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Review Of "Greek Texts And Armenian Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Trends In Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 39", Lee Patterson
Review Of "Greek Texts And Armenian Traditions: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Trends In Classics - Supplementary Volumes, 39", Lee Patterson
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Incarcerated Transported And Bound: Deference, Resistance, And Assimilation, Constructing Community Among Transported Convicts From Britain To The Chesapeake 1739-1776, Michael Bradley
2017 Awards for Excellence in Student Research and Creative Activity – Documents
From June 8, 1744, through July 9, 1745, Ordinary’s Accounts of London’s condemned reported on a series of individuals who met a swift demise at the end of a rope at Tyburn Square, London’s execution site. Out of the countless that were hanged, the lives of ten criminals who formed an interconnected community are illuminated. They were a subset of a larger network of at least thirty criminals who engaged in thefts, robberies, prostitution, fencing of goods, and overindulgence of intoxicating spirits across London.
Minority Religions In The Sasanian Empire: Suppression, Integration And Relations With Rome, Lee Patterson
Minority Religions In The Sasanian Empire: Suppression, Integration And Relations With Rome, Lee Patterson
Faculty Research & Creative Activity
Gauging the importance of religion to the exercise of political will inthe Sasanian world requires enormous care. It is all too easy to takethe Great Kings at their word as they championed the doctrines ofZoroastrianism in their political pronouncements, especially as someof them also persecuted Christianity. Whether or not such sentimentswere genuine, a closer analysis of the evidence suggests a more pragmaticroyal use of religion. The political realities on the groundwere more often the deciding factor in how the kings related to thereligious sectors of Sasanian society. This state of affairs sometimesset the kings against the Zoroastrian clerics, whose agendas …
Review Of "Rome In The East: The Transformation Of An Empire. Second Edition", Lee Patterson
Review Of "Rome In The East: The Transformation Of An Empire. Second Edition", Lee Patterson
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Incarcerated, Transported And Bound: Constructing Community Among Transported Convicts From Britain To The Chesapeake, 1739-1776, Michael I. Bradley
Incarcerated, Transported And Bound: Constructing Community Among Transported Convicts From Britain To The Chesapeake, 1739-1776, Michael I. Bradley
Masters Theses
"Incarcerated, Transported, and Bound: Constructing Community among Convicts Transported from London to the Chesapeake, 1739-1776" explores the movement, migration, the malleability of identities, and development of communal ties among transported convicts. This thesis utilizes information on more than 3000 convicts brought to the colonial Chesapeake region. Precise details are currently available for more than two hundred transported convicts. In many cases the convicts can be followed from their birthplace to London to their trial and imprisonment, continuing to their transportation to the Americas, their new lives in the Chesapeake, and, in some cases, their flight and return to Great Britain. …