Sentence examples for upper nobility from inspiring English sources

He wrote a series of theses, including his doctoral dissertation on the boyar duma (council of the upper nobility) of Muscovite Russia, that won him immediate professional recognition.

In governing his realm, Andrew not only demanded that the subordinate princes obey him but also tried to reduce the traditional political powers of the boyars (i.e., the upper nobility) within his hereditary lands.

Among its chief innovative provisions was the establishment in each principality of a special commission, composed mainly of boyars with some members of the middle class, that was to elect a prince from among the native upper nobility.

These rebellions, which lasted more than five years, originated in the judicial oligarchy of the Parlement of Paris; they spread to the upper nobility and soon found popular support even in the provinces largely because of "Mazarinades," inflammatory pamphlets written against the Cardinal.

The oprichnina land area was located in northern and central Muscovy and was created by the forcible removal of boyars (upper nobility) from their estates; the boyars were either executed or relocated on land that continued to be ruled in the traditional manner.

Most portraits tended to show royalty, the upper nobility or princes of the church.

Although some of the newly rich Normans in England came from William's close family or from the upper Norman nobility, others were from relatively humble backgrounds.

Leask now believes that the poet had letters of introduction from Edinburgh patrons that smoothed his path into the upper echelons of nobility.

Members of the upper-classes and nobility acquired these through papal dispensation, to use during travel and typically during pilgrimage.

However they may have come into being, human beings were meant to toil in order to provide food, clothing, housing, and service for the gods, so that they, relieved of all manual labour, could live the life of a governing upper class, a landed nobility.

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