The method of legitimating political claims by appeal to constitutional precedent—first developed by English common lawyers in the early seventeenth century—was in nineteenth-century Britain an important political language ...

The later decades of the nineteenth and the early decades of the twentieth centuries were marked by considerable change in Victorian society. Rapid urban expansion and industrialization were among the most profound of these ...

This thesis examines the conditions under which women began to play Australian Rules football in the early twentieth century. The first scheduled games would be played in Perth during the Great War, organised through ...

Research on public architecture and its development in the poleis of Asia Minor from the Hellenistic to Roman imperial period has often tended to focus on individual building types and to regard them as a series. This ...

The purpose of this thesis is to expand existing literature concerning the hurdy-gurdy as a contemporary musical instrument. Notably, it addresses the lack of hurdy-gurdy literature in the context of contemporary composition ...

The role of the labyrinth in Virgil’s Aeneid is often overlooked, and, I argue, has never before been fully appreciated. In fact, the geometry of the labyrinth symbol and its mythic background not only shape the narrative ...

This thesis responds to the customization of valuable works of architecture in Australia through a close reading of the Australia ICOMOS Burra Charter (2013). It shows that it is impossible to preserve architecture under ...

The thesis looks at the conflict between the magistrates of Lyon in 1792-93 through a case study of a leading 'juge de paix'. This conflict became an expression of the factionalism in the city after the revolt of May 1793 ...

The study of an individual artist’s practice and agency is central to the conservation of contemporary art. The oeuvre of French-born Australian artist Mirka Mora (b. 1928), with an artistic production spanning more than ...

I reconsider Socrates’ life from a Levinasian perspective. My specific aim is to take hold of the ethical relation which Levinas has brought into its own in the ‘post-metaphysical’ present, and in returning to Socrates/Plato, ...