Master of Arts in History, Youngstown State University, 2007, Department of Humanities

British naval impressment and slavery were two major social issues in the British Empire in the long-eighteenth century. Scholars have explored each issue separately, however little has been done comparing both at length. Secondary sources, political theorem, and laws, frame the role of naval impressment and slavery in the eighteenth century British Empire. The two court cases, Rex versus Tubbs and Rex versus Knowles, exemplify each issue in the governmental realm of the eighteenth century. As such, naval impressment and slavery became major imperial issues throughout the eighteenth century, and although social reformer challenged the problems associated with the growth of each institution, the necessity to the empire blocked any far-reaching changes. The study of slavery and naval impressment is divided into three sections. The first section is the introduction, which presents a survey of the scholarly work already done on this work. The second section is comprised of chapter one and two. The overall theme of this section is that the slavery and naval impressment differed in its earlier manifestations and its later ones. The first chapter establishes Britain's long histories of slavery and impressment. The second chapter concentrates on the growth of the empire and provides a solid comparison of early and later forms of impressment. The third section of this thesis looks at the legal standings of each institution in the eighteenth century. The third chapter contends that leading up to the 1770s the judicial system chipped away at the institution of slavery, while impressment was continually supported. The last chapter argues that the main cases of social reform of each institution, occurring in the 1770s, achieve relative success in Britain, but ultimately with their narrow scopes do very little to change the institutions throughout the empire.

Committee: Martha Pallante (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Master of Arts (MA), Wright State University, 2007, History

Merjanski, Kiril Valtchev. M.A., Department of History, Wright State University, 2007. The Secret Serbian-Bulgarian Treaty of Alliance of 1904 and the Russian Policy in the Balkans before the Bosnian Crisis. The two Serbian-Bulgarian treaties, concluded simultaneously in 1904, and known in the literature under the common name of “The Secret-Serbian-Bulgarian Treaty of Alliance of 1904” are the specific topic of this thesis. These treaties between the Kingdom of Serbia and the Principality of Bulgaria contained political, military and economic provisions aimed not only against the Ottoman Empire (a common rival of both countries), but also against Austria-Hungary. A significant feature of these treaties was their obvious pro-Russian orientation, shaped in provisions like unification of the telegraphic systems of both countries with that of Russia as well as the requirement for Russian arbitration between Bulgaria and Serbia if they were not able to reach agreement about the partition of the European possessions of the Ottoman Empire by themselves. Considering all this, with some of their provisions the Serbian-Bulgarian Treaties of 1904 resembled in many ways the Treaty of 1912 between the above-mentioned Balkan countries, which became the backbone of the creation of the Balkan League. The creation of the latter, on the other hand, was a significant step toward the breakdown of equilibrium in Eastern Europe, eventually leading to the outbreak of the First Balkan War, with its well known larger consequences. Seen in this light, the significance of the Serbian-Bulgarian Treaties of 1904 could be defined also as evidence that the Russian policy of creating alliances between the small Balkan Slav States, aimed not only against the Ottoman Empire, but also against Austria- Hungary, and, in this way, “encircling” the latter, could be dated from before the Bosnian Crisis (1908), as opposed to the prevailing attitude in the existing literature, that the Bosnian Crisis itself (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Edgar Melton (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2006, History

The Enlightenment, or the “Age of Reason,” had a profound impact on eighteenth-century Europe, especially on its religion, producing both outright atheism and powerful movements of religious reform within the Church. The former – culminating in the French Revolution – has attracted many scholars; the latter has been relatively neglected. By looking at “enlightened” attempts to reform popular religious practices in Spain, my project examines the religious fervor of people whose story usually escapes historical attention. “Fiestas and Fervor” reveals the capacity of the Enlightenment to reform the Catholicism of ordinary Spaniards, examining how enlightened or Reform Catholicism affected popular piety in the diocese of Barcelona. This study focuses on the efforts of an exceptional figure of Reform Catholicism and Enlightenment Spain – Josep Climent i Avinent, Bishop of Barcelona from 1766-1775. The program of “Enlightenment” as sponsored by the Spanish monarchy was one that did not question the Catholic faith and that championed economic progress and the advancement of the sciences, primarily benefiting the elite of Spanish society. In this context, Climent is noteworthy not only because his idea of “Catholic Enlightenment” opposed that sponsored by the Spanish monarchy but also because his was one that implicitly condemned the present hierarchy of the Catholic Church and explicitly advocated popular enlightenment and the creation of a more independent “public sphere” in Spain by means of increased literacy and education of the masses. Examining the types of popular – albeit exterior – religious practices that were the object of reform as well as Climent's efforts to promote a better understanding of the Catholic faith which focused on interior rather than exterior forms of piety, I argue that by establishing gratis elementary schools, reforming seminary curricula, and mass-distributing books and pamphlets Climent was able to bring “Enlightenment” to eighteenth-cent (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Dale Van Kley (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2005, History

