f you need to write the dissertation in history, you can be called a lucky person. History gives you hundreds of extremely interesting dissertation topics for investigation. You should first define a certain historical period and then think of some particular aspects that you want to disclose.
If you still do not have a topic for the dissertation you are going to write, we can suggest you one. We suggest you the period of 17th-18th centuries, which are full of various issues to be covered in the dissertation. This time we offer you to study the general lifestyle of people of the 17th-18th centuries that are called the Courteous Age.
These are some facts on the Courteous Age that may be helpful for the dissertation.
- Generally, the Courteous Age is referred to France under the king Louis XIV till the French Revolution. However, in the dissertation on this topic you can also tell about some other countries of this age – Russia, for instance.
- Mainly, the term of courtliness referred to the relation between men and women. At this time a woman was treated like a goddess. Men worshiped women’s beauty, fulfilled all their wishes and whims. On the other hand, in the dissertation you should tell that women still depended on men, had a few rights and were just a tool of getting pleasure.
- In the dissertation on the Courteous Age you should tell about the general psychology of the aristocracy. Their psychology could be described with one word – infantilism. People were just afraid of getting older. They did not work, but only had the balls, masquerades and all the other entertainments.
- Another interesting feature of the Courteous Age that can be described in the dissertation is the fashion of unisex. In fact, it was really hard to distinguish a man from a woman, since they all had similar beautiful clothes, wigs, make-up and plump bodies.
These are just some general characteristics of the Courteous Age for the dissertation on this topic. Still, you have a lot of other details to find out and to cover in your work.