regent

(noun)

A person appointed to administer a state because the monarch is a minor, is absent or is incapacitated.

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  • Chimei
  • porcelain
  • Iconoclasm
  • strategos

(noun)

A relative in a royal family who looks after the throne for an underaged king until he is mature enough to receive power.

Related Terms

  • paper
  • Chimei
  • porcelain
  • Iconoclasm
  • strategos

Examples of regent in the following topics:

  • Regents of the University of California v. Bakke

    • Bakke sued the Regents of the University of California based on the fact that these 16 seats were off limits for him based on race and that minorities had been admitted to fill these 16 seats with lower academic scores than Bakke.
  • Hatshepsut

    • Hatshepsut ascended to the throne as co-regent with Thutmose III, who came to the throne as a two-year old child.
    • As pharaoh, she faced few challenges, even from her co-regent, who headed up the powerful Egyptian army and could have unseated her, had he chosen to do so.
    • The Tyldesley hypothesis states that Thutmose III may have decided to attempt to scale back Hatshepsut's role to that of regent rather than king.
  • Theoderic the Great

    • Theoderic the Great (454–526) was king of the Ostrogoths (475–526), ruler of Italy (493–526), regent of the Visigoths (511–526), and a patricius of the Roman Empire.
    • For much of his reign, Theoderic was the de facto king of the Visigoths as well, becoming regent for the infant Visigothic king, his grandson Amalaric, following the defeat of Alaric II by the Franks under Clovis in 507.
    • Athalaric was at first represented by his mother Amalasuntha, who was a regent queen from 526 until 534.
  • The Middle Kingdom

    • In his 20th regnal year, Amenemhat established his son, Senusret I, as his co-regent.
    • In his 33rd regnal year, he appointed his son, Senusret II, co-regent.
  • Iconoclasm in Byzantium

    • After the death of Constantine's son, Leo IV (who ruled from 775 CE–780 CE), his wife Irene took power as regent for her son, Constantine VI (who ruled from 780 CE–97 CE).
    • But only a few decades later, in 842 CE, the regent Theodora again reinstituted icon worship.
  • Controversies Surrounding Affirmative Action

    • The most famous of these cases include Regents of the University of California v.
  • The End of Affirmative Action?

    • Since the case of Regents of the University of California v.Bakke in 1978, several Supreme Court cases have revisited questions of affirmative action in higher education.
  • Society Under the Zhou Dynasty

    • At the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty's rule, the Duke of Zhou, a regent to the king, held a lot of power, and the king rewarded the loyalty of nobles and generals with large pieces of land.
  • The Eastern Han Period

    • When the Western Han period ended in 9 CE, the regent to the prior emperor, Wang Mang, proclaimed his own new dynasty, the Xin Dynasty.
  • Decline of the Gupta Empire

    • They were stamped with images of his namesake god, Lord Kumara, regarded by Hindus as Regent of Earth.
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