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The Matter Of Jerusalem: The Holy Land In Angevin Court Culture And Identity, C. 1154-1216, Katherine Lee Hodges-Kluck

Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation reshapes our understanding of the mechanics of nation-building and the construction of national identities in the Middle Ages, placing medieval England in a wider European and Mediterranean context. I argue that a coherent English national identity, transcending the social and linguistic differences of the post-Norman Conquest period, took shape at the end of the twelfth century. A vital component of this process was the development of an ideology that intimately connected the geography, peoples, and mythical histories of England and the Holy Land. Proponents of this ideology envisioned England as an allegorical new Jerusalem inhabited by a chosen …

The Greek Youthening: Assessing The Iconographic Changes Within Courtship During The Late Archaic Period, Jared Alan Johnson

Masters Theses

During the late sixth century and early fifth century B.C., Athenian vase painters started experimenting with a new medium (i.e. red figure). Black figure was still the predominant medium by the early fifth century B.C., and its pederastic scenes on some of the vases belonged to a coherently consistent presentation or a conventional set of images. However, the conventional pederastic motifs of black figure, such as the differentiation in height between figures, the variation among lovers (e.g. bearded erastes and unbearded eromenos), and the appearance of courtship gifts all started to disappear in red figure throughout the fifth century B.C. …

Bone Degradation Under Differing Environments, Kirby Alyssa Trovillo

Chancellor’s Honors Program Projects

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Evidence For The Role Of Asherah In Israelite Religion, Taylor Thomas

EURēCA: Exhibition of Undergraduate Research and Creative Achievement

In the early days of Israelite religion, cultic practices and icon worship were common. One example of such practice involves the term asherah. In the Ancient Near East, asherah referred to a sacred object crafted from wood that was located near places of religious gathering. It is also possible that the term asherah is a reference to the ancient goddess Astarte worshipped by Ugaritic cultures. A third possibility, evidenced by the tendency of cultures of the ancient Near East to have little to no separation between deities and their physical representations and the non-static nature of religion, is that the …

Distilled: The Narrative Transformed (Exhibition Catalogue), Sam Yates, Pinkney Herbert, Joseph Mella, Kim Levin, Tim Rollins, T. Michael Martin

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture

Inspired by place and process, Pinkney Herbert's work is a spirited exploration in color and line derived from the sights, sounds, and energies of the two principal cities – Memphis and New York – in which this body of work was created. Graffiti-like gestures scrawl atop digital prints, which are collaged and integrated into his paintings. In this 30-year survey, we follow Pinkney Herbert on his transformative journey from the narrative into abstraction.

Cntrl+P: Printmaking In The 21st Century By University Of Tennessee Alumni (Exhibition Catalogue), Beauvais Lyons, Sarah Suzuki

Ewing Gallery of Art & Architecture

Curated by Sarah Suzuki Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

This exhibition presenting prints by twenty-one University of Tennessee alumni was organized in conjunction with the 2015 SCG International Conference. Artists selected for the exhibition completed graduate and undergraduate degrees from the University of Tennessee between 1994 and 2014 and include Bryan Baker, Tim Dooley, Wade Guyton, Mark Hosford, Liz Klimek, Shaurya Kumar, Lauren Kussro, Eun Lee, Emily Minnie, Josh Minnie, Katie Ries, Clifton Riley, Hannah Skoonberg, Josh Smith, Veronica Siehl, Meredyth Sparks, Jessie Van der Laan, Crystal Wagner, Ericka Walker, Kelley …