A 1566/67 (41) boundary charter (raz "ezzhaia gramo ta) between Ivan and his cousin, the
appanage Prince Vladimir Andreevich Staritskii, noted that the boundaries between the oprichnina and Staritskii's
appanage could not be delineated at present, because the oprichnina did not yet have any boundary surveyors (mezhevshchie or pistsy).
Pavlov-Sil'vanskii gave very precisely the essence of the transformation of Russian society from the
appanage period to Muscovite absolutism: "Voluntary grand-prince servants of the
appanage period are replaced in the Muscovite state by sovereign slaves.
Ivan had had a deaf-mute younger brother Georgi (Yuri, 1532-1563; since 1560 the
appanage prince of Uglich and Kaluga), but he had no female offspring either.
He could remove the family from the throne and annex the country, turning it into a province ruled by a Hittite official, (61) or grant it to a member of his own family as
appanage land (62) or to any other person whom he might install as subordinate king.
Inseparable satiety and hunger are the
appanage of lavish Love.
Hers was the time of the city-state, the duchy, and the
appanage, when national boundaries and civic loyalties shifted like sand, yet Joan herself is often reckoned as one of the first modern patriot/nationalists.
Not an exclusive
appanage of Christians, casting out or even executing dissenters is still a legitimate solution in some societies, when a fatwa is issued by religious authorities.
Against repeated rebellions he maintained the integrity of his mother's
appanage of Aquitaine.
The old lady's planet is "cooling" with age, her remoteness makes access to her a kind of space travel, to be prepared for by reconnoitering her with a telescope: Watch while her ritual is still to see, Still stand her temples emptying in the sand Whose waves o'erthrew their crumbled tracery; Still stand uncalled-on her soul's
appanage; Much social detail whose successor fades, Wit used to run a house and to play Bridge, And tragic fervour, to dismiss her maids.
Both veil and harem were common in Moslem countries, although they were not the
appanage of Islam, as attested by Germaine Tillion: "Historiquement, n'importe quelle incursion dans le passe nous demontre egalement que le harem et le voile sont infiniment plus anciens que la revelation du Coran"(19) Like Delacroix, Mernissi shows the h arem both as a geographical space and as metonymy, i.e., the women who live in that secluded space.
Which came first,
Appanage Russia or Slavic Russia?
Filo and her
appanage were intruding on the exclusive domain of the priests and specialists when she started to care for the sick and dying.
This can be seen if we condense the logic of Pipes' continuity argument (and many others like it): Soviet government is like late Imperial government; late Imperial government is like Petrine government; Petrine government is like Muscovite government; but Muscovite government is unlike
Appanage government.
Holcroft's influential Centennial essay The Deepening Stream, for example, could move easily from arguing that 'we are a cultural
appanage of Britain' (p.