In the opening decades of the Cold War, West Germans faced a terrifying geo-strategic dilemma. Located on the frontlines of the Cold War between nuclear-armed superpowers, they were forced to consider how best to protect their nascent democracy from the possibility of a devastating war fought with weapons of mass destruction. For Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and the right-of-center coalition that governed West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s, the answer to the country's dilemma was threefold. Close rapprochement with the West and a strong national military were combined with civil defense—protecting the country's civilian population and its societal and cultural institutions from the worst effects of a future war through a tripartite strategy of mass evacuation, protective shelters, and post-attack rescue and recovery units. This chronologically and topically-organized dissertation examines the origins, evolution, and demise of the West German civil defense program during the Cold War's opening decades. In doing so it presents three major arguments. First, as a result of unique historical and cultural influences West Germany's early-Cold War civil defense program exhibited remarkable conceptual continuity with its Weimar and National Socialist predecessors. Second, the program's political failure in the mid-1960s was due in large part to the inability of West German civil defense planners to make a clean break with the past. Finally, the Federal Republic's early-Cold War civil defense experience provides a new understanding of the process by which West Germans individually and collectively worked to create a new national identity in the post-1945 world. Specifically, in rejecting the highly-centralized program proposed by civil defense proponents West Germans individually and collectively rejected the sacrifice of their democracy called for by Adenauer and his allies. In doing so, the dissertation concludes, West Germans made a momentous decision about the fundamental (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Alan Beyerchen (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2005, History

The decade of the 1640s was a time of social and political upheaval that affected every country in Europe. Specific studies of revolts in England, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Sweden have identified the presence of a religious component that shaped the identities of rebellious factions and served to maintain a spirit of opposition throughout these crises. Although the religious element of the 1640 Catalan revolt has been overlooked, the regional clergy played an enormous role in sustaining what was essentially a revolt in the name of religion. The burning of the Sacrament in two small villages began the revolt; the Catalan church's continued financial donations continued resistance through the critical first two years of war, long enough to turn the rural rebellion into a revolution. Clerics wrote many of the early pamphlets justifying secession, helping to tie the provincial Church more closely to the insurrection. During the winter of 1640-1641, facing imminent defeat at the hands of the royal army, monks, friars, and priests sought neither repentance nor forgiveness, but rather prayed for divine deliverance from their attackers. Following the unexpected rebel victory at Montjuic in January 1641, the enthusiasm of the Catalan clergy for the revolution did not diminish. Throughout the campaigns of 1641 and 1642, the first estate gave great sums of money to finance Catalan soldiers as well as their French allies in their fight against Castile. Furthermore, despite the untimely death of Pau Claris, other clerics filled important positions of leadership in the new Franco-Catalan government, serving as judges, administrators, tax collectors, and even heading a new Inquisition in Barcelona. Eventually, growing numbers of Catalan clergy would turn against the revolutionary regime, using their money and their positions as leaders in society to win the hearts and minds of many back to their allegiance to Philip IV. A study of the many roles filled by the ecclesia (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Geoffrey Parker (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2005, Educational Policy and Leadership

While scholars have widely discussed the cultural, economic, and political influence of the United States on Europe in general and Germany in particular, the realm of sports has received surprisingly little attention. This study ties in with the scholarly debate about Americanization and / or globalization that started in the first half the 1990s. It examines the presentation of American football in England from the 1890s through World War II as well as in Germany following the war to the present day. The study discusses what non-Americans wrote about football and what their countrymen and –women read about it. The study draws on English and German newspapers and magazines, particularly the London Times and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. It also examines the role American military, radio, television, and movies played in the diffusion of American football. In the case of Germany, the researcher draws on extensive qualitative interviews with several of the “founding fathers” of American football in Germany as well as his own experiences in the sport. The work demonstrates that American football arrived in Germany on a field that had been prepared by a three-hundred-year process of imagining Amerika. The author uses this context to explain why football has been relatively popular in Germany compared to other European countries. The study also explores football's failure to get established in Germany during the post-World War II era, and describes how Germans finally formed their own clubs and leagues in the late 1970s. Using selected illustrations, this study describes (1) how German Amerikabilder—images, ideas, and symbols associated with America—have been constructed in and around football in Germany and (2) how these constructs reflect a number of heterostereotypes Germans have cultivated over centuries. As part of this process, the press presented football as a violent American game and entertainment spectacle. The study closes with an epilogue that shifts th (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Melvin Adelman (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2004, History

