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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Imperial Family"”.
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A Pintura de retratos no século XIX: Victor Meirelles
… the most wealthy social groups, including the Imperial Family and the Emperor himself.
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The Effective Use of the Tsarist Wealth by the Soviet Government.
… about the massacre of Nicholas and his entire family. Following the revolution, the new Soviet leaders developed a series of plans to revitalize what remained of the economy and of foreign relations. Lenin’s plans included reverting to some methods seen under Tsarist rule, while Stalin’s plans …
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Mother of the Nation: Femininity, Modernity, and Class in the Image of Empress Teimei
… the first Empress to establish monogamous modern family relations, and was the first modern Empress to mother the successive Emperor. Despite her relevance to the narrative of Japanese imperial history, very few publications, particularly in English, have fully discussed the historical importance …
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The Augustae of the Theodosian Dynasty (379 - 455 CE): An Enquiry into their Portrayal by the Contemporary Textual Sources.
… and 455CE seven female members of the Theodosian Imperial Family were elevated to the role of Augusta (Empress), thereby enhancing their ability to influence events and causing their deeds to be recorded by the contemporary historians, clergymen and poets. This dissertation explores the …
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Leaves and Flowers of Paulownia: Aristocratic Legitimacy of the Ashikaga Warrior Leaders
… managed to elevate the status of the family and promote the legitimacy of the warrior government as the sole administrative body. This study considers political realities through the lens of ritual, which is understood in its broadest anthropological sense to include not only religious …
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From hostage to historian: Josephus, the emperors, and the city of Rome
… Rome in AD 71, but with his first voyage to the imperial capital during the reign of Nero, and by considering also the contact between Josephus and the future Roman emperors within the Roman army camp in Judaea during the course of the 1st Judaean War. In the examination of these relationships, …
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Fecunditas, Sterilitas, and the Politics of Reproduction at Rome
… a private matter, nor were the members of the imperial family, the domus Augusta, immune to its pressures. At all levels in Roman society there was a strong interest in the safeguarding of the fecunditas of Roman citizen women, for through them the strength of the Roman state was preserved. It …
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The Religious Reforms of Augustus: Innovation & Opportunism
… estate for the benefit of himself and his family. Augustus states he restored 82 temples in his sixth consulship alone. Such claims imply a wholesale dereliction of the religious fabric in late Republican Rome, and give credence to the proposition, established from the 19th century, of a …