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Lady and the Trump: Status and Wealth in the Marriage Market [PDF]

open access: yes
We examine a hitherto unexplored aspect of intergenerational transmission of economic standing, namely culturally determined status markers and their valuation in the marriage market. We take nobility to be such a status marker.
Almenberg, Johan, Dreber, Anna
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Absolute monarchy in France [PDF]

open access: yes, 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 Flemish connection: socio-cultural news from London in the Ghendtsche post-tydingen (1667-1723) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The two case studies in this essay call attention to the Ghent newspaper Ghendtsche Post-tydingen (1667-1723) as a neglected source of information, not only on English theatrical matters but also-and primarily-on the political significance of such news ...
Uytterschout, Sien   +1 more
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Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk and F. M. Dostoevsky: Problem of Finding Faith and Theme of Mentoring in “The Life of a Great Sinner”

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2019
The analysis of the unfinished novel “The Life of a Great Sinner” is presented. It is proved that the religious ideas of Tikhon of Zadonsk about freedom, nobility, humility formed the basis of image of protagonist of the work.
N. Saisu
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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]

open access: yes, 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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Przyczynek do obrazu szlachty Inflant Polskich w łotewskich źródłach i opracowaniach historycznych początku XX w.

open access: yesActa Baltico-Slavica, 2014
A contribution to the image of Polish Livonia nobility in the Latvian historical sources and studies of the early Twentieth Century Polish literature devoted to the role of the Poles in shaping Latvian culture presents unanimity as far as the positive ...
Beata Biesiadowska-Magdziarz
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The Ethnic 'Other' in Ukrainian History Textbooks: The Case of Russia and the Russians [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper examines portrayals of Russia and the Russians in two generations of Ukrainian history textbooks. It observes that the textbooks are highly condemning of Ukraine's main ethnic other in the guise of foreign ruler: the tsarist authorities and ...
Anderson E. A.   +37 more
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The realization of electoral rights of the nobility in the first half of the 19th century (on materials of middle Volga region)

open access: yesRUDN Journal of Russian History, 2008
The article deals with the social-political development of Middle Volga nobility in the first half of the 19 th century. After studying the peculiarities of nobility elections in Penza and Simbirsk provinces, the author determines the reality of class ...
S V Pershin
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Вопрос дворянства в литовском национальном дискурсе: на примере периодического издания «Litwa» (1908–1914)

open access: yesActa Baltico-Slavica, 2017
The question of gentry and the Lithuanian national project: the example of the newspaper Litwa (1908–1914) At the end of the 19th and beginning of 20th centuries some national movements in the Eastern and Central Europe actualized the question of how ...
Ольга [Olga] Мастяница-Станкевич [Mastianica-Stankevič]
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