Courtiers follow an ancient profession. Once part of a ruling household, they became confounded with then separate from the administrative staff of government as power gravitated from individuals to republican-style assemblies, but remain today as the personal confidantes and assistants of hereditary rulers. A profession is a specialized work function within society, generally performed by a professional. ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Administration Organisational use In some organisational analyses, administration can refer to the bureaucratic or operational performance of mundane office tasks, usually internally oriented. ... Sociologists usually define power as the ability to impose ones will on others, even if those others resist in some way. ... In a broad definition a republic is a state or country that is led by people who do not base their political power on any principle beyond the control of the people living in that state or country. ... An assembly is in politics, any body meeting together to discuss matters, a parliament or a legislative assembly such as the French revolutionary Legislative Assembly, or a body more designed to mediate between otherwise independent bodies, such as the United Nations General Assembly. ...
Courtiers often flock around monarchs, but non-royal courts (ducal courts, electoral courts) also existed. A monarch is a type of ruler or head of state. ...
Louis XIV of France systematically subjected the French aristocracy to political emasculation by involving them as courtiers in the empty but time-consuming rituals and intrigues of a purpose-built palace of Versailles. (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638 – September 1,rance]] and King of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death. ... The Ancient Greek term Aristocracy meant a system of government with rule by the best. This is the first definition given in most dictionaries. ... Versailles, formerly the capital city of the kingdom of France, is now a wealthy suburb of Paris and is still an important administrative and judicial center. ...
The placemen and rewarded campaign-donors of the political system of the United States of America form a more modern group of de facto courtiers.
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The Book of the Courtier (Italian Il Cortegiano) was written by Baldassare Castiglione in 1528. ... Politics is the process and method of making decisions for groups. ...
At the same time though, the courtier is expected to have a warrior spirit, to be athletic and to have good knowledge of the humanities, classics, and how to draw and paint.
The matter is the nobleman, the form is the species (courtier) by which he is surrounded and which moulds him by its conventions, the moving cause (the shaper) is Castiglione (or, fictionally, Fregoso) and the final cause is the purpose of the courtier.
The woman courtier has the same goal: "for it were not unfitt for the woman also to instruct her ladye, and with her to drawe to the same ende of Courtlinesse, whiche I have said is meete for the Courtier with his prince" (4.14, p.
This English translation of The Book of the Courtier is that of Sir Thomas Hoby (1561) as edited by Walter Raleigh for David Nutt, Publisher, London, 1900, and partakes of the virtues and faults, as may be, of that edition.
The fourth, of the end of a Courtier, and of honest love.
To have an understandinge in all thinges belonginge to the Courtier, that she maye gyve her judgemente to commend and to make of gentilmen according to their worthinesse and desertes.
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