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Vor 4 Tagen · The present reviewer discerned changes in nomenclature rather than in numbers and in composition between the magnates, barons, and knights of the Norman era and the parliamentary peerage, knights, esquires and gentlemen of the fifteenth to nineteenth centuries.
Vor 6 Tagen · Framed between two treaties (Troyes and the Spanish Partition Treaties), the underlying hypothesis is that, despite bouts of conflict, England and France enjoyed significant periods of peace and cooperation which cultivated great cultural, political and mercantile interaction.
Vor einem Tag · In Orderic’s fourth book, composed around 1125, he twice describes Alfred as ‘the first king to hold sway over all of England’, and moreover states that ‘in goodness, nobility and statesmanship [Alfred] stood, I believe, head and shoulders above all the kings of England who came before or after him’. 32 Orderic’s claim that Alfred was the first king of all England is interesting ...
I was reading that the English gentry saw it as their duty to preserve Anglo Saxon culinary traditions. But why did they focus on Anglo Saxon culinary traditions so long after everyone had become English, and where did their sense of duty in this regard come from?
Vor 4 Tagen · The gentry and nobility who led the long English struggle for a constitutionalism to hem in the Crown – climaxing with the Civil wars of 1640s and more durably with the 1688 Glorious Revolution – may well have been capitalist, in so far as their income derived from farming organised for exchange and profit – but they were in no ...
3. Mai 2024 · Origins in Colonial Virginia. Tobacco Tamper. The seventeenth-century Virginia settler’s ambition was to recreate in the new colony the country life of the English gentry. Thus the rules of conduct to which the colonial Virginia gentleman subscribed were copied from an Old World Elizabethan pattern.
Vor einem Tag · Individual and collective memory of the gentry, nobility and aristocracy, and in a broader sense, of the post-feudal period with all its complexities, will, however, vary depending not only on how the landowners' era concluded, but also on its characteristics in different regions of Central and Eastern Europe. The landowning elites might have shared the same ethnicity and religion as the ...
