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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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Ladies of the Country House: Irish Aristocratic Women, 1870-1918
Far from being an insignificant sub-group, aristocratic women played important roles within their country homes and in wider society. This research, which focuses on the period of great social, political and economic change, 1870-1918, examines the role of women in relation to their feminine …
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'Poore broaken propertyes' : Rochester and the crisis of aristocratic authority
… Rochester's use of Augustan wit as a function of aristocratic authority, and his transformation of the pastoral idiom in light of the changing perception of property in the late seventeenth century.
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Bluestocking philosophy : aspects of female aristocratic thought in eighteenth-century England.
The aristocratic masculine discourses of the eighteenth century have been the subject of much analysis and debate. This raises the question of the ways in which elite women, who did not participate in the worlds of politics and commerce in which men appear to have found self-definition, related to …
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Aristocratic Whig politics in early-Victorian Yorkshire: Lord Morpeth and his world
This thesis explores the provincial life of George W. F. Howard (1802-64), 7th Earl of Carlisle, 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 …
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Leaves and Flowers of Paulownia: Aristocratic Legitimacy of the Ashikaga Warrior Leaders
“Leaves and Flowers of Paulownia: Aristocratic Legitimacy of the Ashikaga Warrior Leaders” Polina Barducci Abstract This project investigates the intersection of courtly and warrior governance during the rule of the second warrior government, the Ashikaga shogunate (1336–1573) and focuses on the …
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Aristocratic Women of the Household and Court of Queen Henrietta Maria, 1625-1659
… political, social and religious roles that the aristocratic women of the court and household of Queen Henrietta Maria played predominantly in the period 1625-1642. It builds upon David Starkey’s and Kevin Sharpe’s emphasis on the royal court and social networks of the elite to demonstrate that …
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The Aristocratic Body and the Memory Economy of Church Reform, 900-1300 C.E.
… It argues that monastic communities and aristocratic households of the period used the human body as a touchstone for the discussion of memory as a key stake in the social and political life of the high middle ages. The argument centers around several key sites of analysis: …
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<i>Non Ego Laudari Curo</i>: Honor, Shame, and Aristocratic Competition in Tibullus’ Elegy
… Tibullus’ corpus within his contemporaries’ aristocratic discourse on honor, my research argues that the elegiac narrator is not alien from the heroic self-assertion and pursuit of vengeance, typical of the honor-seeking elites of Roman antiquity. In my reading, Tibullus, while clad in …
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Texts and contexts: a study of aristocratic influence on Latin and vernacular historical narratives in twelfth century England
… vernacular histories as more influenced by lay aristocratic culture. This study investigates if this separation is justified. To do this, it compares three vernacular histories and three Latin histories composed in twelfth century England. It focuses specifically on the patronage of these …
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The Esterhazy Princes, 1760-1790: A Study in Hungarian Aristocratic Life During the Theresian and Josephinian Reform Period
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T20:25:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 8009038.pdf: 12720810 bytes, checksum: daf64bc1bd3b0a91506c3bf94b45fab8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1979
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Conversation and Performance in Seventeenth-Century French Salon Culture
… French salons, and the representation of this aristocratic culture through performance. It seeks to understand how polite amateurs regarded professional performers, and vice versa. I use the study of performance to reveal distinctive constraints and liberties of early modern aristocratic …
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A prosopographical analysis of society in East Central Scotland, circa 1100 to 1260, with special reference to ethnicity
… names and the interaction of the chivalric ‘aristocratic diaspora’ with local landholding society through the methodology of prosopography. The role of aristocratic landholders as grantor, witnesses and recipients of charters was studied, based on an analysis of the texts of over 1500 …
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Aristocratic and Imperial Patronage of the Decorative Arts in Rome and Constantinople, a.d. 337-395: The Role of Sculpture, Painting, Mosaics, and The Minor Arts in Fourth-Century Society
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-13T20:25:35Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7524367.pdf: 15617495 bytes, checksum: 2675c31dc803786de7a7e86172656715 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1975
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Fashioning Men of Fashion: The Fop and the Transformation of Eighteenth -Century Masculinity
… of the fop and other negative stereotypes of aristocratic masculinity such as the rake, the molly, the pedant and the booby squire, although the fop is the most significant figure in this collection of negative stereotypes. The fuller significance of these figures is discussed in relation to …
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Constructing the Artistic Subject in Golden Age Spain
… 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, popular portrayals of the artist, and actual …
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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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A comparative study of Urraca of León-Castilla (d. 1126), Melisende of Jerusalem (d. 1161), and Empress Matilda of England (d. 1167) as royal heiresses
… (b. 1102–d. 1167). Despite the vast research on aristocratic heiresses and queens consorts, a comparative study of royal heiresses as rulers in their own right does not exist. The few studies that focus on royal heiresses examine individual royal women or are region-specific studies. However, by …
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