work of fiction that recreates a social world, conveying with finely detailed observation the customs, values, and mores of a highly developed and complex society. The conventions of the society ...
city, Baden-Wurttemberg Land (state), southwestern Germany. It lies on the right bank of the Rhine River opposite Ludwigshafen, at the mouth of the canalized Neckar River.
in music, a group of 18th-century composers who assembled themselves in the city of Mannheim, Ger., under the patronage of Duke Karl Theodor (reigned 1743-99), the elector palatine. They distinguished ...
sociologist in Germany before the rise of Adolf Hitler and then in the United Kingdom who is remembered for his "sociology of knowledge" and for his work on the problems ...
any of numerous birds of the tribe Amadini of the songbird family Estrildidae. This name is given particularly to certain species of the genus Lonchura. Mannikins are finchlike birds, mostly ...
member of the Oxford Movement, which sought a return of the Church of England to the High Church ideals of the 17th century, who converted to Roman Catholicism and became ...
early English poet and author of Handlyng Synne, a poem of popular morality, and of the chronicle Story of England. The works are preserved independently in several manuscripts, none of ...
river rising in the Guinea Highlands northeast of Voinjama, Liberia. With its tributary, the Morro, it forms more than 90 miles (145 km) of the Liberia-Sierra Leone border. The river ...
a leading miniaturist of the Mughal school of painting in India, noted for his outstanding manuscript illustrations, portraits, and a few animal studies.
during the European Middle Ages, the dwelling of the lord of the manor or his residential bailiff and administrative centre of the feudal estate. The medieval manor was generally fortified ...
in feudal law, court through which a lord exercised jurisdiction over his tenants. The manorial court was presided over by the steward or seneschal, and it was there that various ...
political, economic, and social system by which the peasants of medieval Europe were rendered dependent on their land and on their lord. Its basic unit was the manor, a self-sufficient ...
town, Barcelona provincia, in the comunidad autonoma ("autonomous community") of Catalonia, northeastern Spain. It lies along the Cardoner River. The town-which probably originated as Minorisa, the Roman capital of Jacetani-was ...
soldier, politician, diplomat and poet, chiefly famous as one of the earliest Spanish dramatists whose name is known. He fought with the leagues of nobles against King Henry IV of ...
town, northern Zambia. It is located between Lake Bangweulu to the east and the frontier with Congo (Kinshasa) to the west. It lies in an agricultural and livestock-raising area, has ...
member of the imperial bureaucracy of the Mughal Empire in India. The mansabdars governed the empire and commanded its armies in the emperor's name. Though they were usually aristocrats, they ...
architect important for establishing classicism in Baroque architecture in mid-17th-century France. His buildings are notable for their subtlety, elegance, and harmony. His most complete surviving work is the chateau of ...
town, northeastern North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan. The town is situated at the southern end of the Pakhli Plain on the Bhut Stream, a tributary to the Siran River, at an ...
British philosopher and Anglican theologian and priest remembered for his exposition of the philosophy of the Scottish thinker Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856).
Roman Catholic mercenary who fought for the Protestant cause during the Thirty Years' War (1618-48); he was the Catholic League's most dangerous opponent until his death in 1626.
town and district, administrative and historic county of Nottinghamshire, England, on the River Maun. Mansfield was the chief town of Sherwood Forest-the legendary base for the activities of Robin Hood, ...
town (township), Tolland county, northeastern Connecticut, U.S. It lies just north of Willimantic city. Settled in 1686, it was originally part of Windham, known as Ponde Town. In 1702 it ...
city, seat (1808) of Richland county, north-central Ohio, U.S., on a fork of the Mohican River. Laid out in 1808, it was named for Jared Mansfield, U.S. surveyor general. The ...
New Zealand-born English master of the short story, who evolved a distinctive prose style with many overtones of poetry. Her delicate stories, focused upon psychological conflicts, have an obliqueness of ...
Democratic politician who was the longest-serving majority leader in the U.S. Senate (1961-77). He also served as U.S. ambassador to Japan from 1977 to 1988.
highest point (4,393 feet [1,339 metres]) in Vermont, U.S., standing 20 miles (30 km) northeast of Burlington in the Green Mountains, a segment of the Appalachian Mountains. Mount Mansfield is ...
English physicist who, with American chemist Paul Lauterbur, won the 2003 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a computerized scanning technology that ...
