PATRICIAN

pətrĭshˈən, member of the privileged class of ancient Rome. Two distinct classes appear to have come into being at the beginning of the republic. Only the patricians held public office, whether civil or religious. From the 4th cent. b.c. the plebeians struggled constantly for political equality until, by the 3d cent. b.c., the only offices reserved to the patricians were the civil office of interrex and some priestly offices. The increasing number of plebs in office together with patricians gave rise to the nobiles, an aristocracy of ruling families of both classes. Caesar and Augustus promoted plebeians to the patrician class. External marks of a patrician were a distinctive tunic and a shoe adorned with an ivory crescent.

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The Liberal Party in Rural England, 1885-1910: Radicalism and Community
Book by Patrician Lynch; Oxford University Press, 2003
Subjects: Great Britain--Politics And Government--1837-1901, Great Britain--Politics And Government--1901-1910, Great Britain--Rural Conditions, Liberal Party (Great Britain)--History, Working Class--Great Britain--Political Activity--History
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In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni
Book by Ronald G. Witt; Brill, 2001
Subjects: Bruni, Leonardo--1369-1444, France--Intellectual Life--To 1500, Humanism In Literature, Humanists--France, Humanists--Italy, Italy--Intellectual Life--1268-1559, Latin Literature, Medieval And Modern--Classical Influences, Latin Literature, Medieval And Modern--France--History And Criticism, Latin Literature, Medieval And Modern--Italy--History And Criticism, Lovati, Lovato De--1240 Or 41-1309, Rhetoric, Ancient--Study And Teaching--History--To 1500
...fourteen enjoyed patrician rank, and six of the patricians did not have careers...lawyer of both laws, patrician; 2. Zaccaria Trevisan...1370 1414), patrician. Medical doctors...generation (all patricians) 1. Francesco...
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Women and Politics in Ancient Rome
Book by Richard A. Bauman; Routledge, 1992
Subjects: Women In Politics--Rome, Women--Rome
...of a crisis. Verginia, a patrician woman married to the plebeian...even more reverently than its patrician counterpart. Admission was...conubium, intermarriage between patricians and plebeians. Legend had...Fabia, a daughter of the patrician Fabius Ambustus but married...
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Mediterranean Urban Culture, 1400-1700
Book by Alexander Cowan; University of Exeter Press, 2000
Subjects: Mediterranean Region--Civilization, Mediterranean Region--History, Sociology, Urban--Mediterranean Region
...36 In any case, patricians did not always work...operate with non-patricians. In the Church, patrician bishops had to take...were all owned by patricians; and the impresarios...distinction between patrician and non-patrician...
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As the Romans Did: A Source Book in Roman Social History
Book by Jo-Ann Shelton; Oxford University Press, 1988
Subjects: Rome--Social Conditions, Rome--Social Life And Customs, Social History--To 500, Social Structure--Rome
...they were called patricians. 6 The rest of...therefore, were patrician and could be distinguished...adoption. 8 The patrician families formed...established, the patricians retained their...plebeians and patricians were not allowed...parity with the patrician families, in theory...
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Nobles, Patricians and Officers: The Making of a Regional Political Elite in Late Medieval Flanders
Journal article by Jan Dumolyn; Journal of Social History, Vol. 40, 2006
Subjects: Flanders--History, Patricians (Rome)--Social aspects, Social mobility--Research
...between nobles and patricians was very hard to...members of urban patrician families gradually...hinterland of the city. Patrician families could...In general the patricians were diametrically...For nobles, patricians and non-noble...whether from noble or patrician origins, had specific...
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Ruling Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy
Journal article by Elisabeth G. Gleason; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Ruling Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Book)--Book reviews
...Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy...Peacefully: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-Century Italy...status, and has coined a new term, "patrician" or "aristocratic" reform. He maintains...
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Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society
Journal article by Samuel K. Cohn Jr.; Journal of Social History, Vol. 36, 2002
Subjects: Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society (Book)
...Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society by Samuel K. Cohn Jr. Women...Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician Society. By Stanley Chojnacki (Baltimore...unattached. Rising dowries also impinged on patrician men, forcing almost half of them to...
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Patrician Sages and the Humanist Cynic: Francesco Filelfo and the Ethics of World Citizenship
Journal article by W. Scott Blanchard; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, 2007
Subjects: Citizenship--Ethical aspects, Filelfo, Francesco--Criticism and interpretation, Filelfo, Francesco--Political activity, Florence, Italy--Political aspects, Medici, Cosimo de--Political activity, Valla, Lorenzo--Political activity
...anti-Medicean patricians for a restoration...to his virtuous patrician enemies; another...the finest of the patricians, mean to be deceived...address to the patrician leader during a...the vanquished patricians and the city of...the rule of the patrician oligarchs. (112...
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Between Spirituali and Intransigenti: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-century Italy
Journal article by Paul V. Murphy; The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 88, 2002
Subjects: Catholicism, Clergy, Gonzaga, Ercole (1505-63), Reforms
...Intransigenti: Cardinal Ercole Gonzaga and Patrician Reform in Sixteenth-century Italy by...better understood when viewed as a "patrician reformer." By this term I mean one...ruling elite in northern Italy. The patrician reform model I suggest as an alternative...
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Patrician Hauteur
Magazine article by Baret Magarian; New Statesman, Vol. 129, February 26, 1999
Subjects: Harville Press--Management, Publishing industry--Management
Patrician hauteur by Baret Magarian Baret Magarian investigates the success of the...output? Christopher MacLehose, chairman and co-owner, is a tall, patrician Scot, an old-fashioned maker of fine books. He is famously elliptical...
