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Aristocrats and Commoners in Rural Northern Thailand
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Aristocrats into Modernity: French Émigrés and the Refashioning of Noble Identities
In the wake of the French Revolution, several thousand noble men and women sought refuge outside France. The emigration was a unique space in which ci-devants – as the revolutionaries called ex-nobles – could experiment with different practices and conceptions of nobility. The collapse of the …
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Aristocrats, Republicans, and Cannibals: American Reactions to French Women in Violence
This thesis discusses the reactions of American newspapers and elite individuals to French women in violence as perpetrators and victims during the French Revolution. Canvassing the years between 1789 and 1799, it includes papers, especially politically aligned ones, from across the states of …
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State aristocracy : resident senators and absent emperors in Late-Antique Rome, c. 320-400
… developments on senators in Rome. Late Roman aristocrats were an imperial aristocracy, whose social life, cultural identity and economic survival were inextricably intertwined with the institutions of the Roman state. Imperial withdrawal and the late-antique strenghthening of imperial …
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Decoding Musical Resistance: English Vocal Music in the Service of the King, 1625--1660
… social and cultural spheres to integrate. Aristocrats participated in popular culture in an effort to reach middle-class audiences, which affected both the texts and the music. Classical knowledge and cosmopolitan themes were injected into mainstream street and tavern culture and …
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Social Anarchy in the Works of Byron
… of her nobility, should have had one of her aristocrats, a member of a noble house which was able to trace its lineage back to the days of the Norman Conquest, become the favorite poet of anarchy and rebellion and of men in revolt against the religious and the moral and the social standards …
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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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Competition Between Public and Private Revenues in Roman Social and Political History (200-49 B.C.)
… therefore lacked the bargaining power to prevent aristocrats from enriching themselves at the expense of the state. The result was a set of leading individuals whose resources could overwhelm those of communal, public institutions. This wealth allowed them to control the distribution of economic …
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The triumph of pragmatic imperialism: Lord Minto and the defence of the Empire, 1898-1910
… contemporaries. He was one of the many aristocrats who, while increasingly marginalised in other aspects of British political life, were believed to possess important qualities that made them ideally suited to the highest levels of imperial service. As part of the governing elite, …
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Work in Progress: Gender and Politics in Late Elizabethan Progress Entertainments
… the specific negotiations each enacts between aristocrats and the Queen. Writers Mary Sidney and Elizabeth Russell, patrons Alice Egerton and Margery Norreys, and young female performers such as Elizabeth Brydges used late Elizabethan progress entertainments to engage directly in debates about …
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Paris and Patronage: Christine De Pizan and Her Writer's Market
… manuscript business in Paris, she knew the aristocrats and royalty who might buy her works, and she knew how to market her work to her prospective patrons. As a young widowed mother in Paris, Christine built a career as an author not just to support her family but to build fame and espouse …
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The development of schooling in Floyd County, Virginia 1831-1900
… Assembly, which was dominated by the planter-aristocrats, opposed state education. These aristocrats saw no reason to tax themselves for educational opportunities they would not patronize. As settlers of Swiss, German, and Scotch-Irish descent migrated into the backcountry of Virginia, they …
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ΟΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΕΣ ΤΗΣ ΒΕΝΕΤΙΑΣ ΚΑΙ Η ΒΕΝΕΤΙΚΗ ΕΠΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΗ ΤΟΥ 1848-49
… AND PARTICULARLY THE HEPTANESSIAN INTELLECTUALS, ARISTOCRATS AND MERCHANTS, BY SWEEPING AWAY ANY SELF-INTEREST, RESPONDED TO THE REVOLUTIONARY IDEAS AND PRACTICES AND OPENLY PARTICIPATED FOR THE REVOLUTIONARY SUCCESS IN ALL PROCEDURES OF THE STRUGGLE. THEIR DECISIONS ARE GENNINE, SO THEY ACQUIRE A …
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Texts and contexts: a study of aristocratic influence on Latin and vernacular historical narratives in twelfth century England
… influenced by networks of both lay and religious aristocrats. It discusses how so called ‘courtly elements’ in vernacular histories, which are seen as the result of lay aristocratic influence, were also present in Latin histories. Vernacular histories could also include classical references, pious …
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Imagined Contested Spaces: The Imaging of the Patagonian Region (1840-1881)
… of the aspirations of a ruling class "landed aristocrats" who wanted to attract Europeans. The analysis of this research draws on a total number of 669 articles which have been coded with the purpose of assessing the differences between the United States and British imaging of Patagonia and …
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Fashioning Men of Fashion: The Fop and the Transformation of Eighteenth -Century Masculinity
… dominant version of masculinity promulgated by aristocrats, other like-minded elites, and their adherents. Representations of negative stereotypes of aristocratic masculinity were used by eighteenth-century writers to denigrate the aristocratic ideal of masculinity. Simultaneously, these …
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Chivalric Culture and the Librairie du Louvre's Textual Community, 1368-1477
… consisting of the king's relatives, other aristocrats, non-elites, and their book collections. It contends that this community utilized books to transmit chivalry and, by extension, knightly masculinity. This dissertation argues that, through the Librairie du Louvre's textual community, one …
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Xenophon on Athens : between democracy and oligarchy
… kagathoi. Rather than justifying the status of aristocrats or the partisans of oligarchy, as has sometimes been argued, his conception of kalokagathia seeks to make the kaloi kagathoi compatible with Athenian democracy and encourages them to contribute to the community. For Xenophon, …
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Ο ΑΡΕΙΟΣ ΠΑΓΟΣ ΣΤΗΝ ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΑΘΗΝΑ
… OR AS THE RESULT OF THE CONFLICT AMONG ONLYTHE ARISTOCRATS OR RICH THEMSELVES WHO COMPETED WITH EACH OTHER FOR THEIR OWN INTERESTS. THE POLITICAL CONFLICT COULD BE CHARACTERIZED BY THE CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE DEMOCRATS, WHO WANTED TO PROMOTE THE INTERESTS, NOT ONLY OF THE POOR, BUT ALSO OF THE …
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Patronage: The Renaissance and Today
… it thrived in had been around long before the aristocrats of the more modern world. During this time of transition, patronage underwent many changes, generally in terms of how the participants related as well as how patronage was used.</p> <p>The importance of the patronage system in the arts …
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