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- ...djective αριστος, meaning "best", and the verb κρατειν, meaning "to rule". Aristocracy was once one of the most common forms of government; present as early as 80 Usually membership of the aristocracy is hereditary, if it is gained by an act of valor or a similar act is somet946 bytes (145 words) - 04:58, 1 November 2013
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- ...djective αριστος, meaning "best", and the verb κρατειν, meaning "to rule". Aristocracy was once one of the most common forms of government; present as early as 80 Usually membership of the aristocracy is hereditary, if it is gained by an act of valor or a similar act is somet946 bytes (145 words) - 04:58, 1 November 2013
- ==”Lady” in the British aristocracy== ...rank, form or address, or courtesy title in several levels of the British aristocracy. The general rule is that is mirrors the use of “Lord”.2 KB (276 words) - 22:58, 5 February 2008
- ...racter in the [[Honor Harrington]] novels, characterizing the worst of the aristocracy and with an intense hatred for Harrington, a commoner who humiliated him214 bytes (30 words) - 15:19, 27 February 2010
- The revolutionary episode in France that deposed the king and the aristocracy, created a republic, and included a period of terror, in which thousands we220 bytes (33 words) - 17:56, 8 June 2008
- {{r|Aristocracy}}252 bytes (29 words) - 09:37, 16 September 2010
- * Aristocracy595 bytes (49 words) - 18:32, 1 January 2010
- {{r|Aristocracy}}122 bytes (13 words) - 09:18, 12 August 2009
- {{r|Aristocracy}}540 bytes (71 words) - 21:48, 17 January 2011
- Auto-populated based on [[Special:WhatLinksHere/Aristocracy]]. Needs checking by a human.635 bytes (85 words) - 11:02, 11 January 2010
- {{r|Aristocracy}}534 bytes (70 words) - 10:54, 11 January 2010
- ...t to lordly authority.<ref>Creighton, Oliver H. ''Early European castles : aristocracy and authority, AD 800-1200''. London: Bristol Classical Press. p. 140. ISBN1 KB (143 words) - 11:31, 29 July 2013
- {{r|Aristocracy}}1 KB (177 words) - 11:53, 12 August 2010
- ...garch class. For example, when the oligarchs are nobles, it is called an [[aristocracy]]; when they are men of wealth, it is called a [[plutocracy]]. Oligarchy of ...face="Gill Sans MT">"We must escape the bondage of such an Oligarchy, not Aristocracy – the rule of the ''few'', but not of the ''best'' – involving all the3 KB (469 words) - 10:09, 28 February 2024
- ...r the British constitution, which at the time was a mix of [[monarchy]], [[aristocracy]] and limited [[democracy]]. As the work becomes more detailed, dealing, f1 KB (224 words) - 04:11, 3 August 2020
- ...rmandy conquered England in 1066, this language became the language of the aristocracy and many official documents for centuries. Even today, on occasions when Ro2 KB (240 words) - 09:28, 14 September 2022
- ...term for the country party under Shaftesbury in 1679. It was based on the aristocracy and businessmen from the trading community and the City of London. It uphel ...rich and middle classes voted, so this shifted power away from the landed aristocracy to the urban middle classes. In 1832 they abolished slavery in the Empire,5 KB (736 words) - 18:20, 25 December 2007
- ...[[Bram Stoker]]'s famous [[vampire]] is in many ways a gentleman and an [[aristocracy|aristocrat]], familiar with the social niceties of his day, but in reality2 KB (291 words) - 00:39, 9 January 2011
- ...to Nine. According to Plato, factions would war against each other in the aristocracy and military glory would become a primary concern for leaders, brining abou5 KB (741 words) - 15:01, 25 April 2010
- ..., Lord [[Pavel Young]], who is an archetype of everything wrong with the [[aristocracy]] of the Star Kingdom. When they were both [[midshipmen]], he tried to rape ...lly apparent, and the political ramifications of punishing a member of the aristocracy are introduced.8 KB (1,254 words) - 17:29, 17 March 2024
- *AN ARISTOCRACY OF EVERYONE: THE POLITICS OF EDUCATION AND THE FUTURE OF AMERICA. Ballantin2 KB (307 words) - 21:51, 21 September 2009
