The grotesque comedy features a social climber who buys dead serfs from the nobles who owned them.
The idealist Rienzi, tribune of the people, reaches out to the predatory nobles.
The feudal nobles tried to suppress it, but precisely because there was no stable government in control of a huge territory, they failed.
The trailblazingly democratic and bourgeois Netherlands never nurtured the border-crossing habits of the kings and nobles whose avidity as collectors survives in the major museums of Paris, London, Vienna, and Madrid.
Most archaeologists would insist the true value of their work lies away from the glamour of kings and nobles and with the lives of the ordinary people of the past.
Now celebrating its 57th year, Brafa opened last week with its customary three days of previews for the elite, beginning with a gala dinner on the 18th attended largely by European nobles, with larger events the following two nights.
Beer was so important to the Czech political economy at that time that knights and nobles fought for and won the right to brew beer under a landmark royal decree in 1517.
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If you put him back into the 15th century, he's exactly as the others are -- princes, dukes, nobles, they're all doing exactly the same things, and he's better than some.
Thanks to free markets, common laborers can access more comfort, superior sanitation and even entertainment than nobles experienced before the stirrings of modern industry.
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Melissa Nobles, a political scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who specialises in apologology (our word), says that they can give official backing to a particular view of history, help contain political grievances peacefully and encourage public-spiritedness among alienated parts of the population.
From the description in the case it almost seemed like your typical Barnes and Nobles.
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Russians had been enjoying caviar since medieval times, first as a religious dish on nonmeat days and by the mid-1700s as one of a range of appetizers served by nobles and well-off merchants.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, trade dried up, cities declined and feudalism arose as nobles retreated to heavily armed country estates.
During the Middle Ages, a castle was specifically a fortified structure, largely built to defend nobles against hostile intrusions.
In the 1950s, prime minister Jigmi Dorji, Benji's father, led a clique of young nobles bent on modernizing Bhutan.
The most notable was to counter the influence of the National Assembly by reconvening a revamped Estates General, which had last met in 1789 as a gathering of nobles, urban bourgeois and clergy.
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