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Author(s) Tommasocc Language English Show full item record The paper describes the interesting and widespread phenomenon of genealogic portraiture in Florence by analyzing the case of the Guadagni family and its series of portraits. The series was commissioned during the mid-Seventeenth century by senator Tommaso di Francesco and it was intended to decorate the family House behind the Nunziata thanks to the contributions of many artists. Both in terms of quantity and artistic quality, the Guadagni portrait series represents a precious testimony of this specific portraiture genre, which started during the middle of the sixteenth century and reached its climax during the following century. This genre saw its decline in the 1700s, when the aristocratic ancient families lost their importance, and their illustrious ancestors' portraits became simple relics of a remote past.

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Who thought of Europe as a community before its economic integration in 1957? Dina Gusejnova illustrates how a supranational European mentality was forged from depleted imperial identities. In the revolutions of 1917 to 1920, the power of the Hohenzollern, Habsburg and Romanoff dynasties over their subjects expired. Even though Germany lost its credit as a world power twice in that century, in the global cultural memory, the old Germanic families remained associated with the idea of Europe in areas reaching from Mexico to the Baltic region and India. Gusejnova's book sheds light on a group of German-speaking intellectuals of aristocratic origin who became pioneers of Europe's future regeneration. In the minds of transnational elites, the continent's future horizons retained the contours of phantom empires. This title is available as Open Access.

Supranationalism --- Imperialism --- Transnationalism --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Intellectuals --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- History --- Social aspects --- Europe --- Germany --- Politics and government --- Intellectual life --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Upper class --- Nobility --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- Trans-nationalism --- Transnational migration --- International relations --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- World politics --- General

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This is the first study of noblewomen in twelfth-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It draws on a rich mix of evidence to offer an important reconceptualisation of women's role in aristocratic society, and in doing so suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages. The book considers a wide range of literary sources such as chronicles, charters, seals and governmental records to draw out a detailed picture of noblewomen in the twelfth-century Anglo-Norman realm. It asserts the importance of the life-cycle in determining the power of these aristocratic women, thereby demonstrating that the influence of gender on lordship was profound, complex and varied. This work will be of importance to specialists in history and medieval studies, as well as those interested in the experience of women and those working on lordship and feudalism.

Women - Great Britain - History - Middle Ages, 500-1500. --- Women --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Power (Social sciences) --- Nobility --- Normans --- Gender Studies & Sexuality --- Gender & Ethnic Studies --- Social Sciences --- History --- Political activity --- Great Britain --- History. --- Social class. --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Upper class --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- engalnd --- normandy --- norman --- noblewoman --- Dower --- Land tenure --- england

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Fuer Alltag, Sozialleben und Erfahrungshorizont der Menschen in der Vormoderne waren militaerische Aspekte allgegenwaertig. Das gesellschaftsgeschichtlich ausgerichtete Quelleninventar fuer die preussische Zentrallandschaft von der Elbe bis zur Oder fuehrt tief in diese Welt. Es stellt eine Arbeitsgrundlage fuer ein breites historisches Forschungsspektrum zur Verfuegung. Dieser dritte und letzte Teil erschliesst ueber 1.800 Archivalien aus kirchlichen Archiven, aus Kreis- und Stadtarchiven im Land Brandenburg sowie aus den Sammlungen der Stiftung Preussische Schloesser und Gaerten Berlin-Brand

Sociology, Military --- Nobility --- Peasants --- History. --- Prussia (Kingdom). --- Peasantry --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Military sociology --- Armed Forces --- Armies --- Peace --- War --- War and society --- Königlich Preussische Armee --- Prussia. --- Prussia (Germany). --- 1713–1806 --- Archivalien --- Archive --- Bahl --- Bearbeitet --- Brandenburg --- Claudia --- Gesellschaft --- Indices --- Joafchimsthaler Gymnasium --- Kirchliche --- Kloosterhuis --- kommunale --- Kurmärkische Domänenkammer --- Kurmärkische Kriegskammer --- Kurmärkisches Kammergericht --- Land --- Militär --- Militärsozialisation --- Nowak --- Peter --- Preußen --- Preußische Militärgeschichte --- Pröve --- Quellen --- Ralf --- Sachsystematik --- sonstige --- Sozialgeschichte Preußens --- Teil

