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The Social Structure of the Pskov Province in Archival Materials from the 1760s
The present research featured the social structure of the Pskov Province in the 1760s. The cities of Pskov and Velikiye Luki were the two most densely populated areas in the region, but this study also covered the less populated Gdov urban area.
E. V. Goncharova, M. M. Pavlova
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In the hope of solving it, perhaps, this article starts from the observation of the persistence of the following historiographical problem: were nobility and its transmission considered as strictly legal and social facts, or did their representations ...
Camille Pollet
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Bessarabian Nobility: Composition and Land Tenure [PDF]
This article deals with the evolution of the numerical strength of the Bessarabian nobility and its land ownership. The work provides statistical information on the numbers of both the entire nobility of Bessarabia and for individual counties in ...
Morozan, V. V.
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Together with the high late medieval nobility, we find middle and lower nobles without titles who support high noblemen in the defence of their interests and are under their authority.
Santiago González Sánchez
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The article clarifies the sources of the formation of Cossack officer in the second half of the 16th to the middle of the 17th centuries. It is emphasized that this cohort, as a rule, included financially well-off and educated people with the appropriate
Vitalii Shcherbak
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Declining homogamy of Austrian-German nobility in the 20th century? A comparison with the Dutch nobility [PDF]
'Has the Austrian-German nobility had the same high degree of noble homogamy during the 20th century as the Dutch nobility? Noble homogamy among the Dutch nobility was one of the two main reasons for their 'constant noble advantage' in obtaining elite ...
Dronkers, Jaap
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Liivi- ja Kuramaa aadlike kirjanduslik enesekuvand XVII sajandi pilkeluules
The identity of Livonian and Courlandian nobility in 17th-century satirical poetry The article examines the formation of the identity of 17th-century Livonian and Courlandian nobility as reflected in their predominantly unpublished satirical poems ...
Kristi Viiding, Viktors Dāboliņš
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Legal position of the nobility in the era of Peter I
Analyzed changes in government policy regarding the nobility in this period, the value of certain legislative acts, defined the difference in the position of the nobility of autocratic power in Europe and Russia concluded a systematic modification of the
В. А. Лизогуб
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Nicola Porpora’s operas for the ‘opera of the nobility’:the poetry and the music [PDF]
Studies of Italian opera in London during the first half of the eighteenth century have focussed on George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). As the most prolific composer of this genre in the English capital, this is unsurprising, but it has meant that other ...
Dumigan, Darryl Jacqueline
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Notions of Nobility in the 16th Century Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Lineage and Virtue
The aim of this text is two-fold. Firstly, a general view of terminological difficulties arising when attempting to name nobility as a whole is presented with the main issue to be faced is the fact that terms such as ‘bajorija’ (a Lithuanian term) or ...
Karolis Čižauskas
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