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[[File:Johan Thomas Lundbye 001.jpg|thumb|''Eckshöhe'' by [[Anders von Necksee]] (1827)]] | [[File:Johan Thomas Lundbye 001.jpg|thumb|''Eckshöhe'' by [[Anders von Necksee]] (1827)]] | ||
The '''Yonderian Golden Age''' ([[Burgoignesc language|Burgoignesc]]: ''L'âge d'or Yonderresc'', [[East Gothic language|Gothic]]: ''Yondersche Goldalter'') is a name given by historians and sociologists to a period of exceptional societal, scientific and cultural advances that took place in [[Yonderre]] during the nineteenth century. Historians and sociologists disagree on the exact start and end dates of the period, but a widely accepted consensus is that [[Michael Falks]]' | The '''Yonderian Golden Age''' ([[Burgoignesc language|Burgoignesc]]: ''L'âge d'or Yonderresc'', [[East Gothic language|Gothic]]: ''Yondersche Goldalter'') is a name given by historians and sociologists to a period of exceptional societal, scientific and cultural advances that took place in [[Yonderre]] during the nineteenth century. Historians and sociologists disagree on the exact start and end dates of the period, but a widely accepted consensus is that [[Michael Falks]]' book ''[[My Yonderre (book)|My Yonderre]]'' released in 1820 was the catalyst that started the period. End date is generally accepted as the start of the twentieth century, but are also variously given as 1890s and even up to the end of the 1900s with the beginning of the [[Great Depression]]. | ||
The creation of a singular [[Yonderian culture]] across the previous boundaries of [[Culture in Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] and [[East Gothic culture|Gothic]] cultures is often lauded as the greatest achievement of the Yonderian Golden Age. The 1820s and 30s were a period of major societal reform in [[Yonderre]] with the introduction of reforms for the peasantry, the signing of the [[Constitution of Yonderre]] in 1833 which brought with it the [[Yonderian Parliament]], reforms to the [[Custodes Yonderre]] and a common code of law across all [[Counties of Yonderre]]. Neo-classical architecture became the dominant style of the period, leaving a distinct look to major cities like [[Collinebourg]] and [[Gabion]]. Scientific advances were made in several fields by Yonderians including physicist [[Rachet d'Everard (physicist)|Rachet d'Everard]], chemist [[Eberhard Sass]], philosopher [[Hieronymus von Kähler]] and paleontologists [[Killian Lange]] and [[Thibaut d'Avignon]]. The period also brought with it major advances in the arts such as the prime of [[Anders von Necksee]] whose idealized paintings of rural [[Yonderre]] received international acclaim and playwright [[Hieronymus d'Olbourg]] whose historical plays like ''Siegmar the Iron-Handed'' and ''Löwenschiold'' played an important part in the shaping of [[Yonderian national romanticism]]. | The creation of a singular [[Yonderian culture]] across the previous boundaries of [[Culture in Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] and [[East Gothic culture|Gothic]] cultures is often lauded as the greatest achievement of the Yonderian Golden Age. The 1820s and 30s were a period of major societal reform in [[Yonderre]] with the introduction of reforms for the peasantry, the signing of the [[Constitution of Yonderre]] in 1833 which brought with it the [[Yonderian Parliament]], reforms to the [[Custodes Yonderre]] and a common code of law across all [[Counties of Yonderre]]. Neo-classical architecture became the dominant style of the period, leaving a distinct look to major cities like [[Collinebourg]] and [[Gabion]]. Scientific advances were made in several fields by Yonderians including physicist [[Rachet d'Everard (physicist)|Rachet d'Everard]], chemist [[Eberhard Sass]], philosopher [[Hieronymus von Kähler]] and paleontologists [[Killian Lange]] and [[Thibaut d'Avignon]]. The period also brought with it major advances in the arts such as the prime of [[Anders von Necksee]] whose idealized paintings of rural [[Yonderre]] received international acclaim and playwright [[Hieronymus d'Olbourg]] whose historical plays like ''Siegmar the Iron-Handed'' and ''Löwenschiold'' played an important part in the shaping of [[Yonderian national romanticism]]. | ||
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Since the [[Conquest of Joanusterra]] in the fifteenth century, [[Yonderre]] had been socially divided as much along cultural lines, [[Culture in Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] and [[East Gothic culture|Gothic]], as it had been along class lines. Sociologists argue the existence of four distinctive classes in Yonderre between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, these being the nobility, clergy, burghers and peasantry, and further argue the existence of subdivisions in each class based on cultural and ethnic heritage. Sociologists further argue that even subdivisions like [[Bergendii]] burghers in [[Collinebourg]] were further divided between those whose families had arrived in [[Yonderre]] with the crusaders in the fifteenth century and those whose families had settled in the subsequent centuries. | Since the [[Conquest of Joanusterra]] in the fifteenth century, [[Yonderre]] had been socially divided as much along cultural lines, [[Culture in Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] and [[East Gothic culture|Gothic]], as it had been along class lines. Sociologists argue the existence of four distinctive classes in Yonderre between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, these being the nobility, clergy, burghers and peasantry, and further argue the existence of subdivisions in each class based on cultural and ethnic heritage. Sociologists further argue that even subdivisions like [[Bergendii]] burghers in [[Collinebourg]] were further divided between those whose families had arrived in [[Yonderre]] with the crusaders in the fifteenth century and those whose families had settled in the subsequent centuries. | ||
