Examples of aristocracy in the following topics:
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- Despite some attempts to weaken the position of the nobility, Louis XV met with avid resistance and largely failed to reform the system that privileged the aristocracy.
- Louis continued his predecessors' work of creating a centralized state governed from Paris, sought to eliminate remnants of feudalism in France, and subjugated and weakened the aristocracy.
- Only towards the close of his reign, under extreme stress of war, was he able, for the first time in French history, to impose direct taxes on the aristocracy.
- The old military aristocracy ("the nobility of the sword") ceased to have a monopoly over senior military positions and rank.
- Although Louis XV attempted to continue his predecessor's efforts to weaken the aristocracy, he failed to establish himself as an absolute monarch of Louis XIV's stature.
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- Only towards the close of his reign, under extreme stress of war, was Louis able, for the first time in French history, to impose direct taxes on the aristocracy.
- The old military aristocracy ceased to have a monopoly over senior military positions and rank.
- Louis also attached nobles to his court at Versailles and thus achieved increased control over the French aristocracy.
- Louis thus compelled and seduced the old military aristocracy (the "nobility of the sword") into becoming his ceremonial courtiers, further weakening their power.
- In their place, he raised commoners or the more recently ennobled bureaucratic aristocracy as presumably easier to control.
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- The aristocracy were centered around Anyang, the Shang capital, and conducted governmental affairs for the surrounding areas.
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- Published in response to Edmund
Burke's Reflections
on the Revolution in France (1790),
which was a defense of constitutional monarchy, aristocracy, and the Church of
England, and an attack on Wollstonecraft's friend, Richard Price,
Wollstonecraft's A
Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
attacks aristocracy and advocates republicanism.
- It encourages modesty and industry
in its readers and attacks the uselessness of the aristocracy.
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- Though the causes and attributes of individual crises varied throughout the decades,
an underlying theme of conflict between the
aristocracy and ordinary citizens drove the majority of actions.
- In particular,
they were concerned with the rise of individual generals who, backed by the
tribunate, the assemblies, and their own soldiers, could shift power from the
Senate and aristocracy.
- Many members of this faction were so classified because
they used the backing of the aristocracy and the Senate to achieve personal
goals, not necessarily because they favored the aristocracy over the lower
classes.
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- Ultimately, a new
patricio-plebeian aristocracy emerged and replaced the old patrician nobility.
- Whereas the old patrician nobility existed simply on the basis of being able to
run for office, the new aristocracy existed on the basis of affluence.
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- In addition, he participated in drafting the Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, which established a feudal aristocracy and gave a master absolute power over his slaves.
- Because of his opposition to aristocracy and slavery in his major writings, some historians accuse Locke of hypocrisy and racism and point out that his idea of liberty is reserved to Europeans or even the European capitalist class only.
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- In addition to this, a series of
laws codified by Draco in 621 BCE reinforced the power of the aristocracy over
all other citizens.
- A mediator called Solon reshaped the city-state by
restructuring the way citizenship was defined in order to absorb the
traditional aristocracy within it, established the right of every Athenian to
participate in meetings of governing assemblies.
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- Spanish art, particularly that of Morales, contained a strong mark of mysticism and religion that was encouraged by the counter-reformation and the patronage of Spain's strongly Catholic monarchs and aristocracy.
- Some have argued that as a social critic, Lope de Vega attacked, like Cervantes, many of the ancient institutions of his country - aristocracy, chivalry, and rigid morality, among others.
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- Born to the family of impoverished German aristocracy, Catherine the Great's fate was decided when she was chosen
to become wife of her second cousin, the prospective tsar Peter III, whom she eventually overthrew, becoming the Empress of Russia in 1762.