Rudolf Virchow’s investigation of a typhus epidemic in 1848 identified a root cause: “The power of the aristocracy, propped up by the church.” Big business is today’s aristocracy, politicians and the state today’s church. In society’s pursuit of wealth and profit, it is poor people who carry the greatest burden of disease, whose deaths are most likely when fire engulfs a tower block, the levees...

Thousands of migrants left the Low Countries in second half sixteenth century for religious, political, or economic reasons. They faced many difficulties as they attempted to rebuild their lives abroad, including linguistic obstacles. Many them moved England, but proficiency English was rare among Netherlandish community. Nevertheless, this article argues, language differences did not only pose...

Abstract Conventional typologies of lordship and its relationship with royal power in the territories English crown emphasize precocious distinctiveness as against noble lordship, latter consequentially bound by an essentially restrictive territorialized model. Drawing particularly on example kingship/lordship Isle Man, this article considers manifestations sub-kingship from fourteenth to sixte...

This article compares the trials against two members of Dacre family, Barons Thomas and William. The relationship between monarch nobility has traditionally been considered one key moments in development states Middle Ages early modern times. Subordinating aristocracy restricting its independence is seen as main goals royal policy. Both Dacres held important posts frontier administration, actin...

В статье поднимается проблема происхождения и развития предлагаемого русскими летописями представленного преимущественно князьями образа мужчины из военно-аристократической среды. Военная аристократия в Средние века является своего рода отражением эпохи, поэтому анализ русского князя позволит рассмотреть некоторые внутренние особенности мировоззрения средневекового мужчины. Констатируется, что ...

Abstract In this article I argue that Anton Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony assumes a pivotal role in advancing the romantically tinged narrative Luchino Visconti’s film Senso (1954) through politically recoded message. Visconti offers reflection upon political climate Venetia during Risorgimento pre-eminent of music. particular, music emphasizes condition Venetians under Austrian rulers by dominat...

The English Country House happens to be one of the most iconic topoi in literary studies. Since narratologists have long privileged time over space, narrative space remained a relatively unexplored territory until twentieth century, which intensified interest house as thematic fulcrum works. British novelist Sarah Waters’s first venture into realm sub-genre fiction, Little Stranger (2009) is be...

Textile conservation has given rise to small and medium-sized museums, usually with scarce resources. In Sicily, the little evidence that remains of silk production opulent imports by rich powerful local aristocracy is kept in parishes, other cultural institutions. The documentation, dissemination, enhancement such a fragile heritage today possible means technological tools provide novel preser...