Setting out the parameters for Protestant church government in 1559, Elizabeth I of England granted “that the priestes and mynisters of the Church may lawfully, for the aduoyding of fornication, have an honest and sober wyfe.” With that relatively unenthusiastic concession, marriage became a legal and lasting option for all clergy of the Church of England. Surplices and sanctions on economic and martial activity remained as medieval Catholic continuities in early modern Protestant clerical identity. Marriage, on the other hand, was an innovation that brought critical changes. Its effects went far beyond the strategic (and not always successful) containment of illicit clerical sexuality. The end of institutionalized celibacy had essential implications for clerical manhood, clerical spirituality, clerical poverty, the development of clerical professional networks,the administration of clerical discipline, the structure and maintenance of clerical dignity and the dynamics of clerical-lay relations in English parishes. It created an entirely new and distinct group of women in England's social and gender hierarchy: clerical wives. Yet the social and cultural history of clerical marriage and clerical families in postreformation England has received insufficient scholarly attention. A handful of works, most notably Eric Carlson's and Helen Parish's studies of the clerical marriage debate during the Tudor Reformations, have addressed this revolution in clerical domestic life. The evolution of clerical domesticity during the seventeenth-century period of Protestant conflict and consolidation has been especially understudied. This dissertation poses several interrelated questions about gender, marriage, family and the clerical vocation in seventeenth-century England. How did the role and realities of being a husband, father and householder shape clerical identity and honor,during a critical period of change and upheaval in the English church? How did clerical dignity and the (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: David Cressy (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2003, History

From 1914-21, the Russian countryside underwent an enormous social and political transformation. World War I and civil war led to conscription into the tsarist, Bolshevik, and anti-Bolshevik armies, removing over fourteen million young male peasants from their villages. Revolution destroyed the centuries-old peasant-landlord relationship, redistributed land among the peasantry, democratized the countryside, and allowed villages to install autonomous governing bodies. War and social turmoil also brought massive famine and government requisitioning of grain and possessions, killing thousands of peasants and destroying their means of existence. The Bolshevik victory, a defining event of the twentieth century, was ultimately determined by the temporary support of the peasantry, the vast majority of Russia's population. This project studies the interaction between peasants and government in the Russian province of Viatka from the beginning of World War I to the end of the Civil War in 1921. In doing so, it will advance how scholars understand the nature of the Revolution, peasant-state relations, and peasant society and culture in general. On the one hand, I analyze Russia's changes through a study of peasant responses to tsarist, Provisional Government, and Soviet recruitment into the armed forces; requisitioning of grain and possessions; and establishment of local administrations. In examining peasants' language and interaction with the state, I show how the population adopted, rejected, and helped to shape government power, just as it shaped them. The destruction of the tsarist system created an ideal environment for the rural populations to break free from traditional roles. Indeed, political and social turmoil helped to fashion new peasant identities and social relationships. On the other hand, I strive to understand the diverse peasant experiences by conducting a case study of the internal dynamics and cleavages in the countryside. My study underscores that the exp (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: David Hoffmann (Advisor); Eve Levin (Other); Nicholas Breyfogle (Other) Subjects: History, European

