... prestige of the Wettin dynasty. As porcelain factories were established at courts across Europe, however, the material's signifying role became complex. On the one hand, its alchemical associations aligned it with unfettered princely power in the realm of the absolutist court. On the other, its origins...

... memoirs. She explores the bond between her family and the royal family: her father was one of three servants Queen Charlotte brought with her from her home when she came to England in 1761, her husband was page to the princess royal, and she herself was playmate to princes as a child and servant...

...Kit Kincade [email protected] Michael B. Prince . The Shortest Way with Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the Novel ( Charlottesville : Univ of Virginia , 2020 ). Pp. 350 . $35 . Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Michael Prince argues that Daniel...

... into the modern era.14 All ceremo- nies revolved around the election and government of a Lord of Misrule, generally known at the Inns as the Christmas Prince.15 The frolics nor- mally began the Monday preceding St. Thomas’ Day (21 December) and continued...

... not necessarily gold, silver, and gems. Porphyry, that hard, difficult rock, with its purple color, reminiscent of imperial Rome, was used to enhance the status of the papacy and carved to advertise the rising power of the Medici dynasty.1 Nevertheless, the supreme symbols of princely...

..., with its rotten and pocket boroughs, was one of inverse proportional representation, how do we know that? It is true that a substantial number of people, we do not know how many, wished that the Prince of Orange would come to England. At that time the “sense of the people” was often said...

... general level of accuracy. Thus, she does present herself as a playmate of Prince William, allowed to run in and out of the nursery (15, 44), and this is just about possible since her parents were friends with the nurses and the boys were lodged at Kew, too, but Papendiek 8 4 Eighteenth-Century Life...

... of pictorial dialogue between individual paintings and the mass of other works that surrounded them on the walls.”9 Focusing on Joshua Reynolds’s 1783–84 portrait of the Prince of Wales—HRH George, Prince of Wales—and on verbal descriptions in the press of the prince’s appear- ance and behavior, Hallett...

... Michael Ramsay’s (as Chevalier Ramsay) The Travels of  Cyrus, published in Paris in 1727 and appearing in ­English translation the same year. The Travels of  Cyrus rehearses the quest for knowledge undertaken by Prince Cyrus of Persia. In book 2, the prince seeks wisdom from the magi, who are led...

...). Then, on 26 August 1741, the governess of the Austrian Netherlands, Maria-Elisabeth, died quite unexpectedly. Maria-Theresia appointed prince Charles-Alexandre de Lorraine and his wife Maria-Anna (Maria- Theresia’s sister) as her representatives in the Netherlands. But because...

... 7 above. June 29th For a Man at Beaulieu9 To the Housekeeper & Maids at Lindhurst10 £5/5/0 £5/5/0 Weymouth July 2d To the Princess Royal11 To Princess Augusta12 To Princes Elizabeth13 £100/0/0 £100/0/0 £100/0/0 Edinburgh. See note 88 below for an example of payments through this account. I am...

... the example of the Prince of Wales (later George IV) to illustrate the paradoxical attitude toward his extravagance. Ministerial and Oppo- sition newspapers both praised the Prince s elegance in some contexts, but condemned its expense in others (158). The Times and the Morning Post, for instance, gushed over...

... Index    1 8 3 L’Epine, Francesca Margherita de, 67 Government: absolute monarchy, 1, 5 Eugène François, Prince of Savoy- Granville, George, Baron Lansdowne, 51 Carigan, 33, 39n5, 72n1, 72n2, 76 Grævius, Joannes Georgius, 8, 9 Examiner, 85 Grey, Henry, Duke...

.... Blackmore’s career began with the ten-book epic, Prince Arthur (1695), detailing the his- tory of the youthful Arthur’s war against the Saxons. This Whig allegory, modeled consciously on the Aeneid, featuring oddly named Whig and Jaco- bite surrogates doing bloody battle across London, was a great...

.... English views are made clear in contemporary documents. On 17 September 1683, the Duke of York writes to the Prince of Orange, “I see you had had the good news of the entire defeat of the Turks before Vienna. A]ll good Christians . . . ought to thank God for so great a deliverance . . . the Turks...

... the swaths of parliamentarians killed by Prince Rupert, and picture a naval battle as a duel between the Duke of York (later James II) and his rival Dutch admiral.14 But this kind of swashbuckling warrior prince is rare in eighteenth-century writing, and indeed battlefield leaders, mostly pro...

... MacDonald to the Tune of My Dearie an thou die.” The collection also includes poems in English and in Latin, such as “By a Lady, Extempore, upon the Ribband, which the Prince wore about his Head when obliged to disguise himself in a Female dress under the Name of Bettie Burk,” and “D[onal]di M[acDonal]d...

... with financial needs. As a result, we have more voluminous and reliable evidence about obscure artisans and domestics, in this regard, than we do about barons, counts, marquis, dukes, and princes named in letters, memoirs, nouvelles, and satires. We must therefore use a variety of sources to research the sexual...

... illuminates this aspect of the exotic is taken from the posthumous publication of the travels of Prince Waldemar of Prussia to India.6 The portrait of the youthful prince repro- duced in the front of volume 1 suggests that his travels through the sub- continent...

... intellectual and accomplished grandmother Queen Sophie Charlotte of Prussia was one of the early admirers of Télémaque. Recogniz- ing the novel’s potential for enlightening a new generation of rulers, Sophie Charlotte arranged for her son, Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, to study the book and even...