9 sentences with “nobility”

The nobility of his soul is reflected in his daily actions.

Some members of the nobility have great properties and wealth.

The Macedonians may have been united by powerful leaders, but their nobility tended to be selfish and jealous of power.

Their nobles had more power than the nobility of the Old Kingdom as well, playing important political roles in their lands.

This did nothing to improve the situation in Macedonia itself, which remained divided between the royal family and the nobility.

This made him a folk hero, and he terrified the nobility of Rome because he was able to bypass the usual Roman political machinery and simply pay for his wars himself.

In short, the bishops suddenly assumed power on a par with the traditional Roman nobility, directly linking power within the Christian church hierarchy with power within the Roman political system.

In turn, the simple lack of markets meant that there was no incentive to grow more than necessary, and the nobility sought to become richer and more powerful not by worrying about agricultural productivity (let alone trade), but by raiding each other's lands.

The Church tried to encourage feudal lords to live according to Christian virtue, but the fact is that the vocation of the nobility, their very social role, was to fight, and therefore, all too often, "politics" was synonymous with "armed struggle" during the Middle Ages.