In the period between the [[Conquest of Joanusterra]] and the Yonderian Golden Age (a period typically referred to as the early modern period), Yonderre witnessed three major civil wars all of which were either based on or heavily influenced by cultural tension between the (typically) Gothic peasantry and the mostly Bergendii clergy and nobility, with the burghers typically standing somewhere in-between. The last of the civil wars, the [[Second Potato War]], ended with the rebelling peasantry soundly defeated in 1788, but unlike the previous [[Yonderian Peasants' War]] of 1641-43, [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]] [[Auguste III de Somua]] made concessions to the peasantry, abolishing the highly unpopular [[Potato Laws]] that had caused the war in the first place. Being the last major display of cultural tension on this scale in [[Yonderre]], some sociologists like Nicolas Boucault contend that [[Yonderre]] then experienced what they refer to as a "long nineteenth century", beginning with the end of the [[Second Potato War]] in 1788 and ending with the [[Great Depression]] in 1910.<ref>Boucault, Nicolas: ''Changing will'', [[Vilauristre]], pg. 21-25. 1965.</ref> | In the period between the [[Conquest of Joanusterra]] and the Yonderian Golden Age (a period typically referred to as the early modern period), Yonderre witnessed three major civil wars all of which were either based on or heavily influenced by cultural tension between the (typically) Gothic peasantry and the mostly Bergendii clergy and nobility, with the burghers typically standing somewhere in-between. The last of the civil wars, the [[Second Potato War]], ended with the rebelling peasantry soundly defeated in 1788, but unlike the previous [[Yonderian Peasants' War]] of 1641-43, [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]] [[Auguste III de Somua]] made concessions to the peasantry, abolishing the highly unpopular [[Potato Laws]] that had caused the war in the first place. Being the last major display of cultural tension on this scale in [[Yonderre]], some sociologists like [[Nicolas Boucault]] contend that [[Yonderre]] then experienced what they refer to as a "long nineteenth century", beginning with the end of the [[Second Potato War]] in 1788 and ending with the [[Great Depression]] in 1910.<ref>[[Nicolas Boucault|Boucault, Nicolas]]: ''Changing will'', [[Vilauristre]], pg. 21-25. 1965.</ref> | ||
Apart from the abolition of the [[Potato Laws]] however, [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]] [[Auguste III de Somua]] did not make further concessions to the peasantry and continued to rule [[Yonderre]] as an absolute monarch. With his death in 1820 however, [[Falco IV Sentinelleau]] was elected [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]]. Inspired in no small part by the [[Urcea|Urcean]] ideology of [[Crown Liberalism]] and its [[National Pact (Urcea)|National Pact]], Falco IV was more sympathetic to the plight of the peasantry than his predecessor and instituted reforms in the Autumn of 1820 which sought to enable the peasants to buy the farms and land they worked by lowering taxation. The reforms were met with some resistance from the nobility whose incomes depended on taxing the peasantry that they effectively owned through ownership of the farms, but these never evolved past complaints and were largely silenced by the time the [[Constitution of Yonderre]] was signed into place in 1833, effectively ending the lordship over peasantry for anyone but the Grand Duke as sovereign. The question of Gothic and Burgoignesc cultures as incompatible remained, however. | Apart from the abolition of the [[Potato Laws]] however, [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]] [[Auguste III de Somua]] did not make further concessions to the peasantry and continued to rule [[Yonderre]] as an absolute monarch. With his death in 1820 however, [[Falco IV Sentinelleau]] was elected [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]]. Inspired in no small part by the [[Urcea|Urcean]] ideology of [[Crown Liberalism]] and its [[National Pact (Urcea)|National Pact]], Falco IV was more sympathetic to the plight of the peasantry than his predecessor and instituted reforms in the Autumn of 1820 which sought to enable the peasants to buy the farms and land they worked by lowering taxation. The reforms were met with some resistance from the nobility whose incomes depended on taxing the peasantry that they effectively owned through ownership of the farms, but these never evolved past complaints and were largely silenced by the time the [[Constitution of Yonderre]] was signed into place in 1833, effectively ending the lordship over peasantry for anyone but the Grand Duke as sovereign. The question of Gothic and Burgoignesc cultures as incompatible remained, however. | ||
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==Advances in the sciences and arts== | ==Advances in the sciences and arts== | ||
