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Articles 1 - 9 of 9
Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
Arthur Cotton And The Development Of Public Works, Justin Patty
Arthur Cotton And The Development Of Public Works, Justin Patty
The Larrie and Bobbi Weil Undergraduate Research Award
In the long history of violence and cruelty that defined the period of British rule in India, Arthur Cotton is one of the few men remembered today not for his crimes, but for the good he did for the people of India. Cotton’s irrigation projects protected millions of Indians from the threat of famine, but the true legacy of his work is global in scope. As a major figure in the development of India’s infrastructure for most of the nineteenth century, Cotton witnessed the British Empire struggle with questions about its role in facilitating public works projects. Despite the Empire’s …
Unto One Man’S Hand: The Power Of Portraiture Of The Favorites Of James I, Maria Katsulos
Unto One Man’S Hand: The Power Of Portraiture Of The Favorites Of James I, Maria Katsulos
The Larrie and Bobbi Weil Undergraduate Research Award
The subject of royal favorites has been of historical interest for quite some time, but these studies or fictionalized interpretations usually involve the female favorites of kings (or, rarer still, the male favorites of queens).1 This latter category provides an interesting angle from which to approach the biographic studies of male figures in the favorite’s role. The study of male royal favorites can therefore oppose the historical neglect of same-sex relationships in royal courts through the colliding lenses of court history and queer history. This interdisciplinary combination illuminates subjects that are seriously understudied in both fields when evaluated independently. Although …
The Weimar Republic And The War Of Memory, Madeline Dixon
The Weimar Republic And The War Of Memory, Madeline Dixon
The Larrie and Bobbi Weil Undergraduate Research Award
This paper is about the havoc World War I unleashed on Germany and its impact on the Weimar Republic. While the war dismantled Imperial Germany, a second war soon began to brew within the newly-formed republic. This war over the memory of the Great War was a key player in Weimar’s destruction, and was rooted in differing interpretations of the war’s meaning, which existed as soon as the declarations of August 1914. The first of such narratives was the “Spirit of 1914,” an exuberant celebration of the war’s conception that took hold of Germans and drove them and their celebrations …
The Latitudinarian Influence On Early English Liberalism, Amanda Oh
The Latitudinarian Influence On Early English Liberalism, Amanda Oh
The Larrie and Bobbi Weil Undergraduate Research Award
This paper takes the unexpected position that early liberal thought developed in transformative events within the Anglican Church during the second half of the seventeenth century. The historical evolution of religion laid the foundation of English political and intellectual philosophy, as supported by works written by the branch of Anglican churchmen known as the Latitudinarians. I will argue that these ministers were foremost in advancing the argument for religious toleration because their religious writings held political consequence. Toleration was the principle value of liberalism in the late seventeenth century because the problem of Dissenters was so pertinent to English religious …
An Alternative View On The Roll-Brimmed Hat, Lauren King
An Alternative View On The Roll-Brimmed Hat, Lauren King
The Larrie and Bobbi Weil Undergraduate Research Award
Why does Gudea wear the roll-brimmed hat? Neo-Sumerian period statues of Gudea, king of Lagash (c. 2100 BCE), were primarily designed to convey the leader’s piety before the gods. The traditional interpretation of the roll-brimmed hat suggests that this garment added to Gudea’s pious affect, serving as a humbler alternative to the divine horned-headdress worn by Naram-Sin, the last king of the previous Akkadian period. While acknowledging the less overtly ambitious quality of the roll-brimmed hat, I nevertheless argue that other potential meanings of this headgear have been overlooked. In particular, I take a materiality and haptic approach to propose …
The Amazons Of Exekias And Eupolis: Demystifying Changes In Gender Roles, Marisa Anne Infante
The Amazons Of Exekias And Eupolis: Demystifying Changes In Gender Roles, Marisa Anne Infante
The Larrie and Bobbi Weil Undergraduate Research Award
In this paper, I will examine the changing gender roles of women as the Athenian government changes from a tyranny in the Archaic period to a democracy in the Classical period by comparing a Black-Figure Amphora, which depicts an image of Achilles Killing Penthesilea, by Exekias and a Red-Figure Column Krater, which depicts an image of an Amazon on Side A and an unidentified figure on Side B, by Eupolis. The creation of democracy was not the universal celebration that it is often praised to be in modern times. I will demonstrate this through a visual analysis of how the …
Reading Chaucer With Charity: A Hermeneutical Proposal, Lee H. Downen
Reading Chaucer With Charity: A Hermeneutical Proposal, Lee H. Downen
The Larrie and Bobbi Weil Undergraduate Research Award
In order to understand the ending of Chaucer's poem "Troilus and Criseyde," one must read him with charity. The person who is indifferent to or suspicious of him will not, to use literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's words, “be able to generate sufficient attention to slow down and linger intently over [the poem], to hold and sculpt every detail and particular in it, however minute.” The charitable reader, that is, the reader who practices caritas—"love for our neighbor," to use Thomas Aquinas's definition—will be able to appreciate how the Boethian logic and the Thomistic distinctions of the poem allow for the …
Reforming Relationships In The Late Italian Renaissance: The Protofeminism Of Lucrezia Marinella And Isabella Andreini, Rachel Stonecipher
Reforming Relationships In The Late Italian Renaissance: The Protofeminism Of Lucrezia Marinella And Isabella Andreini, Rachel Stonecipher
The Larrie and Bobbi Weil Undergraduate Research Award
No abstract provided.
Provocation, Premeditation, And Pandemonium: The Irish Rebellion Of 1641, Erin Hoya
Provocation, Premeditation, And Pandemonium: The Irish Rebellion Of 1641, Erin Hoya
The Larrie and Bobbi Weil Undergraduate Research Award
No abstract provided.