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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 and Emotions / Publicity ]

… and altogether darker twin of polite society. Concepts > Feelings and 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 …

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

… obedience. Concepts > Political and 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) …

Boxing [ Games & Sports ]

… centuries is attested by the great number of publications and debates about the sport. Pugilism, in spite of its violence, was progressively presented as a sociable entertainment, a disciplined pastime, that allowed the cultivation of … as conservatives and radicals perceived the potential of the pastime to educate the mob and to cultivate a disciplined violence useful to maintain a pugilistic spirit in times of peace. Practices > Games & Sports Keywords prize-fighting … centuries is attested by the great number of publications and debates about the sport. Pugilism, in spite of its violence, was progressively presented as a sociable entertainment, a disciplined pastime, that allowed the cultivation of …

Duelling [ Politics & Society ]

… the duel was perhaps not as regulated as we have come to think of it, and it proceeded from the disorder and the general violence of society. In spite of the image of the eighteenth century as an age of politeness, duels persisted in the … the duel was perhaps not as regulated as we have come to think of it, and it proceeded from the disorder and the general violence of society. Keith Thomas has described the masculine, violent culture which presided over seventeenth-century … the novels, on the barbarity of the practice, echoing some of the arguments made over the centuries against such acts of violence. In Sheridan’s The Rivals , duelling is at the centre of the action, but appears as a ridiculous enterprise—and …