Her evidence is taken primarily from wills, dowry and marriage contracts, lawsuits, genealogies, and letters from the family archives of nine
noble families in the Osuna, Frias, and Astorga collections in the National Historic Archives in Toledo.
Nonetheless, the Zimmern Chronicle is exactly the right source for the final section of this book, where Hurwich has drawn on the chronicler's own views of sexuality, concubines, and his "hostility to bastards" to discuss the mentalites of Germany's
noble families (251).
The term has generally been used to describe women who did not uphold the culture's accepted ideal of the female role and instead operated in a male role as executors or heads of
noble families.
Celebrity chef Marco Pierre White's attempts to forge a new food and drink manufacturing empire using endorsement from fellow cooking gurus will also tap into the approval of some of Britain's most
noble families, The Grocer has learned.
By the mid-eighteenth century a row of imposing residences and gardens lined the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, where
noble families and courtiers organized lavish entertainments in an environment "associated with a rejection of the status distinctions that underpinned social contacts in the city and at court.
The acting students came from
noble families, they grew up in palaces, among the portraits of their elders--so the historic figures on the stage were much closer to them.
Although historical work on family structures has thrown much light on the
noble families of the Middle Ages, and it is a commonplace of literary scholarship that aristocratic society forms an essential social framework for medieval vernacular literature, much still remains to be done to bring the strands of historical and literary research together in this field.
Set in Verona, Italy, the plot, as in the original, revolves around the long-standing feud between two
noble families.
Some 20 percent of young noble males became monks or priests, so Bouchard emphasizes the relationship of
noble families to local monasteries.
His method is to study the transformation of a socially and legally fluid group around 1300 into a precisely defined group of
noble families over the next 250 years.
Princess Caroline's husband is descended from one of Germany's oldest
noble families.
But according to the Association of French Nobility, there are still some 3,500
noble families in France.
