and allegorical – highlights the textualization of the mystical experience. The appellative structure of Christina’s text invites the reader to engage with the text. This study provides the first comprehensive interpretation of the text on Christina of Hane. It compares it to other mystical texts, to a German–Latin prayerbook, and to a fragmentary legend about Mary Magdalene. It challenges existing judgments about Christina’s biography and offers alternative solutions founded in the latest scholarship on female mystical literature.

A travers l’analyse des déplacements des souverains hellénistiques et des imperatores romains en Orient, ce travail entend éclairer le concept moderne de voyage officiel et démontrer la validité de cette catégorie pour caractériser les voyages de ces personnalités politiques antiques. Au-delà du critère du statut du voyageur, les sources mettent en lumière le rôle discriminant de l’infrastructure du voyage, ainsi que l’importance des procédures d’accueil public dans la reconnaissance collective de l’officiel. L’enquête conduit à souligner la dimension à la fois protocolaire et populaire de ce type de déplacement dont le caractère spectaculaire contribuait à assurer le retentissement exceptionnel pour en faire un [événement] local de grande ampleur. Manifestation de souveraineté, le voyage officiel s’inscrivait dans un processus de légitimation du pouvoir et constituait le cadre privilégié de la mise en scène de la personnalité politique : l’apparat et la théâtralisation du voyage autant que ses enjeux politiques majeurs peuvent être considérés comme des caractéristiques déterminantes du déplacement officiel. Cette réflexion pose également le problème de la pertinence de la dichotomie public/privé. Celle-ci n’est opératoire qu’à Rome où le concept de voyage fonctionnel est attesté, mais où l’on peut néanmoins observer une confusion entre la sphère de l’officium et celle de l’otium dans le cadre des déplacements des imperatores qui étaient l’occasion de démarches touristiques, culturelles ou religieuses révélatrices de la curiosité intellectuelle de ces personnages dont les séjours d’études puis les voyages officiels en Orient permettaient de satisfaire le philhellénisme. / Through the analysis of the travels of the hellenistic kings and the roman imperatores in the East, this work intends to throw light on the modern concept of official trip and to demonstrate the validity of this category to characterize the travels of these ancient political personalities. Beyond the criterion of the status of the traveller, sources bring to light the discriminating role of the infrastructure of the trip, as well as the importance of public reception in the collective recognition of the official. The inquiry leads to underline the formal and the popular dimension of this kind of trip whose spectacular character contributed to ensure his exceptional impact and turn it into a large-scale local event. As a demonstration of [sovereignty], the official trip was part of a process of legitimization of power and provided the privileged framework for the staging of the political personality : the pageantry and dramatization of the journey as much as [its] major political stakes can be considered as distinctive characteristics of the official trip. This study also raises the problem of the relevance of the public/private dichotomy. The latter is only effective in Rome where the concept of functional trip is attested, but where a confusion of the sphere of the officium and the otium can nevertheless be observed within the travels of the imperatores which were the opportunity of touristic, cultural and religious initiatives revealing the intellectual curiosity of these characters whose study tours and official trips in the East made it possible to satisfy their philhellenism.

The Bridal Veil Falls Limestone (lowest 400 meters of the Permo-Carboniferous Oquirrh Group) is well exposed on the flanks of Cascade Mountain (Wasatch Front and adjacent mountain ranges) near Provo, Utah. Because of its excellent exposure and location in the heart of the Oquirrh depocenter, this area was selected to develop a sequence stratigraphic framework for Morrowan rocks that may be applied throughout the Oquirrh basin (NW Utah and southern Idaho) as well as the adjacent Ely and Bird Springs troughs. Eleven partial to complete sections of the Bridal Veil Falls Limestone were measured along the west and north flanks of Cascade Mountain and the south end of Mt. Timpanogos. There the limestone is comprised principally of mud-rich carbonate lithofacies punctuated by thin, and sometimes discontinuous quartzose sandstone beds. The predominance of muddy to grain-rich heterozoan limestone microfacies suggests deposition on a west-dipping low energy carbonate ramp that prograded westward throughout Morrowan time. Sandstones reflect transport of siliciclastics from the incipient Weber shelf (located to the NE) during episodes of sea-level lowstand. The Bridal Veil Falls Limestone is subdivided into 21, third and fourth order depositional sequences ranging in thickness from 3 to 60 meters, and 62 parasequences. Parasequences are commonly asymmetrical, reflecting rapid flooding followed by protracted shoaling and/or sea level drop. Selected cycles are recognized in the Lake Mountains, Thorpe Hills, and the southern Oquirrh Mountains to the west of Cascade Mountain indicating that Parasequences delineated at Cascade Mountain are regionally extensive over an area of at least 300 square kilometers.