Nacionalita a konfese v politickém životě jagellonských Čech by Petr Vorel

“…The author explains such an apparent discrepancy by the fact that in the Bohemian political atmosphere at the end of the 15th century, the Czech character of the establishment was pursued, Czech language became and official language and the Bohemian Kingdom was legally separated from the Reich (1486) by a corporative decision of domestic aristocracy. Domestic aristocracy started to observe a greater danger from the side of Hungarian aristocracy that was becoming more influential due to the transfer of royal court to Buda (German: Ofen), and due to the increased land ownership in Czech lands. …”
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Násilí ve šlechtických manželstvích v období baroka: Causa Karla Adama z Mansfeldu by Pavla Pospíšilová

“…First it focuses on the question of what function marriage had in the aristocracy and what roles, according to the norms of the time, were played by men and especially by women. …”
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Lust, tranquillity and sensuality in French spa towns in the heyday of balneotherapy (the belle époque and the roaring twenties) by Marie-Eve Férérol

“…During this era, the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie would flock to the spa towns. …”
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Strasti starého grófa. Autoreflexia choroby v osobnej korešpondencii aristokrata na sklonku 19. storočia by Daniel Hupko

“…It provides a rare possibility of insight in the privacy of the late 19th century aristocracy living. Particularly suitable for these purposes are letters from the last years of Moritz Pálffys (1894 - 1897) life. …”
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Les premiers monastères d’Auvergne à la lumière de la documentation textuelle et archéologique (ve-xe siècle) : état de la question by Damien Martinez

“…Then towards the end of the Carolingian period, this monasticism, though more dispersed throughout the Auvergne area, became more strongly anchored, both in the territory and in time, under the impetus of the local aristocracy.…”
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An Informal Approach to Interest-based Negotiations – Paul Anton Esterhazy and the “Cottage Coterie” by Katalin Schrek

“… Paul Anton Esterhazy was a prominent figure of the Hungarian aristocracy and a leading AustroHungarian politician, as well as a highly qualified and internationally recognised diplomat, with an extensive network of personal relations within the British elite. …”
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Lugares de reunión, boni homines y presbíteros en Valdevimbre y Ardón en la Alta Edad Media by Fernando Luis Corral

“…This fact reports us about the increasing social inequality produced inside these peasant communities.We will also explore changes in location of meeting places chosen to solve conflicts between community members and the ones of some ecclesiastical institutions and aristocracy as a way to better know the political side of the relationship between the mentioned peasant communities and those power elites and, through them, with the Astur-leonese central power.…”
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Hofmusici a lokajové. K postavení hudebníka na šlechtickém dvoře v Čechách první poloviny 18. století by Václav Kapsa

“… The starting point of the study is the division of private Kapellen maintained by Bohemian aristocracy into those consisting of servants (‘servant orchestras’) as opposed to ensembles featuring professional musicians (‘independent orchestras’) introduced by Helfert in his book on music at the court of Count Questenberg in Jaroměřice. …”
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LE MASQUE COMIQUE DE L’OPÉRA DANS L’ITALIE DU XVIIIe SIÈCLE by Diana TODEA

“…This approach is maintained until the early eighteenth century, when the former dramma per musica, which aimed to be entertainment for the aristocracy, removes from its librettos the comic element that is found to be irrelevant to the topic and not in accordance with the tragic style. …”
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Le travail de Gaignières sur les archives du Val Notre-Dame. Une porte d’entrée sur un chartrier bien conservé by Marlène Helias-Baron

“…Thanks to the close attention of the local aristocracy, it was able to build up a substantial estate by the mid-fourteenth century. …”
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Technically Speaking, What Is Sturgeon Caviar? by Frank A. Chapman, Joel P. Van Eenennaam

“…Traditionally coveted by royalty and the aristocracy, sturgeon caviar today is prized by chefs and discerning food connoisseurs the world over for its delicate flavor and nutrient-rich health benefits. …”
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Fidalgos e freires-cavaleiros by José Augusto de Sottomayor-Pizarro, Paula Pinto Costa

“…Fidalgos and miles Christi were part of the medieval elites that boosted the peninsular exchanges, developing frequent trajectories over borders in medieval Hispania. The aristocracy and the friars of the Military Orders, in particular, those from the international Orders, had a very fluid conception of the frontier, to which family and institutional interests were superimposed. …”
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Dora Pejačević and Music Salons in Continental Croatia as Hubs of Cultural Networking by Vjera Katalinić

“…Yet, the use and the interpretation of the notion »salon« is connected more with urban environments, although the aristocracy and the affluent citizens organized such gatherings on their summer estates as well. …”
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Technically Speaking, What Is Sturgeon Caviar? by Frank A. Chapman, Joel P. Van Eenennaam

“…Traditionally coveted by royalty and the aristocracy, sturgeon caviar today is prized by chefs and discerning food connoisseurs the world over for its delicate flavor and nutrient-rich health benefits. …”
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SOME INITIAL COMMENTS ABOUT ANCIENT COINS FOUND IN PANGTIENG VILLAGE (LAT COMMUNE, LACDUONG DISTRICT, LAMDONG PROVINCE) by Cao Thế Trình, Nguyễn Huy Khuyến, Mai Minh Nhật

“…It is possible that the coins found are stolen by Champa aristocracy in the attacks on the palace of Nguyen Lords in Thuan Thanh in the end of eighteenth century. …”
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Friendship, admiration, or hatred? The image of the united provinces in the travel diaries of the Czech nobility (1650-1750) by Jiří Kubeš

“…If they did make any friends on their short visits, they were mostly recruited from the international diplomatic cream of society that frequented The Hague during the Baroque period. Thus the aristocracy from the Czech lands admired some things in the Northern Netherlands and its people, and hated others. …”
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The historical roots of post-apartheid intra-working-class racism by Tlhabane Mokhine ‘Dan’ Motaung

“…With vested interests in the racist and later racialist order, which constituted them as the racialised labour aristocracy, white labour conceived of its identity – in racial and cultural terms – as part of European society. …”
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At sources of the russian constitutionalism. «Undercover» constitutional projects of the state transformations in Russia in the 18th - the beginning of the 19th centuries by N. A. Omelchenko

“…At the end of 18th - the beginning of the 19th century supporters of the constitutional board were the representatives of the most progressive noble aristocracy suggesting to carry out transition to constitutional monarchy by means of the constitutional reforms, there are more and more popular ideas of cancellation of the serfdom, development of local government and others. …”
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TRANSFORMATION OF PREHISTORIC TO HISTORIC LANDSCAPE: THE EXAMPLE OF CIVITAS LOPSICA by Vedrana Glavaš, Miroslav Glavičić

“…Onomastic analysis shows that the inscriptions mentioned members of the autochthonous Romanised aristocracy, who maintained their acquired positions of authority and were a privileged class in the administrative and economic structure of the municipium. …”
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Provincial Administration and Local Nobility in Courland in the Middle of the 19th Century by N. A. Mogilevskii

“…The main issue considered in the work is the problem of the relationship between the imperial center and the national outskirts in the middle of the 19th century, which, in turn, is closely related to the results of the Northern War (1700-1721), which ended for Russia with a victory over Sweden and the annexation of the former part of the Swedish kingdom Estonia and Livonia. The local aristocracy received guarantees from the highest Russian authorities to preserve all privileges, which put it in a slightly different position than the nobility of the inner Russian provinces. …”
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