The Yonderian Golden Age saw several major scientific advances made by Yonderian scientists. In 1865, physicist [[Rachet d'Everard (physicist)|Rachet d'Everard]] observed that electric currents induce magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism. Chemist [[Eberhard Sass]]' work with metallurgical alloys in the early 1820s produced the world's first near-pure aluminium in 1825. Existentialist philosopher and theologian [[Hieronymus von Kähler]]'s work deals with the issues of how one lives, focusing on the priority of concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment, ideas that continue to shape and influence modern philosophy. Paleontologist [[Killian Lange]] described the fossilized remains of the first theropod dinosaur ''[[Vollardisaurus]]'' in 1842, sparking a renewed academic interest in paleontology. Lange's prodigy, [[Thibault d'Avignon]], would go on to describe over a hundred extinct species during the latter half of the nineteenth century, including infamous species like ''[[Joanusaurus]]'' and ''{{wpl|Stegosaurus}}'' from the [[Greater Levantine Formation]]. | The Yonderian Golden Age saw several major scientific advances made by Yonderian scientists. In 1865, physicist [[Rachet d'Everard (physicist)|Rachet d'Everard]] observed that electric currents induce magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism. Chemist [[Eberhard Sass]]' work with metallurgical alloys in the early 1820s produced the world's first near-pure aluminium in 1825. Existentialist philosopher and theologian [[Hieronymus von Kähler]]'s work deals with the issues of how one lives, focusing on the priority of concrete human reality over abstract thinking and highlighting the importance of personal choice and commitment, ideas that continue to shape and influence modern philosophy. Paleontologist [[Killian Lange]] described the fossilized remains of the first theropod dinosaur ''[[Vollardisaurus]]'' in 1842, sparking a renewed academic interest in paleontology that sparked a [[Paleontology in Yonderre|Dinosaur craze in Yonderre]]. Lange's prodigy, [[Thibault d'Avignon]], would go on to describe over a hundred extinct species during the latter half of the nineteenth century, including infamous species like ''[[Joanusaurus]]'' and ''{{wpl|Stegosaurus}}'' from the [[Greater Levantine Formation]]. | ||
[[Anders von Necksee]] became famous throughout [[Levantia]] for his work during the Yonderian Golden Age. Centered primarily around romantic motifs of rural [[Yonderre]], von Necksee's work was in part political of nature, inspired by Falks' ''[[My Yonderre]]'', von Necksee sought to do his part in uniting the people of [[Yonderre]] around what would become [[Yonderian national romanticism]]. Playwright [[Hieronymus d'Olbourg]] wrote the plays ''Siegmar the Iron-Handed'' in 1833 and ''Löwenschiold'' in 1835 which renewed interest in Yonderre's [[Knights of the Realm]], another core component of the emerging [[Yonderian national romanticism]]. | Painter [[Anders von Necksee]] became famous throughout [[Levantia]] for his work during the Yonderian Golden Age. Centered primarily around romantic motifs of rural [[Yonderre]], von Necksee's work was in part political of nature, inspired by Falks' ''[[My Yonderre]]'', von Necksee sought to do his part in uniting the people of [[Yonderre]] around what would become [[Yonderian national romanticism]]. Playwright [[Hieronymus d'Olbourg]] wrote the plays ''[[Siegmar von Willing#Legacy|Siegmar the Iron-Handed]]'' in 1833 and ''Löwenschiold'' in 1835 which renewed interest in Yonderre's [[Knights of the Realm]], another core component of the emerging [[Yonderian national romanticism]]. | ||
==Architecture== | ==Architecture== | ||
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===Collinebourg=== | ===Collinebourg=== | ||
As the capital of [[Yonderre]], [[Collinebourg]] was at the very center of all aspects of the Yonderian Golden Age, not least thanks to its academic and political institutions like the [[University of Collinebourg]]. The architecture of much of central Collinebourg is heavily influenced by the neo-classical style that came into fashion in the nineteenth century. Notable examples include the façade of [[Collinebourg Castle]] which was renovated in the 1840s, Collinebourg City Court onto which was added collums and an arch inspired by ancient Istroyan civilization in 1848 and [[Saint Prokop's Basilica]]. | As the capital of [[Yonderre]], [[Collinebourg]] was at the very center of all aspects of the Yonderian Golden Age, not least thanks to its academic and political institutions like the [[University of Collinebourg]]. The architecture of much of central Collinebourg is heavily influenced by the neo-classical style that came into fashion in the nineteenth century. Notable examples include the façade of [[Collinebourg Castle]] which was renovated in the 1840s, Collinebourg City Court onto which was added collums and an arch inspired by ancient Istroyan civilization in 1848 and [[Saint Prokop's Basilica]]. | ||
==See also== | |||
* [[Yonderian national romanticism]] | |||
* [[Chant of the Cavalryman]] | |||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
[[Category:Yonderre]] | [[Category:Yonderre]] | ||
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[[Category:Canonical Article]] | [[Category:Canonical Article]] | ||
[[Category:IXWB]] | [[Category:IXWB]] | ||
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