High taxes, according to some contemporary accounts, had depopulated large tracts of the countryside, allowing only one-sixteenth of the cultivable land to be cultivated.

In contemporary Hindu society, many social scientists have expressed a fear of critical compulsion of polyandry in the near future, due to the rise such marriages in the agrarian societies in Malwa region of Punjab to avoid division of farming land.

The Norwegian historian Yngvar Nielsen, commissioned by the Norwegian government in 1889 to determine this question in order to settle contemporary questions of Sami land rights, concluded that the Sami had lived no farther south than Lierne in Nord-Trøndelag county until around 1500, when they started moving south, reaching the area around Lake Femunden in the 18th century.

Very few contemporary documents survive, but a royal charter of his transferred land to Bishop Ælfwine of Winchester, and he made several grants to Ramsey Abbey.

Through use of the land trade along the Silk Road and maritime trade by sail at sea, the Tang were able to gain many new technologies, cultural practices, rare luxury, and contemporary items.

The land grant encompassed a more general area than the contemporary community known as Tierra Amarilla.

The Thuringii make brief appearances in contemporary Italian sources when their activities affect the land south of the Alps.

Names on early land deeds and other historic documents in Robeson County correspond to many of the families of free people of color, including ancestors of contemporary self-identified Lumbee.

Controversies have arisen in contemporary California related to land use issues and Native American rights, including those of the Tongva.

A contemporary variant is occurring in northern Niger, in a traditionally Tuareg territory that comprises most of the uranium-rich land of the country.

There is little contemporary information for her life, but in a Winchester charter dated 939, she was the beneficiary of land at Droxford in Hampshire granted by her half-brother King Athelstan.

One of the laws states that common land might be enclosed by several ceorls ( the contemporary name for Saxon freemen ).

The land which today comprises Milford, Orange and West Haven was " purchased " on February 1, 1639 from Ansantawae, chief of the local Paugussets ( an Algonquian tribe ) by English settlers affiliated with the contemporary New Haven Colony.

Some contemporary anarchists use the terms personal property ( or possessive property ) and private property to signify the distinctions Proudhon put forth in regard to ownership of the produce of labor and ownership of land.

The only contemporary evidence of him is an abstract of a charter dated in that year, in which Ealhmund granted land to the Abbot of Reculver.

This apparently irreconcilable clash of views is most acute for the questions of the greatest contemporary political significance ( such as the promise of land by God to Abraham ) and theological import ( the Virgin Birth and Resurrection of Jesus ), which are also the " events " that have proved the least susceptible to extra-biblical confirmation.

“ Natural calamity tests the administrative structures and social bonds of any society ”, Dickson notes, and Ireland in 1740 was, “ by contemporary western European standards, lightly governed, materially poor, and socially polarized .” The Protestants were the governing class who owned land.

Feudal or other agrarian societies, which focus upon land use and land ownership, may tend to " honour " more than do contemporary industrial societies.

His influence on contemporary land art, landscape architecture and environmental sculpture is evident in many works today.

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, land claimed by Spain encompassed a large part of the contemporary U. S. territory, including the French colony of Louisiana that was under Spanish control from 1763 to 1800, and then part of the United States since 1803.

Judged by an absolute rather than a contemporary standard, there is much to criticise in the collection of the danegeld by the early 12th century: it was based on ancient assessments of land productivity, and there were numerous privileged reductions or exemptions, granted as marks of favour that served to cast those left paying it in an " unfavoured " light: " Exemptions were very much a matter of royal favour, and were adjusted to meet changing circumstances ... in this way danegeld was a more flexible instrument of taxation than most historians have been prepared to allow.

He also audited the pronoiai to make their values more realistic according to contemporary conditions, as the empire had lost much of its land and revenue since the 11th century.

In 1952, BEA began replacing Dragon Rapides with Pionairs across its Scottish network ; however, the pre-war de Havilland biplanes continued serving Barra as no other contemporary type in BEA's fleet could take off from and land on the island's beach airstrip.

Modern trawlers make extensive use of contemporary electronics, including navigation and communication equipment, fish detection devices, and equipment to control and monitor gear.

Yet in the contemporary context this is precisely what one must not do.

In this context, it is more readily construed as meaning " school of thought ", since it is also used to construct the names of philosophical schools contemporary with Confucianism: for example, the Chinese names for Legalism and Mohism end in jiā.

' In contemporary literature, scholars refer to the anticaste principle and various forms of racial and non-racial caste systems, particularly in the context of the Fourteenth Amendment of the American Constitution.

In the context of events like this, the Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.

His work in this period became increasingly Modernist in spirit, with far less overtly political context and a cleaner style, in keeping with contemporary work by Hans Arp and Piet Mondrian.

" Alberti's thoughts on harmony were not new — they could be traced back to Pythagoras — but he set them in a fresh context, which fit in well with the contemporary aesthetic discourse.

Unlike many contemporary texts on the topic, he does not engage the games in the text with moralistic arguments ; instead, he portrays them in an astrological context.

In this context, the contemporary American left is often considered individualist ( or libertarian ) on social / cultural issues and communitarian ( or populist ) on economic issues, while the contemporary American right is often considered communitarian ( or populist ) on social / cultural issues and individualist ( or libertarian ) on economic issues.

The historical context within which Plautus wrote can be seen, to some extent, in his comments on contemporary events and persons.

This quality makes his work perhaps unusually accessible within a contemporary art context.

: knowingly ( A ) uses an interactive computer service to send to a specific person or persons under 18 years of age, or ( B ) uses any interactive computer service to display in a manner available to a person under 18 years of age, any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs.

This has led scholars from Kerman onwards to believe that Byrd was reinterpreting biblical and liturgical texts in a contemporary context and writing laments and petitions on behalf of the persecuted Catholic community, which seems to have adopted Byrd as a kind of ' house ' composer.

One can read a text both in terms of a chronological context ( for example, as a contribution to a discipline or tradition as it extended over time ) or in terms of a contemporary intellectual moment ( for example, as participating in a debate particular to a certain time and place ).

This unit of administration is translated as " county " when used in a contemporary context.

This allowed for very fast context switching by simply changing the workspace pointer to the memory used by another process ( a technique used in a number of contemporary designs, such as the TMS9900 ).

In placing the synod in its proper historical context, Anglo-Saxon historians have also noted the position of the synod in the context of contemporary political tensions.

To be of practical use in a historical and prehistorical context, some argue further that the term " Native American " should be applied so that it spans the entire range from the Clovis culture ( which cannot be positively assigned to any contemporary tribal group ) to the Métis, a group of mixed ancestry who only came into being as a consequence of European contact, yet constitute a distinct cultural entity.

AllMusic's Jason Ankeny has described the album as an audacious and occasionally brilliant attempt to mount a fully orchestrated, classically minded work within the context of contemporary pop.

The project presented a stream of possible answers to the question: ' what makes life meaningful and purposeful, and what does St Paul's mean in that contemporary context?

In contemporary Western society, the extent to which a woman may expose cleavage depends on social and cultural context.

In a contemporary context, steep grades limit accessibility by car, and more so by bicycle, on foot, or wheelchair, particularly in cold climates.

During the end credits, he would speak about the scientific elements that were present in any given episode and place them in a contemporary context.

Karl Beveridge, Ian Burn, Sarah Charlesworth, Michael Corris, Joseph Kosuth, Andrew Menard, Mel Ramsden and Terry Smith wrote articles which thematized the context of contemporary art.