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A certain tickling humour : English travellers, 1560-1660

The story of early modern English travellers has generally been treated by scholars as a subplot to larger narratives - whether political history, art history, or, more recently, textual criticism and constructions of the 'other'. It has never been discussed as a distinct development within the cultural history of England, with a narrative of its own. Furthermore, historians have traditionally explained away, dismissed as irrelevant, or simply ignored the fact that a growing number of travellers claimed to be motivated by their 'mere curiosity to see', rather than recognising it as a critical aspect of the new phenomenon. This thesis attempts to be a corrective to both these tendencies.
It begins with the relationship between the traveller and the State, answering questions about the government's attitude to travel, the process of getting a licence to go abroad, fears about Catholic conversion, and how these things changed over time. It goes on to answer basic questions about who was travelling and what the tour abroad was actually like. The results of an exhaustive study of nearly 2,000 passport records are presented, in an effort to demonstrate the growing popularity of foreign travel in these years.
Part Two focuses on the vigorous debate over the value of travel for the young, and the genre of travel advice literature that arose over time. The hostility evoked by the idea of 'curiosity', as well as concerns over travellers being too young, are discussed.
The final part of the thesis challenges the assumption that this period merely witnessed the 'rise of the Grand Tour'. Travel to Spa for the recovery of health and the growth of domestic resorts such as Bath and Buxton are looked at, while a final chapter examines those travellers who extended their tours beyond Europe, and ventured into the Levant and beyond.
The cave of making : the poetry of Louis MacNeice

The thesis is a study of MacNeice's poetic development, with particular attention to his methods of composition. Its intention is similar to MacNeice's own in The Poetry of W.P. Yeats, to make clear that he is 'a less simple and more substantial poet than many of his admirers and some of his detractors think him'. (p.193). Available draft material, unpublished prose and letters have been used as a guide to MacNeice's intentions, as an indication of poetic sources and as a means of appreciating his technical dexterity.
Chapters I and II cover the thirties' volumes: the first concentrates on the themes of childhood and Ireland in this period, and events in MacNeice's private life which helped shape his choice of subject and style; the second is more concerned with the public sphere, and MacNeice's reactions to the dilemmas of the decade, culminating in Autumn Journal's brilliant counterpoint of public with private occasions. His letters and reviews attest to MacNeice's own sense of changed direction in the war years, which are covered in Chapter III's discussion of a structurally tighter poetry, its less personal tone and more integrated imagery. In Chapter IV, long poems from the forties, Ten Burnt Offerings (1952) and Autumn Sequel (1954), are grouped together as evidence of MacNeice's turn to a more discursive and meditative style. A lengthy consideration of the latter volumes was prevented by the sheer bulk of draft material, which would require several chapters to gloss; however the forties' poems, showing equal care in their planning and composition, are studied attentively. With Visitations and Solstices, the subjects of Chapter V, MacNeice regained a lyric intensity which he sustained powerfully in the posthumously published Burning Perch (Chapter VI).
Three empirical essays on inputs, institutions and economic growth

Chapter 1: From "Poorest of the Rich" to "Europe's Shining Light: Accounting for Growth in Ireland, 1980-2001. This chapter applies modern best-practice growth accounting techniques to understand Ireland's remarkable recent economic transformation. This is the first systematic and comprehensive application of growth accounting techniques devoted to examining Irish growth. Different explanations for rapid growth are assessed within this framework, and a variety of hypotheses regarding the sources and nature of the growth are tested. The results, which are compared to the findings of other studies, indicate that Ireland grew because of a substantial increase in labour input and an unprecedented increase in productivity.
Chapter 2: A Dynamic heterogeneous Panel Approach to the Equipment- Investment Growth Nexus This chapter studies the relationship between per capita income growth and equipment investment for a broad sample of countries for the years 1960 to 1990. The original contribution of this chapter is to model the relationship between equipment and growth using recently developed econometric techniques that allow for slope and intercept heterogeneity, and to examine whether allowing for heterogeneity in this fashion alters the conclusions of prior research in this area. The results, generated by an equilibrium correction mechanism framework which allows for these forms of heterogeneity, do indicate that the conclusions of some of the earlier work regarding the relationship between equipment and growth may have been misplaced.
Chapter 3: Did Labour Institutions Contribute to the Golden Age of Economic Growth? This chapter studies the "Golden Age" of economic growth, a period of rapid growth which took place in many industrialized economies after the second World War. Specifically, this chapter tests new theories concerning the influence of labour institutions in sustaining a macroeconomic environment characterized by high output growth, high investment, and rapid productivity growth. The chapter utilises a recently created of dataset labour institution variables, and models the relationship between economic growth and these variables in a dynamic panel which is estimated using the 3SLS systems estimator approach, which allows institutions to have a direct effect on growth as well as an indirect effect through their influence on investment. The results indicate that institutions did play a role in shaping the growth of this period.
George Colman the Elder and the late eighteenth-century theatre audience

