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Electoral sociability [ Politics & Society ]

… in print; but they could also generate unsociability in the form of drunkenness, hostility, bitter partisanship and even violence that many commentators saw as impolite and damaging to the political and social culture. Practices > Politics & Society Keywords elections Politeness impoliteness drunkenness Violence Print culture feasting partisanship Parliamentary elections were the sites of both polite sociability and … smoke into the face of another, around which revolves a scene of carnivalesque feasting and drinking, with a hint of violence as a brick is thrown at the head of the candidates’ electoral agent. Indeed, violence was not uncommon at …

Mohock scare [ Feelings & Emotions / Publicity ]

… and altogether darker twin of polite society. Concepts > Feelings & Emotions Concepts > Publicity Keywords street violence Lord Hinchingbroke Jonathan Swift John Gay public fear rake culture Historians have pondered the concomitant if … picture of London’s manner-focused society. In the Spring of 1712, the Mohocks ‘galvanized fears of the sort of street violence that was endemic in early modern London’ (Statt 179), eliciting contemporary responses ranging from the … Anglo-French Connection (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2019), p. 19. 2 . Daniel Statt, ‘The Case of the Mohocks: Rake Violence in Augustan London’, Social History (vol. 20, n° 2, 1995), p. 181. 3 . The London Gazette, March 18th, 1711-12. …

Political clubs during the French Revolution [ Politics & Society / Clubs & Societies ]

… power. Practices > Politics & Society Places > Clubs & Societies Keywords Politics French Revolution Gender Democracy Violence law Sovereignty State Jacobin Club Faction Political clubs proliferated in France during the French Revolution … owes to the insights of Jean-Clément Martin, who argues for the ‘défaut d’état’ thesis. See Jean-Clément Martin, Violence et Révolution : essai sur la naissance d’un mythe national (Paris : Seuil, 2006). For a more developed version … banned all women’s clubs. The justification for doing so was sexist, but the ban was triggered by the outbreak of violence between rival women’s organisations. 9  It was part of a broader effort by the National Convention to clamp down …

Diplomats in London (1660-1714) [ Politics / Travel ]

… et négociantes. People > Politics People > Travel Keywords ambassadors expatriates London spying lobbying ceremonial Violence duplicity Catholicism accountability Le chevalier Charles d'Éon est un des rares diplomates français élevés à … et les résidences des ambassadeurs catholiques à l’exception de celle de l’ambassadeur français. Ces éruptions de violence dirigées à l’encontre des envoyés catholiques vont se répéter à intervalle régulier sur l’ensemble du dix-huitième siècle pour culminer avec les Gordon Riots de 1780. La violence est en elle-même une source puissante de sociabilité en ce qu’elle s’organise autour de rituels précis, d’un …

Rake [ Politics & Society / Character / Social interaction ]

… the period. Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Character Concepts > Social interaction Keywords masculinity Rank Violence Rape culture Literature The term ‘rake’, short for ‘rakehell’, has been used to describe a licentious man of … rape and later death of the heroine, with Lovelace committing suicide-by-duel as a means of expiation. The socio-sexual violence exhibited by the rakish characters of Davys and Richardson betrays a deep-seated anxiety to reassure themselves … their wholesome heroes. Much declawed, the late Georgian and Regency rake did not carry the same direct threat of sexual violence as his predecessors. The figure’s inclination towards socio-sexual predation remained intact, though its …

Sovereignty (in Hobbes's philosophy) [ Political & Moral philosophy / Philosophy ]

… obedience. Concepts > Political & Moral philosophy People > Philosophy Keywords Civility Friendship Hobbes Sovereignty Violence War The refutation of natural sociability The majority of political treaties, from the age of Cicero and … ranked morality and politeness behind the virtue of obedience. … Civility … Friendship … Hobbes … Sovereignty … Violence … War … Sovereignty (in Hobbes's philosophy) …