Elizabeth C Macknight
Biographic Data
| ID | 3071503 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth C Macknight |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth C |
| FAMILY NAME | Macknight |
| SIGNATURE | MACKNIGHT E C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7855-6055 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Revisiting the 1825 Indemnity Law in France
Nobles’ losses of income and property during the French Revolution have been widely discussed in the historiography on modern France. Less is known, however, about how nobles pursued financial compensation from the French state. In the France of the Bourbon Restoration, former émigrés and their heirs became eligible to receive payment through the indemnity law of 27 April 1825 that became known as le milliard des émigrés . This article presents f…
A Mountain of Words
This article presents an interdisciplinary approach to archival research on records produced by children that survive in family archives. It corresponds with the aims of education specialists who investigate patterns in language learning to understand how young minds absorb influences concurrently from familial, religious, and social circles across disparate cultural settings. Drawing upon the concept of syncretic literacy, the article interprets…
Dedication
Linda E. Mitchell, the Martha Jane Phillips Starr Missouri Distinguished Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Professor of History at the University of Missouri—Kansas City, is author of the lead article in this issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (HR/RH). That honor is most fitting. After many years of outstanding service, Linda has retired from her position as senior editor of the journal. Linda’s connection with HR/RH…
The Catholic Nobility’s Commitment to Écoles Libres in France, 1850-1905
In France the Falloux Law of 1850 set out the distinction between state-run public schools and écoles libres maintained by individuals or associations. This article argues that Catholic nobles’ historic property-based and charitable ties with rural communities underpinned their foundation of écoles libres. Drawing upon the private archives of noble families, the article shows how networking between aristocratic laity and religious orders facilita…
Les Ecrits du for prive en Europe du Moyen Age a l'epoque contemporaine. Enquetes, analyses, publications
This absorbing collection of essays is among the fruits of a research network established at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne in 2003 under the leadership of Jean-Pierre Bardet and François-Joseph-Ruggiu with Elisabeth Arnoul in a coordinating role on behalf of the CNRS. With high-level support from the Archives de France, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Ecole nationale de Chartes, and the Comité des Travaux Historiques and Scientifique…
Gender, History, and Heritage in Ireland and Scotland
This special issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques derives from panel sessions for the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative (ISAI) conference held at the University of Aberdeen in October 2009. The conference marked the tenth anniversary of the founding of Aberdeen’s Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. It was also the first ISAI conference to feature panel sessions dedicated to the study of gender in Irish and Scottis…
Archives, Heritage, and Communities
This article presents two case studies, from Scotland and the Scottish Islands, of communities' engagement with archives and their attitudes toward heritage. The case studies arise out of knowledge transfer between an historian employed in an academic role at a Scottish university and two “third sector“ organizations. By comparing the perspectives of historians, archivists, and community organizations the article shows the different ways in which…
Queer Lives
Journal Article Queer Lives: Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France. Translated, edited and with an introduction by William A. Peniston and Nancy Erber Get access Queer Lives: Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France. Translated, edited and with an introduction by William A. Peniston and Nancy Erber. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 2007. xix + 270 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978 0 8032 6036 8. Elizabeth C. Macknig…
Honor and the Military Formation of French Noblemen, 1870-1920
Gender and class informed the attitudes of French noblemen toward military training and an army career in the France of the early Third Republic. Honor for the male aristocracy was considered to be “in the blood” and still very closely bound to ancient military virtues of duty, bravery, and sacrifice. Boys raised in noble families were conditioned to value martial honor—and to seek to embody it—well before entering prestigious military academies …
A 'theatre of rule'? Domestic service in aristocratic households under the Third Republic
E. P. Thompson developed the notion of "cultural hegemony" to analyse the power of the ruling class over the working class in eighteenth-century England. This article examines the aristocracy's endeavour to maintain its cultural hegemony in the France of the Third Republic. Drawing on the private archives of noble families, it documents servants' roles in supporting the "conspicuous consumption" of their employers, the hierarchy and wages of male…
Why Weren't They Feminists
This article examines the responses of Parisian noble women to campaigns for women's rights in France of the early Third Republic. The methodology of the article is based on the works of Pierre Bourdieu. His concept of the habitus is used to analyse the effects of class and gender in noble women's attitudes to French feminisms before the First World War. The conditioning of Parisian noble women explains their resistance, indeed often outspoken op…
Faiths, Fortunes and Feminine Duty
On 4 May 1897 more than a hundred Parisians – mostly women of high society – perished in the Charity Bazaar fire. The records of this terrible accident reveal much about the charitable practices of the nobility in France of the Third Republic. This article explores the place of religion in upper-class charity within the context of republican anticlericalism. It focuses especially on issues of inter-faith collaboration and the role of aristocratic…
Cake And Conversation
At the end of the nineteenth century an upper-class Parisian hostess invited guests into her home on a fixed afternoon of her choice each week. Was this tradition, known as the jour, merely an occasion to partake of refreshments and chat? Or did it serve broader purposes for the women of High Society? This article investigates the process of invitation to a jour, the subtle nuances of etiquette at these gatherings, conversation between men and wo…
A Mountain of Words
This article presents an interdisciplinary approach to archival research on records produced by children that survive in family archives. It corresponds with the aims of education specialists who investigate patterns in language learning to understand how young minds absorb influences concurrently from familial, religious, and social circles across disparate cultural settings. Drawing upon the concept of syncretic literacy, the article interprets…
Why Weren't They Feminists
