Essays about: "Royal court"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words Royal court.
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1. DIOSES EN LA TIERRA E EL INGENIOSO HIDALGO DE LA MANCHA : VELÁZQUEZ’S SUBVERSION OF THE HABSBURG MYSTIQUE OF POWER
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Konstvetenskapliga institutionenAbstract : Sometimes the concrete form and skill of a work of art stand in a non-arbitrary or non-contingent relationship with the social circumstances of its facture. I hypothesise that this form and such skill was used by Diego Velázquez for artistically, socially and politically subversive purposes. READ MORE
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2. Corporate liability for climate change - Is Milieudefensie a sign of what is to come?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Juridiska institutionen; Lunds universitet/Juridiska fakultetenAbstract : Where states have failed to take the threat of global warming seriously, private individuals and environmental organizations have confronted those contributing to it. By bringing the emitters to court, litigants all over the world hope to put an end to the current trajectory towards dangerous climate change. READ MORE
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3. Credit at Court : Court servants and urban credit markets 1688-1708
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis studies the debts and claims of court servants in Stockholm from 1688 to 1708 as a case study of early credit markets, exploring the transition from pre-modern informal systems based on personal trust and peer-to-peer lending to modern institutional banking. The thesis shows that the court servants were prominent moneylenders with relatively little debt and argues that these characteristics were by influenced their greater access to cash through their wages from the court. READ MORE
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4. Crime, Community and the Negotiated Truth : Court Narratives of Capital Crime in the District Courts of Jämtland-Härjedalen 1649—1700
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionenAbstract : The purpose of this thesis is to study the court narratives of serious crimes in the district courts of Jämtland-Härjedalen in the latter half of 17th century. This is done by studying the negotiated aspects of criminal court proceedings; how did stories of crime, guilt and character come together in the records to form narratives that became accepted truths by the local community and the authorities? Investigations of serious crime have been sampled from the collected records of five district courts in the period 1649–1700. READ MORE
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5. The Ceremonial Body: The Significance of Bodies in Dynastic Ceremonies of the Swedish Monarchy, 1782-1818
University essay from Lunds universitet/HistoriaAbstract : The late eighteenth and the early nineteenth century was a turbulent time for the monarchies of Europe, the Swedish included. Since Gustav III’s coup in 1772, the king strove to enhance the royal prerogative. READ MORE