- ...ates of America]]. At the time, it meant his opposition to militarism and aristocracy, and his design for a [[League of Nations]] to keep the peace by reflecting3 KB (390 words) - 17:44, 12 March 2024
- ...ess committed members of [[Parliament]], many of whom were from an Irish [[aristocracy|aristocratic]] or [[gentry]] [[Church of Ireland]] background and other mor3 KB (492 words) - 11:41, 22 March 2024
- * Fox, Dixon Ryan. ''The Decline of Aristocracy in the Politics of New York, 1801–1840'' (1919)5 KB (670 words) - 17:58, 26 October 2010
- ...n's shack in Calormen, a country far to the south of Narnia. A visiting [[aristocracy|noble]] warrior seeks to buy Shasta, the fisherman's son, and during the co4 KB (635 words) - 01:37, 16 January 2011
- ...ncient and some medieval monarchies held elections among the members of an aristocracy to elect a new king when the reigning king died.4 KB (695 words) - 20:53, 3 February 2009
- ...1909 threatened both the social and economic power of the British landed [[aristocracy]] as well as the high-tariff political agenda of the [[Conservative Party]]4 KB (678 words) - 08:00, 15 October 2022
- ...]], or perhaps forms of something that might be termed modern bureaucratic aristocracy. Modern industrial democracies Lippmann argued, were too complex for ordin4 KB (648 words) - 17:37, 7 October 2020
- ...cius. According to tradition, Sun Tzu was a member of the landless Chinese aristocracy, the shih, descendants of nobility who had lost their dukedoms during the c4 KB (754 words) - 02:18, 7 April 2024
- ...none of his own poetry, and this was in keeping with the tradition of the aristocracy in which he belonged (maintained also by [[Walter Ralegh|Ralegh]]). It was4 KB (634 words) - 10:37, 8 September 2020
- ...icanism, U.S.|republican political ideology]] was superior to monarchy and aristocracy. He also wrote several other influential works, including ''[[The American ...the city. In doing so, he was exposed to the class resentment toward the aristocracy as well as the views of philosophers such as [[John Locke]]. In 1758, his12 KB (1,963 words) - 07:33, 20 April 2024
- ...cult among those nations than among all others. When several members of an aristocracy agree to combine, they easily succeed in doing so; as each of them brings g5 KB (892 words) - 22:54, 2 January 2008
- ...vic duty to aid the state and resist corruption, especially monarchism and aristocracy.<ref> Banning (1978) pp 79-90</ref>7 KB (913 words) - 16:07, 5 November 2007
- ...1930s, Hitler believed it necessary to form alliances with the Right: the aristocracy, business and finance, the landlords and the Army. Roehm and Goebbels, how5 KB (758 words) - 09:48, 28 September 2013
- ...lly passive when faced with a confrontation, it was decided to appease the Aristocracy|aristocrat by temporarily changing the group's name.<ref>{{cite book | auth5 KB (814 words) - 07:37, 18 March 2024
- ...uling tyrannies of [[Corinth]] and [[Sicyon]], since the Spartans favoured aristocracy over the business class. The Spartans also founded the [[Peloponnesian Leag6 KB (943 words) - 08:51, 5 January 2024
- ...he tenancy laws so easily passed by parliament, deeply offended the landed aristocracy which had long dominated the army. His long-promised reform of the central6 KB (899 words) - 14:12, 25 September 2007
- ...ad, it seemed to him, resulted in the separate evolution of the leisured [[aristocracy]] (the Eloi) and the [[working class]] (the Morlocks). In this scheme, the6 KB (1,128 words) - 10:09, 25 February 2024
- ...of the Caucasus. His mother came from a high ranking family of the Russian aristocracy engaged in state service. Witte’s childhood in the Caucasus was a happy o6 KB (949 words) - 15:52, 25 May 2008
- ...Aristotle provided depiction of three kinds of regimes --- [[monarchy]], [[aristocracy]], and polity, and the repsective degradation of the three, namely, [[tyran7 KB (969 words) - 14:30, 31 March 2024
- ...to save a fellow “toff.” The near-incestuous nature of the Upper Canadian aristocracy is further demonstrated by the fact that, in 1818, Samuel Peters Jarvis mar11 KB (1,419 words) - 15:24, 20 December 2023
