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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"court culture"”.
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The suburban villa (munya) and court culture in Umayyad Cordoba (756-976 CE)
… around the city by the Umayyad rulers and their courtiers. It analyzes the munya as a medieval architectural, landscape, and social phenomenon. By addressing issues of function, patronage, and meaning, the dissertation utilizes Cordoban villas as a vehicle for the investigation of Umayyad court …
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Where Subjects were Citizens: The Emergence of a Republican Language and Polity in Colonial American Law Court Culture, 1750-1776
… the colonial jury at the inferior and superior court levels was central to a "law court culture" that provided colonists with the education, language and experience to assume the responsibilities of participatory, autonomous citizenship, as opposed to a passive subjecthood that deferred to …
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Maintaining Using identity through musical performance; seblang and gandrung of Banyuwangi, East Java (Indonesia)
… Hindu state on Java) by the Dutch, the local court culture ceased to exist and rural traditions gained in prominence, they eventually formed the foundation for the new complex of genres that can nowadays be found in the area. Because of Banyuwangi's geographical location, both Javanese and …
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Joan de Mohun: a powerful courtier during the reign of Richard II
This dissertation examines English court culture and court politics through the life of Joan de Mohun (d. 1404). A member of the Burghershes, a socially aspirational family in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Joan benefitted from an advantageous marriage to the higher-ranking John de Mohun …
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After Watteau : Nicolas Lancret and the creation of the hunt luncheon
… perceived and blur the lines between popular and court culture.
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Digital and Interactive Media Analysis of Myths and Traditions Expressed in Thai Fairground Art
… popular entertainment, Thai official/ royal high culture and confessional Buddhist ethical instruction by analysing the art forms associated with temple fairgrounds at major festivals. Based on a review of related literature and analysis of Thai artists, it concludes that the renaissance of …
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Sovranità Imperiale. Dal Simbolismo all'Espressione Architettonica nella Cultura di Corte Bizantina, Carolingia e Islamica (VIII-X secolo d.C.)
… and Solomon, the Wise Judge and the Builder. The court culture of Mediterranean and Middle-Eastern Dynastic Empires shaped the ideology of legitimizing according to the most convenient elements from the tradition of these two characters. (C. 2) The Sacred Texts of the Mediterranean monotheistic …
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Bhakti Religion and Tantric Magic in Mughal India: Kacchvahas, Ramanandis, and Naths, circa 1500-1700
… to the development of a joint Mughal-Rajput court culture and religio-political idiom in which Vaishnava bhakti institutional forms became key symbols of power and deportment, and thus bhakti communities became beneficiaries of extensive patronage. Through a study of the life and works of the …
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Cantering Amidst Art, Science, And Aesthetics: Early Modern Equestrian Visual Culture
… equine subject’s extended influence on visual culture produced in Europe during the early modern period. In equestrian portraits of the European nobility, the apparent grace and control of the rider (and horse) have occluded the culture that inspired the poses and postures of the subjects. …
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Fashion, Art and the Early Modern Court, Frans Pourbus the Younger (1569 - 1622)
… portrayed several members of Europe’s courtly societies. His crisp and intricate portraits responded to the demand for highly symbolic and representational images that intertwined politics, social economics, and notions of status and beauty. Originating from a family of Netherlandish …
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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
This study addresses chivalric writing and court culture during the reign of Juan II of Castile and aims to examine the changing chivalric ideal in Castile during this turbulent period of Castilian history. My thesis argues that political crisis in Castile led to a corresponding crisis in Castilian …
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Practices and performances of queenship: Catherine of Aragon and Margaret Tudor, 1503-1533
… gender history with the study of international court culture and politics. This study argues that the particular type of female authority available to queens in monarchical, dynastic regimes must be understood by considering the practices and performances of queenship that allowed queens to …
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Primers, Commentaries, and Kanbun Literacy in Japanese Literary Culture, 950-1250CE
… wide range of backgrounds - from male and female courtiers to specialized university scholars to medieval monks and warriors eager to appropriate court culture. While tracing the roles of commonly-studied kanbun primers and commentaries in shaping Heian literary culture and its medieval reception, …
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"Imagined crusaders: the ""Livre d'Eracles"" in fifteenth century Burgundian collections"
… conceived and collected in the fifteenth-century court of Burgundy, centered in the Burgundian Netherlands. It considers four individuals, Jean V of Créquy, Wolfert VI of Borssele, Louis of Gruuthuse, and King Edward IV of England, all of whom moved in the orbit of the fifteenth-century Burgundian …
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The Function of Writs in England before the Norman Conquest
… greeted the constituents of a regional or local court, or occasionally a single individual, and articulated an announcement or instruction. Such announcements typically regarded grants of land and clusters of associated privileges, but they also dealt with a variety of other issues including …
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The Cult of Chinggis Khan in the Dayan Khanid Period
… that deepen our understanding of the Dayan Qanid court culture. A thorough understanding of these cultic texts is a necessary endeavor by itself, and it is essential for the study of Mongolian history, because the Sitz im Leben or `situation in life' that led to the composition of all sixteenth …
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Oe no Masafusa and the Convergence of the "Ways": The Twilight of Early Chinese Literary Studies and the Rise of Waka Studies in the Long Twelfth Century in Japan
… case, the "twelfth century renaissance" of court culture was not ushered in through contact with new intellectual trends from overseas. Rather, after a century of regency rule by the non-imperial Fujiwara clan, the imperial rulers of the twelfth century were eager to legitimatize their …