The concept of feudalism has dominated much of the research and study of Europe during the Middle Ages. ... By the High Middle Ages (about 1000 C.E.), much of Europe had developed a variation of this system of feudalism. ... In return, each lord promised to supply the monarch with knights and arms in times of war. ... From France, feudalism spread to the major European countries including Spain, Italy, Scandinavia, Germany England, and the Slavic countries.ii Ultimately, people, land, and relationships were the most basic ingredients of feudalism. ... The rise of powerful monarchs in France, ...

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As the young, recently crowned King of England, Henry sets out to prove himself by seizing his alleged birthright in France. ... He can still exhibit his common touch despite having the burdens of being the Monarch but it is natural to wonder how. ... The chorus at the beginning of Act four states that "A little touch of Harry in the night" has kept the men's spirits up, Henry has visited the men and tried to keep their morale high. ... There is much in Henry V that suggests Shakespeare in fact saw Henry V as the most perfect monarch. ... This would appeal to the audience at the time, as...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In succeeding decades, the official portraits of Queen Victoria, gradually aging, reflected her country's sense of its own maturation as a society and world power. ... Settling into the role of fertile matron-monarch, she offered a domestic image to match the booming productivity of the 1850s. ... Victoria stood not only for England and Empire, but also for Duty, Family, and, especially, Propriety. ... The Industrial Revolution shifted power from the landed aristocracy toward an insecure, expanding middle class of businessmen and professionals, impoverishing millions of once-rural laborer...

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This construction of an ideal socialist political system is ineffective because Swedes suffer high suicide rates and people do not feel the overall fulfillment pledged by the utopian philosophy that indoctrinated the political system. ... The Enlightenment utopia once dreamed of by the French and similar thinkers seems to have never succeeded. ... The three countries from which the humanists found many of their Enlightenment views are Greece, Rome and England. ... The manifold views of the Romans, and especially the multi-tiered government, were a major role model for French humanists an...

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Eliot: "I said the king was an incredibly foolish old man, which God knows he was; and that if he'd been my father I would have run away from home at the age of eight instead of waiting until I was ten...I pointed out that King Lear's opening speech was the height of idiocy. ... The Lear described in many critical essays sounds less like Shakespeare's monarch than the middle-class recreations of Lear in the nineteenth-century fiction of writers like Balzac and Turgenev. ... In order to exercise command, he must project an aura of authority, and this need in turn dictates that h...

• Word Count: 8939
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• Grade Level: High School