10 QUOTES WITH «FEUDAL»
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feudal.
I'll be honest - I never saw myself making a ninja movie, never entertained the idea. I think ninja films can be quite cheesy unless you do them in feudal Japan.
Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received.
Here the Frenchman, Spaniard, and Englishman all passed, leaving each his legend; and a brilliant and more or less feudal civilization with its aristocracy and slaves has departed with the economic system upon which it rested.
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally.
Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they called him a radical. So what? We should be proud of that!
Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.
Feudal societies don't create great cinema; we have great theatre. The egalitarian societies create great cinema. The Americans, the French. Because equality is sort of what the cinema deals with. It deals with stories which don't fall into 'Everybody in their place and who's who,' and all that. But the theatre's full of that.
The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.
Corporations are like countries now, there's a king, there are serfs, there's a court, basically everything but moats. They're feudal societies, and there are good ones and bad ones.
The purposeful restriction of knowledge has been at the heart of untold misery and hardship in this world. Serfs were kept illiterate so as to not jeopardize the feudal system. Slaves were kept in the dark on a variety of subjects so as to not provide them the possibility of escape.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FEUDAL»
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Secrets of the Samurai; A Survey of the Martial Arts of ...
Traces the history of the martial arts of Japan from the feudal period, illustrating implements and characteristic dress.
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English and French Towns in
Feudal Society: A Comparative Study
This is a comparative study of the role of English and French towns in feudal society in the middle ages.
R. H. Hilton, Rodney Howard Hilton, 1995
The wonderful flowering of art in the feudal era, at least from the eleventh century
on, is not merely the most lasting glory of that epoch in the eyes of posterity. It
served in those times as a vehicle for the most exalted forms of religious
sensibility ...
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Feudal Society in Medieval France: Documents from the County ...
Theodore Evergates has assembled, translated, and annotated some two hundred documents from the country of Champagne into a sourcebook that focuses on the political, economic, and legal workings of a feudal society, uncovering the details ...
In private, however, the story-book romance of the most talked-about couple in Pakistan rapidly turned sour. Mustafa Khar became violently possessive and pathologically jealous, and succeeded in cutting his wife off from the outside world.
Tehmina Durrani, William Hoffer, Marilyn Mona Hoffer, 1995
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Warfare in
Feudal Europe, 730-1200
This is the only survey of feudal warfare in Europe aimed primarily for the general reader who may know little about either medieval or military history.
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Feudal England: Historical Studies on the XIth and XIIth ...
These collected essays contain Round's lasting contribution to medieval scholarship: his argument that the Norman Conquest transplanted feudalism to England.
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The Ancient Constitution and the
Feudal Law: A Study of ...
Pocock explores the relationship between the study of law and the historical outlook of seventeenth-century Englishmen.
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Taiko: An Epic Novel of War and Glory in
Feudal Japan
Toyotomi Hideyoshi wants to serve the emperor as a samurai in the 16th century, and through his perseverance and hard work he becomes the Taiko, the absolute ruler of Japan in the emperor's name.
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Jeeves and the
Feudal Spirit: (Jeeves & Wooster)
Meanwhile Bertie has committed a more heinous offence by growing a moustache, and Jeeves strongly disapproves - which is unfortunate, because Jeeves's feudal spirit is desperately needed.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FEUDAL»
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One battle the Confederate flag is still winning - CNN.com
"In a feudal society -- and the South was in many ways just that well into the 20th century -- labor is controlled," Podair says. "It cannot be free or ... «CNN, Jul 15»
MAURA MOYNIHAN: Tibet & China at the same Washington lobbyist …
... he refers to pre-1959 Tibet as a “feudal realm” that was “shackled to feudalism,” with “monks and grandees” displaying “reactionary” attitudes. «Washington Times, Jul 15»
Delaware-funded Indian girls' school empowers society's weakest
Born into the second-highest “warrior” caste, he was the eldest son of a feudal landlord of Bichola, a village in Anupshahr. His family owned ... «The News Journal, Jul 15»
Following in the footsteps of Maclean - and Maxwell | Herald Scotland
It was almost like a feudal relationship between the landowner and the burgh, right into the early 20th century. "Some of the buildings that are ... «Herald Scotland, Jul 15»
The Indian prince who helped launch India's coolest music festival …
Many of the artists are the sons of those who worked for Abhimanyu's father, the same feudal positions going back sixteen generations. «GQ India, Jul 15»
Not enough to revitalise the PPP - Daily Times
In the 2013 general elections, the PPP was eliminated from Punjab and reduced to a party of Sindhi waderas (feudal lords). Frankly, the ... «Daily Times, Jul 15»
There's a real risk the government digital agenda may work
Their feudal power is not so easy to disrupt. Deep bureaucratic DNA and “atomistic” performance management eats the flimsy rhetorical ... «The Mandarin, Jul 15»
Watch documentary series on East Vietnam Sea, Truong Sa …
The five-episode series features genuine and objective evidence of how Vietnamese feudal dynasties established and exercised their ... «Tuoitrenews, Jul 15»
allAfrica.com: Nigeria: Speaker Dogara and the False Appeal to …
... traditional rulers are the boosters behind Saraki and Dogara for purely self-serving, feudal, survival and regional reasons and calculations? «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
Laser survey brings to light remains of feudal-era castle in Nara …
The structure was fully renovated by a retainer of the younger brother of feudal lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-1598), and was previously ... «Asahi Shimbun, Jul 15»
