Le souterrain médiéval de Chauviat (commune de Charbonnières-les-Vieilles, Puy-de-Dôme) by Frédéric Surmely, Patrick Boudon, Stéphane Guyot, Pierre Caillat, Pierre Charbonnier, Laurent Hablot, Thomas Poiraud

“…The structure was linked to an aristocratic home still to be excavated. It was probably an escape tunnel different from the common tunnels destined to the storage or the refuge. …”
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Un texte autographe inédit de Machiavel : la Minuta di provvisione per la restituzione dei beni agli eredi dei Medici e per la riforma dello stato (projet de décret pour la restitu... by Andrea Guidi

“…This proposal intended, first of all, to preserve the liberty of the city, by preventing the suppression of the Great Council by the Medici as well as by finding a compromise with the aristocratic faction, which was temporarily leading the new administration.…”
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Un système de sépulture égalitaire en territoire tarquinien by Edwige Lovergne

“…This article aims to make a first inventory of this ‘new’ typology, as these graves have never been thoroughly studied, although several of them have returned rich funerary finds, comparable to those of local aristocratic chamber graves.…”
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Two Interpretations of Nietzschean Concept of Nature: C. Alamariu and V. Lemm by Jokūbas Andrijauskas

“…Two opposing perspectives emerge: Vanessa Lemm interprets nature as a Dionysian chaos which promotes an emancipatory rejection of the prevailing ideas, while Costin Alamariu sees it as an aristocratic phusis that fosters higher human types. …”
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L’Opéra en version anglaise : un enjeu esthétique ou sociologique ? by Pierre Degott

“…A close scrutiny of the London theatre seasons of the XVIIIth and XIXth centuries does indeed show a strong split, in terms of aesthetic and sociological considerations, between, on the one hand, the aristocratic Italian seasons of the King’s Theatre in Covent Garden, and the English opera seasons organised by the "lesser" theatres on the other. …”
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Šlechtičny z rodu Dalbergů a silva rerum 2. poloviny 19. století by Dana Marešová

“…In future, it can also provide answers to various questions related to a personal and public life, everydayness, the way of thinking, the contacts network and many others from the aristocratic life of the 19th century. …”
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Settlement and Culture in the Inner Apennines: a diachronic topographic analysis of Casentino and Valtiberina (7th‑5th centuries BCE) by Corso M. Dominici

“…To demonstrate these points, I begin by creating a theoretical model of the relationship between aristocratic and civic networks and the movement of professional artisans in the hinterland. …”
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The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) by Oscar Wilde: Conformity and Resistance in Victorian Society by Brigitte Bastiat

“…However, I would argue that more generally, despite very little room for manœuvre, he managed brilliantly to challenge the social norms, sexual stereotypes and gender representations of his time while pleasing aristocratic London socialites.In this paper I will examine the way in which Wilde’s text challenged and conformed at the same time.…”
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Why East Asian Objects in Slovenia Became “Orphaned” by Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik

“…Objects of East Asian origin became “orphaned” in various ways, either being sold by aristocrats, confiscated by Nazi occupying forces or the socialist government institutions during or after WWII, or given or sold to persons who did not preserve their history. …”
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A Santidade Enfurecida by Leandro Duarte Rust

“…Among the most frequent cases of disputes during the "Gregorian Reformation Era" were clashes between monks and bishops, whose outbreak had repercussions in numerous directions: on aristocratic domination, patrimonial control networks, foundations of ecclesiology, urban mobilizations, legal consensus. …”
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Elizabeth von Arnim’s Garden Memoirs: Cultivating Feminism? by Fabienne Moine

“…In the garden, the enthusiastic amateur finds in the garden an appropriate place to create her own place of solitude and privacy, outside the domestic routine imposed upon her by her aristocratic background. While both novels follow the seasons and the changes in the vegetation, von Arnim’s witty prose presents the garden as an ally against masculine domination. …”
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Images de l’étrange : Punch ou la re-présentation du paradigme bourgeois by Françoise Baillet

“…More connotative than denotative, the Punch portrait thus carried a significant protective function.On the social front, first, the caricature of the extremes allowed the management of a potentially dangerous otherness. Aristocratic indulgence as well as working-class so-called « degeneration » found themselves relentlessly pinpointed. …”
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Le “Written Speech” yeatsien et ses expressions scéniques by Pierre Longuenesse

“…He then takes his distance from it in favor of a concept of oral form that includes his own, the lyrical’s poet, “written speech”, reconciling oral conversation with the « sprezzatura » of aristocratic speech. In both cases, the question is therefore to find actors who will practically develop such a project on stage. …”
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Les violences seigneuriales dans les Grandes Chroniques de France de Jean de France duc de Normandie : première approche by Christiane Raynaud

“…Rare images present them as a seignorial social grouping, often intrafamilial relationship between aristocrats, counts and barons with their military entourage. …”
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„Ven z pasivity!“ Český konzervativní velkostatek na začátku první světové války by Šárka Lellková

“…Simultaneously with these trends, the competing aristocratic Party of Constitutional Landowners underwent a process of nationalisation and came close to German national political parties. …”
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Este Lais posemos acá” … Sì, ma dove? by Fabio Barberini

“…Pedro, Earl of Barcelos (and his aristocratic circle) was responsible for the insertion of the Lais into the exemplar and the redaction of rubrics.…”
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“[T]hat pincushion made of crimson satin:” Embroidery, Discourse and Memory in Victorian Literature and Culture by Róisín QUINN-LAUTREFIN

“…The practice of embroidery staged a tension between historicity and modernity, allowing middle-class women to engage in modern modes of production while imagining themselves as aristocratic ladies of the past. Moreover, by circumventing the dominant print culture, it provided women with an alternative locus for expression with which to “write” their own narratives. …”
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The cathedral of modern civilisation. The Teatro Real of Madrid and the definition of the respectable new elite, 1850-1895 by David San Narciso

“… Opera was a spectacle reserved for the aristocratic elite during the Ancien Régime. However, the liberal revolution and the redefinition of the mechanisms of social class identity that brought with it significantly modified this space. …”
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Un établissement rural et un ensemble funéraire antiques à proximité de la villa du “Gué des Grands Buissons” : le site de “la Cornaillerie” et “les Grivaudines” à Neuvy-Pailloux (... by Gwenaël Roy, Agnès Chéroux, Marielle Delémont, Alix Fourré, Bénédicte Pradat

“…Several built enclosures with cremations illustrate the burial ground.The archaeological environment of the site is peculiar as, in a radius of 100 m, a late La Tène moated enclosure, an aristocratic burial circa 40-50 AD attached to the Fléré-La-Riviere’s group, and a Villa with peristyle of the 2nd and 3rd century AD have been identified. …”
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Dopisy Maxmiliána Hillebrandta hraběti Vratislavovi z Mitrovic z obsazené Prahy roku 1742 by Radmila Pavlíčková, Pavel Prchal

“…The financial and economic situation of the Count’s domains, often accompanied by reports by aristocratic representatives in the form of appendices. 5. …”
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