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Changes in the Training of the Power Elites in Western Europe

Category: Ionian History
Type: Article
Book Title: Η ασφάλιση των γαλαξειδιώτικων πλοίων
Author: Brezis S. Elise and Crouzet Francois
Editor: Kiraly K. Bela
Journal: The Journal of European Economic History
Pages: 33-58
Issue: 1
Volume: 33
Library catalog: Wilson Library, University of Minnesota
Date: 2004
Language: English

Abstract:

[33] Actually for millenia, recruitment of the elite was carried out through heredity, nepotism and violence, and the word 'aristocracy' came to describe the hereditary upper class. Hereditary monarchy was for centuries considered the most legitimate means of recruitment for rulers, based on the assumption that morality and intellectuality are hereditary, according to God's will....


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