Thesis advisor: Virginia Reinburg / Thesis advisor: Sarah G. Ross / Bernardino Ochino (1487-1564) has long been a misinterpreted historical figure. Even to specialists Ochino’s Siena is less well-known than Luther’s Wittenburg or Calvin’s Geneva. A once-famous Capuchin preacher turned “heretic,” Ochino was forced into exile in 1542 upon the re-establishment of the Roman Inquisition. Ochino’s life has often been defined in terms of success and failure, his exile as a personal tragedy, and his theological ideas as unclassifiable. An examination of some of his most important letters as well as a selection of his sermons, dialogues, and his catechism, however, illustrate that Ochino’s exile actually provided him with opportunities that allowed him to become the teacher of Italian reformed thought to his followers in Italy and throughout Europe. This was made possible largely by his now unimpeded access to the printing press, the medium to which he resorted after his preaching was silenced. From his state of exile he, quite literally, helped to compose the Italian Reformation and his story speaks to the growing interest among historians in conceptualizing exile and mobility as preconditions of religious transformation and the international Reformation. Ochino’s corpus of works reveals a man intimately engaged with the Protestant Reformation throughout Europe. His writings betray the influence of Luther and Calvin, while maintaining a certain Italian “anti-dogmatism” that historians have long recognized in Ochino’s work and in the Italian Reformation more broadly. Ochino’s eclecticism is a reminder that the Italian Reformation must be appreciated in its own right, as a crucial element of the international Reformation and not simply as a catalyst for the Counter or Catholic Reformation, as it is often portrayed. Ochino’s works—printed abroad and frequently transported clandestinely back to Italy—reveal the existence of a community of men and women who hoped to be agents of religious reform, not simply heretics who hoped to avoid the gaze of the Inquisition. Theirs was a religion that begged to be lived, not one that was meant to be hidden. Ochino was their leader.

A thorough autelogical investigation of Zealuctra claasseni, Zealuctra hitei, and Perlesta placida life cycles was made with emphasis on special adaptive features to the harsh, dry climate of the southwestern United States. Z. claasseni was collected from a tributary of the Red River in Cooke County, Texas, and Z. hitei was collected from the upper reaches of North Pecan Creek in Wise County, Texas, Dec., 1974-Jun., 1978. Both streams were intermittent (except a 0.3 km stretch of the Red River tributary below a spring) running only during fall-winter 1974-1975 and 1976-1977.

A survey of language in a certain area is designed primarily to present a living language as it is actually spoken; thus, a morphological study of language is designed to determine the most widely-used syntactical and grammatical forms and to record these forms in a statistical manner. These findings are to be interpreted in the light of similar studies, not with the purpose of establishing the cultural level of the language in the area surveyed, but to present all the possible variations, and, in some cases, to draw a comparison as a matter of record between the forms found to be commonly used in every-day speech and the standard usage as given by leading linguistic authorities.

"This paper is the result of a study of the oil industry in Cooke County Texas. Consideration was given to the following factors: the physiography and geology of Cooke County, the first oil developments, opening of various fields, the Tydal Refinery, and the benefits of the oil industry to the county in terms of employment, busines establishments, schools, and social efforts. Both persona and documentary source were utilized for obtaining data on the present problem. Primary sources included statements made by land owners of Cooke County, oil operators, drillers, refinery personnel, business men, civic leaders, and the superintendents of schools, both in Gainesville, Texas, and in Cooke County. Secondary sources included newspapers, oil publications, and books on geology and the oil industry. "-- leaf vi.

Often overlooked in the study of nineteenth-century American literature, the New England writer Rose Terry Cooke elicited great popular appeal during the peak of her career. The admiration Cooke received from her readers and fellow writers compels one to question Cooke’s present-day obscurity. Cooke’s fiction and poetry seem inconsistent with the attitudes she express in her non-fiction, particularly concerning religion and women’s suffrage. She portrays women in miserable marriages, desperately looking for an escape. These “brides of Bluebeard” find different ways to cope with their predicament. While most never truly escape, many use (1) religious devotion, (2) masochism, and (3) homosocial relations as “coping mechanisms” in their plight. I identify each of these reactions to Bluebeard figures in Cooke’s writing in order to understand the contradictions in her works, for, like Cooke, these brides were products of their culture, torn between duty to self and duty to others.

