Master of Arts (M.A.), University of Dayton, 2014, English

Salome: Reviving the Dark Lady is a rationale for an impending interdisciplinary reimagining of the literary Dark Lady for the early twenty-first century. The work comprises of poetry, dance, and film. This thesis recounts the history of beauty in the Early Modern Period and discusses the historical context of the Dark Lady to provide a frame for the journey of marginalized archetype into the twenty-first century. The choreopoem itself is built upon Salome, the character from Elizabeth Cary's1613 closet drama "The Tragedy of Mariam Fair Queen of Jewry." The choreopoem contains transliterated soliloquies of the princess interspersed through original poems and prose inspired by works of spoken-word artist Andrea Gibson, twentieth-century Afro-Scandinavian author Nella Larsen, and various literary and cultural critics.

Committee: Albino Carrillo (Advisor) Subjects: African American Studies; American Literature; Bible; British and Irish Literature; Comparative Literature; Cultural Anthropology; Dance; European Studies; Experiments; Folklore; Gender; Language Arts; Literature; Minority and Ethnic Groups; Modern History; Religion; Scandinavian Studies; Theater; Womens Studies

Master of Arts, The Ohio State University, 2011, History

At the beginning of the early modern period in northern Europe, there occurred a transformation from shell-based to frame-based methods of ship construction. It has been demonstrated that in many places, the medieval Mediterranean, for instance, similar transitions were slow ones that occurred in stages. This was not the case in Northern Europe. In only seventy-five years, methods based on lapstrake, shell-based construction were abandoned in favor of methods that produced frame-based, flush-planked ships. This coincided in time with the application of the developing technology of artillery to warfare at sea. Shortly after guns, particularly heavy guns, were placed on ships in Northern Europe, shipbuilding methods began to change. The technological factors that brought about this rapid and fundamental change in the way that shipbuilders conceived of ships can be observed through examination of the archaeological record. Numerous vessels from the late medieval and early modern period have been excavated in the past eighty years. The primary goal of this work shall be to collect information from these sites in a single work in order to demonstrate a chronology for late medieval/early modern vessels-of-war built in Northern Europe. Late medieval merchant and war vessels that have been excavated will be used to illustrate stages in the transition from lapstrake to flush-planked construction. Additionally, the thesis shall argue that there is evidence in the record of an experimental phase in the history of vessel construction. In vessels built during this period, one can observe that in ships intended for military purposes, builders solved problems they encountered, as a result of the introduction of artillery and southern European building methods, by adapting shipbuilding techniques known from earlier lapstrake traditions. It is hoped, finally, that the work will prove useful to future archaeologists and historians for the assessment of potential and discovered sites (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: John Guilmartin PhD (Advisor); Geoffrey Parker PhD (Committee Member); Christopher Reed PhD (Committee Member) Subjects: Archaeology; European History; History; Military History; Military Studies; Technology