When smallpox claimed the only son of the sixth Earl of Huntingdon on 24 June 1649, the death of Henry, Lord Hastings was commemorated in a fashionable volume of elegies. Among the contributions to Lachrymae musarum by "diverse persons of Nobility and Worth", Andrew Marvell's tribute to the young Huntingdon heir is certainly the most intriguing and those ofJohn Denham and Robert Herrick rank wi...

Low gold-content dental alloys nowadays represent viable alternatives to high nobility alloys. The casting techniques and equipment used for low-gold content alloys are similar to those used for conventional gold alloys. This, coupled with their acceptable properties, good clinical performance and lower cost, has lead to their widespread use. The alloy performance in the dental laboratory is an...

The paper proposes to re-examine Liber generationis plebeanorum (c. 1624–1640), an early modern Polish manuscript devoted denouncing people from lower social orders successfully passing as noblemen, expression of proto-racism, rooted in the biblical legend curse Ham. Based on observation that premodern era notion race connotated family lineage and defined one’s location, Trepka’s work is viewed...

This article seeks to lay bare the central epistemological and theoretical principles that undergird Bourdieu's work by dissecting the analyses proposed in his book The State Nobility: Elite Schools in the New Mode of Domination (1989, transl. 1996). It is argued that this study offers not only a powerful and generalizable theoretical model of class rule in advanced society. It also contains lu...

in 1766, three years before Napoleon Bonoparte, whose loving follower Larrey was destined to become. His birthplace was in the romantic region of the High Pyreniees, at the village of Beaudeau. At the period of Larrey's birth, centuries of misrule were about to culminate in a mighty catastrophe for Franice. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, France was the most powerful nation in Europ...