However, this oxymoronic image of poverty andnobilitycalls for a supplement to hold its integrity.
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85 duellists in the period 1660 to 1724, the vast majority of duellists remained from thenobility, gentry, and military.
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A large proportion, though, came from the ranks of thenobility(including the close relatives of peers).
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While only one eighth of the deputies belonged to thenobilityof the robe, fourfifths had been or were still military officers.
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When thenobilityacknowledges ... subservience, the princes should make use of noble virtue, and not always of strictness by trusting in force.
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A destabilized social hierarchy not only raised traumatic questions about the nature ofnobility, but also about that primus inter pares, the king himself.
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The feudal aristocracy had been transformed into a courtnobility.
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The children of non-nobles, with the exception of the sons of clerics, displayed a much lower level of literacy and general culture than thenobility.
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As such, he concludes, competitive gambling offered one way by which the city'snobilityreconciled their commercial heritage and their military culture.
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The administration was decentralised and the nobility's power reduced.
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The nobility's importance in warfare also eroded as medieval heavy cavalry lost its central role in battle.
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Study of thenobilityand gentry, of law, of the church and popular religion, and of culture and society, all receive full and expert attention.
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However, this cannot have been a realistic option for tenant farmers on the land of thenobility.
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Once only reserved for thenobilitythis liberty is now our sacred right.
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In the first tier, one could find some of the very rich inhabitants, the so-called mercanti di campagna, the 'elegant youth', but also selectednobility.
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