All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

He insisted on standards of honor derived from the medieval aristocratic tradition, and saw the aristocracy as the nation's natural leaders.

The Visigothic Code of Law ( forum judicum ), which had been part of aristocratic oral tradition, was set in writing in the early 7th century — and survives in two separate codices preserved at the Escorial.

It argues that the stimulus for forming tribal polities was perpetuated by a small nucleus of people, known as the Traditionskern (" kernel of tradition "), who were a military or aristocratic elite.

In keeping with their wider agenda of renewing the concepts of duty, service and aristocratic tradition, the king agreed to efforts to introduce more grandees into the higher ranks of the military, working hard to overcome the reluctance of many to take up field appointments in the Netherlands and elsewhere.

The aristocratic stately home continued the tradition of the first large gracious unfortified mansions such as the Elizabethan Montacute House and Hatfield House.

Philippa brought to the court the Anglo-Norman tradition of an aristocratic education and gave her children good educations.

According to tradition, this came about because the dogaressa, Faliero's second wife, Aluica Gradenigo, had been insulted by Michele Steno, a member of an aristocratic family, but in a study of doges of Venice Antonella Grignola suggests that Faliero's move was consistent with a prevailing trend in Italian cities to move away from oligarchic government to absolute, dynastic rule.

Meerabai ( Rajasthani: म ी र ां ब ा ई ) ( c. 1498 – c. 1547 ) ( alternate orthographies: Meera, Mira, Meeraan, Meeran Bai ; the word ' bai ' in Rajasthani is an informal term commonly used to refer a sister or sometimes a girl ) was an aristocratic Hindu mystical singer and devotee of Lord Krishna from Rajasthan and one of the most significant figures of the Sant tradition of the Vaishnava bhakti movement.

In The Liberal Tradition in America ( 1955 ), Hartz argued that the American political tradition lacked the left-wing / socialist and right-wing / aristocratic elements that dominated in most other lands because colonial America lacked any feudal traditions, such as established churches, landed estates and a hereditary nobility.

By this time, a separate gardening tradition had arisen in China, which was transmitted to Japan, where it developed into aristocratic miniature landscapes centered on ponds and separately into the severe Zen gardens of temples.

It had a small but very good musical establishment with an impressive tradition, and effectively addressed the needs of the whole aristocratic community of Ferrara, with whom Legrenzi cemented relationships that, like those he had already established in Bergamo, would serve him well throughout his life.

The novel reveals his discovery that the romantic worship of tradition and heroism — the aristocratic values which have supported him all his life — does not work in the modern world.

According to the Armenian aristocratic tradition, the princely houses of Khorkhoruni, Bznuni, Mandakuni, Rshtuni, Manavazian, Angelea ( Angegh tun ), Varajnuni, Ohanian, Cartozian, Apahuni, Arran tun and some others, are all believed to be direct descendants of Nahapet ( Patriarch ) Hayk, whose epithet was Dyutsazn ( from Ancient Greek θεός, meaning " divine "), or of Hayk's descendants.

Two major themes of Ritter's writings after 1945 were attempts to prove that the Bismarckian tradition in German life had nothing to do with National Socialism and it was democracy of the masses rather aristocratic conservatism which caused the Nazi movement.

Her father broke with his family's aristocratic tradition of leaving childcare entirely to nannies and seeing the children only at first rising and bedtime.

This was intended to help modernise the sport, as the Jockey Club is a private members ' club with a traditionally aristocratic membership, and was seen by some as being unaccountable and a relic of the tradition of amateurism in British sports administration.

Of aristocratic background, Déodat de Séverac was profoundly influenced by the musical tradition of his native Languedoc.

Horace was to be the heir to the estate, in accordance with British aristocratic tradition.

He also broke the European tradition of only giving fiefs to aristocratic knights.

The south represents the past ( tradition ): the aristocratic ways of landowners who inherited their property, gathered rents from farmers and peasants, and assumed a certain obligation for their tenants ' welfare.

The tradition of having aristocratic or persons of imperial lineage serve as chief of the temple ended with the 30th Monzeki, Junnin Hosshinnō in the late Edo period.

