nobility of their legitimate position at court. “Thy court is naked,” Mortimer Junior says, “ being bereft of those / That makes a king seem glorious to the world— / I mean the peers whom thou shouldst dearly love.” In other words, Mortimer Junior asserts that the authority of the...
According to Lindsay, “there does not seem to be any shadow of doubt that the Royal Order’s birthplace was England”.[9] The Order went first under the name of Scotch H—d—m (Heredom), or Ancient and Honourable Order of K—n—g (Kilwinning). The adjective ‘Royal’ seems to ...
So far we have analysed the social structure of late medieval England in terms of its relations of production and property rights. Yet for many sociologists and historians, to apply this kind of class-based analysis to societies such as medieval England involves an anachronistic imposition of our...
as they were preserved in European royal and aristocratic families. It needs to be remembered, however, that the old aristocracies of Europe were never monolithic. To borrow a metaphor fromDune, there were plenty of Harkonnens amid European nobility but ther...
By their strict and cheerful devotion to their rule, the first Franciscans became conspicuous figures in the religious life of the country, developed rapidly their order, and enjoyed the highest prestige at court, among the nobility, and among the people. Without relaxing in any way the rule ...
It was a highly civilized dynasty holding to the principle that courtesy demands reciprocity and sustaining a culture of nobility and confidence. At that time, Chang’an was an international metropolis, attracting businessmen from Central Asia, South Asia, Japan, Arabia, and other countries and ...
(1556–1627), a Baharlu Turk and an important figure in the Mughal nobility during the reigns of Akbar and Jehangir; and his discovery of objects and letters from his family home in Lahore. The result is a frayed immediacy that hefty historical novels find difficult to achieve.”—Amit ...
Yet these two theories [of Hobbes and Locke], which long divided the reflecting politicians of England into hostile camps, resemble each other strictly in their fundamental assumption of a non-historic, unverifiable condition of the race. Their authors differed as to the characteristics of the pr...
in Amartya Sen’s words, remains the “default” political condition: “While democracy is not yet universally practiced, nor indeed universally accepted, in the general climate of world opinion democratic governance has achieved the status of being taken to be generally right.”16 Very few people...
It would be interesting to know how many of the nobles who ganged up on King John and forced him to sign Magna Carta at Runneymede were of the Plantagenet or Grail nobility. That is members of the Gentile aristocracies which had made dynastic marriages with Judaic descendants of the House...