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Showing 1 to 20 of 111 for “"Nobility"”.
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The Anglo-Norman nobility in the reign of Henry I
… is a prosopographical study of the Anglo-Norman nobility in the first half of the twelfth century. By the twelfth century, the status, wealth and power of this class had come to be based more on the inheritance of position than on an individual’s military or administrative function. In order to …
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The History Management of the East-Elbian Nobility After 1945
… The History Management of the East-Elbian Nobility After 1945 Abstract This thesis undertakes a critical analysis of the history management of the East-Elbian nobility. Its central hypothesis is that noble families throughout the second half of the twentieth century deliberately sought to …
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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 …
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En Busca De Liberalidad: Music and Musicians in the Courts of the Spanish Nobility, 1470--1640
Though their patronal practices varied considerably, certain commonalities emerge. Courts generally maintained small musical organizations that could be augmented with additional personnel for particularly significant occasions, and founded musical establishments in collegiate churches and …
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The Role of The Nobility in Agricultural Change in Russia During The Reign of Catherine Ii
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(At)testing Virtue: Shine and the Materiality of Metals in the Construction of Habsburg Nobility (1477–1519)
… played in shaping narratives of Habsburg nobility, with particular focus on the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1459–1519). Beyond generic interpretations of metals as precious materialia, I show how metallic matter and its visual effects were sought out to materialise the position of …
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Bonds of Nobility and the Culture of Revolt: Provincial Nobles and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France, 1610--1635
… of revolt re-formed warrior nobles' bonds of nobility , as nobles' social and cultural relationships became centered on the practices of civil violence. Confessionalism and group rituals forged new bonds between the nobles who participated in civil conflict. Warrior nobles formed ideals of …
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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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Patronage Piety and Capitulation: The Nobilitys Response to Religious Reform in England.
… It is my goal to present the crucial role the nobility played in the success of the Henrician Reformation as well as to provide a reasonable explanation for the nobility's reaction to religious and political reform. I will also seek to quantify the significance of the nobility as a social group …
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Chivalry and Crisis at the Court of Juan II of Castile: The Chivalric Writing of Alonso de Cartagena and his Contemporaries
… tried to correct the failings of the Castilian nobility. The study is based around the work of Alonso de Cartagena, an esteemed diplomat, translator and the Bishop of Burgos in the latter years of Juan II’s reign. Like many of his contemporaries, Cartagena lamented Castile’s descent into civil …
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Constructing the Artistic Subject in Golden Age Spain
… particularly, I focus on the notion of artistic nobility as it relates to contemporary evolving aristocratic ideals. Seventeenth-century Spain was a period marked by the continuous reconfiguration of the traditional model of nobility. Through a close analysis of theoretical artistic discourses, …
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Representations De La Noblesse Dans Le Roman Francais (1789--1848)
The French nobility is considered as a class defeated by the bourgeoisie and irrelevant within the capitalist economy. This widespread view fails to explain the vivid presence of the nobles in the 19th century cultural production. A phenomenological analysis of five novels (L'emigre, by Senac de …
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Représentations de la noblesse dans le roman français (1789-1848)
The French nobility is considered as a class defeated by the bourgeoisie and irrelevant within the capitalist economy. This widespread view fails to explain the vivid presence of the nobles in the 19th century cultural production. A phenomenological analysis of five novels (L’émigré, by Sénac de …
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A study of aspiration and ambition: the Scottish Treasury Commission and its impact upon the development of Scottish country house architecture 1667-1682
… suited to the characteristics of the French nobility. Their external appearance was governed by the silhouette of the roofline and not by the classical orders; their internal arrangement was dictated by the location of the escalier d'honneur rather than the central loggia. In an era governed …
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Huvudgårdar och herravälden : En studie av småländsk medeltid
This dissertation focuses on the medieval nobility and its manors in the inland of Småland. The problems tackled in the dissertation may be divided into two major complexes. One concerns the emergence and growth of the Småland nobility in a long-term perspective, the second concerns the spatial …
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El que toma candela del fuego ajeno. Don Juan Manuel y la refundación castellana del mundo cortesano en el siglo XIV
… new social classes composed of a new bourgeois nobility, a class of court administrators and hyper centralized royal control. I conclude by arguing that this project is part of a more significant social discourse that embodied the awakening of the social consciousness of the Castilian nobility …
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Lenkų bajorų integracija Žemaitijoje: migracija, kalba, atmintis XVI a. –XVIII a /
… the process of integration of the Polish nobility in Samogitia in the 16th–18th centuries via the prisms of migration, language and memory. In the beginning of the paper there is an analysis of the status of the newly-arrived Polish noble and how this status changed in Lithuanian law, …
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