School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Passions of the Pope: Analysing emotional rhetoric in Pope Gregory VII’s letters
Published 2020In recent years, emotions have become a popular lens for historical analysis. Building on existing scholarship, this thesis explores the emotions of Pope Gregory VII, an eleventh-century pope notable for his reform efforts ...Open AccessThesis -
Gender, Insanity and Moral Obligation: Widows and the Action for Testamentary Incapacity in Late-Colonial New South Wales
Published 2021-04-13The enactment of a Testator’s Family Maintenance Act in 1916 is rightly remembered as a signature achievement of New South Wales’ early feminists, providing protection against the destitution that a cruel will could inflict ...Open AccessThesis -
The Sociolinguistic State of Alemannic Dialects
Published 2021-03-18The various dialects of Alemannic, a set of German dialects spoken in South-Western Germany, North-Eastern France, and Switzerland, are spoken by, in general, a decreasing number of people in these regions. However, the ...Open AccessThesis -
Vagueness, Identity, and Quantum Objects
Published 2021-03-18While classical accounts of identity (‘classical’ here pertaining to both logics and physics) are generally well understood, the advent of quantum theory, specifically quantum statistics, has cast shadow over these conceptions. ...Open AccessThesis -
"Contact - Wait Out": The Search for a Unique Australian Counterinsurgency.
Published 2021-03-02Between 1962 and 1972 Australia was involved in a counterinsurgency war in Vietnam. Counterinsurgencies emerged as the definitive style of warfare during the Cold War. Many prominent nations employed their own unique ...Open AccessThesis