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Laughter [ Communication ]

… quite like laughter. Practices > Communication Keywords Laughter humour Wit Taste Politeness impoliteness Manners civil society In May 1787, author-turned cleric Thomas Monro devoted an issue of his short-lived periodical to the topic of … which he treated as a scale, moving from laughter’s most subtle varieties through to its heartiest: 2 Ross Carroll, Uncivil Mirth: Ridicule in Enlightenment Britain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021) The Smile leads up ; the …

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

… morality and politeness behind the virtue of obedience. Concepts > Political philosophy People > Philosophy Keywords Civility Friendship Hobbes Sovereignty Violence War The refutation of natural sociability The majority of political … the polis ) gradually evolved into the principle of natural sociability, or the relatively advanced capacity to live in society, with reason and its manifestation, language, substituting for brute force. Hobbes departed radically from this philosophical tradition in his interpretation of the civil wars that racked England, giving his own analysis of human nature, and established his theory of sovereignty, that …

Scottish clans [ Social interaction / Association ]

… Jacobite rebellion. Concepts > Social interaction People > Association Keywords Clans Highlands Union Tartan Scottish society Identity Scottish Enlightenment Clubs and Societies Scotland Tradition In the eighteenth century, Scottish … priests. Those who came back to their native land shared what they learnt in what was then considered the best European civilised and learned societies. The clans of the Lowlands, or those living in large towns of the North such as Aberdeen, … 4 Up until the end of the seventeenth century, the reputation of the Highland clans was also one of cattle-thieves and uncivilised groups of people hidden in the most remote places of Scotland. The Statutes of Iona (1609), which obliged all …

Politeness [ Taste & Manners / Education ]

… print culture and consumption patterns. Concepts > Taste & Manners Practices > Education Keywords Social relations Civility Urban life Consumption Politeness was a key word in eighteenth-century Britain, and its meanings were actualized … frequently in English texts in the later decades of the seventeenth century. Prior to that, words such as ‘courtesy’ or ‘civility’ conveyed ideals of sociability. The rise of the term ‘politeness’ was founded on translations of the French … 18, n° 2, 1984-1985, p. 186-214). 2 E. J. Hundert, The Enlightenment’s Fable: Bernard Mandeville and the Discovery of Society (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994). 3 Michael G. Ketcham, Transparent Designs: Reading, Performance, …

Arab discovery of European sociability [ Travel / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]

… sociability. A number of travel reports of the period were instrumental in introducing some of its models to Arab society, such as Takhlīs al-ibrīz fī talkhīs Bārīz ( The Purification of Gold Regarding Paris in Brief ) by the Egyptian … His book is considered as one of the earliest records of the impact of traditional Arab culture on modern European civilization. People > Travel Practices > Translation, Dissemination & Reception Keywords Arabic literature Travel arab … his return to Egypt (1834), is one of the earliest records of the impact of traditional Arab culture on modern European civilization. 2 1 Probably of Albanian origin, Muhammad ‘Alī was an illiterate Muslim mercenary, who was sent by the …