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2003, History

At the end of World War II the Allies demilitarized, divided, and democratized Germany. The dismantling of Germany involved setting up four zones and eventually two states, the Federal Republic and German Democratic Republic (GDR), and also giving large German territories to Poland and the Soviet Union, which required the initiation of a forced population transfer of the Germans who lived in those areas. Whether they fled as the Soviet troops advanced, or faced the postwar expulsions arranged by the Allies, the majority of Germans from the Eastern territories, approximately 12 million altogether, survived the arduous trek West. Roughly 8 million ended up in West Germany; 4 million went to the GDR. This dissertation comparatively examines the postwar, post-flight experiences of the German expellees in the Federal Republic and GDR in the late 1940s and 1950s. This analysis involves an examination of four categories of experience: official images of the expellees, their self-images, their images as outsiders, and expellees' reaction to these outsider-images. The two Germanies' expellee policies differed dramatically and reflected their Cold War orientations. West Germany followed a policy of expellee-integration, which highlighted their cultural differences and encouraged them to express their uniqueness. The Federal Republic initially sought unification on the basis of 1937 borders; thus expellee identity should be expressed in order to maintain links to the lost territories, which they wished to regain. GDR expellee policy involved silencing their self-expression and forcing them to meld with the existing population. The GDR sought to erase the Germanness of the lost territories and thus allow them to stay in Russian and Polish hands; the expellees in East Germany were forced to give up ties to their homeland. This dissertation thus highlights expellee resettlement policies as they related to the political orientation of the two Germanies and the integration experien (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Alan Beyerchen (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2003, History

The conquest of the Khanate of Kazan' was a pivotal event in the development of Muscovy. Moscow gained possession over a previously independent political entity with a multiethnic and multiconfessional populace. The Muscovite political system adapted to the unique circumstances of its expanding frontier and prepared for the continuing expansion to its east through Siberia and to the south down to the Caspian port city of Astrakhan. Muscovy's government attempted to incorporate quickly its new land and peoples within the preexisting structures of the state. Though Muscovy had been multiethnic from its origins, the Middle Volga Region introduced a sizeable Muslim population for the first time, an event of great import following the Muslim conquest of Constantinople in the previous century. Kazan's social composition paralleled Moscow's; the city and its environs contained elites, peasants, and slaves. While the Muslim elite quickly converted to Russian Orthodoxy to preserve their social status, much of the local population did not, leaving Moscow's frontier populated with animists and Muslims, who had stronger cultural connections to their nomadic neighbors than their Orthodox rulers. The state had two major goals for the Middle Volga Region. First, the region needed to be pacified and secured against internal and external threats. Second, the region needed to produce revenue for the state. This dissertation will examine the ways in which the Muscovite government attempted to achieve its goals. Rather than following the concerns of earlier studies on why the tsar conquered Kazan', this study will explore the mechanisms of the Muscovite government in the century and a half following the conquest of Kazan', as the structures of the state were slowly and successfully implanted. By the time Peter the Great succeeded to the Russian throne, the borders of the Muscovite empire had expanded far beyond the Middle Volga Region, but the processes employed in the region became th (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: Eve Levin (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Doctor of Philosophy, The Ohio State University, 2002, History

Over the course of Louis XIV's fifty-four year reign (1661-1715), Western Europe witnessed thirty-six years of conflict. Siege warfare figures significantly in this accounting, for extended sieges quickly consumed short campaign seasons and prevented decisive victory. The resulting prolongation of wars and the cost of besieging dozens of fortresses with tens of thousands of men forced "fiscal-military" states to continue to elevate short-term financial considerations above long-term political reforms; Louis's wars consumed 75% or more of the annual royal budget. Historians of 17th century Europe credit one French engineer – Sebastien le Prestre de Vauban – with significantly reducing these costs by toppling the impregnability of 16th century artillery fortresses. Vauban perfected and promoted an efficient siege, a "scientific" method of capturing towns that minimized a besieger's casualties, delays and expenses, while also sparing the town's civilian populace. How thoroughly Vauban's siege legacy was accepted by the end of Louis's reign is the focus of this study. A quantitative survey of the 115 sieges in the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) places the anecdotally-based conventional wisdom on a more sure footing by setting Vauban's offensive revolution in a broader chronological context. Abandoning the narrow biographical accounts of national figures (Vauban and the English Duke of Marlborough in particular), we discover a larger picture that highlights the many challenges engineers faced when applying his theory to the reality of combat. Focusing on the Flanders theater (1702-1712), we find that the most important elements of Vauban's siege attack were not only ignored, but actively opposed by the most successful French and Allied generals. These commanders – the most famous among them Marlborough, Prince Eugene of Savoy, and the Duke of Villars – are examples of a widespread reaction against Vauban's humanitarian attempts to rationalize warfare. Generals (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: John Rule (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, 2007, History (Arts and Sciences)

