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Spa sociability in Bath and Pyrmont [ Health / Nature ]

… century. Bath set up an innovative model of spa sociability that supposedly exemplified the main principles of an ‘open society,’ while Pyrmont also defined a new approach to spa life but along different lines. This comparative entry seeks … and the role of celebrity in the emergence of new communities. Places > Health Places > Nature Keywords Health Open society Master of Ceremonies Spa doctor regulation Identity celebrity Spa Spa sociability is very often considered as a … Manchester University Press), 2022. Viviès, Jean, George Cheyne, médecin de son siècle, 1672-1743. Malaise dans la civilisation anglaise (Aix-en-Provence : Presses universitaires de Provence, 2023).   … Bath and Pyrmont were each …

Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]

… print culture and consumption patterns. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Education Keywords Social relations Civility Urban life Consumption Politeness was a key word in eighteenth-century Britain, and its meanings were actualized … frequently in English texts in the later decades of the seventeenth century. Prior to that, words such as ‘courtesy’ or ‘civility’ conveyed ideals of sociability. The rise of the term ‘politeness’ was founded on translations of the French … 18, n° 2, 1984-1985, p. 186-214). 2 . E. J. Hundert, The Enlightenment’s Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). 3 . Michael G. Ketcham, Transparent Designs: Reading, Performance, …

Enemies and false friends [ Antagonism & Resistance ]

… Keywords false friendship enemies Politeness betrayal Gender candour dissimulation reputation female friendship Civility Friendship held an important place in social relations. But one of the major challenges that men and women faced … the Athenian Mercury in 1692 about ‘why the greatest enmity succeeds the greatest Friendship and Amity?’ The Athenian Society replied that the ‘Freedom and Converse’ of close friendship make the parties involved ‘more open to one anothers … 83). 7 . M. B., The Triall of True Friendship, sig. B3r. 8 . Francis Bacon, ‘Of Revenge’, in The Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall, of Francis Lo. Verulam, Viscount St. Alban (2nd ed., London, 1625), p. 21 9 . Athenian Mercury 6, …

Petersfield in Hampshire (and French prisoners of war in the 1790s) [ Law & Order ]

… a small hub of international sociability that transcended wartime enmities.   Places > Law & Order Keywords Friendship Society Conviviality Travel Carcerality In around 1797 an unknown French prisoner of war living in the small Hampshire … of War at the Selkirk Subscription Library, 1811-1814’, in Erica Charters, Eve Rosenhaft, & Hannah Smith (eds.) Civilians and War in Europe 1618–1815 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2012), p. 241-261. 7 . Hampshire Records … left no record of their time in the town. For the men who socialised with the Bonhams the parole town offered a civilised cosmopolitanism that eclipsed the military opposition between Britain and France. Other prisoners of war …

Rifā‘a Rāfi‘ al-Tahtāwī (Arab discovery of European sociability) [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]

… sociability. A number of travel reports of the period were instrumental in introducing some of its models to Arab society, such as Takhlīs al-ibrīz fī talkhīs Bārīz ( The Purification of Gold Regarding Paris in Brief ) by the Egyptian … His book is considered as one of the earliest records of the impact of traditional Arab culture on modern European civilization. People > Travel Practices > Translation, Dissemination & Reception Keywords Arabic literature Travel arab … his return to Egypt (1834), is one of the earliest records of the impact of traditional Arab culture on modern European civilization. 2 1 . Probably of Albanian origin, Muhammad ‘Alī was an illiterate Muslim mercenary, who was sent by the …

West End of London [ Cities / Institutions ]

… generated new forms of networking and sociability. This entry argues that the West End was shaped by both patrician society and a vigorous and often obscene popular culture that was evident in the pubs and brothels of Covent Garden. The … 2013), p. 179. The West End was paradoxical. It proclaimed the values of monarchy and aristocracy. Thus, even during the Civil War and Interregnum, John Holden's bookshop on the Strand featured works by royalist authors and right up to 1832, … and Culture in Seventeenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). Thomas, Keith, In Pursuit of Civility: Manners and Civilization in Early Modern England (London: Yale University Press, 2018).   In the DIGIT.EN.S …