American gentry
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The American gentry were rich landowning members of the American upper class in the colonial Southern United States. The Colonial American use of gentry was not common. Historians use it to refer to r
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Arlington House pre 1861
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Gentry
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Gentry are "well-born, genteel and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past. Gentry, in its widest connotation, refers to people of good social position connected to landed estat
American gentry
…The American gentry were rich landowning members of the American upper class in the colonial Southern United States. The Colonial American use of gentry was not common. Historians use it to refer to rich landowners in the South before 1776. Typically, large scale landowners rented out farms to white…
Cleric, knight, and peasant archetypes represent the virtues of prudence, fortitude, and temperance, respectively. In classical antiquity and Christendom, prudence and fortitude were seen as the cardinal virtues that should govern society.
This part of a 12th-century Swedish tapestry has been interpreted to show, from left to right, the one-eyed Odin, the hammer-wielding Thor and Freyr. This triad corresponds closely to the trifunctional division: Odin is the patron of priests and magicians, Thor of warriors, and Freyr of fertility and farming.
Europe and the Byzantine Empire 1000 AD
The Three Estates of Christendom by Bartholomäus Bruyn c. 1535