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2023
It is well said, ‘Land is the right basis of an Aristocracy;’* whoever possesses the Land, he, more emphatically than any other, is the Governor, Viceking of the people on the Land.
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It is well said, ‘Land is the right basis of an Aristocracy;’* whoever possesses the Land, he, more emphatically than any other, is the Governor, Viceking of the people on the Land.
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2017
Taking as its starting point Andrew Marvell’s great poem of Big House life, ‘Upon Appleton House’, this chapter looks at an abiding interest held by McGahern in ideas of aristocracy and social rank. It demonstrates that Marvell is alluded to in both the haymaking scenes of Amongst Women and of That They May Face the Rising Sun and draws attention to ...
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Taking as its starting point Andrew Marvell’s great poem of Big House life, ‘Upon Appleton House’, this chapter looks at an abiding interest held by McGahern in ideas of aristocracy and social rank. It demonstrates that Marvell is alluded to in both the haymaking scenes of Amongst Women and of That They May Face the Rising Sun and draws attention to ...
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2003
AbstractIn Anglo-Norman society, the landed aristocracy channelled a disproportionate amount of influence to the great rural landholders, who possessed extensive military, economic, and political power. As a result, it is important to study relations between the new immigrant nobles and surviving English nobles and rising families of native descent. To
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AbstractIn Anglo-Norman society, the landed aristocracy channelled a disproportionate amount of influence to the great rural landholders, who possessed extensive military, economic, and political power. As a result, it is important to study relations between the new immigrant nobles and surviving English nobles and rising families of native descent. To
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2000
Abstract In common with most of pre-industrial Europe, England in this period was an aristocratic society: great wealth and power were in the hands of a few. The evidence of Domesday Book suggests that about half the income generated in the country was held by less than 200 barons, the rest going to the king or the Church.
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Abstract In common with most of pre-industrial Europe, England in this period was an aristocratic society: great wealth and power were in the hands of a few. The evidence of Domesday Book suggests that about half the income generated in the country was held by less than 200 barons, the rest going to the king or the Church.
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2002
Abstract The Roman senatorial order was the principal model to which the medieval aristocracies of western Europe looked, because it had been founded on the ownership of land, embodied the concept of nobility, and linked prestige to the exercise of political power and ancient lineage without excluding the promotion of homines novi.
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Abstract The Roman senatorial order was the principal model to which the medieval aristocracies of western Europe looked, because it had been founded on the ownership of land, embodied the concept of nobility, and linked prestige to the exercise of political power and ancient lineage without excluding the promotion of homines novi.
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