- ...BC was a troubled period in Athenian history. Society was dominated by the aristocracy and their vehicle of government, [[The Areopagus]]. The poorer farmers were6 KB (1,074 words) - 07:25, 18 May 2008
- ...1967): 365-368. *Stephenson Wendell H. "Ulrich B. Phillips: Historian of Aristocracy." in ''The South Lives in History: Southern Historians and Their Legacy'' L8 KB (1,140 words) - 04:51, 22 March 2010
- ...widely perceived as the [[stereotype|stereotypical]] accent of the British aristocracy and, to some extent, middle-class people from the south of England, especia7 KB (1,146 words) - 05:29, 15 May 2023
- ...her. The civilisation depicted is a pagan, pastoral one ruled by a warrior aristocracy. Bonds between aristocratic families are cemented by fosterage of each othe7 KB (1,145 words) - 21:35, 28 December 2013
- ...e, history|revolutionary episode in France]] that deposed the king and the aristocracy, created a republic, and included a period of terror, in which thousands we ...wo stages, a liberal bourgeois revolution (1789) against the feudal landed aristocracy, followed by a second and more radical democratic revolution against the bo14 KB (2,093 words) - 12:15, 30 October 2010
- ...condition of the people and temporarily broken the political power of the aristocracy, most of the old families were still looking to the past rather than the fu7 KB (1,250 words) - 16:14, 18 March 2016
- ...rams (and for new battleships). The Conservatives, representing the landed aristocracy, controlled the House of Lords, which rejected the 1909 budget. The Liberal7 KB (1,057 words) - 01:39, 9 May 2008
- * Fox, Dixon Ryan. ''The Decline of the Aristocracy in the Politics of New York.'' Columbia Univ. Press, 1919.9 KB (1,376 words) - 12:50, 7 February 2023
- ...hes the virtue of surviving on only just enough. Its leaders were from the aristocracy, and the churches, not from the industrial or political classes, and it onl8 KB (1,151 words) - 14:27, 31 March 2024
- - [[Aristocracy]] -9 KB (1,506 words) - 08:22, 28 April 2024
- * Karsten, Peter. '' The Naval Aristocracy: The Golden Age of Annapolis and the Emergence of Modern American Navalism'9 KB (1,282 words) - 15:01, 8 October 2019
- ...ofessor E. Digby Baltzell in his 1964 book ''The Protestant Establishment: Aristocracy & Caste in America''. However, its first recorded use was by Andrew Hacker9 KB (1,280 words) - 16:41, 22 March 2023
- ...erties'' as central values, makes the people as a whole sovereign, rejects aristocracy and inherited political power, expects citizens to be independent and civic ...unconstitutional taxes, and, ultimately, an system of rule by an inherited aristocracy.28 KB (4,311 words) - 09:27, 11 September 2023
- ...rtue]] practised by citizens. Republicanism always stands in opposition to aristocracy, oligarchy and dictatorship. More broadly, it refers to a political system ...ism), after the fall of the [[Ottoman Empire]] which had been an inherited aristocracy and sultanate suppressing republican ideas. In the 21st century Turkey has43 KB (6,485 words) - 08:54, 2 March 2024
- ...nal,'' 3 (1960), 125-43 </ref> Burke in particular saw the Church and the aristocracy, whose power was based on property, as the true carriers of tradition. Burk9 KB (1,402 words) - 07:08, 26 March 2024
- ...dest Dickens ever attempted, ranging from the filthy slums to the [[landed aristocracy]], in a narrative that is in equal parts [[pathos]] and [[comedy]]. One cha9 KB (1,355 words) - 17:57, 31 October 2013
- ...hogunate was at a low ebb. People attached to the residences of the court aristocracy or formerly employed by shrines or Buddhist temples, craftsmen, and ordinar9 KB (1,366 words) - 03:27, 29 September 2009
- ...m academy appears frequently in the titles of various European [[royal]],[[Aristocracy|aristrocratic]] or national institutions, like the Acad´emie Francaise, an11 KB (1,658 words) - 11:51, 2 February 2023
- ...ended to rein against inbuilt establishments, such as the crown, church or aristocracy. Nineteenth century Liberals also highly valued property, which they saw as10 KB (1,592 words) - 09:07, 26 March 2024