This article examines the responses of Parisian noble women to campaigns for women's rights in France of the early Third Republic. The methodology of the article is based on the works of Pierre Bourdieu. His concept of the habitus is used to analyse the effects of class and gender in noble women's attitudes to French feminisms before the First World War. The conditioning of Parisian noble women explains their resistance, indeed often outspoken op…
Faiths, Fortunes and Feminine Duty
On 4 May 1897 more than a hundred Parisians – mostly women of high society – perished in the Charity Bazaar fire. The records of this terrible accident reveal much about the charitable practices of the nobility in France of the Third Republic. This article explores the place of religion in upper-class charity within the context of republican anticlericalism. It focuses especially on issues of inter-faith collaboration and the role of aristocratic…
Cake And Conversation
At the end of the nineteenth century an upper-class Parisian hostess invited guests into her home on a fixed afternoon of her choice each week. Was this tradition, known as the jour, merely an occasion to partake of refreshments and chat? Or did it serve broader purposes for the women of High Society? This article investigates the process of invitation to a jour, the subtle nuances of etiquette at these gatherings, conversation between men and wo…
Why Weren't They Feminists
This article examines the responses of Parisian noble women to campaigns for women's rights in France of the early Third Republic. The methodology of the article is based on the works of Pierre Bourdieu. His concept of the habitus is used to analyse the effects of class and gender in noble women's attitudes to French feminisms before the First World War. The conditioning of Parisian noble women explains their resistance, indeed often outspoken op…
Faiths, Fortunes and Feminine Duty
On 4 May 1897 more than a hundred Parisians – mostly women of high society – perished in the Charity Bazaar fire. The records of this terrible accident reveal much about the charitable practices of the nobility in France of the Third Republic. This article explores the place of religion in upper-class charity within the context of republican anticlericalism. It focuses especially on issues of inter-faith collaboration and the role of aristocratic…
A 'theatre of rule'? Domestic service in aristocratic households under the Third Republic
E. P. Thompson developed the notion of "cultural hegemony" to analyse the power of the ruling class over the working class in eighteenth-century England. This article examines the aristocracy's endeavour to maintain its cultural hegemony in the France of the Third Republic. Drawing on the private archives of noble families, it documents servants' roles in supporting the "conspicuous consumption" of their employers, the hierarchy and wages of male…
Honor and the Military Formation of French Noblemen, 1870-1920
Gender and class informed the attitudes of French noblemen toward military training and an army career in the France of the early Third Republic. Honor for the male aristocracy was considered to be “in the blood” and still very closely bound to ancient military virtues of duty, bravery, and sacrifice. Boys raised in noble families were conditioned to value martial honor—and to seek to embody it—well before entering prestigious military academies …
Queer Lives
Journal Article Queer Lives: Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France. Translated, edited and with an introduction by William A. Peniston and Nancy Erber Get access Queer Lives: Men's Autobiographies from Nineteenth-Century France. Translated, edited and with an introduction by William A. Peniston and Nancy Erber. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press. 2007. xix + 270 pp. £18.99. ISBN 978 0 8032 6036 8. Elizabeth C. Macknig…
Gender, History, and Heritage in Ireland and Scotland
This special issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques derives from panel sessions for the Irish-Scottish Academic Initiative (ISAI) conference held at the University of Aberdeen in October 2009. The conference marked the tenth anniversary of the founding of Aberdeen’s Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies. It was also the first ISAI conference to feature panel sessions dedicated to the study of gender in Irish and Scottis…
Archives, Heritage, and Communities
This article presents two case studies, from Scotland and the Scottish Islands, of communities' engagement with archives and their attitudes toward heritage. The case studies arise out of knowledge transfer between an historian employed in an academic role at a Scottish university and two “third sector“ organizations. By comparing the perspectives of historians, archivists, and community organizations the article shows the different ways in which…
Les Ecrits du for prive en Europe du Moyen Age a l'epoque contemporaine. Enquetes, analyses, publications
This absorbing collection of essays is among the fruits of a research network established at the Université de Paris-Sorbonne in 2003 under the leadership of Jean-Pierre Bardet and François-Joseph-Ruggiu with Elisabeth Arnoul in a coordinating role on behalf of the CNRS. With high-level support from the Archives de France, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Ecole nationale de Chartes, and the Comité des Travaux Historiques and Scientifique…
The Catholic Nobility’s Commitment to Écoles Libres in France, 1850-1905
In France the Falloux Law of 1850 set out the distinction between state-run public schools and écoles libres maintained by individuals or associations. This article argues that Catholic nobles’ historic property-based and charitable ties with rural communities underpinned their foundation of écoles libres. Drawing upon the private archives of noble families, the article shows how networking between aristocratic laity and religious orders facilita…
Dedication
Linda E. Mitchell, the Martha Jane Phillips Starr Missouri Distinguished Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies and Professor of History at the University of Missouri—Kansas City, is author of the lead article in this issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques (HR/RH). That honor is most fitting. After many years of outstanding service, Linda has retired from her position as senior editor of the journal. Linda’s connection with HR/RH…
A Mountain of Words
This article presents an interdisciplinary approach to archival research on records produced by children that survive in family archives. It corresponds with the aims of education specialists who investigate patterns in language learning to understand how young minds absorb influences concurrently from familial, religious, and social circles across disparate cultural settings. Drawing upon the concept of syncretic literacy, the article interprets…
Revisiting the 1825 Indemnity Law in France
Nobles’ losses of income and property during the French Revolution have been widely discussed in the historiography on modern France. Less is known, however, about how nobles pursued financial compensation from the French state. In the France of the Bourbon Restoration, former émigrés and their heirs became eligible to receive payment through the indemnity law of 27 April 1825 that became known as le milliard des émigrés . This article presents f…
Sociology (11 works) · History (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · European Political History Analysis (6 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Art history (4 works)