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Literary Academies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… pure semantics of a lexical definition. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Keywords Academy England Arcadia Association Italy France Social network Intellectual circle Meeting Rome Salon The Early Modern era saw … Academies were initiated through social relationships and closely conformed in structure to literary salons. In England, meanwhile, until the beginning of the seventeenth century, academies referred to a form of informal ‘voluntary … their distinctive features and practices which far surpasses the pure semantics of a lexical definition. … Academy … England … Arcadia … Association … Italy … France … Social network … Intellectual circle … Meeting … Rome … Salon … …

Scriblerus Club [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]

… is one of the key aspects of its legacy. Places > Clubs & Societies Practices > Associational culture Keywords Academy England Meeting Association Satire Social network Intellectual circle Club Friendship Collaboration Alexander Pope … developing a kind of intellectual and creative sociability that is one of the key aspects of its legacy. … Academy … England … Meeting … Association … Satire … Social network … Intellectual circle … Club … Friendship … Collaboration … …

Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun [ Travel / Art and Literature ]

… Travel People > Art and Literature Keywords Women portrait studio Salon Travel aristocracy French Revolution emigration England napoleonic era Fille du peintre de pastels Louis Vigée, sœur aînée d’un littérateur ambitieux, Élisabeth Vigée Le … dans son autobiographie. … Women … portrait … studio … Salon … Travel … aristocracy … French Revolution … emigration … England … napoleonic era … Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun …

Valentine Greatrakes [ Science / Art and Literature ]

… healer, pranotherapist, esoteric and magical provocateur of emotions who gained widespread popularity in Restoration England. His influence on irrational crowds provides evidence of both a conscious and an unconscious desire to recover … p. 7. Although a minor event amid the turmoil of Restoration England, Greatrakes’s popularity as a miracle worker, disproving the Church of England’s doctrine that miracles had ceased and reducing the royal mystique of the King’s touch, influenced public …

Duelling [ Politics & Society ]

… violence of society. Keith Thomas has described the masculine, violent culture which presided over seventeenth-century England: ‘Physical combat, of a more or less ritualized kind, was a part of masculine culture at every social level. Just … history, which is also briefly sketched here.   1 . Keith Thomas, The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009), p.51. What were duels? Duels find their origin in the ancient ethos of … a legislation banning the practice completely. Perhaps it was the example of France which made duelling popular in England, but the practice was certainly rife in England at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Hume tells us in his …

Public opinion (journalism and communication) [ Social interaction / Communication ]

… of popular public opinion is one of the most significant characteristics of the eighteenth century, especially in England. Writers and poets (such as Swift, Pope, Richardson) became the main public figures in the sharing of … printers and poets, whose social relevance intermingled with the communicative innovations of the time. Especially in England, France, Northern Italy and the Holy Roman Empire, the Enlightenment featured the rise of new forms of … opinion: ‘The monopoly position of the publishing trade had significant implications for the age of enlightenment in England'. 2 This is what Harold Innis pointed out in one of his conclusions in The Bias of Communication (1951), focused …