patriarchal
(adjective)
Relating to a system run by males, rather than females.
Examples of patriarchal in the following topics:
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Traditional Authority
- Weber traced traditional domination back to patriarchs, their households, and the ancient tradition of the family.
- This occurs when a patriarchal ruler's household expands to governmental offices.
- Second, in a patrimonial government, officials are personally dependent on the patriarch.
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The Great Schism of 1054
- The Byzantines, however, continued to consider themselves Romans, and looked to the patriarch of Constantinople, not the pope, as the most important religious figure of the church.
- In 1053, the first step was taken in the process which led to formal schism: the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Michael I Cerularius ordered the closure of all Latin churches in Constantinople, in response to the Greek churches in southern Italy having been forced to either close or conform to Latin practices.
- The papal legate sent by Leo IX traveled to Constantinople for purposes that included refusing to Cerularius the title of "Ecumenical Patriarch" and insisting that he recognize the Pope's claim to be the head of all the churches.
- Conflicts over the next several centuries (such as the Crusades, the Massacre of the Latins in 1182 CE, the West's retaliation in the Sacking of Thessalonica in 1185 CE, the capture and sack of Constantinople in 1204 CE, and the imposition of Latin patriarchs) would only make reconciliation more difficult.
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The Romanovs
- Whatever the real origins of this patriarch-like figure, his descendants split into about a dozen different branches over the next couple of centuries.
- Grandchildren of this patriarch changed their name to Romanov and it remained there until they rose to power.
- Patriarch Philaret's son, Michael I, was voted into power by the zemsky sober in July 1613, ending a long dynastic dispute.
- He unified the boyars and satisfied the Moscow royalty as the son of Feodor Nikitich Romanov (now Patriarch Philaret) and the nephew of the Rurikid Tsar Feodor I.
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The Influence of Feminism
- Feminist and intersectional sentiments in art have always existed in opposition to the white, patriarchal foundations and current realities of western art markets and art history.
- In line with the development of western civilization, art in the west has been built upon white, patriarchal and capitalist values, and while there have always existed women artists, they have largely been omitted from history.
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Emperor Heracluis
- The reign of Phocas officially ended in his execution and the crowning of Heraclius by the Patriarch of Constantinople two days later on 5 October 610.
- After having married his wife in an elaborate ceremony and crowned by the Patriarch, the 36-year-old Heraclius set out to perform his work as Emperor.
- The patriarch Sergius came up with a formula, which Heraclius released as the Ecthesis in 638.
- The two remaining patriarchs in the East also gave their approval to the doctrine now referred to as Monothelitism, and so it looked as if Heraclius would finally heal the divisions in the imperial church.
- When news reached Heraclius of the Pope’s condemnation, he was already old and ill, and the news only hastened his death, declaring with his dying breath that the controversy was all due to Sergius, and that the patriarch had pressured him to give his unwilling approval to the Ecthesis.
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Peter's Domestic Reforms
- The traditional leader of the Church was the Patriarch of Moscow.
- In 1700, when the office fell vacant, Peter refused to name a replacement and created the position of the custodian of the patriarchal throne that he controlled by appointing his own candidates.
- He could not tolerate the thought that a patriarch could have power superior to the Tsar, as indeed had happened in the case of Philaret (1619–33) and Nikon (1652-66).
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The Nature of a Family
- This family arrangement is considered patriarchal.
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The Conflict Perspective
- The traditional family form in most cultures is patriarchal, contributing to inequality between the sexes.
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The Absent Father and Serial Fatherhood
- Whereas the idea of the father complex had originally evolved to deal with the heavy Victorian patriarch, by the new millennium there had developed instead a postmodern preoccupation with the loss of paternal authority, or the absence of the father.
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The Caste System
- Society during the Vedic Period (ca.1750-500 BCE) was patriarchal and patrilineal, meaning to trace ancestral heritage through the male line.
- The Rig-Veda influenced the development of the patriarchal society and the caste systems in Aryan India.