- ...eader of the more conservative coalition in Athens and the champion of the aristocracy. In 465 BC the [[Helots]] revolted against the Spartans and the pro-Spartan11 KB (1,776 words) - 17:11, 25 December 2015
- ...was a merging of the wealthy merchant class of the north, with the planter aristocracy of the south."<ref>Rankin JS. William Stewart Halsted: a lecture by Dr. Pet11 KB (1,733 words) - 11:25, 5 May 2011
- ...litical hierarchies of the [[Ancien Régime]] had been replaced by a pseudo-aristocracy of favouritism, patronage and commercial fortunes, and where a 'new priesth11 KB (1,708 words) - 19:29, 7 October 2009
- In the Middle Ages, a '''knight''' was an aristocracy|aristocrat who was capable of providing for himself the equipment required European knighthood became an aristocracy, rather then a profession, because of Charlemagne's benefices. In the centu25 KB (4,045 words) - 02:18, 7 April 2024
- ...ot adequately comprehend traditional Western associations and meanings of "aristocracy," a fundamental misunderstanding that, for Disraeli's political enemies and12 KB (1,722 words) - 12:46, 14 April 2024
- ...on effective military and legal organizations and the cohesiveness of an [[Aristocracy]]. ...c|republic]], governed by a [[Roman Senate|senate]] dominated by the Roman aristocracy. The Roman political system contributed to the development of [[law]], [[co31 KB (4,805 words) - 11:47, 19 March 2024
- ...e]] from 1778 was still in effect. They looked at Britain as the center of aristocracy and the main threat to America's republican values. Therefore they denounc13 KB (2,009 words) - 13:53, 16 October 2010
- ...they are seen through the eyes of a particular individual, a melancholy [[Aristocracy|aristocratic]] outsider, not too different from Byron himself.<ref>Franklin12 KB (1,853 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...S.|republicanism]] and promoted democracy and equal rights, while fighting aristocracy and established religion. Extraordinarily, Thomas Jefferson and [[John Adam ...nable them to understand their rights and duties as citizens, the "natural aristocracy" of virtue and talent should be drawn forth from the general mass and given30 KB (4,464 words) - 08:51, 30 June 2023
- ...gacy. There was no return to democracy: the form of government ranged from aristocracy during the Republic to dictatorship during the imperial period. ...e a burning issue that could rouse whole populations. The monarchy and the aristocracy had ceased to be regarded as protectors, and had come to be regarded as opp46 KB (6,983 words) - 14:27, 31 March 2024
- ...y, unnecessary taxes, and, ultimately, an system of rule by an inherited [[aristocracy]].15 KB (2,251 words) - 15:22, 8 April 2023
- ...mplained that the [[English language]] had been corrupted by the British [[aristocracy]], which set its own standard for proper spelling and pronunciation. Webste16 KB (2,439 words) - 15:19, 20 March 2023
- ...hem "robber barons", an artful term combing crime (robber) and un-American aristocracy (barons), to denounce their use of overpowering and sometimes unethical fin16 KB (2,375 words) - 15:27, 19 January 2024
- ...republicanism that can be considered conservative. Rejecting monarchy and aristocracy, they emphasized civic virtue as the core American value. The Federalists s18 KB (2,700 words) - 14:30, 31 March 2024
- ...1930s, Hitler believed it necessary to form alliances with the Right: the aristocracy, business and finance, the landlords and the Army. Roehm and Goebbels, how21 KB (3,432 words) - 18:38, 3 April 2024
- ...f the Islamic [[Sharia]] - thus amounting to a particular form of Platonic aristocracy. [[Democracy]], in the form that gave every [[citizen]] a right to partici48 KB (7,050 words) - 08:27, 28 April 2024
- ...dlords that pervaded English rural life was not carried over. There was no aristocracy. The strong religious base of the Puritans made the social order revolve ar20 KB (3,005 words) - 09:41, 31 July 2023