American sculptor whose subjects and modern, generalized style were largely inspired by classical sculpture. He is particularly well known for his large public commissions.
scenic device used in medieval theatrical staging. Individual mansions represented different locales in biblical stories and in scenes from the life of Christ as performed in churches. A mansion consisted ...
official residence of the lord mayor of the City of London. It stands in the City's central financial district, across from the Bank of England and the Royal Exchange. Notable ...
in Anglo-American criminal law, a category of criminal homicide that generally carries a lesser penalty than the crime of murder. Different legal systems use different criteria to distinguish the kinds ...
British parasitologist who founded the field of tropical medicine. He was the first to discover (1877-79) that an insect (mosquito) can be host to a developing parasite (the worm Filaria ...
a leading member of the 17th-century Jahangir studio of Mughal painters, famed for his animal and bird studies. The emperor Jahangir honoured him with the title Nadir-ul-'Asr ("Wonder of the ...
the second caliph of the 'Abbasid dynasty (754-775), generally regarded as the real founder of the 'Abbasid caliphate. He established the capital city at Baghdad (762-763).
capital of ad-Daqahliyah muhafazah (governorate) on the east bank of the Damietta Branch of the Nile Delta, Lower Egypt. It originated in AD 1219 as the camp of al-Malik al-Kamil, ...
port city, Manabi province, western Ecuador, on the Bahia (bay) de Manta. Originally known as Jocay (Golden Doors), it was inhabited in 3000 BC and was a Manta Indian capital ...
painter and engraver, the first fully Renaissance artist of northern Italy. His best known surviving work is the Camera degli Sposi (Wedding Chamber; 1474 [see ]), the painted room in ...
hood or other similar projection, usually ornamented, that surrounds the opening of a fireplace and directs smoke up to the chimney flue. See chimneypiece.
British physician, geologist, and paleontologist, who discovered four of the five genera of dinosaurs known during his time. Mantell studied the paleontology of the Mesozoic Era (about 245,000,000 to 66,400,000 ...
city, seat (1850) of Sanpete county, central Utah, U.S. Located in an agricultural district at an altitude of 5,530 feet (1,685 metres), the city was settled in 1849 by a ...
a legendary animal having the head of a man (often with horns), the body of a lion, and the tail of a dragon or scorpion. The earliest Greek report of ...
any of about 2,000 species of large (about 5 centimetres [2 inches] long), slow-moving insects characterized by an elongated prothorax (i.e., first thoracic segment) and front legs modified so that ...
ancient Greek city of Arcadia, situated about eight miles north of modern Tripolis between Mt. Mainalon and Mt. Artemision, mentioned as a source of soldiers in the catalog of ships ...
mountain range of eastern Brazil, rising abruptly from the northwestern bank of the Rio Paraiba do Sul and extending northeastward for approximately 200 mi (320 km), reaching a height of ...
any member of the marine crustacean order Stomatopoda, especially members of the genus Squilla. Mantis shrimps are so called because the second pair of limbs are greatly enlarged and shaped ...
any insect of the neuropteran family Mantispidae, usually found in tropical and subtropical areas. The adult mantispid bears a superficial resemblance to the praying mantid (order Dictyoptera). The European mantispid ...
cloak fashioned from a rectangular piece of cloth, usually sleeveless, of varying width and length, wrapped loosely around the body. Usually worn as an outer garment in the ancient Mediterranean ...
in biology, soft covering, formed from the body wall, of brachiopods and mollusks; also, the fleshy outer covering, sometimes strengthened by calcified plates, of barnacles, or the flexible body wall ...
professional American League baseball player for the New York Yankees (1951-68), who was a powerful switch-hitter (right- and left-handed) and who hit 536 home runs.
in Hinduism and Buddhism, a sacred utterance (syllable, word, or verse) that is considered to possess mystical or spiritual efficacy. Various mantras are either spoken aloud or merely sounded internally ...
city, capital of Mantova provincia, Lombardia (Lombardy) regione, northern Italy. The city is surrounded on three sides by lakes formed by the Mincio River, southwest of Verona. It originated in ...
(June 4, 1796-Feb. 2, 1797), the crucial episode in Napoleon Bonaparte's first Italian campaign; his successful siege of Mantua excluded the Austrians from northern Italy. The city was easy to ...
Finnish Nordic skier who took part in four Olympic Games, winning a total of seven medals. One of the oustanding Nordic skiers of the 1960s, he also won two 30-km ...
in the mythology of India, the first man, and the legendary author of an important Sanskrit code of law, the Manu-smrti. The name is cognate with the Indo-European "man" and ...
(Sanskrit: "Tradition of Manu"), traditionally, the most authoritative of the books of the Hindu code (Dharma-sastra) in India. Manu-smrti is the popular name of the work, which is officially known ...