The thesis places Colman in his historical setting and establishes a causal relationship between his managerial policies and theatre economics. Examining the years of his management of Covent Garden (1767 - 1774), the thesis posits that Colman made artistic choices in deference to the economic domination of the audience. The economic analysis of Covent Garden's finances is based upon the data available in the Covent Garden Account Books held by the British Museum.
The first chapter presents Colman's audience's view of itself and demonstrates that the audience often defined its role in the theatre in economic terms, fully understanding the power that its financial strength gave it over artistic matters. The house's view of the audience, also economic, is outlined in Chapter Two and is supported by the data in Chapter II -- Part 2. Chapter Three is an analysis of nightly repertory at Covent Garden and links repertory choices to economic factors. The data supporting the conclusion that repertory was inextricably linked to profit maximization are found in Chapter Three -- Parts 2.1 and 2.2. The fourth chapter turns to three of Colman's adaptations, Philaster, King Lear, and Epicoene, using them as examples to show that pragmatic theatre exigencies not only affected repertory on the overall level of scheduling but also on the individual level of playwriting. The final chapter summarizes the repertory and financial evidence presented earlier and concludes that Colman skillfully manipulated the often conflicting demands of financial success and artistic integrity in the eighteenth-century theatre.
'The distinction' and 'the relation' : creation and the creator in Burrell and Schillebeeckx

This treatise investigates the philosophical components of Christian creation-faith, considering their character and the connections between them, developing a particular expression of the distinction and relation between creation and its Creator. The work of David Burrell and Edward Schillebeeckx furnishes tools for that development, in two ways: firstly, by supplying a terminology of distinction and relation that shapes the discourse; consequently, by facilitating the study of the interaction between 'the distinction' and 'the relation' of creation, which, in both authors' work, is dialectical in character.
The study assesses whether Burrell and Schillebeeckx each stress one of these concepts at the expense of the other, finding the evidence suggestive but not compelling. It examines dialectic more closely, describing Burrell's dialectic as polar and Schillebeeckx's as relational. The polar nature of Burrell's dialectic generates a tension between the relata, tending to pull them apart. Schillebeeckx's relational dialectic results, rather, in a mutual interaction in which the relata support and enrich one another.
A preference is voiced for Schillebeeckx's relational dialectic, an organizing principle not only of his account of creation, but of his philosophical theology more generally. His method of correlation is examined, concentrating on the way it directs his accounts of praxis and of humanism. Relational dialectic then serves as the basis for the articulation of a Schillebeeckian philosophical theology, following in his footsteps without imitating him exactly. This gives rise retrospectively to a novel reading of Aquinas on analogical language about God. It offers the prospect of a seamless philosophical theology, drawing on the idea of participation to speak of the humanization and divinization of men and women. Relational dialectic also facilitates the expression of a mutual interaction between God's free commitment to creation and humanity's free commitment to a better future for the world.
The political culture of New Granada, 1770-1815

This thesis is a study of New Granadan political culture during the late colonial period (1770- 1810) and the first years of Independence, known as Patria Boba (1810-1815). The study focuses on the political experiences and perceptions of three distinguishable social groups: the educated Creoles, the ordinary vecinos and the hispanicized Indians. The geographical area covered is the territory of the Audiencia of Santa Fe, which roughly corresponds to present day Colombia.
A combination of ideas and experiences shaped the Creole sense of order and identity. Family clans, intellectuals, bureaucrats, lawyers and merchants built networks that found a political use on the eve of Independence and during the Patria Boba. Their notions of themselves and the other social groups, their assessment of the country's resources and their perceptions of the authorities are examined.
The humbler vecinos participated in local-level politics through the election of mayors and through the process of improving their township status in the Spanish colonial hierarchy of settlements. Their notions of authority, justice, equality and belonging provide an explanation for their attitudes and allegiances during the Patria Boba.
Hispanicized Indians also took part in local politics and criticized the authorities and the clergy. They attempted to influence the appointment of rulers for their communities and to preserve their land. Their sense of identity, feeling of community, and perception of outsiders are visible in their complaints and petitions. Finally, their response to the Patria Boba has particular nuances.
The documents examined for the colonial period show a number of forms of local political life and suggest that it was more lively and regular than has been supposed. It is also apparent that political types and practices, until now considered distinctive features of republican culture, had colonial antecedents.
Envisioning urban villages : a critique of a movement and two urban transformations

