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collateral descendant |
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collateral descendant n. a relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor, and thus a cousin, niece, nephew, aunt or uncle. (See: descent and distribution) |
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After reflecting on his collateral descendant Diana Spencer, Hopkins reports, she "finally achieved an insight" as to why The Faerie Queene is among "the least convincing and most peripheral" of "Renaissance writings of the queen" (43). Though Fichtner's Emperor Maximilian II is unlikely to rival in public success the other, more glamorous Habsburg biography of 2001--Antonia Fraser's book about Maximilian's collateral descendant, the Habsburg Archduchess Marie Antoinette--each book takes its subject's political mistakes and misfortunes as an opportunity to diagnose some of the crucial systemic tensions in the ancien regime of early modem Europe. |
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