Her mother says it was for her safety and so she could learn the value of hard work. Many of the life lessons she’s learned about herself and the nobility could’ve never been learned by a pampered princess. Danton arrives. Ren can’t tell whether he knows about the king’s ...
Other effects of the conquest included the introduction of Norman French as the language of the elites and changes in the composition of the upper classes, as William reclaimed territory to be held directly by the king and settled new Norman nobility on the land. More gradual changes affected ...
After complimenting her beauty due to being touched by her nobility and beauty, he asked for a single strand of her hair. Instead, she generously gifted him three strands, which he promised to put into an imperishable crystal to be an heirloom of his house in memory of her. Apart from ...
Based on my theory, I expect that foreign rule had some positive long-term effects. The externally imposed public administration and legal system were closer to the principles of a modern state than traditional control through the nobility. Nonetheless, strong historical resistance against external rul...
Once conquest was complete, the English dethroned the Irish monarchy and nobility. They swept away Irish culture and replaced it with something more English. A plantation system was also established, similar to what would later be built in America, the Irish people were treated as little more ...
religious organizations and the local nobility. When successful, this strategy enabled state rulers to control resources directly rather than indirectly through local institutions. Ideally, state rulers built up large state bureaucracies answerable to—and funded directly by—the central state. More specifi...
He subdued the nobles, who had previously caused civil unrest, by drawing them to his court, corrupting them with gambling, depleting their resources, and manipulating them based on their ability to gain his favor. This transformed etiquette into a governance tool and diminished the nobility’s...
The work, technically a masque –a popular type of dramatic entertainment among 16th and 17th century English nobility – tells of how Alfred took shelter on the Isle of Athelney, a village in Somerset, following a defeat from the Vikings....
Like Nietzsche,Star Trekexpresses concern for the fate of nobility should the uninterrupted reign of peace arrive. Yet, unlike Nietzsche,Star Trekrefuses to glorify militarism. It should be said that the show’s preference for peace and its critique of the Klingons and Romulans do not necessarily...
There are many historical materials about the twenty ranks of nobility in Laws of Two Years by ZHANG Jiashan,from which it is seen that there are close relations between the twenty ranks of nobility withthe national governing orderof the early years of the Western Han Dynasty. ...