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The Politics of Gratitude
Magazine article by Peter J. Leithart; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, December 2004
Subjects: Coriolanus (Shakespeare, William) (Play)--Criticism and interpretation
...Roman people. Being a patrician himself, he easily...between plebs and patricians, between family and...Kemble, idealizing the patrician characters and representing...Early in the play, the patrician Menenius tells the...organs of a body, the patricians and plebs hold each...
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War of the Worldviews
Magazine article by Stephen Jay Gould; Natural History, Vol. 105, December 1996
Subjects: Astronomers, Astronomy, History, Lowell, Percival (1855-1916), Mars, NASA, National Aeronautics & Space Administration
...meat without raising eyebrows, while Patrician Percival laments that he just cant find...this statement written in 1906 by a true Patrician Percival: "The latter minister to the...generally nowadays." They dont make em more patrician than Percival Lowell, brother of Harvard...
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Elites, Elitists, and the Campaign
Magazine article by Tom Bethell; The American Spectator, Vol. 41, September 2008
Subjects: Mass transit, Political alliances, Political campaigns, Politics
...a big lawfirm, he "conformed to the patrician ethos of Columbia and still more of Harvard...Reagan and George W. Bush). If the patrician order is indeed decaying, as Beran suggests...at the bottom of the heap. Decaying patrician orders have historically maintained their...
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Southwestern Hot Spots
Magazine article by Marilynne Murrah; Mortgage Banking, Vol. 54, July 1994
Subjects: Arizona, Cities, Colorado, Commercial real estate, Market potential, Market segments, Regions, Texas, United States
...Scott Suttle, vice president of The Patrician Mortgage Companies, a conduit lender...loan size of $5.5 million, said that Patrician prefers for a property to have "good...This opinion is supported by Suttle with Patrician Mortgage Company, who believes that...
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Pristine Patrician Privacy: Few Spots Still Available in Great Falls Exclusive Enclave
Newspaper article by Michele Lerner; The Washington Times, October 17, 1997
Pristine patrician privacy: Few spots still available in Great Falls exclusive enclave...four of which have already been sold - is being built by West Homes at Patrician Woods in Great Falls. West will build any model on all the lots that...
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A Patrician Plodder in the Running for the Aras
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), July 4, 2011
A Patrician Plodder in the Running for the Aras. Byline: Ronan OReilly AS one unlikely...with family links to the States foundation. For whatever reason, this patrician elite seem to think we owe them. Not only do they reckon theyre better...
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McWilliams Can Waffle for Ireland, but Where's the Beef? Patrician Snobbery: David McWilliams Thinks We're a Vulgar, Shallow Bunch
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), September 28, 2007
Subjects: Book publishing, Gill & Macmillan Ltd.
McWilliams Can Waffle for Ireland, but Wheres the Beef? Patrician Snobbery: David McWilliams Thinks Were a Vulgar, Shallow...work. Behind the silly names and strained analogies lies a patrician disdain. Thereis no social group about whom McWilliams is...
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Welcome to Kerry Country; Presidential Candidate John Kerry Would Have the Voters Believe That He's a Regular Middle American. but Charlotte Eagar Has Unravelled a More Intriguing Story - a Vast Network of Patrician European Relatives and a Romantic Estate, Les Esserts, in Brittany Where Kerry's Parents First Met, and the Clan Still Gathers Every Summer
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 3, 2004
Subjects: Kerry, John F.
...Has Unravelled a More Intriguing Story - a Vast Network of Patrician European Relatives and a Romantic Estate, Les Esserts, in...Both John Forbes Kerry and George Dubya Bush come from the patrician clans of East Coast America. Both went to Yale University...
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SQUIRT V THE STIFF; It Should Be a Walkover. the War's a Disaster, the Economy's in Ruins, and 'Arrogant, Smirking' Dubya Is Reviled by America's Chattering Classes. There's Just One Problem ... Who Wants to Vote for a Patrician, Powder-Wigged Bore like John Kerry?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 30, 2004
Subjects: Kerry, John F.
...Arrogant, Smirking Dubya Is Reviled by Americas Chattering Classes. Theres Just One Problem ... Who Wants to Vote for a Patrician, Powder-Wigged Bore like John Kerry? Byline: ANN LESLIE THE SQ GEORGE Youre Fired! read the rain-smeared handwritten...
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encyclopedia articles on: Patrician  - 41 results

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Patrician
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
PATRICIAN p trish n, member...republic. Only the patricians held public office...reserved to the patricians were the civil...office together with patricians gave rise to the...plebeians to the patrician class. External...
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Rome , City, Italy
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...four centuries. The patrician class controlled the...allowed to elect the two patrician consuls, who held...The vitality of the patricians was remarkable, and...legislative power from the patricians. The ancient senate...leader of the best patrician blood. With Marcus...
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LÜbeck
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...spite of a decline in Lubecks power, its patrician merchant families continued to prosper...13th 14th cent.); and many of the old patrician residences. There are also several museums...1707. The life and decline of a Lubeck patrician family is the subject of the novel Buddenbrooks...
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Plebs
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...citizens, as distinct from the patrician class. They lacked, at first, most of the patrician rights, but with the establishment...political equality with the patricians. First marriage of plebeians with patricians was validated, then plebeians...
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Manlius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MANLIUS man le s, ancient Roman gens, chiefly patrician but later containing plebeian families. Marcus Manlius...According to legend, he defended plebeian debtors from harsh patrician creditors, and the following year he was impeached for...
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