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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"English Nobility"”.
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“Leisure with Decorum”: Gentlemen Making Music in the Georgian era
… of gender, class, and nationality. While the English nobility could respectably engage in music-making, socialize with professional musicians (subverting, or temporarily suspending otherwise rigid class boundaries), and openly extol the virtues of Continental culture without compromising their …
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Making the martyr: the liturgical persona of Saint Thomas Becket in visual imagery
… notions of sainthood, and several members of the English nobility and clergy probably would rather have forgotten him after his death. To bridge the gap between what people knew of Becket and a their conceptions of what a saintly martyr should be, the promoters of Becket’s cult used biographies, …
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Ideal and practice : aspects of noble life in late Elizabethan and Jacobean England
… century humanists thought about the role of the nobility in society; their views about the proper education of the nobility (including its expected cost) and way of life they considered appropriate to a nobleman. It then tries to consider how all these ideals were realised in practice, drawing …
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Picture-books, Politics & Pedagogy: Illustrating Histories for a Young Reader, 1338-40 (British Library, Egerton MS 3028)
… was produced for a young male reader of the English nobility. I suggest that reader was Edmund Fitzalan, son of Isabel le Despenser and Richard Fitzalan, 3rd Earl of Arundel. Egerton’s political agenda reflects that of the small corpus of earlier illustrated Brut manuscripts. In appearance, …
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Papist Peers and Politics: the English Roman Catholic Nobility, 1688-1719
… centuries as periods of decline for the European nobility and the English Roman Catholic community. Scholars over the last thirty-five years, however, have successfully called into question these long held assumptions by showing that both groups remained remarkably stable throughout this era. The …