• From Daʿwa to State: Castles and the Formation of the Nizari Ismaʿili State in Quhistan, Iran 

  Yeganehfarzand, Seyedhamed (2022-12-22)

  The present research concerns the network of Nizari Ismaʿili castles and the concept of Nizari Ismaʿili state in Iran during the so-called Alamut period (1090-1256). The research discusses various roles of the castles in ...
• "Dames Amazon," "Nobles Chevaliers," and Imaginary Worlds: Text-Image in King René d'Anjou's Book Production 

  Keating, Françoise (2022-10-03)

  This thesis looks at the court of Anjou-Provence’s book production, under the guidance of King René d’Anjou, during the decades of the 1440’s and ‘50s. It examines four literary works of which three were authored by the ...
• Thinking in Lines and Circles: Geometric Script Patterns and Visualization of Knowledge in Medieval Islamicate Societies (1100–1250 AD) 

  Kazani, Zahra (2022-08-25)

  What do we see when we look at writing? In addition to the verbal messages conveyed by the written words, visual dimensions of script are powerful tools that hold semantic value. This dissertation focuses on one such visual ...
• Board games and paper dolls: playing with age and masculinity in the late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century English domestic interior 

  Zajac, Linda P. (2021-09-01)

  In the late eighteenth- to early nineteenth-century English domestic interior, games mediated and influenced the experience of age and masculinity. Games embodied, reflected, and shaped culture. Games united education, ...
• The merchant's moral eye: money, merchants, and the visualization of morality in Trecento Italy 

  Pollick, Brian A. (2021-06-22)

  My dissertation is a study of how merchants in Trecento Italy used the imagery they commissioned as a form of moral self-representation and as a practical tool in their pursuit of eternal life in heaven. The study is ...
• Interrogating the dead: re-assessing the cultural identities of the Samma Dynasty (1351-1522) at the necropolis of Makli, Sindh (Pakistan) 

  Akhtar, Munazzah (2021-01-12)

  During the preliminary phase of analytical discourse on South Asia’s medieval history, the scholarship rigidly demarcated the material cultures of the pre-Islamic societies from those of the Muslim communities that were ...
• The Toronto New Wave, post-anarchist cinema theory, and the progressive apocalypse 

  Christopher, David (2019-09-06)

  A group of Canadian films emerged in the 1980s and 1990s that has come to be known as the “Toronto New Wave” (TNW). Most scholarship regarding this “wave” considers the films usually identified with it not as an ideologically ...
• A dialogue between friends and foes: transcultural interactions in Ilkhanid capital cities (1256-1335 AD) 

  Hatef Naiemi, Atri (2019-09-03)

  The period following the Mongol conquest of vast areas of Eurasia in the thirteenth century, the so-called Pax Mongolica, witnessed the emergence of a new visual language in Persian art and architecture. Various Islamic ...
• Reflections of a past era: the photography collection of Ernest William Albert Crocker l 908-1946 

  Peel, Ellen Louise (2019-06-26)

  There are many archival photography collections that are forgotten or ignored because of their lack of accompanying written documentation. Despite this, these collections have tremendous value which can be discovered ...
• The Miqat of al-Juhfa: a historical and archaeological study 

  Alsubaie, Mohammad (2018-08-15)

  The Mīqāt of al-Juhfa is located in the west of Saudi Arabia about 187 km northwest of the Holy City of Mecca. Al-Juhfa is one of the five fixed places called Mawāqīt, or entry stations to the pilgrimage (Hajj). These ...
• Talking with Antigone 

  Schraefel, Monica M. C. (2018-07-25)

  This project considers the role of conversation in writing by women, specifically, the role of conversational spaces for women’s construction of self within the symbolic. It does this through a consideration of narrative ...
• Pictorial cycles of non-biblical saints: the evidence of the 8th century mural cycles in Rome 

  Jessop, Lesley Patricia (2018-07-10)

  Due to the influence of the Greek-speaking immigrants who flocked into the city of Rome over the course of the 7th and 8th centuries, there was an explosion of interest in the cults of saints and their relics, one manifestation ...
• The "new woman" in fin-de-siécle art: Frances and Margaret MacDonald 

  Helland, Janice Valerie (2018-06-26)

  Scottish artists Margaret and Frances Macdonald produced their most innovative art during the last decade of the nineteenth century. They received their training at the Glasgow School of Art and became known for ...
• The early medieval chapel: decoration, form and function. A study of chapels in Italy and Istria in the period between 313 and 741 AD 

  Mackie, Gillian Vallance (2018-06-26)

  The relationship between decoration, architectural form, and function is investigated in depth in those early chapels of Italy and Istria which retain significant amounts of their decorative programmes. These include the ...
• Paradigms of collecting from ethnography to documenting the individual artists: Grace Nicholson and the art history of Native Nortwestern California basketry during the Arts and Crafts period, 1880-1930 

  Cadge, Catie Anne (2018-05-31)

  During the Arts and Crafts period, from about 1880 to 1930, popular perceptions of Native Americans and their basketry emphasized pristine cultures prior to the effects of contact with Europeans. Pasadena basketry collector ...
• Rubens and the Stoic Baroque: Classical Stoic Ethics, Rhetoric, and Natural Philosophy in Rubens’s Style 

  Nutting, Catherine M. (2018-01-18)

  Rubens is known as a painter; he should also be defined as an art theorist. Following Robert Williams’ theory that Early Modern art became philosophical, I believe that style can connote art theoretical interests and ...
• The Simurgh: representations and meaning in Persian painting 

  Nabavi Nejad, Behrang (2019-12-08)

  The fantastic Simurgh, the mythical bird of ancient Persia, has maintained a significant presence in Persian culture. The visual and textual references to this bird manifest a mysterious and complex symbolism shaped around ...
• The force of culture : Vincent Massey and Canadian sovereignty 

  Finlay, Karen A. (2018-01-05)

  In Canada, a country defined by a certain cultural reticence, Vincent Massey (1887–1967) was that remarkable entity, a champion of culture. Through a wide range of initiatives in the arts and education, he expressed his ...
• The Heiltsuk case : museums, collectors, inventories 

  Black, Martha (2017-10-19)

  The art of the Heiltsuk of the central coast of British Columbia is not well known to non-aboriginal people and has been frequently misrepresented in the literature on the Northwest Coast. Because the majority of historical ...
• The late Ottoman En'am-i șerif : sacred text and images in an Islamic prayer book 

  Bain, Alexandra (2017-10-19)

  The inclusion of representational imagery in a sacred context is extremely rare in the history of Islamic art. This dissertation examines the evolution of the Ottoman En'am-i Serif, a group of manuscripts dating from the ...

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