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Menageries [ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]

… by and to consume collectively thereby becoming part of London life in the eighteenth century. Privileged gentry, aristocracy, and ordinary people established social relations in menageries in which they also expressed cultural … > Sports & Leisure Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Social interaction Keywords menageries Travel Queen’s zebra aristocracy Gilbert Pidcock exotic animals dinners fragrances macabre curiosity Royal Menageries: The Queen’s Zebra Seen … by and to consume collectively thereby becoming part of London life in the eighteenth century. Privileged gentry, aristocracy, and ordinary people established social relations in menageries in which they also expressed cultural …

Giacomo Casanova [ Art and Literature / Travel ]

… worlds that he frequented. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Keywords London Theatre Gambling networks Finance aristocracy Companies adventurer Memoirs In his novel Icosameron (1787), organized as a narrative deployed in twenty … lover, priest, and spy.’ 3   Born in 1725 to a couple of actors in Venice, a city which heavily privileged ranks and aristocracy, Giacomo Casanova had no status and no resources to enjoy its beguiling pleasures. To ensure the life of … to establish a type of lottery that he had successfully launched in Paris and for that he needed to be introduced to the aristocracy and the Court. Thus, on his second day in London, dressed in a tailcoat ( habillé en frac ), he carried …

Duelling [ Politics & Society ]

… also briefly sketched here. Practices > Politics & Society Keywords masculinity disorder antagonism honour Religion law aristocracy Gentleman honour Spectator Duelling was not simply an English affair, but also a social practice indulged in … série, n° 3-4, 2016) pp. 379-82. 6 . Quoted by V.G. Kiernan, The Duel in European History. Honour and the Reign of the Aristocracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 80. Against Duelling Francis Bacon was of course involved in the … by the Puritans, and Cromwell issued a proclamation against it in 1654. Under the Restoration, the return of the aristocracy made duelling more frequent. Duels endured in England in the eighteenth century and the law which condemned …

Freemasonry [ Associational culture / Rituals & Ceremonies ]

… de sociabilité de ses acteurs. Practices > Associational culture Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Keywords Freemasonry aristocracy Royal Society Transnational Hospitality commerce Ship captains Entre-soi aristocratique et mondain En 1736, … l'accroissement du grand commerce au XVIIIe siècle et répond à la quête de sociabilité de ses acteurs. … Freemasonry … aristocracy … Royal Society … Transnational … Hospitality … commerce … Ship captains … Freemasonry …

James, Duke of York and Albany (and court culture in Edinburgh) [ Aristocracy / Cities ]

… refashioned a royal court in the Scottish capital at a time when the merchant class had come to be the elite. People > Aristocracy Places > Cities Keywords Court Edinburgh Scotland New elite Duke of York and Albany Reformed society … deprived Edinburgh of its wealthiest clients. Those who stayed in Scotland or eventually came back, such as the well-off aristocracy, the members of the Parliament or the Magistrates, would live in Edinburgh only during winter months or when … into a safer and more comfortable town was a way to convince the latter to remain there all year long. However, the aristocracy remained at bay, reluctant to live in the city or too attached to their land. Thus, progressively, Edinburgh …