Sentence examples for itinerant capital from inspiring English sources

Mr. Geremek suggested that the whole notion of a single capital was perhaps misconceived; he preferred to preserve the idea of an "itinerant capital" linked to Europe's feudal origins.

For most of the medieval era, the king was itinerant and had no "capital" as such.

The king himself was itinerant and had no "capital" as such although Scone performed a key function.

Internal communications were difficult and the country lacked an obvious geographical centre; the king kept an itinerant court, with no "capital" as such.

Instead, he has made his home in Santai, a small city near this provincial capital, working as an itinerant fountain pen repairman.

Armies of itinerant nannies, dishwashers, meatpackers and plumbers shift more capital to poorer countries than do Western aid efforts.

In these first years of scholarly pursuit, Gassendi shuttled between Aix and Digne (the provincial capital) and so began a life-long pattern of itinerant travel.

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukCHINA in the early part of the 20th century was home to an itinerant mix of foreign scholars, refugees, businessmen, missionaries, soldiers and diplomats, with many settling in the former imperial capital, then known as Peking.

For most of the Medieval era the monarchy and court was itinerant, with Scone and Dunfermline acting as important centres and later Roxburgh, Stirling and Perth, before Edinburgh emerged as the political capital in the fourteenth century.

They were itinerant farmworkers.

Once, they were itinerant.