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Irish Learning And Its Effect On The Carolingian Renaissance, Jane Donald

Bachelors’ Theses

When the Roman Empire disintegrated and its learning was, for the time, buried by an avalanche of barbarism, Ireland alone of the many provinces which had shared in its commerce and learning, was undisturbed. Ireland had a mission; it was to be the haven in which classical learning was kept alive and it was to be the means, when the time was ripe, of carrying this culture throughout Europe.

The First French Republic, Dorothy Conine

Bachelors’ Theses

This thesis is intended as a study of the first French Republic during the years of 1792 and 1795.

The writer might call it the Revolution itself, so completely were the years of violence under the Convention the outcome of the attempt to preserve the advantages the Constituent Assembly had gained. To understand the conditions which were outgrown and the origin and growth of the revolutionary spirit, seems, therefore, quite as necessary as to trace the history of the destruction of abuse and the struggle for liberties and rights.

While novelties of historical matters are always to be suspected, the …

The German Kings And Emperors Of The Saxon Family, Jeanette Marie Altenhofen

Bachelors’ Theses

A century after Germany had started its separate existence as a kingdom and a nation, the Saxon house was called to its government. This family gave to the kingdom five rulers, all of whom belonged to the better or best kings the country ever had. King Conrad I, a Franconian, had died after a brief reign. On his deathbed he recommended Henry of Saxony as his successor. Henry was elected by the Combined Saxons and Franks, but eventually received general recognition.

Sarcenic Civilization In The Middle Ages, Helene M. Ahern

Bachelors’ Theses

Of all the older nations who have carried their arms across vast continents,whose fleets have swept the seven seas, and who have left ineffaceable marks of their achievements on the pages of History, and enriched the world of thought by their discoveries and speculations,the Sarcens stand to us the nearest in time. The modern world is still working with the legacy they left behind,with the intellectu­al wealth they stored for their successors. It is, therefore a matter of regret that in the West a knowledge of their history should be so limited and more than this,that an entirely unfounded and …