Avant propos : L’intérêt particulier que nous portons à l’histoire régionale nous a fait entreprendre le présent travail. Son but est de rappeler les débuts de la carrière du premier évêque des Trois-Rivières, Mgr Thomas Cooke. Nous en tenant aux années 1792 à 1835, soit de sa naissance à son arrivée è. la cure des Trois-Rivières, nous avons essayé, è travers sa vie et le jeu des événements, d’étudier les aspects de son apostolat. Les sources se sont faites rares surtout en ce qui a trait aux origines de la Famille Cooke et aux années d’enfance de Thomas. Nous les avons contrôlées dans la mesure du possible. Le biographe contemporain de Mgr Cooke, Mgr Napoléon Caron, P.D., sous le pseudonyme de Meinier, publia dans L’Opinion Publique Montréal, en date du 30 mai et du 6 juin 1872, une notice biographique de l’évêque des Trois- Rivières, décédé le 31 mars 1870. Nous croyons ses données conforme à la vérité historique. Nous avons consulté la Vie de Mgr Cooke extraite de l'Histoire des Ursulines des Trois-Rivières par Sœur Marguerite-Marie o.s.u. C'est l'ouvrage le plus considérable consacré à Mgr Cooke. L'auteur essaie visiblement d'auréoler celui qui fut, pendant plusieurs années, le père aimé de la Communauté. Œuvre qui se veut à la fois poétique, laudative et historique, la Vie de Mgr Cooke nous a toutefois orientée dans nos recherches. Nous avons pu retrouver la majeure partie de la correspondance de M. Cooke avec les évêques de Québec. Les lettres qu'il échangea avec M. Desjardins, procureur de l'évêché de Québec, sont particulièrement intéressantes. Nous avons utilisé les statistiques des archives paroissiales de Rivière-Ouelle, Caraquet, Nipisiguit, Néguac, Burnt-Church, Bartibog et St-Ambroise de la Jeune-Lorette. Dans plusieurs paroisses, les registres ont péri dans des incendies. C'est le cas, par exemple, de Nelson et Petit-Rocher. Nous avons compilé, dans les livres que nous avons examinés, 2203 baptêmes, 513 sépultures et 773 mariages signés par M. Cooke. A Bathurst-Ouest (Nipisiguit), nous avons retrouvé le "Cahier des résolutions de paroisse et comptes de la fabrique de la mission de la Sainte-Famille de Nipisiguit”. Il porte la signature de M. Cooke pour les années 1817, 1818, 1819 et 1821. A St-Ambroise-de-la-Jeune-Lorette (Loretteville), un Cahier d’annonces nous a permis de suivre M. Cooke à travers son ministère paroissial de 1832 à 1835. Nous exprimons notre reconnaissance à Mgr Albert Tessier, P.D. qui nous a généreusement ouvert les portes des Archives du Séminaire St-Joseph des Trois-Rivières, de même qu’è. M. l’abbé Jean-Marie Beauchemin, archiviste à l’Archevêché de Québec. Partout, au cours de nos recherches, nous avons reçu l’accueil le plus sympathique. Nous désirons remercier M. Marcel Trudel, Docteur ès Lettres, professeur h. l’institut d’Histoire de l’Université Laval, qui nous a guidée et encouragée dans notre travail. Nous voulons également témoigner notre gratitude à notre Communauté qui nous a accordé les moyens d’entreprendre cette thèse et nous a facilité les voyages et les démarches nécessaires h sa préparation. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2019

"The organized woman's club movement spread into the State of Texas. Beginning as associations for self-culture and intellectual development, the clubs were soon laying the foundation for better conditions of living in their communities. Since Texas was largely in the pioneer stage of development with widely separated communities, the women's clubs in small centers became the nucleii for civic improvements. One of these small centers was the town of Gainesville, Texas, with a population of about 6,000 in the year 1893. That year the first women's club in the town was organized and named the Gainesville XLI Club. This club helped form the State Council of Women of Texas, formerly called the Women's Congress, in 1894, which was three years before the formation of the Texas Federation of Women's Clubs."-- pg. 9-10 "It will, perhaps, be seen from the above survey that no transformation in modern society has been more striking or more fraught with significance than the change in the political, legal, economic, moral, and social status of women. Women's clubs were organized for discussion and study, with interests that varied according to location, surroundings, opportunities, and aspirations. The history of a pioneer club portrays the stages of development of clubs in general from institutions for self-improvement to institutions interested in national and international problems." -- pg. 11-12

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This dissertation is an analytical comparison of the works for solo clarinet by Paul Hindemith and his student Arnold Cooke. A total of seven compositions are studied and analyzed for style, covering aspects of melody, harmony, rhythm, form, and texture. From this data, conclusions concerning the accessibility of Cooke's music for solo clarinet to the player and listener are made. Although Hindemith's music for solo clarinet is more often played, it is this author's conclusion that Cooke's works are more satisfactory in their accessibility and ease of performance.

The organization of eighteenth and nineteenth-century British printmaking and publishing was based on economic principles and occurred in the collaborative sphere of the engraver’s studio. Print designers, engravers, printers, and publishers formed a professional network that operated on economic principles, publishing prints that served to generate income for its participants. These ventures faced great challenges in the lengthy and laborious processes of engraving and publishing, and in financing the project for the duration of that time. This project examines the economic structure of early nineteenth-century prints. Using comprehensive accounting records, it analyzes two well-known topographical print series. The profitable Southern coast by William Bernard Cooke and George Cooke is compared to the financially unsuccessful Tour of Italy by James Hakewill, series that both were partly based on watercolors by J.M.W. Turner. A well-managed organization and a sound financial framework laid the foundation for a profitable venture. The success of print series hinged on several critical success factors, such as access to sufficient capital, strict cost containment, and optimized print editions. An examination of the conflict that ended the collaboration between Turner and the engravers Cooke, originating in Turner’s demand for higher design fees, puts the validity of the arguments of both parties in a new light. The investigation into the work practice of the engravers Cooke and the economic factors that determined the outcome of their labor contributes to a better understanding of the printmakers’ opportunities and challenges at the onset of the modern art market.