Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]
… of behaviour invented by Beau Nash and stuck in The Pump Room in 1707 aimed at getting rid of an aristocratic code of conduct where duelling was approved and the wearing of boots for gentlemen and of aprons for women on social occasions accepted. They replaced it with a new code of conduct including the ‘visit of ceremony,’ which was the very first of the eleven rules: 'T HAT a Visit of Ceremony at … Chandler Robbins Landon (ed.), Haydn in England, 1791-1795 (London: Thames & Hudson, 1976), p. 266. 26 . Adam Kendon, Conducting Interaction: Patterns of Behavior in Focused Encounters (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), p. 4. …
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