Shifts in developmental and environmental imperatives in the late 1980s and early 1990s have prompted concomitant reassessments of urban management practice. In this context, the urban village discourse has emerged as an alternative take on how to create the built landscape. The ideas promoted in the discourse have been quickly adopted into national policy and implemented in urban development projects. However, it is the argument of this thesis that such endorsement of urban village principles has been hasty and uncritical.
Employing the urban village as a material example, this thesis examines the implications of the production of urban form in the communication of meanings and social relations. The approach uses 'landscape' as an organising concept. This approach acknowledges the ideological foundations of urban transformation processes and the role that the built landscape has in signifying societal intentions. What the investigation confirmed was that not only does the urban village discourse have a concern with fashioning physical environments, but it also attempts to procure specific social outcomes through the built form.
Case studies of two urban village landscapes, that are currently under construction, are used to progress this argument. The first is a green field extension to a small county town, the Poundbury project in Dorchester, Dorset. The second is a regeneration scheme in the centre of a major city, the Crown Street project in Glasgow. Through these two urban landscapes it is possible to analyse the divergent application of urban village premises and ideologies amidst competing influences. The projects illustrate the diversity in physical form and economic context that is possible within the urban village discourse. However, their social agendas are closely aligned.
Three principal arguments are made in the thesis. Firstly, that urban village conception and construction of the built environment communicates a specific conservative social order. Secondly, that when embracing new paradigms the planning and development communities need to make themselves aware of the intrinsic implications and complex ideological enterprises associated with them. Finally, that a critical landscape approach is a powerful tool for unveiling the foundations of newly emerging planning visions.
Ideas of Christian writing in late Roman Gaul

The Christianization of the educated élite of Roman society in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D. entailed a number of important changes in attitudes towards the written word. In particular, ideas concerning literary authorship and the use of texts developed at that time were to exercise a profound influence on subsequent European culture. This thesis is a survey of three major areas of emergent Christian literary ideology, based on close analysis of Gallic sources for the period c.350-500.
Chapter One: The Christian writer as student of the Bible. The idea of a necessary relation between Christian 'sermo' and biblical 'lectio' is pursued through the works of Hilary of Poitiers and the Priscillianists, the Gallic correspondence of Jerome, and the ascetic propaganda associated with the monastic milieux of Lérins, Aries and Marseille.
Chapter Two: The Christian writer as 'editor' of the Fathers. The idea that the primary duty of the Christian intellectual was to ensure safe transmission of the doctrinal (and literary) legacy of his most esteemed predecessors is explored with reference to the writings of Prosper of Aquitaine, Cassian of Marseille and Vincent of Lérins.
Chapter Three: The Christian writer as creed-maker. The idea that Christian literary activity might culminate in the perfection of a text composed 'in modum symboli' is traced from the time of Hilary to that of Gennadius of Marseille.
In each of these areas (it is argued) may be discerned a progressive realisation of written resources, involving the establishment of clear principles for a Christian use of texts. In Gaul, this process was closely related to the development of monastic ideas and institutions.
Functional analysis of read-through transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