This thesis traces Soviet attempts to integrate eastern Poland into the USSR from 1939-1941. In September 1939, the Soviet Union, in collusion with Nazi Germany, invaded the eastern provinces of Poland and soon after annexed them. Over the following twenty-one months, the Soviets assimilated this territory through physical repression of the population and through reorganization of local cultural, political, and economic institutions along Soviet lines. Although some people initially welcomed Soviet rule, unpopular policies turned much of the local population against the USSR. Soviet rule in Poland can be divided into two concurrent phases: the preparation of the population for Soviet life through repression and the transformation of Polish capitalism into Soviet communism. Moscow approached each phase with ideology at the fore, but enacted policies tailored not only to promoting class conflict, but to securing and enhancing Soviet control as well. The ethnic diversity of eastern Poland was a key factor that all facets of Soviet integration policy had to address. The German invasion of the USSR in June 1941 temporarily ended Soviet rule in this region and laid bare its widespread unpopularity.

Committee: Steven Miner (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, 2007, History (Arts and Sciences)

This thesis examines the relationship between foreign policy autonomy and domestic repression in Romania from 1965 to 1989. This time period coincides with the rule of Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu. The thesis argues that Czechoslovakia's 1968 Prague Spring and the Warsaw Pact invasion that spelled its end had a significant impact not only on Romanian foreign policy, but also on Romanian domestic policy, until the December 1989 Revolution. The legacy of the Prague Spring shaped the prism through which Romania's communist government evaluated threats domestic and foreign; in fact, it led the leadership to conflate the two, to the point where foreign interference was a necessary condition for domestic opposition in the official conception. Approaching the study of Romanian communism within this autonomy/repression dialectical framework, the thesis examines the relationship between ideological fanaticism and public policy in the Ceausescu regime. It discusses the ways in which the regime used tactics of manipulation, persuasion, and repression to cope with threats it saw as simultaneously domestic and foreign. The theory behind this approach, therefore, could be applied to other cases of repressive, autarchic dictatorship. The thesis offers new perspectives, arguments, and evidence, as it includes substantial original archival research as well as discussion of recent Romanian language literature. It is divided into four chapters. Chapter I reviews the literature on Romania's autonomous foreign policy as well as the literature discussing the relationship between the autonomy policy and Romania's domestic affairs. Chapter II discusses Romania's political "thaw" in the 1960s, Romanian interpretations of the Czechoslovak Prague Spring, as well as Romanian evaluations of the Soviet threat it faced, or did not face, in the late 1960s and beyond. Chapter III discusses the "re-Stalinization" of Romanian politics and society in the years following the Prague Sprin (open full item for complete abstract)

Committee: T. Curp (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Master of Arts (MA), Ohio University, 2006, History (Arts and Sciences)

This is an examination of the motives of twenty-two perpetrators of the Jewish Holocaust. Each served as an officer of the Einsatzgruppen, mobile killing units which beginning in June 1941, carried out mass execution of Jews in the German-occupied portion of the Soviet Union. Following World War II the subjects of this study were tried before a U.S. Military Tribunal as part of the thirteen Nuremberg Trials, and this study is based on the records of their trial, known as Case IX or more commonly as teh Einsatzgruppen Trial. From these records the thesis concludes that the twenty-two men were shaped politically by their experiences during the Weimar Era (1919-1932), and that as perpetrators of the Holocaust their actions were informed primarily by the tenets of Nazism, particularly anti-Semitism.

Committee: Norman Goda (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Bachelor of Arts, Miami University, 2003, College of Arts and Sciences - History

The session of the English Parliament under Henry IV in 1406 was exceptionally long compared to other sessions of Parliament, lasting about 23 weeks compared to the average of two to three weeks. A session was called only when the king requested additional revenue and Henry IV had called several sessions in the first years of his reign. By 1406 those men serving in Parliament were less likely to grant money to the king because of the dissatisfaction with the king over the continued requests, as well as because of certain personal characteristics of the members. These members were less likely than in years past to have a prior loyalty to the king or members of his family and were more likely to be serving for the first time than not. The parliamentary session of 1406 included lawyers, merchants, men of property, and cloth manufacturers, as well as pirates and a murder defendant. The session lasted until the Commons granted additional revenue to the king in exchange for his agreement to rely more on his council for advice. The concessions made by the king were unique because they were unprecedented. Henry IV most likely made these concessions because he relied on Parliament for his legitimacy as king and because of an illness he suffered during the middle of this session.