Instead, he saw the earlier tradition as a precursor of his philosophy, which was rooted less in aristocratic estate design or even garden design and more broadly in an ecological sensibility that accepted the interwoven worlds of the human and the natural, and sought to more fully and intelligently design human environments in concert with the conditions of setting, climate and environment.

Գահնամակ ) of the Kingdom of Armenia, which defined Armenia ’ s aristocratic hierarchy.

Զորանամակ ) of the Kingdom of Armenia which determined military obligations of key aristocratic families before the Armenian King in times of war.

The Union of the Armenian Noblemen has around 400 members representing aristocratic houses of Armenia.

Arabella Fermor and her suitor, Lord Petre, were both from aristocratic recusant Catholic families at a period in England when under such laws as the Test Act, all denominations except Anglicanism suffered legal restrictions and penalties ( for example Petre could not take up his place in the House of Lords as a Catholic ).

In another passage 23 chapters later, the author ( probably George Puttenham ) speaks of aristocratic writers who, if their writings were made public, would appear to be excellent.

The reason for this tolerance after such a determined initial resistance is that the Iranians were utilizing another method of control: the placement of aristocratic Persian families in a region to exercise putative home rule.

Her mother Therese Luise ( 1772-1853 ) came from another aristocratic Westphalian family, the von Haxthausens.

In his encyclical Dilectissima Nobis ( 1933 ), in which he addressed the situation of the Church in Republican Spain, he proclaimed, that the Church is not " bound to one form of government more than to another, provided the Divine rights of God and of Christian consciences are safe ", and specifically referred to " various civil institutions, be they monarchic or republican, aristocratic or democratic ".

According to another view, the quest for authentically Theognidean elegies is rather beside the point — the collection owes its survival to the political motivations of Athenian intellectuals in the 5th and 4th century, disappointed with democracy and sympathetic to old aristocratic values: " The persona of the poet is traditionally based, ideologically conditioned and generically expressed.

These factions, who had no aristocratic claim to the throne, ( and hardly any support of the Legions nor the Senate ) all tried to take control one after another by force.

Alleged criminal activity forced him to flee to Germany around 1795 where he assumed another identity, which included adoption of a false claim of descent from the Van Egmond's, an aristocratic family of the Netherlands.

Balfour had previously rented the Bu of Burray, a large manor farm on another Orkney island, but had insufficient wealth to acquire the estate even though his wife had inherited a legacy on the death of her aristocratic brother.

The relationship of parents to children is monarchic, of husbands to wives aristocratic, of children to one another democratic .” ( Hellenistic Commentary to the New Testament, edd Boring, Berger, & Colpe )

In 1826 he married the Bavarian widow of a Russian diplomat Eleonore Peterson, née Countess von Bothmer Following her death in 1838, Tyutchev married another aristocratic young German widow, Baroness Ernestine von Dörnberg, née von Pfeffel, who had become his mistress and had a child by him while Eleonore was still alive.

The nickname possibly referenced Baillie-Stewart's exaggeratedly aristocratic way of speaking, though Wolf Mittler, another English-speaking announcer, is sometimes considered a more likely candidate.

She appeared in a rare aristocratic role in Mapp and Lucia and as another aristocratic character in Eric Sykes ' 1982 television film It's Your Move where her chauffeur was played by Brian Murphy.

Its immediate success was encapsulated by the decision of another of London's leading freehold landlords, the Duke of Bedford, to choose No. 6 as his London home in preference to a house on his own London estate in Bloomsbury, which had lost its aristocratic cachet.

The other, Sanford, is an aristocratic libertine, who has no intention to marry but determines not to let another man have Eliza.

The Grand Hotel Bellevue, which was built by the aristocratic Müller family from neighbouring Hospental ( who at one time or another owned many other hotels nearby including the Hotel Furkablick and Hotel Furka Passhöhe-as well as hotels in Flüelen, Alpnachstad, Herisau and Neuchâtel ) was converted in the 1970s into apartments, but by 1990 had been abandoned and was demolished with explosives.

The aristoi, aristocratic families, were constantly competing against one another to gain territory, money, or status.

Due to their high aristocratic status, Janjua princes refused to serve in any regiment that was not commanded by either a Janjua or another commander of equal social standing, a rule that the British honoured when selecting regiments for them.