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    spectrum of power also had the affect of suppressing peasants. Through dictating proper beliefs and a sort of uniform, elite culture that a good Christian should strive to fulfill, peasant culture was increasingly marginalized, deemed inferior to the ruling nobility and even subsequently disregarded in modern hindsight; this perceived

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    How did the carnivalesque represent peasant society and social tensions in late medieval Europe? Word count: 2,436 Word count not including footnotes: 2,127 This essay will examine how inversion and charivari, as elements of the carnivalesque, represented peasant society and social tensions in late medieval Europe. Inversion and charivari are the specific aspects of the carnivalesque this essay has chosen to focus on because it was necessary to be selective from within the vast

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    The Peasants' Revolt of 1381 was an important uprising in much of England during the medieval time period. It is also known as Wat Tyler's Rebellion and The Great Rising. It was one of the first popular uprisings in England, and over very important issues. The feudal system, serfdom, the Statue of Laborers (originally spelled Labourers), little to no pay, tithes, poll tax, and the general unfairness of the time led to tensions, and action being taken. The feudal system did not have balance, and

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    Alexandria In Justine

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    The representation of Alexandria in Lawrence Durrell’s Justine In his novel, Justine, Lawrence Durrell gives his readers a new version of Alexandria, claiming that this is the “real city”. The novel would arouse many questions to an Alexandrian reader’s mind; does Durrell factually represent the Cosmopolitan city of the time? Do his characters reflect the kind of life which the Alexandrian inhabitants had back then? Or is he giving, throughout Justine, a parallel mythical city which

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    Miletus Research Paper

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    threatening his role over Miletus. This caused him to incite the citizens to join him in revolt against Persia. With time the Greeks of Asia Minor, lead by Miletus, did revolt against Persia. They burned and destroyed Sardis, the Persian capital of the local area, with the assistance of Athens. This revolt lasted from 499 to 494 BC. Histiaeus tried to return, but Miletus did not accept him. Persia finally ended the revolt with the battle at Lade Island against the Greeks. Then in 494 BC Persia ended all

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    The Decembrist Uprising

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    gave the Decembrists an opportunity to lead a revolt and they guessed that all soldiers and people too would be confused in such a situation. They decided not to swear an oath and refuse Nicholas as Tsar on December 14, 1825 and call a revolt at the same day. The Decembrists Revolt at The Senate Square The conspirators planned to gather their troops and march them to Senate Square. The Decembrist called the revolt on the morning of December14, 1825 and approximately

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    In a mysterious detail in two of the Aldobrandini Tazze (Vitellius 3, Vespasian 3), there are allusions to the Renaissance-style {correct?} town hall of Antwerp, with cheering viewers looking out the windows onto a spectacle in the square. The architectural façades chased into the bowls, with rounded windows and a protruding middle section, leave no doubt that Antwerp’s stadthuis was known to the designers of the tazze. (fig…guild procession and Vit.3or Ves.4)… The first Renaissance-style building

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    and Pueblos both revolted against European colonization and conquest in 1675 and 1680 due to attacks on their sovereignty, attacks on their welfare, and mass death. The Pueblos were more successful than the Wampanoags because they gained from the revolts while the New England Nations lost everything during King Philip’s War. In both cases, Indian nations formed the first pan-indigenous, anti-European alliances, and Europeans secured a beachhead in North America King Philip’s War began due to

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    Pueblo Revolt of 1680 has brought up a substantial amount of controversy between historians. Several historians took the preserved historical documents and gathered information from oral history to try and piece together the reason why the Pueblos revolted to begin with. Some historians point to religion as the sole cause, while others say it required the right leader, and still others point to the racial segregation and mixture of the Pueblos and Spanish blood as the cause of the revolt. While

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    threatened that this will lead to a European hegemony. Hence, his authority was strewn with revolts and wars. His vision to unite Europe in a Christian Empire encountered oppositions from his people, especially to the Protestant Reformation. Although Charles V’s ruled the most extensive and powerful empire, he was both a success and a failure when implementing his ideas. This could be seen through the revolt of the Comunidades and Germanias, the Influence of Erasmus, and as well as Humanism in the

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