The molecular consequences of read-through transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae genes transcribed by RNA Polymerases I and II (Pol I and Pol II) are investigated in the two results sections of this thesis (Part I and Part II). In these studies, nascent and steady state RNA analyses are employed to evaluate transcriptional termination.
Part I focuses on the impact that co-expressed Pol II transcribed genes can have on each other when placed in a convergent orientation. Transcriptional interference (TI), previously shown to occur between tandemly arranged genes, inhibits initiation of transcription on a downstream gene. These studies demonstrate that TI can also occur with S.cerevisiae Pol II genes arranged convergently. When the GAL10 and GAL7 genes are rearranged in a convergent orientation, transcriptional initiation occurs at full levels. However as soon as the two transcripts begin to overlap, elongation is restricted resulting in a severe reduction in steady state mRNA accumulation. This effect is only observed in the cis arrangement arguing against RNAi effects acting on the potential generation of antisense transcripts. These data reinforce the necessity to separate adjacent Pol II transcription units by efficient termination signals.
Part II describes experiments that define the nascent termination site of Pol I transcribed rRNA genes. Furthermore, transcription run-on (TRO) analysis was performed on yeast strains in which specific factors involved in the Pol I transcription and RNA processing had been deleted. In particular, S.cerevisiae strains lacking the RPA12p subunit of Pol I have a severe defect in transcriptional termination at the nascent level indicating a direct role for this subunit in termination. Additionally, a yeast strain lacking Rnt1p, a protein involved in early rRNA processing, shows an altered transcriptional termination profile suggesting a link between processing and termination efficiency. In contrast to TI in Pol II, read-through transcription in Pol I may not significantly reduce rRNA gene synthesis.
Mathematical models of wound healing

The complex mechanisms responsible for mammalian wound healing raise many biological questions that are amenable to theoretical investigation. In the first part of this thesis, we consider the role of mitotic auto-regulation in adult epidermal wound healing. We develop a reaction-diffusion model for the healing process, with parameter values based on biological data. The model solutions compare well with experimental results on the normal healing of circular wounds, and we analyse the solutions in one spatial dimension as travelling waves. We then use the model to perform 'mathematical experiments' on the effects of adding mitosis-regulating chemicals and of varying the initial wound shape.
Recent experiments suggest that in embryos, epidermal wound healing occurs not by lamellipodial crawling as in adults, but rather by contraction of a cable of filamentous actin at the wound edge. We focus on the formation of this cable as a response to wounding, and develop and analyse a mechanical model for the post-wounding equilibrium in the microfilament network. Our model reflects the well-documented phenomenon of stress-induced alignment of actin filaments, which has been neglected in previous mechanochemical models of tissue deformation. The model solutions reflect the key aspects of the experimentally observed response to wounding.
In the final part of the thesis, we consider chemokinetic and chemotactic control of cell movement, which play an important role in many aspects of wound healing. We propose a new model which reflects the underlying receptor-based mechanisms, and apply it to endothelial cell movement in the Boyden chamber assay. We compare our model with a simpler scheme in which cells respond directly to gradients in extracellular chemical concentration, and for both models we use experimental data to make quantitative predictions on the values of the transport coefficients.
Aspects of the neolithic and copper ages in the basins of the rivers Segura and Vinalop�, south-east Spain

The origins of the neolithic in southeastern Spain are considered from the standpoint of the location of certain sites with respect to naturalistic rock paintings, and of the succession observed from aceramic to ceramic stratigraphical layers at sites which show a continuity of lithic tool-kits as between the various stages. The functional significance of such sites is interpreted in terms of a large mammal-depenent stage of the earliest pottery-using inhabitants of the region before 5,000 B.C. It is proposed that agriculture developed relatively later in the southeastern ceramic neolithic. Factors concerning erosion and the availability of agricultural land are discussed. Within the neolithic the diversity of lithio forms and of ceramic types is considered. It is proposed that metallurgy occurred as early as 4,000 B.C. and that from then onwards the prehistory of the south-east diverges markedly from that of France or Italy, looking for inspiration to Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean. Investigations into the ceramic constituents of pottery from various neolithic and early and middle copper age sites are discussed in terms of their functional rôles. It is proposed that geographical patterning may owe more to availability of resources and varying needs than to major cultural 'boundaries' . There are no very different changes in the spode of ceramic manufacture from the early to the middle copper age, by contrast with the marked difference of copper age from iron age wares. It is proposed that the 'Argaric' phenomenon developed indigenously the early copper age of the region, physical anthropological data, whilst also showing some degree of geographical patterning within the south-east, nevertheless do not readily lead to an interpretation of markedly different origins for different population groups, and a simpler hypothecs is proposed which explains the bizarre tendencies sometimes observed in montane settlements north of the Vinalopó in terms of genetic drift away from more normal physical characteristics displayed by the copper age proto-urban inhabitants of the townships of northern Algeria, and southern Murcia who were perhaps more mobile.