School of Humanities: Recent submissions
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Virtue, Honour and Mischief: The Role of Youthful Disobedience in Civic Humanism and Masculinity in the Florentine Renaissance
Published 2018-05-29This thesis explores the subversive world of male youths in Florence between the mid-fourteenth century and 1530. Whereas historians have emphasised the conservative foundations of Renaissance ‘virtue’ and ‘honour’ – values ...Open AccessThesis -
The Mastery of Space in Early Modern Political Thought Giovanni Botero, the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican and the fusion of the civitas and urbs in sixteenth-century Italy
Published 2018-05-29Before the sixteenth century there was a strong emphasis in Renaissance political thought on the difference between the political city (the civitas) and the physical city (the urbs). The body politic ‘floated’ above the ...Open AccessThesis -
Towards new future terrains: Reorienting Asiatic femininities in the speculative imagination
Published 2018-05-24This thesis investigates Asian feminist imaginations of the future through the lens of speculative fiction. It aims to revise binary techno-orientalist understandings of Asia and its subjectivities predominant in Western ...Open AccessThesis -
True Black Metal: Authenticity, Nostalgia, and Transgression in the Black Metal Scene
Published 2018-05-24Black metal as a distinct genre of popular music is characterized by a general yearning for authenticity. This authenticity can be expressed through production values, musical techniques adopted, and style of dress and ...Open AccessThesis -
Awkward Sex: Revisiting Rosalind Gill’s Sex Advice Repertoires in the Context of New Media Listicles
Published 2018-05-24This thesis revisits Rosalind Gill’s 2009 influential study of sex-advice columns in Glamour (UK) magazine in order to test her arguments about mediated intimacy within the new media genre of the listicle. This is achieved ...Open AccessThesis