Rezidenční síť Františka Josefa Černína z Chudenic ve Vídni a v Praze ve 20. a 30. letech 18. století by Filip Vávra

“…Our goal is to discover this network and put it in the context of residential networks of Bohemian aristocrats in this period. …”
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Krupští bergmistři, horní inspektoři a páni Šternberkové by Jan Kilián

“…This paper can not contain a comprehensive presentation of the issue and remains a partial probe into the situation at the turn of the 17th and 18th century and the relations between the community, the aristocrats and their officers on the grounds of disputes in the domains of mining and municipal privileges. …”
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Aristocracia, monasterios y conflictos por la tierra. Reforma eclesiástica y relaciones sociales en León (siglos XI-XII) by Mariel Pérez

“…The essay posits that those disputes were an expression of the development of a more competitive kind of relationship between the aristocrats and the monastery in which pious donations got integrated into a negotiated logic of reciprocal exchange.…”
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Cohabitation sociale et ordre public aux Champs-Élysées :Gestion et appropriation du carré des jeux (1700-1830) by Véronique Laporte

“…Authorities had a will to offer playing spaces to visitors, but were at the same time concerned by the possibility of public overflowings. Whether they be aristocrats or schoolboys, the same apprehension comes out: the fear of gatherings. …”
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Strasti starého grófa. Autoreflexia choroby v osobnej korešpondencii aristokrata na sklonku 19. storočia by Daniel Hupko

“… References about diseases of the author or authors of diaries and correspondence appears in their content just rarely, more often are relations of health problems of family members, husband, wife, children, relatives and other aristocrats familiar with the writer. It is therefore all the more valuable to find and analyze a set of letters which include the author’s own reception of his illnesses. …”
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Les dernières Amazones : réflexions sur la contestation de l’ordre politique masculin pendant la Fronde by Sophie Vergnes

“…But the failure of the Fronde was also the one of these female fighters, as women and as aristocrats. Nevertheless, the battle against patriarchal order didn’t end under the personal rule of Louis XIV. …”
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Diaristes et épistolières russes (fin XVIIIe ‑ début XIXe siècle) : reflets de l’histoire by Elena Gretchanaia, Catherine Viollet

“…The article examines the role of European and Russian history in the mostly unpublished diaries and correspondence of Russian women aristocrats in the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth century. …”
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Rezidencie oravských a liptovských stoličných úradníkov ako prostriedok vyjadrenia ich spoločenského statusu by Tomáš Janura

“…The administration of these units was in the hands of officers (vice-chair, notary, treasury, fiscal and serviceman), who recruited from the local aristocrats and landlords, i.e. the local elites. The functions in the administration meant a constant income of financial cash from the annual salary or the fees for the preparation of written deeds not related to the exercise of the office. …”
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Náměty k budoucímu šporkovskému bádání by Jindřich Kolda

“… The article summarises the crucial aspecys of the existing research concerning Franz Anton Sporck, an influential aristocrat of the Czech Baroque period, and presents several suggestions for further investigations in this field. …”
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Nacionalita a konfese v politickém životě jagellonských Čech by Petr Vorel

“…Consequently, a social standard prevailed in the establishment, where the social status and nationality of an aristocrat were preferred to the confession despite the confession was formally outlawed (such as Jednota bratrská = the Union of Brethern). …”
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Las guerras de la República romana. Memoria individual, memoria cultural y remediación by Simon Cahanier

“…El hecho de que la ejemplaridad desempeñara un papel distintivo en el seno de la nobilitas explica la voluntad manifestada por los aristócratas romanos de hacer memoria inscribiendo su recuerdo individual de las res gestae en la memoria cultural, en particular en el contexto de las guerras romanas. …”
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Gallasovský hofmistr Johann Heinrich Dienebier (1677–1748) by Martin Krummholz

“… The newly collected information sheds light upon the social origins and ties of Johann Heinrich Dienebier (1677–1748) and makes us familiar with his 27 years of service for Johann Wenzel Gallas (1671–1719), an important and wealthy aristocrat in the Habsburg monarchy. This information enables us to acknowledge the erudition and designing genius of this creative (and so far marginalised) building copyist (Bauschreiber) of the Prague Castle. …”
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Łucja Rautenstrauchowa's In and beyond the Alps: the Case of a Sentimental Italian Tour by Magdalena Ożarska

“…Łucja Rautenstrauchowa herself was a Polish aristocrat and a published writer of sentimental novels and travel books. …”
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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. …”
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Why East Asian Objects in Slovenia Became “Orphaned” by Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik

“…Objects of East Asian origin became “orphaned” in various ways, either being sold by aristocrats, confiscated by Nazi occupying forces or the socialist government institutions during or after WWII, or given or sold to persons who did not preserve their history. …”
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Barokní šlechtic a jeho právní poradci. Na příkladě sporu mezi Annou Kateřinou Swéerts-Sporck a Kristýnou Alžbětou z Obernitz (1739–1743) by Michaela Buriánková

“… The case of the court dispute between Count Anna Katherina von Swéerts-Sporck and Christina Elisabeth von Obernitz, which took place in the 1740s is used to describe the relation between a Baroque aristocrat and his or her legal counsellors, how many of these counsellors were necessary to prevail in the dispute and how. …”
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Vilém Slavata a jeho hejtman Hynek Ladislav Vejtmiler z Vejtmile by Josef Hrdlička

“… This paper analyses the quality of the relation between the aristocrat and his officer in the first half of the 17th century. …”
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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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L’émigré à la porte. Risques et revers de l’hospitalité chez A. J. Dumaniant by Genevieve LaFrance

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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

“…The Dutch mostly suffered condemnation at the pens of the Czech nobles, and in their words we can sometimes even read hatred for a nation which, in the view of the Central European nobility, did not respect the higher social status of the aristocrats and made life so complicated for the Catholics. …”
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