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Thesis (Th. M.)--Dallas Theological Seminary, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-73).

Scholars have long been attentive to the cultural legacy of Valois Burgundy a site of remarkable artistic and literary productivity in the mostly desolate cultural landscape of fifteenth-century France. It is only recently, however, that critics have begun to interrogate Burgundian courtly literature with an eye to its narrative complexity and rhetorical and discursive density, and to the political and cultural concerns encoded within it. This study emulates and supports these efforts by undertaking a close reading of a remarkable Burgundian chronicle one which depicts and defends a rare experiment in one of the most ideologically resonant enterprises of the day. The text, contained in Jean de Wavrins vast historical compilation, the Anciennes Chroniques dAngleterre, describes a crusading expedition to Constantinople, the Black Sea, and various points on the Danube in 1444-46. Led by Jeans nephew Waleran, the seigneur de Wavrin, the expedition was largely a failure. The author(s) of the chronicle therefore had a great deal to answer for; yet as the contours of their text reveal, their interests extended well beyond chivalric apologetics. This study analyzes the fascinating narrative tensions which unsettle the expedition narrative, and which offer a window into its varied (and often contending) rhetorical objectives. It considers, for instance, the tense interplay between two treatments of Walerans chivalry: one of which relies on epic and romance themes to depict him as a heroic warrior, and one which reveals his deliberate (and strategic) manipulations of those codes to preserve and burnish his reputation. It also explores the ways in which epic references to earlier crusades and anti-Islamic conflicts, invoked in a manner that tends to ennoble Walerans expedition, are truncated and subverted by strategic concerns over the problems of chivalric temerity and the power and sophistication of Ottoman forces. Together, the study concludes, these findings speak to the discursive complexity of the Burgundian court: a place where courtier-knights fashioned themselves strategically, using the very codes which some scholars have associated with premodern/medieval corporatism, and where warriors carefully negotiated the discursive margins of the courtly cult of prowess in order to articulate pragmatic advice based on lived experience. / History

Thesis (D. Min.)--Columbia International University, 2008. / Typescript. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 334-344).

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Thesis (M.A.)--International School of Theology, 1989. / Abstract. "A ministry tool ..." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 41-43).

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This dissertation investigates the growth and decline of a major Mediterranean commercial economy at the crossroads of Christian Europe and the Muslim Middle East from 1100 to 1400. New and old evidence uncovers the transformation of the commercial economy of the Byzantine Empire in its relations with the Middle East, western Europe, and Crusader principalities established in Byzantium's ruins. Ultimately, this work helps identify and understand the economic roots for enduring divisions between East and West, and it is unique in observing from Byzantium's perspective the transformation of the Middle East--the economic dynamo of the ancient and medieval Mediterranean. / History

Thesis (D. Min.)--Trinity International University, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 236-245).