Johann Franz Count von Würben and His Diary Entries from 1662 by Martin Bakeš, Jiří Kubeš

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Sídlo a jeho pán. Rezidenční strategie hraběte Františka Karla Swéerts-Sporcka ve druhé čtvrtině 18. století by Vítězslav Prchal

“…Count Swéerts-Sporck differed from his socially highly active predecessor; he was a representative of the rural nobility, an efficient economist with good asset management as the main philosophy of life. …”
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De la conciencia del linaje a la defensa estamental. Acerca de algunas narrativas nobiliarias vascas by Arsenio Dacosta

“…The purpose of this paper is to analyze a set of origin narratives concerning the nobility of the Manor of Biscay and its environment in the Middle Ages. …”
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Baczko, Rousseau and Polish Republicanism by Anna Grześkowiak-Krwawicz

“…Starting from an in-depth knowledge of secondary literature and Polish sources, including the dossier provided to Rousseau by Count Michal Wielhorski, the author shows how Baczko succeeded in offering an innovative reading of this text of Rousseau, understood not so much as an attempt to apply the theories of the Social Contract to Polish reality, but as an encounter of idées-forces, images and social dreams, an encounter based on the reciprocity of an exchange that affects the interlocutors, the conservative Polish nobility and the theorist of popular sovereignty. …”
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Les violences seigneuriales dans les Grandes Chroniques de France de Jean de France duc de Normandie : première approche by Christiane Raynaud

“…Rare images present them as a seignorial social grouping, often intrafamilial relationship between aristocrats, counts and barons with their military entourage. Poor and inermes hardly appear. …”
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