... may wish to consult the older but always valuable studies by Robert Forster: The Nobility of Toulouse in the Eighteenth Century: A Social and Economic Study (Baltimore, 1960) and The House of Saulx-Tavanes: Versailles and Burgundy, 1700–1830 (Baltimore, 1971). In any case, as Dewald...

...Gail Bossenga status institutions nobility state revolution In this provocative and thoughtful essay, Jonathan Dewald reopens one of the most perplexing issues of early modern French history: Why did a nobility that dominated the most important institutions of the Old Regime lose its...

...Jonathan Dewald As important as royal policies were, though, they counted for less than changes in the nobility’s own outlook and practices. For even as the state made ennoblement more difficult for newcomers, existing noble families voluntarily restricted their own numbers: more nobles remained...

... a general ‘late medieval process of social differentiation’ to discussion of deep changes in the social structure and consequent self-perception of the nobility. ³³ The most detailed hypotheses have been advanced by Klaus Graf and Joseph Morsel, who see the years of tension between princes...

... details our approach to the use of images and objects as sources for studying domestic material culture. Curia papal court homes Household material culture of health nobility regimens Spada Veralli family Spada Veralli letters Doctors Spada Paolo Castel Viscardo Spada Card Bernardino Spada...

...’; and to the persistence of patriarchal values in the household. This patriarchal matrix, Langford suggests, helped to shape an authoritarian strand in middle-class consciousness. The final substantive chapter, ‘Personal Nobility’ (chapter 8 ), looks at changing attitudes among and towards titled people against...

... Russia’s modernization projects were carried out by what scholars have labeled “service nobility”—a special class of entrepreneurs with intense loyalty to the state and its leader. ¹² To create such a class, the state established a system of privileges and promoted a code of honor reflected...

... of the Nobility group and his programme at Covent Garden in 1737 which was a repertory of twelve works: eight operas and four oratorios. The programme proved to be the end for the Opera of the Nobility but was also dangerous as Handel's health gave way towards the end of the season. Oratorios odes etc in London...

... as a consultative body, law and legislation, rise of personal monarchy, the privy council, officers and departments, traditional local government, new powers in the localities, nobility, government and elites in the Highlands, government and people, and whether there was a Stewart revolution in government. England...

.... The continuing influence and involvement of the crown after 1603 casts doubt on the concept of ‘absentee monarchy’. This chapter discusses the role of personal monarchy in the politics and government of Scotland, as well as that of parliament, royal court, privy council, and nobility. acts of parliament Berwick...

... as the central coordinating body of daily government. It worked by consensus with the monarch (something that changed little even after 1603), and coordinated the executive government departments. The privy council's relationship with Scottish nobility is also considered. council royal privy council Scottish...

... themselves as a distinct class, firmly within the fold of the aristocracy, but simultaneously inferior to the nobility. Coss Peter Crane Susan Field Rosalind Horrox Rosemary Legge M D Franklins social category of Gaunt John of Gentry Walker Simon Williams Raymond Yeomen social category of Given...

... few legal immunities and possessed only a portion of the propertied wealth which determined the distribution of power. In a relatively open, rapidly changing society, the nobility was exposed to constant criticism and challenge. Its political influence was kept within boundaries partly by the divided...

...On September 20 1831, Macaulay delivered his speech on the Third Reading of the Bill. It was constructed around the historical parallel of the First French Revolution. It closed with a warning to the peers to heed the precedent of the French Revolution, which had destroyed the French nobility...

... of thinking regarding the roles of the gentry, nobility, and royalty and their feelings of responsibility to the political economy, and the subsequent impact of this view of society. court London Richard II uncentralized power Gawain‐poet hospitality reciprocalism worship social capital Fichet Sir...

... Commissions of Good Order Hulewicz Benedykt envoy for Volhynia Kiciński Pius envoy for Liw later castellan of Połaniec Kossakowski Józef Kazimierz bishop of Livonia Kublicki Stanisław envoy for Livonia Matuszewic Tadeusz envoy for Brześć Litewski nobility nobles szlachta oratory political discourses...

... for the consensus between the dynasty and the provincial nobilities who represented the political nation. On the other hand, there was the case of Hungary and the unsolved problem of crypto-Protestantism which illustrated the dialectics of a confessional policy that already carried the germ of self-destruction...

... of a feuding society all threatened to make the kingdom ungovernable. It also discusses and highlights the nobility's ambivalence towards resistance as James VI came of age, an increasing disenchantment with religious politics, and a growing unease at the escalation of feuding. It explains that the power...

... translation. Raised in the court of Ferrara in Italy, Morata was educated alongside the daughters of the nobility. As a youth she gave public lectures on Cicero, wrote commentaries on Homer, and composed poems, dialogues, and orations in both Latin and Greek. Morata also became a prominent Protestant...

... Nelson Jacobs René Callas Maria Domingo Placido Gallico Claudio Chirico Giorgio de D'Indy Vincent Genette Gérard Museo Bilotti Rome Rowling J K Stevens Denis Mantua Venice performance nobility opera Within early seventeenth-century courtly entertainments and festivities, theatrical vocal...