The Maleinoi in the framework of middle Byzantine aristocracy [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2023 This study examines the Maleinoi’s peculiar evolution, the beginnings of which can be dated in the first half of the 9th century, and their complete disappearance in the 12th century. Their political and social evolution, like that of the Phokas
Vlyssidou Vassiliki N.
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Elites and Aristocracy in Colonial and Postcolonial Sri Lanka [PDF]
International Quarterly for Asian Studies, 2018 “Elites and Aristocracy in Colonial and Postcolonial Sri Lanka” attempts to answer two major questions: First, what is an “elite” and how can we define one?
Jakob Rösel
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Introduction: Historians and the Trouble of Defining Aristocracy [PDF]
Royal Studies JournalThis introduction to the special issue Defining Aristocracy eases the reader slowly into the various troubles historians have in defining aristocracy. It argues for embracing the fuzziness of the term, and building research from there.
Dr. Cathleen Sarti
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The role of dignitaries of lower-rank thematic units in Byzantine society [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta, 2022 The paper aims to elucidate the place and role, i.e., the real power of functionaries of lower-ranking units in the Byzantine theme system. Their status in the Byzantine bureaucratic and aristocratic society was essentially determined by ...
Cvetković Miloš
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Patronymic Names Ending in -vich as a Marker of Social Status in the Documents of the Russian State of the 14th–16th Centuries [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2023 The widely held opinion in historical literature about the privileged status of patronymics ending in -vich is based on the sources of the 16th–17th c. This practice reflected the official look at the system of social hierarchy. In clerical documents, it
Mikhail M. Bentsianov
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Études Lawrenciennes, 2022 D.H. Lawrence and Thomas Carlyle both expressed a fascination with the great man or aristocratic figure, as well as a desire for social and political change in England and Europe. While studying these parallels, I will delineate Lawrence’s departure from
Fiona Fleming
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Thomas Wharton project and the problem of Anglo-Scottish border government in 1540s [PDF]
Известия Саратовского университета. Новая серия: История. Международные отношения, 2023 This article analyses the draft reorganization of the administration of the border counties between England and Scotland, which was submitted to the monarch by Thomas Wharton.
Beltser, Alexandr A.
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Border barons and Royal justice: The Dacres trials in 1525, 1534
Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология, 2022 This article compares the trials against two members of the Dacre family, the Barons of Dacre – Thomas and William. The relationship between the monarch and the nobility has traditionally been considered one of the key moments in the development of ...
Alexander (Aleksandr) А. Beltser (Belcer)
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The Name Alexander in the Anthroponymy of the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Nobility
Вопросы ономастики, 2022 The paper aims to evaluate the incidence of the name Alexander among the oldest families of the Russian nobility during the 14th — early 20th centuries.
Evgeny V. Pchelov
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Cataclismi e Politeiai nelle Leggi di Platone. Alcune note tra filosofia della storia e teoria costituzionale [PDF]
Storia e Politica, 2023 In the Nomoi, Plato writes his mature reflections. With the aim of thinking to project of a new constitution that can be realized, especially in the first books considered authentic proems to the book, Plato presents the basis for a sort of philosophy of
Leonardo Masone
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