Committee: Charlotte Goldy (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Master of Arts, Miami University, 2005, History

This thesis examines imperial themes present in mid-nineteenth century British media. Typically considered a period of disinterest in the Empire, the period from 1843 to 1860 actually witnessed a strong promotion of British imperial expansion through newspapers such as The Economist. Articles and book reviews within The Economist provide examples of five themes which encouraged imperial expansion: rhetoric of better government, the defense of free trade, retention of colonies, emigration, and cultural superiority. By examining The Economist's articles concerning four regions of the British Empire, including Ireland, Australia, India and Africa, this thesis demonstrates how mid-nineteenth century newspapers contained imperial themes and therefore promoted imperial interest and expansion.

Committee: Judith Zinsser (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Master of Arts, Miami University, 2004, History

This thesis examines papal authority in the nineteenth century in three sections. The first examines papal issues within the world at large, specifically those that focus on the role of the Church within the political state. The second section concentrates on the authority of Pius IX on the Italian peninsula in the mid-nineteenth century. The third and final section of the thesis focuses on the inevitable loss of the Papal States within the context of the Vatican Council of 1869-1870. Select papal encyclicals from 1859 to 1871 and the official documents of the Vatican Council of 1869-1870 are examined in light of their relevance to the change in the nature of papal authority. Supplementing these changes is a variety of seminal secondary sources from noted papal scholars. Ultimately, this thesis reveals that this change in papal authority became a point of contention within the Church in the twentieth century.

Committee: Sheldon Anderson (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Master of Arts, Miami University, 2004, History

This thesis examines the status of children under eighteenth-century English law. It is divided into three sections: legal treatises, felonious court cases with child victims, and felonious cases with juvenile defendants. It identifies significant differences between the legal treatment of children in eighteenth-century philosophical legal treatises and actual court treatment. It also suggests that children maintained significantly fewer rights than adults under the English system. Though children were theoretically included in all English laws, they could not testify in court and were more likely to be convicted of criminal offences than their adult counterparts.

Committee: David Fahey (Advisor) Subjects: History, European

Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, 2008, Music History

The English lute song (or ayre) was a short-lived song genre, usually consisting of a solo vocal line accompanied by a lute or continuo (harpsichord and a bass instrument such as a bass viol). The most well-known composers of lute songs were John Dowland and Thomas Campion, although there were many lesser-known composers who wrote in the genre as well. Most collections of these pieces were written between 1596 and 1632. While some of the works have been transcribed, edited and published, many manuscripts are still not available in modern editions. One such manuscript is Egerton MS 2013, published in facsimile form with an added table of contents and commentary by Elise Bickford Jorgens in her series, English Song 1600-1675, in the volume entitled British Library Manuscripts, Part II (1986). The manuscript includes seventy-two lute and continuo songs by the composers Nicholas Lanier (1588-1666), William (1602-1645) and Henry Lawes (1596-1662), Richard Dering (1580-1630), John Hilton (1599-1657), Simon Ives (1600-1662), and Dr. John Wilson (1595-1674), as well as some anonymous pieces. There is also one piece, written in a different hand, attributed to John Lenton (1657-1719). (Jorgens dates this piece circa 1670.) An interesting feature of this collection, noted by Jorgens, is the inclusion of multiple copies of several of the works within the manuscript. In this thesis, I will give a brief overview of the English lute song and its social context; examine the concept of variant versions as they relate to compositional process, and then examine three case studies of variant versions from the Egerton MS: “Tell me not I my time misspent” by Dr. John Wilson, “Hark, how my Celia,” by Henry Lawes, and “Cloris, yourself you so excell,” an anonymous work. Finally, I will provide performing editions of the works based on a critical examination and comparison of the variant versions.

Committee: Mary Natvig (Advisor) Subjects: History, European; Music

Master of Music (MM), Bowling Green State University, 2007, Music History

The Coronation of Charles II and the Procession on the preceding day marked not only the return of the monarchy, but also the return of Great Britain's (and especially London's) musical institutions. Several sources for the Coronation and Procession exist that provide a partial record of the music used. This thesis brings together all of the sources, including manuscripts, diaries, official documents, and music manuals (in facsimile) in order to reconstruct the musical portions of the Coronation and Procession. Although at the present moment a complete reconstruction cannot be made, this study provides as clear a picture as possible, given the sources available. This study includes transcriptions of music that was certainly part of the Coronation and Procession, as well as transcriptions of music that may have been used, but was never included in any record.

Committee: Vincent Corrigan (Advisor) Subjects: History, European; Music