De quels ingénieurs parle-t-on ? Situation et trajectoires des ingénieurs des grandes écoles. Le cas du Maroc by Pierre Vermeren

“…They represent a minority compared to the rest of engineers who attended higher education schools in Morocco, yet their privileged positions have almost given them an aristocratic status. This is quite representative of the unequal social structure of Morocco and of the role played by its monarchic regime - the Makhzen - which tends to favor the technocratic and social elite. …”
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Člověk a dluhy. Příklad šlechtice z 15. století. Osobnost Voka V. z Holštejna by David Papajík

“… The author of this study follows the fate of the aristocrat Vok the Fifth of Holštejn, which is corroborated by written records dating back to between 1420 and 1466. …”
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La représentation du genre au XIXe siècle. Masculinités dans le couple royal et la biographie de François d’Assise de Bourbon by Félix Colás Loricera

“…With respect to external issues, the biography of Francis in his marriage is marked by the period of transition in 19th century notions of gender from traditional-aristocratic to Victorian-bourgeois society, a transition in which the couple was judged by various strata of society and from different points of view and canons of behaviour.…”
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Les jardins paysagers des seigneurs domaniaux de l’époque d’Edo et les manuels relatifs à la composition des jardins by Nicolas Fiévé

“…During the Heian period (794-1195) in Japan, at the time where the main characteristics of pleasure gardens were introduced, the landscape architect was a well-read aristocrat who enjoyed reproducing one of the country’s famous landscape in his own home garden. …”
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Le souterrain médiéval de Chauviat (commune de Charbonnières-les-Vieilles, Puy-de-Dôme) by Frédéric Surmely, Patrick Boudon, Stéphane Guyot, Pierre Caillat, Pierre Charbonnier, Laurent Hablot, Thomas Poiraud

“…The structure was linked to an aristocratic home still to be excavated. It was probably an escape tunnel different from the common tunnels destined to the storage or the refuge. …”
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Un texte autographe inédit de Machiavel : la Minuta di provvisione per la restituzione dei beni agli eredi dei Medici e per la riforma dello stato (projet de décret pour la restitu... by Andrea Guidi

“…This proposal intended, first of all, to preserve the liberty of the city, by preventing the suppression of the Great Council by the Medici as well as by finding a compromise with the aristocratic faction, which was temporarily leading the new administration.…”
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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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Un système de sépulture égalitaire en territoire tarquinien by Edwige Lovergne

“…This article aims to make a first inventory of this ‘new’ typology, as these graves have never been thoroughly studied, although several of them have returned rich funerary finds, comparable to those of local aristocratic chamber graves.…”
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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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L’Opéra en version anglaise : un enjeu esthétique ou sociologique ? by Pierre Degott

“…A close scrutiny of the London theatre seasons of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries does indeed show a strong split, in terms of aesthetic and sociological considerations, between, on the one hand, the aristocratic Italian seasons of the King’s Theatre in Covent Garden, and the English opera seasons organised by the "lesser" theatres on the other. …”
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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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Settlement and Culture in the Inner Apennines: a diachronic topographic analysis of Casentino and Valtiberina (7th‑5th centuries BCE) by Corso M. Dominici

“…To demonstrate these points, I begin by creating a theoretical model of the relationship between aristocratic and civic networks and the movement of professional artisans in the hinterland. …”
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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 Critical Review on the Book Plato: Deconstruction of a Philosophical Myth by Hassan Fathi

“…Vakili’s Plato is a stony aristocrat, an ambitious treacherous, and deviator of the Persian theoretical and practical teachings. …”
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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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