- ...g a party that would build the South on a broader base than the plantation aristocracy of ante-bellum days. They found it expedient to do business with blacks an24 KB (3,389 words) - 11:44, 21 March 2011
- ...12]]. Furthermore, the fears that Federalists were plotting to reintroduce aristocracy dissipated. Thus an "[[Era of Good Feelings]]" under [[James Monroe]] repla23 KB (3,328 words) - 17:52, 26 October 2010
- ...hilosophy. The culture of the elite scholar-officials replaced that of the aristocracy at the pinnacle of Chinese society, while general [[Chinese culture]] was e22 KB (3,402 words) - 10:12, 28 February 2024
- ....</ref> He believed very strongly that the new nation should fight against aristocracy and corruption (especially of British origin), and was deeply committed to26 KB (3,978 words) - 14:47, 24 February 2023
- ...eignty, the battle resulted in the decimation of the Bohemian and Moravian aristocracy, and after the war there was a mass emigration of religious and intellectua23 KB (3,648 words) - 11:34, 7 March 2024
- ...nd composers during a period in which the church, local government and the aristocracy provided significant support for professional music making in the German-sp ...st government position in a career that had mainly involved service to the aristocracy. This final post, which he held for 27 years until his death, brought him i51 KB (8,057 words) - 14:58, 22 January 2023
- ...but like most epic traditions a learned literary one best known among the aristocracy and the clergy. It holds pride of place in the earliest manuscripts, but pr26 KB (4,679 words) - 20:37, 28 February 2011
- ...se of the remission of sin was extremely appealing to a religious, warrior aristocracy.<ref> Riley Smith, ''Idea of Crusading'' (pp. 27-29.)</ref> It is easy to o ...dfrey’s but it was well equipped and well trained, with much of the Norman aristocracy of southern Italy in tow.62 KB (10,595 words) - 22:22, 15 September 2013
- * Karsten, Peter. '' The Naval Aristocracy: The Golden Age of Annapolis and the Emergence of Modern American Navalism'28 KB (4,210 words) - 11:12, 30 March 2024
- * Story, Ronald. ''The Forging of an Aristocracy: Harvard and the Boston Upper Class, 1800-1870'' (1980).30 KB (4,401 words) - 09:38, 6 August 2023
- ...Golden Age through the rebirth of good writing. As the tutors the European aristocracy, humanists saw their ideas accepted by the top ranks of the ruling classes.32 KB (4,700 words) - 15:04, 9 March 2024
- ...rgot to mention that I had always fancied myself a member of the [[peerage|aristocracy]]. And [[User:Pierre-Alain Gouanvic|Pierre-Alain]] has just let me know tha35 KB (5,688 words) - 13:28, 2 April 2024
- When Caesar and Bibulus were first elected, the aristocracy tried to limit Caesar's future power by allotting the woods and pastures of44 KB (6,586 words) - 08:42, 12 July 2014
- ...u Roi and the Gendarmerie de France, were comprised of members of the high aristocracy. Although the war ministers made inroads into the power of the social elite32 KB (5,113 words) - 13:03, 1 November 2014
- ...eral government, the funding act and the National Bank may bellow tyranny, aristocracy, and speculators through the Union and repeat the clamorous din as long as36 KB (5,354 words) - 09:39, 29 June 2023
- ...moral tone to politics with his evangelical sensibility and opposition to aristocracy. His moralism often angered his upper-class opponents (including Queen Vict33 KB (5,203 words) - 08:53, 2 March 2024
- ...by the [[Norman language|Norman French]] language of the new Anglo-Norman aristocracy. Its use was confined primarily to the lower social classes while official75 KB (11,181 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...moral tone to politics with his evangelical sensibility and opposition to aristocracy. His moralism often angered his upper-class opponents (including Queen Vict34 KB (5,241 words) - 08:53, 2 March 2024
- ...epublicanism]] and viewed the Federalists as pro-British supporters of the aristocracy, not of the people.44 KB (6,547 words) - 13:29, 20 March 2023
- ...not only by his great spirit and energy, but also by his ruthlessness. The aristocracy was especially hostile to Cromwell, in large part because of his strong app36 KB (5,768 words) - 08:53, 2 March 2024
