Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

« Noblesse oblige. » La maxime du duc Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (1764-1830) est passée dans le langage courant pour évoquer les obligations morales qui pèsent sur les détenteurs d’un nom, et plus généralement pour inviter tous les prétendants à la respectabilité à adopter un comportement conforme à la dignité qu’ils revendiquent. L’idée n’était pas nouvelle. En 1665, dans son Dom Juan, Molière plaçait déjà dans la bouche de Dom Louis une tirade véhémente devenue fameuse : « Non, non, la naissance n’est rien où la vertu n’est pas. » Si la noblesse reposait sur la vertu, quelle définition donnait-on à cette qualité ? S’agissait-il du courage guerrier, de l’exemplarité morale ou de l’appartenance au monde des gens de bien ? Vivre de ses rentes ne suffisait plus pour être reconnu comme noble dans une société où, à partir du xviie siècle.

Nobility --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Group identity --- Group values (Sociology) --- Social values --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Aristocracy --- Aristocrats --- Upper class --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Titles of honor and nobility --- History. --- Political activity --- Noblesse --- Identité collective --- History of civilization --- anno 1500-1799 --- --Europe --- --XVIe-XVIIIe s., --- History --- Political activity&delete& --- XVIe-XVIIIe s., 1501-1800 --- Europe --- Identité collective --- noblesse --- société --- histoire moderne

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Private law --- Belgium --- France --- Nobility --- Heraldry --- Noblesse --- Héraldique --- Law and legislation --- Droit --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History --- -Nobility --- -Titles of honor and nobility --- -#A9808A --- Address, Titles of --- Honorary titles --- Titles of address --- Salutations --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Legal status, laws, etc --- -History --- Héraldique --- #A9808A --- Law and legislation&delete& --- Nobility - Legal status, laws, etc. - France - History --- Titles of honor and nobility - Law and legislation - France - History --- Nobility - Legal status, laws, etc. - Belgium - History --- Titles of honor and nobility - Law and legislation - Belgium - History --- FRANCE --- BELGIQUE --- NOBLESSE

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

In den Wirren der Revolution von 1848 hat der wankende preußische König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. Halt an einem Menschen gefunden, der ihn über sieben Jahre in allen innen- und außenpolitischen Fragen beriet und lenkte: Carl Wilhelm Saegert, Leiter der Taubstummenanstalt in Berlin und seit 1853 Inspektor des preußischen Taubstummenwesens. Als sich die Verhältnisse in Berlin nach der Revolution konsolidierten, war es für Saegert unmöglich, wegen seiner fehlenden Ausbildung und seiner bürgerlichen Herkunft in der Führungshierarchie anerkannt zu werden. Der König verließ sich aber weiterhin nahezu blindlings auf ihn, und Saegert musste die undankbare Rolle des geheimen Beraters spielen, der nur durch die Bediententür Zugang zum König fand. Die Edition bringt eine Auswahl der politisch relevanten Teile der Korrespondenz für die Jahre 1848 bis 1856. Die Korrespondenz wird ergänzt durch das ungekürzte Tagebuch Saegerts für die Revolutionsmonate März bis November 1848.

Revolution 1848 --- Politische Geschichte --- Preußische Geschichte --- Grundfragen und Quellen --- König Friedrich Wilhelm IV. --- Biografien --- Nobility --- Confessors --- Confessors. --- Kings and rulers. --- Nobility. --- Frederick William --- Saegert, C. W. --- Revolution (Prussia, Germany : 1848-1849) --- 1840-1861 --- Prussia (Germany) --- Germany --- Kings and rulers --- History --- Noble class --- Noble families --- Nobles (Social class) --- Peerage --- Upper class --- Aristocracy (Social class) --- Titles of honor and nobility --- Czars (Kings and rulers) --- Kings and rulers, Primitive --- Monarchs --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Tsars --- Tzars --- Heads of state --- Queens --- Clergy --- Friedrich Wilhelm --- Saegert, Carl W., --- Saegert, Carl, --- Frederick William IV, Reign of (Prussia) --- Prussia (Kingdom) --- Prussia --- Preussen (Germany) --- Prusse (Germany) --- Prusy (Germany) --- Prusyah (Germany)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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 zweite von drei Teilen erschliesst ueber 5.000 Archivalien des Brandenburgischen Landeshauptarchivs aus landesherrlichen Lokalbehoerden der Kurmark, aus Ober- und Unterbehoerden der Neumark und der Niederlausitz sowie a

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 --- Bahl --- Bearbeitet --- Brandenburg --- Brandenburgisches --- Claudia --- Gesellschaft --- Hälfte --- Joafchimsthaler Gymnasium --- Kloosterhuis --- Kurmärkische Domänenkammer --- Kurmärkische Kriegskammer --- Kurmärkisches Kammergericht --- Land --- Landeshauptarchiv --- Militär --- Militärsozialisation --- Nowak --- Peter --- Preußen --- Preußische Militärgeschichte --- Pröve --- Quellen --- Ralf --- Sozialgeschichte Preußens --- Teil

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

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)