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1	Putting nature in a box : Hans Sloane's 'Vegetable Substances' collection Pickering, Victoria Rose Margaret January 2017 (has links) The 'Vegetable Substances' collection was formed by the physician and collector Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) between the 1680s and the 1750s. All sorts of people ranging from ship's captains in the Americas to surgeons in the East Indies sent natural material from around the world to London. Sometimes this involved a variety of means and intermediaries, and in other instances individuals, including aristocratic women in London and Royal Society Fellows across England, gave items directly to Sloane. When Sloane received these samples of botanical items, he had them sealed into small glass and wood boxes. He then numbered these items and described the sample in a three-volume manuscript catalogue. 12,523 items are listed in Sloane's hand in this catalogue with varying degrees of information relating to their identification, contributor, provenance and use. Today, the Natural History Museum in London holds Sloane's surviving catalogue and over 8000 of these 'Vegetable Substances' objects. Considering the collection as a whole, this thesis explores the role of the 'Vegetable Substances' in early eighteenth-century natural knowledge. Using data provided by the catalogue and Sloane's surviving correspondence at the British Library, this thesis explores what is in the 'Vegetable Substances' and identifies how Sloane formed the collection by surveying the connections he developed with people across the world and how he managed these different relationships. Drawing on these exchanges, this thesis also focuses on the uses of the 'Vegetable Substances' by examining its contents in particular eighteenth-century contexts including gardening spaces and medicine. Hans Sloane ; Natural history
2	The Language of Peace: A Burkeian Analysis of the Peace Rhetoric of William Sloane Coffin, Jr. Hambrick, Margaret, 1959- 05 1900 (has links) The purpose of this research was to identify the motives and use of language of William Sloane Coffin, Jr., president of SANE/FREEZE organization. The rhetorical elements of his peace speeches between the years 1978-1988 were analyzed using Kenneth Burke's dramatistic pentad as a method of analysis. William Sloane Coffin, Jr. peace Kenneth Burke Coffin, William Sloane -- Oratory. Peace.
3	Religion, politics and journalism : testing theoretical constructs of framing / Huckins, Kyle David, January 1999 (has links) Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 198-210). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.
4	Exploring Concepts of Contagion and the Authority of Medical Treatises in 14th-16th Century England Jones, Lori K 27 August 2012 (has links) This thesis examines whether and how historians’ reliance on medical treatises has limited the historiography of contagion as it relates to fourteenth through sixteenth century England. It analyses the context, contents, audience, and codicology of six English tractates, four on the plague and two on the sweating sickness. Before the early seventeenth century, most English tractates were translations/adaptations of Continental works, with ‘uniquely English’ content added. Although the plague dominates studies of pre-modern disease, focusing on the plague hinders comparative analyses that can reveal much about contemporary understanding of contagion. The socio-political-professional contexts in which the tractates were written and disseminated affected their contents, circulation and, ultimately, audiences. Although largely ignored by historians, the tractates’ prefatory dedications, together with their codicology, reveals that the texts were likely accessible to non-elite audiences. Rather than being limited to its medical sense, contagion formed part of the larger discourse about the human condition. plague tractates plague sweating sickness England late medieval early modern contagion contagious disease history of medicine medical treatises literacy/reading codicology John Caius Thomas le Forestier Thomas Moulton Thomas Phayer Canutus BL Additional MS 27582 BL Sloane MS 3489 professional conflict socio-political conflict fifteenth century sixteenth century
5	Exploring Concepts of Contagion and the Authority of Medical Treatises in 14th-16th Century England Jones, Lori K 27 August 2012 (has links) This thesis examines whether and how historians’ reliance on medical treatises has limited the historiography of contagion as it relates to fourteenth through sixteenth century England. It analyses the context, contents, audience, and codicology of six English tractates, four on the plague and two on the sweating sickness. Before the early seventeenth century, most English tractates were translations/adaptations of Continental works, with ‘uniquely English’ content added. Although the plague dominates studies of pre-modern disease, focusing on the plague hinders comparative analyses that can reveal much about contemporary understanding of contagion. The socio-political-professional contexts in which the tractates were written and disseminated affected their contents, circulation and, ultimately, audiences. Although largely ignored by historians, the tractates’ prefatory dedications, together with their codicology, reveals that the texts were likely accessible to non-elite audiences. Rather than being limited to its medical sense, contagion formed part of the larger discourse about the human condition. plague tractates plague sweating sickness England late medieval early modern contagion contagious disease history of medicine medical treatises literacy/reading codicology John Caius Thomas le Forestier Thomas Moulton Thomas Phayer Canutus BL Additional MS 27582 BL Sloane MS 3489 professional conflict socio-political conflict fifteenth century sixteenth century
6	Exploring Concepts of Contagion and the Authority of Medical Treatises in 14th-16th Century England Jones, Lori K January 2012 (has links) This thesis examines whether and how historians’ reliance on medical treatises has limited the historiography of contagion as it relates to fourteenth through sixteenth century England. It analyses the context, contents, audience, and codicology of six English tractates, four on the plague and two on the sweating sickness. Before the early seventeenth century, most English tractates were translations/adaptations of Continental works, with ‘uniquely English’ content added. Although the plague dominates studies of pre-modern disease, focusing on the plague hinders comparative analyses that can reveal much about contemporary understanding of contagion. The socio-political-professional contexts in which the tractates were written and disseminated affected their contents, circulation and, ultimately, audiences. Although largely ignored by historians, the tractates’ prefatory dedications, together with their codicology, reveals that the texts were likely accessible to non-elite audiences. Rather than being limited to its medical sense, contagion formed part of the larger discourse about the human condition. plague tractates plague sweating sickness England late medieval early modern contagion contagious disease history of medicine medical treatises literacy/reading codicology John Caius Thomas le Forestier Thomas Moulton Thomas Phayer Canutus BL Additional MS 27582 BL Sloane MS 3489 professional conflict socio-political conflict fifteenth century sixteenth century

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