- ...on a core of careerists and talented officers. Before the Revolution the aristocracy formed the officer corps. Now promotion was by merit and achievement--ever34 KB (5,175 words) - 09:44, 26 April 2024
- ...vely on the slavery issue—pitted as a struggle between democracy and aristocracy—focusing on the question of Kansas. The Republicans condemned the Kan ...society in which the slave system maintained an entrenched anti-democratic aristocracy.81 KB (12,537 words) - 14:35, 9 February 2024
- ...ench officers. Banditry was suppressed, slavery abolished, and the Lao-Lum aristocracy's practice of demanding labour service from Lao Theong and Lao Sūng people94 KB (15,756 words) - 11:03, 4 April 2024
- ...roses.com/] - small-scale fighting that causes heavy casualties among the aristocracy and results in the victory of the House of Lancaster over the House of York54 KB (7,884 words) - 12:15, 14 February 2024
- ...of the nation's life, including social and political affairs. The planter aristocracy of the South disappeared.41 KB (6,136 words) - 10:39, 5 March 2024
- ...ciety promoted gendercide. Philosopher Han Fei Tzu, a member of the ruling aristocracy of the 3rd century BCE, who developed a school of law, wrote: ''"As to chil52 KB (7,385 words) - 13:50, 8 March 2024
- ...the carrier of "republican" beliefs about civic virtue, and opposition to aristocracy and corruption. <ref> Gould (2003) pp 14-15; republicanism is explored in d50 KB (7,415 words) - 09:27, 11 September 2023
- ...republicanism that can be considered conservative. Rejecting monarchy and aristocracy, they emphasized civic virtue as the core American value. The Federalists s54 KB (7,923 words) - 10:44, 16 April 2024
- ...ly Durani Pashtun, made up the ''khan'' class, Afghanistan's equivalent to aristocracy. Under the pro-Soviet Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, and then under So56 KB (8,494 words) - 16:37, 24 March 2024
- ...Jeffersonians especially in terms of anti-elite rhetoric of opposition to "aristocracy," distrust of banks (and paper money), and faith in "the people." By his ex52 KB (7,770 words) - 16:53, 12 March 2024
- ...Columbus and others starting in 1492. The crusades helped create a moneyed aristocracy and encouraged the growth of capitalism in the Italian cities. Silks and sp53 KB (8,332 words) - 13:11, 8 March 2024
- ...in Congress, who believed it would simply restore to power the old planter aristocracy. In July 1864, they passed the Wade-Davis Bill, which required 50% of a sta57 KB (8,536 words) - 10:16, 16 August 2023
- ...mples, were granted for their maintenance. Members of the Sinhalese landed aristocracy embraced Christianity and took Portuguese names at baptism, and many coasta51 KB (7,625 words) - 16:45, 10 February 2024
- Beautiful chess sets used by the aristocracy of the time are mostly lost, but some of the surviving examples, like the 164 KB (10,049 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...vert resistance. Active resisters were drawn largely from the old Prussian aristocracy, since this was the only social class which had not been successfully penet69 KB (11,160 words) - 16:45, 10 February 2024
- ...in the United States|republican]] values of civic virtue and opposition to aristocracy and corruption. The new party emphasized a vision of modernizing higher edu70 KB (10,151 words) - 15:04, 15 April 2024
- ...s=p. 36 |isbn=087338413X}}</ref> Public-minded members of the old merchant aristocracy pressed for [[Central Park]], which became the first landscaped park in an80 KB (12,192 words) - 07:31, 20 April 2024
- ...government had restored peace. Not even under ideal conditions could the [[aristocracy|aristocratic]] British win the hearts and minds of the equalitarian America71 KB (11,368 words) - 16:57, 17 March 2024
- ...ins 2001, p. 5.</ref> On his father's side, he was a member of the British aristocracy as a direct descendant of the [[John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough|1st171 KB (25,041 words) - 09:26, 5 April 2024