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Princes set on stages : Iconography on the early modern stage.
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Princes, diwans and merchants : education and reform in colonial India
… This dissertation examines why many Indian princes (kings and queens) adopted liberal policies in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. I argue that English-educated rulers of Indian states became reformers and modernizers to enhance their monarchical authority. The main …
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Princes, rock stars and their wives : analyzing tabloid coverage of women married to celebrity men
Half a century apart, two American women caught the attention of British tabloids for marrying British celebrity men: Linda Eastman, a rock photographer from New York wed Paul McCartney, the last bachelor Beatle in 1969. In 2018, actor Meghan Markle joined the royal rank when she tied the knot with …
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“Princes upon Stages”: the Theatricalization of Monarchy in the Reign of Elizabeth I, 1558-1569
The reign of Elizabeth I of England is one of the most celebrated reigns in history and is renowned for the renaissance of the arts, theater, and culture. Authors, playwrights, and artists venerated her in their art in what became known as the Cult of Gloriana. At her accession, however, her …
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Books of advice for princes in fifteenth century England with particular reference to the period 1450-1485
… definition of the genre of books of advice to princes. Particular books have been selected because they were owned by or produced for an English prince during the period extending from the early fifteenth century to 1485. The first four chapters are devoted to a consideration of authoritative …
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The Esterhazy Princes, 1760-1790: A Study in Hungarian Aristocratic Life During the Theresian and Josephinian Reform Period
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The life and death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish as a tragedy in the "Fall of princes" tradition
… Wolsey has been loosely linked with the "Fall of Princes" tradition, but no one has analyzed this connection in depth. This thesis examines various aspects of the changing "Fall of Princes" tradition as they appear in the biography. The first chapter compares the structure and philosophy of the …
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Once proud princes: planters and plantation culture in Louisiana's northeast Delta, from the First World War through the Great Depression
The Delta country of northeast Louisiana is a richly productive alluvial region stretching south from the Arkansas line to the confluence of the Red and Mississippi Rivers below Natchez. As the source of great cotton fortunes made during antebellum times, it reflected the Old South ideal and, for …
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Heroes, saints, and gods: Foundation legends and propaganda in ancient and Renaissance Rome
… And final ly, it provides a look into how the princes of the Renaissance—especially the papal princes—took ancient, imperial, and biblical founders to uphold the papacy’s power over Rome and Christendom, through art, architecture, literature, and art collecting.</p>
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The Ritualisation of Political Power in Early Rus (10th-12th centuries)
… the ceremonies and rituals involving the princes of early Rus’ and their entourage, how these ceremonies and rituals are represented in the literature and artefacts of early Rus’, the possible cultural influences on ceremony and ritual in this emergent society, and the role of ceremony and …
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The patronage and benefaction of Cistercian monasteries in the frontier zones of the March of Wales, 1130-c.1256.
… had been enthusiastically adopted by the Welsh princes and their subjects and a family of Welsh Cistercian monasteries established throughout the length and breadth of pura Wallia with Welsh personnel and distinctly Welsh political loyalties. This native Welsh filiation of Cistercian houses has …
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Italians and the New Byzantium: Lombard and Venetian Architects in Muscovy, 1472-1539
… of this early modern Russian identity. Muscovite princes, seeking to rebuild Moscow's cityscape in a grander style, imported a large community of architects, engineers, stonemasons, and statesmen from Lombardy, the Veneto, and Rome. At least six architects, and an unknown number of masons, from …
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Protestant jurisdictionalism and the nature of puritanism, c. 1559–1642
… the magisterial European Reformation established princes and magistrates as God’s chosen rulers over the Christian church, in all external matters, with a corresponding duty to legislate and enforce God’s laws across both the civil and ecclesiastical spheres. In the English context, this …
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Tudor Conciliar Theorists
… Henrician propagandists insisted that the princes of Christendom, not the pope, should be instrumental in calling a council into session. The authority to call a council into being implied, of course, the power to control its proceedings, which was a crucial point in Henry's campaign to …
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La figure d’Hercule dans l’art de la tapisserie à la Renaissance (c. 1450-1565). Fortune iconographique et usages politiques
… sur le sens particulier que lui donnaient les princes, destinataires privilégiés de ces tentures. Il ne fait pas de doute que, plus que tout autre héros, Hercule leur servait de modèle en ce qu’il incarnait la Virtus heroica, à savoir la « vertu active » constituée de courage, d’actes …
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Valois court politics in the time of Jean of Berry and the Collins Cité de Dieu: PMA Collins 1945-65-1
… face of the individual desires and needs of the Princes of the Blood. Within this environment, an extraordinary copy of Augustine’s City of God (PMA Collins 1945-65-1) was created for the duke of Berry, a key figure within the court and a celebrated mediator between his nephews the dukes of …
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Thomas Hoccleve as poet and clerk
… Secondly, Hoccleve’s major work, the Regiment of Princes, is examined in the context of his role as a royal clerk, and the proliferation of Middle English political and didactic texts during this period. Finally, the impact of Hoccleve’s use of Anglo-French in official documents and Middle English …
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Aspects of Maltese family life in the first half of the seventeenth century (with special reference to the Parish of Porto Salvo)
… market-town. Most people look at past times as princes look at foreign countries. More than one illustious stranger has landed on our island amidst the shouts of R mob, has dined with the king, has hunted with the master of the staghound, has seen the guards reviewed, and a knight of the garter …
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