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This study focuses on the relationship between nobility and freemasonry from 1750 to 1850. It examines the specific role of an esoteric discourse surrounding the roots of the human race, centring on legendary constructions of noble genealogies in eighteenth century Europe. The aristocratic idea of blood as a type of »liquid memory of virtue« was also found in the freemason lodges frequented by the European nobility of the eighteenth century. Both groups therefore believed in educational systems that used rites, pictures and symbols to imprint the virtues in ones blood and heart respectively. The foundation of this belief - strongly combined with an interest in occult sciences and the existence of an afterlife - can be seen in the antique "art of memory". The example of an aristocratic lodge in Düsseldorf shows how these ›research interests‹ overlapped within masonic and non-masonic networks of European noblemen and citizens. In the perspective of Rhenish noblemen in the mid of the eighteenth century freemasonry took the role of an educational system that improved the qualities of the noble blood to secure the leading position of nobility in the God-given "Ständegesellschaft". The aristocratic lodge La Parfaite Amitié therefore was not only dominated by Rhenish noblemen but also by cousinship. As a consequence, it struggled to become a "provincial lodge", which had a stronger jurisdictional position in comparison with the civil-lodge of Düsseldorf. The second example is the masonic network of Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck (1773- 1861), from the Napoleonic period. Born in the Ancient Regime to an aristocratic familiy of the lower Rhineland, Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck faced the extensive changes for the nobility of the Rhineland, caused by the French Revolution and the French occupation of the area. Together with his second wife, the Parisian Salonier Constance de Salm, he became a prominent person in the Napoleonic era. He not only acted as an influential scientist of systematic botany, as a politician and states-man but also as a high-ranking freemason in several rites, especially in the Rit écossais philosophique. This masonic system can be seen as a 'scientific' one built upon the traditions of alchemistical and hermetical circles of the Ancient Regime. The Napoleonic period saw the occult sciences increasingly outdated and replaced by modern natural sciences. The methods considered as »exact« in the nineteenth century subsequently formed the perspective of civil dominated societies and its lodges on masonic rites and grades. In the masonic network of Joseph zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Dyck, the Rit écossais philosophique was crossed with his network as a natural scientist, resulting in masonry being seen not only as an educational system but also as an exact way to uncover the "hidden roots" of the human soul and to assess the respective qualities of it. These tendencies were strongly influenced by the natural sciences outside the masonic sphere, which in parallel tried to uncover the "hidden roots" of the nations with the pseudo-scientific concepts of "race". The civil lodges of the Napoleonic era and afterwards, with their strong emphasis on the nation, could no longer be seen as a retreat for noble man and their exclusive ideology of noble blood. The majority of the Rhenish nobility therefore turned away from the lodges in order to maintain a conservative view of itself in exclusively noble circles which still believed in the quality of the noble blood and its inherited race. Welche Rolle spielte das "Esoterische" für die Selbstsicht der adlig-bürgerlichen Eliten beim Übergang zur Moderne? Dieser Frage geht die Studie Martin Otto Brauns mit dem Titel "An den Wurzeln der Tugend. Rheinischer Adel und Freimaurerei 1765-1815" nach. Auf der Grundlage der mythischen Geschichtskonstruktionen von Genealogien des rheinischen Adels sowie des Geheimbunds der Freimaurerei zeichnet der Autor die parallel zu den Entwicklungen der Naturwissenschaften verlaufende Transformation der Vorstellung vom tugendhaften "Adel des Blutes" hin zum bürgerlichen "Adel des Intellekts" nach. Die Studie kann dabei zeigen, wie der esoterische Gehalt des frühneuzeitlichen Bildes von Wachstum und Fortschritt des Familienstammbaums sich um 1800 mehr und mehr auf die Konzepte "Nation" und "Volk" im Gesamten ausweitete. Das esoterische Denken hielt sich auf dieser Grundlage bis in die Moderne und sollte vorhandene rassische Vorstellungen adlig-bürgerlicher Eliten der "Sattelzeit" nachhaltig prägen.

Nobility --- Freemasonry --- History --- Germany --- History. --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Masonic orders --- Masonry (Secret order) --- Weimar Republic --- Germanii︠a︡ --- Германия --- BRD --- FRN --- Jirmānīya --- جرمانيا --- Nimechchyna --- Gjermani --- Federalʹna Respublika Nimechchyny --- Veĭmarskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Ashkenaz --- Germanyah --- Bundesrepublik Deutschland --- Federal Republic of Germany --- Deutschland --- Repoblika Federalin'i Alemana --- República Federal de Alemania --- Alemania --- República de Alemania --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- Kholboony Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh German Uls --- KhBNGU --- ХБНГУ --- German Uls --- Germania --- Republika Federal Alemmana --- Deutsches Reich --- Grossdeutsches Reich --- Weimarer Republik --- Vācijā --- ドイツ --- Doitsu --- ドイツ連邦共和国 --- Doitsu Renpō Kyōwakoku --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : British Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : French Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : Russian Zone) --- Germany (Territory under Allied occupation, 1945-1955 : U.S. Zone) --- Germany (East) --- Germany (West) --- Holy Roman Empire --- Rhine Province (Germany) --- Rheinland (Germany : Province) --- Rheinpreussen (Germany) --- Rheinprovinz (Germany) --- Rhenish Prussia (Germany)