It was first built in the 4th year of Yongle Emperor’s reign (1406 CE) and completed in the 18th year of his reign (1420CE). It took 14 years for the entire palace to be completed. The palace went through a se
However, Hui Zong, an Emperor craving for luxury and grandeur, was never satisfied with the size of the imperial court banquet .So the ceremony under his reign was much more luxurious than that of any other Emperors. Through careful researches this paper concludes that the above mentioned ...
program of autocratic power aimed at establishing a new status of the Kingdom of Poland and a new model of its administration developed by the Committee of Affairs for the Kingdom of Poland and by the Department for Affairs of the Kingdom under the Polish Council of State, determined the ro...
The corpus under discussion here is too small to draw firm conclusions from. However, this finding conforms with Genette’s (1987: 241) own findings in European literature. Genette noticed that post-faces in literature were rather rare in comparison with prefaces. In his opinion, a post-face ...
The shape of the current vase is also rare, and belongs to a group of vase shapes with especially sharp junctions at the shoulder, which appeared in the Yongzheng reign (1723-35) and gained popularity under the Qianlong emperor. It is probable that all the vase forms with this feature owe...
Harry throws his own father under the bus - "To say that the Prince of Wales’ relationship with his sons is complex is an understatement. Both William and Harry have historically accused Charles of being a ‘laissez-faire’ father - one more preoccupied with weighty affairs of state and his...
These all made private imperial banquets one of the important means of governance adopted by Emperor Taizu, which highlighted the distinctive pragmatic features of his reign.CHEN FengFrontiers of History in China
The male line of the Habsburgs died out with Charles VI in 1740, but by the terms of the Pragmatic Sanction his daughter Maria Theresa gained the right of succession and reigned until 1780. She established compulsory primary-school attendance; separated the university from the church, bringing ...
10 This temple was originally built under Thutmose III in the context of Egyptian imperial expansion into Nubia, but was reconfigured by Piye, the Kushite king who subjugated Egypt militarily.11 Piye’s building program involved memorialization of his conquest of Egypt through the decoration program...
10 This temple was originally built under Thutmose III in the context of Egyptian imperial expansion into Nubia, but was reconfigured by Piye, the Kushite king who subjugated Egypt militarily.11 Piye’s building program involved memorialization of his conquest of Egypt through the decoration program...