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The Artistic and Architectural Patronage of Countess Urraca of Santa MarÃa de Cañas: A Powerful Aristocrat, Abbess, and Advocate
… Díaz de Haro and Lady Aldonza Ruiz de Castro, aristocratic courtiers as well as popular monastic patrons. As a young and wealthy widow, Countess Urraca took monastic vows at the Cistercian nunnery of Santa María de Cañas founded by her grandparents. Within a short time of uniting herself to …
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James Breckinridge
James Breckinridge, frontier aristocrat, was active in the Virginia House of Delegates during the formation of the United States under the new Constitution. He was a member of Congress from 1809-1817, a time when the young nation was beginning to stand on its own and develop internally and …
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O chyldren! Geue eare your duties to learne: The education of upper-class Englishwomen in late medieval and early modern England
… of men and women in the hierarchy of society. Aristocratic education was training for leadership of the group and the skills taught were those that the group defined as signifying a leader. Part of aristocratic education was also based around play and conspicuous consumption. The sentiments of …
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Masculinidad Como Espectaculo: Modernidad Y Consumismo en Espana (1898--1931)
… businessman: the opposite of the idle aristocrat who spends his time in amorous pursuits. The novels conclusions present a new perspective on masculinity and Spanishness that combines work, profit and family stability in a country that has perennially rejected the value of work.
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Overlooking the Indigenous Midwest: Prince Maximilian of Wied in New Harmony
In the winter of 1832-1833, German scientist and aristocrat Prince Maximilian of Wied spent five months in the Indiana town of New Harmony during a two-year expedition to the interior of North America. Maximilian’s observations of Native Americans west of the Mississippi River have influenced …
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George Herbert and Aristocratic Identity
… role in inculcating and maintaining Herbert's aristocratic status. This chapter also treats the influence of Westminster School and Cambridge University in fortifying class-consciousness. Chapter 2 explores ""The Church-Porch"" as Herbert's early attempt to gain public notice and to solidify …
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Lonely Monsters
… troublesome environment for a foul modern-day aristocrat who masquerades as a grandiose and romantic prince. The story's protagonist, Fisher Franklin, loses two key relationships—as well as her sound mind—in the wake of the false prince's folly. Utilizing her experiences as a child within the …
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The Catherine Byron Letters
… and Sheila Aley in Byron and Newstead: The Aristocrat and the Abbey (2001). For this project I have transcribed and edited the portion of Catherine Byron's correspondence now in the John Murray Archives at the National Library of Scotland, amounting to 92 letters which are here reproduced in …
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Colonel William Preston, 1729-1783
William Preston, frontier aristocrat, was active in the settlement and development of Virginia's Appalachian frontier during the second half of the eighteenth century. An immigrant of Irish antecedents, Preston enjoyed the favor of his benevolent uncle, James Patton, and succeeded him as the area's …
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Friends of Franklin: Conflicted transatlantic interpretation of Benjamin Franklin in London
… Lady Mary Bessborough, a dominating socialite, aristocrat, and Franklin enthusiast with connections in both England and the United States, fought long and hard for a house museum that would exhibit furnishings associated with Franklin in a traditional period display. Meanwhile, others interested …
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Secret Wars
… love-interest; and M. de Vallier, a Royalist aristocrat. Also prominent is Vice-Admiral Villeneuve, a real historical figure who often goes overlooked.</p> <p>This novella focuses on the complex relationships between people of different cultures and politics, as well as the notions of loyalty …
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L'Auguste Autrichienne : representations of Marie-Antoinette in 19th century French literature and history
… eye of many. Fashioned from birth as an Austrian aristocrat, she was transported to France at age fourteen to meet and marry the future king of France. From the onset of her arrival, French writers made attempts to capture what they observed. However, personal bias, political leanings, and …
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The Narrators and Narratees of Kazuo Ishiguro
… from 1956, admits to loyally serving an aristocrat who was both a Nazi sympathizer and an anti-Semite. As part of a cloning program in an alternative 1990s England, Kathy H. calmly submits to and assists a system that will eventually harvest her vital organs for use by others. Unable to …
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Aristocratic Whig politics in early-Victorian Yorkshire: Lord Morpeth and his world
… better known as the early-Victorian Whig aristocrat and politician Lord Morpeth. It challenges accounts which have presented Whiggery as metropolitan in ethos, by demonstrating that Morpeth strongly engaged with the county of Yorkshire as a politician, philanthropist and landlord. It …
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The Bourdieusian Julien Sorel
… French town, to the clerk of a powerful French aristocrat in Paris. The thesis will accomplish this analysis while also at the same time analyzing the importance of observation and its influence on class and perception within a social realm and the influence of taste as an agent for going beyond …
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Competing to succeed: Monarchy and succession in English history plays and tracts, 1559-1607
… the inadequacy of heirs, factional rivalry, aristocrat and plebian rebellion, usurpation and counter-usurpation, they interrogate hereditary monarchy to reveal that it cannot work. The public stage, I show, functions as a site for widespread ideological dissemination far beyond that of …
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Aristocrats into Modernity: French Émigrés and the Refashioning of Noble Identities
… of the émigré as a decadent, treasonous aristocrat. This cultural battle continued after their return to France under the Napoleonic Regime and Restoration when they penned several memoirs. The revolutionary upheavals led to the development of a heightened historical consciousness. As a …
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Family, followers and friends : the socio-political dynamics of the Anglo-Norman aristocracy, 1100-1204
… 'vassal' is shown to mean 'good follower'. An aristocrat exercised considerable control within his lands and beyond them he maintained some power. In these areas people may have obeyed his will without having any direct link with him. Such people were often called 'neighbours'. Informal …
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The Marquis de Cuevas : pushing the boundaries of self
… labels that were imposed on him. As Spanish aristocrat, American citizen, international ballet patron, Parisian socialite, and heir to the Russian dance avant-gardes, Cuevas distanced himself from his Chilean origins. Proud of having achieved “real” success by triumphing abroad, however, …
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New Men for New Women: Male Characters in American Women's Writing, 1794--1878
… in contrast to the competitive, money-mad aristocrats they supplant. Together with the independent female characters that feminist critics have described in this fiction, new men make possible stable, nurturing families, which in turn are the foundation necessary for the success of the new …
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