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Des Méridionales à la cour : l’exemple des demoiselles de Saint‑Cyr (1686‑1793)

Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2006
Saint-Cyr is certainly not Versailles, but there was a close proximity between the Maison royale de Saint-Louis (known simply as Saint-Cyr) and the palace, links that were not merely geographic. Reserved for the daughters of impoverished French nobility,
Dominique Picco
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Decreta Regni Mediaevalis hungariae - The Laws of Medieval Hungary IV. és VI. kötet = Decreta Regni Mediaevalis hungariae - The Laws of Medieval Hungary Vols. IV. és VI. [PDF]

, 2009
Röviden: a DRMH IV kötetéhez (Jagellókori törvények) szükséges kutatást (latin szöveg, fordítás, jegyzetelés) befejeztük. A kézirat, bevezetö tanulmánnyal, névmutatókkal, stb. 2009 öszére elkészül és 2010 elején nyomdába mehet.
Bak, János
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People of the Past and Present. Magazine Stolitsa i usaďba, the Russian Nobility and Its Self-Presentation in the Final Years of the Tsarist Regime

Theatrum Historiae, 2016
As a ruling class for centuries, the nobility created a complex system of symbols and rituals which jointly formed the (political) culture in Russia. Especially during the second half of the 19th century, the position of the nobility was gradually but ...
Zbyněk Vydra
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Milites et nobiles: Ormianie a stan szlachecki Królestwa Polskiego i Wielkiego Księstwa Litewskiego od XIV do XVI wieku

Lehahayer, 2018
Armenians and Noble Status in Kingdom of Poland and Great Duchy of Lithuania, 14th-16th Centuries Armenians living in Kingdom of Poland and Great Duchy of Lithuania were mostly burghers, however, cases of social advancement were noted on Ruthenian ...
Krzysztof Stopka
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Democracy and Nobility

, 2015
Americans love revolutions. Our national identity began with a revolution, and a revolutionary war that lasted for eight years; and we cheer on other people’s revolutions, as though we find satisfaction in multiplying our own.
Guelzo, Allen C.
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Aristotle on the Normative Value of Friendship Duties [PDF]

, 2018
In this article, I present an interpretation of Aristotle’s thought regarding the normative value of friendship duties.The argument is divided in VII sections.
Nascimento, Daniel Simão
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Medieval property investors, ca. 1300-1500 [PDF]

, 2019
This paper utilises a dataset of freehold land and property transactions from medieval England to highlight the growing commercialisation of the economy.
Bell, Adrian R., Brooks, Chris, Killick, Helen   +2 more
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Blood Mixing

Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Literacka, 2013
The article discusses Jewish conversions to Catholicism in Poland before 1795, presenting the issue from the perspective of discourses of anthropology, religion, and, importantly, class stratification, with reference to the most important European ...
Dariusz Śnieżko
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Absolute monarchy in France [PDF]

, 2012
An original scholarly interpretation of the nature of the French monarchy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It argues that rather than seeing this monarchy as centralised and administrative, we should see it as a state formation replete with ...
Campbell, Peter R
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The introduction of proofs of noble birth into the Habsburg monarchy. A new instrument to administrate the nobility (1650-1800)

Cornova
This article shows how the transfer of proofs of nobility by Maria Theresa of Austria in the 1750s led to complex movements between Vienna and the countries of the monarchy and produced social and cultural changes within the nobility.
Éric Hassler
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