Walter Xaver z Dietrichsteina na kavalírské cestě (1683–1688) a jeho boj proti předurčené budoucnosti by Lenka Maršálková

“…The presented study therefore notices not only the course of this grand tour, its itinerary and young aristocrat´s educational programme but also building Dietrichstein's ideas about his future, his disputes with his father and the role of the Hofmeister and answers the question whether and how this struggle influenced young man´s studies and his relationships with his parents. …”
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Two Interpretations of Nietzschean Concept of Nature: C. Alamariu and V. Lemm by Jokūbas Andrijauskas

“…Two opposing perspectives emerge: Vanessa Lemm interprets nature as a Dionysian chaos which promotes an emancipatory rejection of the prevailing ideas, while Costin Alamariu sees it as an aristocratic phusis that fosters higher human types. …”
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Šlechtičny z rodu Dalbergů a silva rerum 2. poloviny 19. století by Dana Marešová

“…In future, it can also provide answers to various questions related to a personal and public life, everydayness, the way of thinking, the contacts network and many others from the aristocratic life of the 19th century. …”
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The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) by Oscar Wilde: Conformity and Resistance in Victorian Society by Brigitte Bastiat

“…However, I would argue that more generally, despite very little room for manœuvre, he managed brilliantly to challenge the social norms, sexual stereotypes and gender representations of his time while pleasing aristocratic London socialites.In this paper I will examine the way in which Wilde’s text challenged and conformed at the same time.…”
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A Santidade Enfurecida by Leandro Duarte Rust

“…Among the most frequent cases of disputes during the "Gregorian Reformation Era" were clashes between monks and bishops, whose outbreak had repercussions in numerous directions: on aristocratic domination, patrimonial control networks, foundations of ecclesiology, urban mobilizations, legal consensus. …”
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Elizabeth von Arnim’s Garden Memoirs: Cultivating Feminism? by Fabienne Moine

“…In the garden, the enthusiastic amateur finds in the garden an appropriate place to create her own place of solitude and privacy, outside the domestic routine imposed upon her by her aristocratic background. While both novels follow the seasons and the changes in the vegetation, von Arnim’s witty prose presents the garden as an ally against masculine domination. …”
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Images de l’étrange : Punch ou la re-présentation du paradigme bourgeois by Françoise Baillet

“…More connotative than denotative, the Punch portrait thus carried a significant protective function.On the social front, first, the caricature of the extremes allowed the management of a potentially dangerous otherness. Aristocratic indulgence as well as working-class so-called « degeneration » found themselves relentlessly pinpointed. …”
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Le “Written Speech” yeatsien et ses expressions scéniques by Pierre Longuenesse

“…He then takes his distance from it in favor of a concept of oral form that includes his own, the lyrical’s poet, “written speech”, reconciling oral conversation with the « sprezzatura » of aristocratic speech. In both cases, the question is therefore to find actors who will practically develop such a project on stage. …”
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„Ven z pasivity!“ Český konzervativní velkostatek na začátku první světové války by Šárka Lellková

“…Simultaneously with these trends, the competing aristocratic Party of Constitutional Landowners underwent a process of nationalisation and came close to German national political parties. …”
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Este Lais posemos acá” … Sì, ma dove? by Fabio Barberini

“…Pedro, Earl of Barcelos (and his aristocratic circle) was responsible for the insertion of the Lais into the exemplar and the redaction of rubrics.…”
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The cathedral of modern civilisation. The Teatro Real of Madrid and the definition of the respectable new elite, 1850-1895 by David San Narciso

“… Opera was a spectacle reserved for the aristocratic elite during the Ancien Régime. However, the liberal revolution and the redefinition of the mechanisms of social class identity that brought with it significantly modified this space. …”
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Dopisy Maxmiliána Hillebrandta hraběti Vratislavovi z Mitrovic z obsazené Prahy roku 1742 by Radmila Pavlíčková, Pavel Prchal

“…The financial and economic situation of the Count’s domains, often accompanied by reports by aristocratic representatives in the form of appendices. 5. …”
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ACTIVATING THE MORAL SELF-DEVELOPMENT IN THE PROCESS OF ETHICS EDUCATION AND CULTURE STUDIES by A. S. Frants, O. P. Belkina

“…The multi-variant moral norms coexisting in modernRussiainclude the traditional, aristocratic, pragmatic and other types of values; all of them can be introduced in the series of educational discussions. …”
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Os Ducas e a recompensa dificilmente dividida by João Vicente de Medeiros Publio Dias

“…The traditional position of historiography is that this was the beginning of an aristocratic government in which the emperor’s relatives enjoyed a share of power. …”
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NATIONAL ROMANTICISM IN WALT WHITMAN POEMS by Tomi Arianto

“…Patriotic themes and nationalities are seen from the struggle for the right of individual freedom in opposing slavery and aristocratic government. The egalitarian concept is seen from the struggle to promote equality, as well as the democracy system that promotes people's sovereignty. …”
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« Beautiful Idiots and Brilliant Lunatics » Social Comedy, Nostalgia and a World of Fantasy (Wilde and Hofmannsthal) by Anne-Isabelle François

“…What the public is made to witness is perhaps only a graceful though extremely attractive ballet of ghosts and masks, long lost, but still striking a most powerful chord—one of the reasons for the plays’ enduring success : they appeal to modern audiences’ fantasy and work, paradoxically, as founding myths of the Ideal Victorian or Austro-Hungarian aristocratic society.…”
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Sídlo a jeho pán. Rezidenční strategie hraběte Františka Karla Swéerts-Sporcka ve druhé čtvrtině 18. století by Vítězslav Prchal

“…Swéerts-Sporck’s case is also confronted to the existing typical opinion of the aristocratic residential network, which, however, stems from investigations into the situation before the Battle of Bílá hora (White Mountain) and only in the highest circles of political and cultural elites. …”
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Sankce vůči českým královským městům roku 1547 v kontextu habsburské politiky první poloviny 16. století („Gentský ortel“ v politické propagandě stavovského odboje)... by Petr Vorel

“…On the basis of new research into the progress of the Estates Revolt, the author determines the origin of this material to be June 1547, i.e. the period after the Battle of Mühlberg, when most of the aristocratic part of the Bohemian Estates Revolt had reached an agreement with King Ferdinand, and the Bohemian royal towns remained the King‘s last potential opponents. …”
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Lady Clara Cavendish: Reynolds and Rymer’s Political Hoax by Rebecca L. Nesvet

“…By presenting Cavendish as an aristocrat and court insider, Reynolds and Rymer invest their political critique with authority they could not otherwise have achieved. …”
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The Portrait of heshuo Guo-qinwang Yunli as the Source for Weapons and Horse Equipment of Oirats and their Neighbors in the first half of the 18th Century by Leonid A. Bobrov

“…The article deals with the portrait of Manchu aristocrat heshuo Guo-qinwang Yunli (1697–1738) — the younger brother of Qing Yongzheng emperor and the uncle of Qianlong emperor. …”
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