It is thought the crypts were originally used as special burial places for the nobility.
He portrays the nobility as individuals, but the lower classes as types, even stereotypes.
Much of the nobility of America lies in our taking our civil liberties seriously.
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Requested to do so by King John, the turnaround was deeply unpopular, and encouraged stirrings of revolt amongst the nobility.
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Often molded into deities, the tiny pieces became particularly popular during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911), when they were collected by the nobility.
In the cross, he concludes, the beautiful gains "new depth and realism, " showing us both the nobility of man and his fallenness.
During the Crusades, the nobility and peasantry of Europe abruptly crossed the known world and fought for places they had only ever read about.
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After all, prior to industrialization, all women except the nobility worked.
Red heels were so important to the Sun King that he passed an edict saying that only members of the nobility by birth could wear them.
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That's when I remember the famous Rupert Brooke poem about the nobility of dying for your country and the "corner of a foreign field that will be forever England".
Our contemporary art scene here is reminiscent of pre-revolutionary France when the nobility indulged intensively in equestrian disciplines while the sans culottes rioted in Paris over the price escalations in bread.
Salcedo, born to wealth though not to the nobility, survives a loveless father, a mad wife and a liaison with his former wet nurse to develop into an astute and innovative businessman.
She later lost the support of the nobility by marrying the Earl of Bothwell three months after the death of her husband the Earl of Darnley - who some believe had been murdered.
He writes of "the nobility of the trade of reporting the truth, the better to inform the readers" and of his faith in "the contribution of vibrant comment to a raucous and well-informed democracy".
Among the first such adventurers were the two John Tradescants the Elder and his son the Younger, both 17th-century gardeners to royalty and the nobility, who made pioneering expeditions to the Orient and North America.
As early as 1328, Parliament acted to limit armed travel, with the notable exception that members of the nobility were allowed to travel with armed retainers, a legal recognition of the privileges of aristocratic birth.
Few historians understood how people outside the nobility functioned, but there was a thriving middle class able to give its progeny a classical education in public schools, of which Shakespeare and fellow literary luminary Ben Jonson were beneficiaries.
At its core, the nobility and the majesty of Memorial Day can be found in the story of ordinary Americans who become extraordinary for the most simple of reasons: They loved their country so deeply, so profoundly, that they were willing to give their lives to keep it safe and free.
Along the way he offers lively summaries of some of the key dramas of Russian history, including the exploration of Siberia, the tragic nobility of the Decembrists and the unspeakable siege of Leningrad.
His replacement of the traditional ruling class with a foreign aristocracy also caused much resentment among the English nobility.
But compared with their Islamic, Indian, and Chinese counterparts they were latecomers, originally interested in importing luxury Asian goods for the European nobility and bourgeoisie in exchange for wool and woollen products or silver and gold.
And The New Elite will be more than hopping on their private jets to move from castle to castle to yacht, pushing up the prices of art and trying to emulate the Roman Emperors, the 18th century French nobility or the Russian Tsars.
Among the dominant themes are the courage and nobility of Southern soldiers in the face of great odds and the indifference or even dislike of slavery felt by many of them.
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Michitaka Hirose, a professor specializing in virtual-reality technology at Tokyo University, traces Japan's thriving artificial entertainment industry to the art of bonsai, in which medieval nobility honed the reshaping of nature into an art form.
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The Marquess of Bristol, though, had the distinction among nobility of being loathed.
It is the sense of nobility and morality enshrined in Greek mythology.
The Mudejars, whose craft flourished in the 14th and 15th centuries, were Muslims often working at the behest of the resurgent Catholic nobility.
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