10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PRIMOGENITIVE»
Discover the use of
primogenitive in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
primogenitive and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Renaissance Hamlet: Issues and Responses in 1600
This left Henry de Bourbon, the Huguenot King of Navarre, as the primogenitive
heir to the French throne, an eventuality the Catholic League in France was
unwilling to accept. As a result, some Catholic leaders attempted to insert Henry
de ...
The system of primogenitive inheritance utterly destroys this ' salutary principle;
and for the following reasons: — 1. It confines the great majority of the property of
the country in the hands of a few inheritors by birth, and deprives the nation at ...
3
The Mahābhārata Patriline: Gender, Culture, and the Royal ...
The primogenitive male line is said here to carry with it possession of the estate -
the patrimony of the primogenitive male ancestors. The primogenitive male line,
and the concept of serious debt that it contains, is ritually parcelled through ...
Eileen Spring rejoinders: My criticism extends beyond An Open Elite? to
encompass Stone's theory of the family. My point is that Stone has not used the
strict settlement as a primogenitive device, but has used it in different ways in
different ...
5
American Gothic: New Interventions in a National Narrative
In Faulkner's words, "[i]t was as though he and all other manshaped life about
him had been returned to the lightless hot wet primogenitive Female," a maternal
space not unlike the "black pit" from which Christmas, while on the run from the
law ...
Robert K. Martin, Eric Savoy, 1998
6
William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South
On all sides, even within him, the bodiless fecundmellow voices of negro women
murmured. It was as though he and all other manshaped life about him had been
returned to the Iightless hot wet primogenitive Female. (p. 115) Even as he lives ...
7
The Works of William Shakespeare: King Henry VIII. Troilus ...
How could communities, Degrees in schools and brotherhoods in cities, Peaceful
commerce from dividable shores, 105 The primogenitive and due of birth,
Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic
place ?
William Shakespeare, William George Clark, William Aldis Wright, 1865
8
Gender and Narrative in the Mahabharata
Before their story is told in full, we are given tales of odd behaviour in many
previous generations of the royal line (Bhı ̄s ̇ma, for example, abdicated his
primogenitive claim to the throne and vowed life-long celibacy in order that his
aged ...
Simon Brodbeck, Brian Black, 2007
9
Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation ...
Once Monmouth's illegitimacy was refuted, then his candidacy was secured by
primogenitive hereditary right. Monmouth "is legitimate, and the next lineal and
lawful heres sanguinis, heir of blood, forjW sanguinis is the law of God and
nature" ...
Donna B. Hamilton, Richard Strier, 1996
10
Law, Land, and Family: Aristocratic Inheritance in England ...
There are obvious difficulties in associating a primogenitive device with
increased provision for the subordinate members of the family. While Bonfield,
with a certain consistency in this case, holds that settlement was not
primogenitive, his ...
