Примери за courtier

• Combining the conflicting expectations pertaining to the warrior knight, courtier, gentleman scholar, and local lord, the basis of aristocratic rule was varied and contested.

• Patronized by courtiers and under the control of city magistrates, the theatre was also from its inception closely connected with government.

• The foster brother bursts in and throws a net that captures all the courtiers.

• In the mid-1750s, beyond the royal family's lodgings there remained 226 apartments free for courtiers.

• On numerous occasions the king presented one of his courtiers with the money for a house or even a house itself.

• Musical ability, then, was increasingly important to the successful courtier.

• Spreading out from the central body of the palace, they pushed the courtiers and princes of the blood ever further away from the king's apartments.

• They were not local notables originating out of the ranks of the resident population, but courtiers of the prince governing the region.

• He was much more forthcoming with patrons and courtiers.

• The abbess's influence with the king and his courtiers is only comprehensible in the light of the business she conducted on their behalf.

• When a courtier asked the astrologer how long he (the astrologer) would live, the astrologer said he still had many years.

• At this, the courtier chopped off the astrologer's head, proving conclusively his inability to predict the future.

• Are the courtiers simply responding to the costume that designates him a fool?

• Both the polite sphere of courtiers and the commercial sphere of merchants were overlapping, so much so that they could not be kept apart.

• Instead, he is replaced by the modern character of the tyrant, the martyr, the courtier.