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2014
The nobility became a widely despised target of French revolutionaries despite its own lack of unity and its general openness to reform. The strength of the antipathy toward nobility is explained in part by the debates about noble identity that had coursed through French culture for much of the eighteenth century.
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The nobility became a widely despised target of French revolutionaries despite its own lack of unity and its general openness to reform. The strength of the antipathy toward nobility is explained in part by the debates about noble identity that had coursed through French culture for much of the eighteenth century.
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2005
Abstract The late medieval nobility enjoyed a position of political, social, economic, and military dominance unmatched in any later age. While the king was the head of the body politic, the lords formed the shoulders and backbone, and acted as arms for its defence. Their fidelity to the Crown validated their own rule over lesser subjects,
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Abstract The late medieval nobility enjoyed a position of political, social, economic, and military dominance unmatched in any later age. While the king was the head of the body politic, the lords formed the shoulders and backbone, and acted as arms for its defence. Their fidelity to the Crown validated their own rule over lesser subjects,
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2012
Abstract Historians of the Ancien Régime long viewed the nobility as a holdover from a feudal age, an antiquated breed condemned to a slow, and ultimately terminal, decline. Nobles were regarded as the casualties of secular political and social transformations: the rise of the absolutist state, which stripped them of political power; and
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Abstract Historians of the Ancien Régime long viewed the nobility as a holdover from a feudal age, an antiquated breed condemned to a slow, and ultimately terminal, decline. Nobles were regarded as the casualties of secular political and social transformations: the rise of the absolutist state, which stripped them of political power; and
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BEETHOVEN: THE NOBILITY PRETENSE
The Musical Quarterly, 1975crucial lawsuit with his sister-in-law Johanna, concerning the guardianship of his nephew, the son of his deceased brother, Caspar Carl. The hearing was being conducted before the Imperial Landrecht of Vienna, which Thayer described as "a tribunal with jurisdiction in litigations and other matters affecting the nobility." Clearly, the contest between ...
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1971
It is when the human heart faces its destiny and notwithstanding sings—sings of itself, its life, its death—that poetry is possible.—Archibald Mac‐Leish.
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It is when the human heart faces its destiny and notwithstanding sings—sings of itself, its life, its death—that poetry is possible.—Archibald Mac‐Leish.
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