She ascended the throne when her mother abdicated.

These predicates of Being are what the Medievals called, using a term that will have a fertile future, transcendentals (often called the universals) because they transcend all particular genera, following the example of Being.⁹⁶ A quarrel over these transcendentals even shook the later Middle Ages. The quarrel stemmed from the question of whether the existence of these transcendentals was real or intellectual (also called nominal).

Money is the great breaker-up of love and friendship; and this is, I believe, the reason of the common saying, that large families get on best in the world, because they can receive from each other assistance without degradation.

The politics of the rentier state is characterized by intensely fierce power struggles, instability, political violence, state violence, poor legitimacy of regimes, kleptocracy, conflicts, undemocraticness, political clientelism and neo patrimony.