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Vestries [ Religious Belief ]

… colonies.   Practices > Religious Belief Keywords Religion Churches Communities Finances Local Government Corruption England Officials America Historical evolution From the late Middle Ages, local ecclesiastical communities in Latin … the parochial boundaries as well as smaller bodies known as ‘masters’, ‘auditors’ or ‘vestries’. 1  In early modern England, where parishes acquired official local government duties, such committees became near-universal and frequently … therefore, administration and politics provided further occasions for church sociability.  1 . For early developments in England see Beat Kümin, The Shaping of a Community: The Rise & Reformation of the English Parish c.1400-1560 (London: …

Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]

… Places > Sports & Leisure Keywords leisure Healing Colonies settler colonialism appropriation North America New England Virginia Travel Spa The spa was an important location for eighteenth-century sociability, operating as a kind of … of relegating the presence of Indigenous peoples to the distant past, which has been studied with great insight in New England by Jean O’Brien in Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians out of Existence in New England (Minneapolis MN and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Ballston Spa and Saratoga Springs both had …

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 … …

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 …

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 … …

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 …