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Merchants [ Commerce ]
… straddled traditional social classes and the rise of the merchant was part of the expansion of the ‘middling sorts’. Cultures of commerce and politeness – two key attributes of eighteenth-century British identity – came together in the figure of the merchant. Sociability was an important element of mercantile culture, because a good reputation and good social networks were integral to a merchant’s credit and financial dealings. … 7 Contemporaries saw commerce as the foundation of British greatness, driving the state’s power and wealth. This culture of commerce crossed party divisions and social boundaries, and became an essential part of British identity. 8 In …
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Merchant communities in European ports [ Commerce / Mobility / Trade ]
Commerce | Correspondence | Cosmopolitanism | Europe | Merchants | Migration | Networks | Travel
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Essay periodical [ Reading & Writing / Communication / Literary & Artistic genres / Taste & Manners ]
… by untranslated Latin and Greek mottos, which created a sense of belonging to a reading community sharing the same culture. At the same time, since the mottos offered a further comment on the essays’ topics, they introduced several … Thought, 1500-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 211-245. Shevelow, Kathryn, Women and Print Culture: The Construction of Femininity in the Ea rly Periodical (London: Routledge, 1989). In the DIGIT.EN.S Anthology … Thought, 1500-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. 211-245. Shevelow, Kathryn, Women and Print Culture: The Construction of Femininity in the Ea rly Periodical (London: Routledge, 1989). … Commerce … Correspondence … …
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Scottish Enlightenment [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… the European history of sociability. First, this is an exceptional blending of the theory and practice of sociable culture, which was rendered possible by refined urban settings in middle-scale cities, distinct from both London and … of David Hume, ed. J. Y. T. Greig, 2 vol. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1932), vol. 1, pp. 495–499 (Letter 272). The culture of sociability that was distinctive to eighteenth-century Scotland has often been traced to the political and … were dedicated to the causes of Scottish economic and agricultural prosperity, to the refinement of manners and the culture of the mind, and to the understanding of the distinctive problems facing Scotland as a ‘ dependent province. ’ T …
Britishness | Commerce | Cosmopolitanism | Enlightenment | Gender | Moral philosophy | Manners | Politeness | Public sphere
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Freemasonry [ Associational culture / Rituals & Ceremonies ]
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Exotic mania [ Taste & Manners ]
… one of the artistic manifestations of Le Rêve chinois , which reached its height thanks to the feminine and domestic culture of tea drinking. Chinoiserie was a style inspired by art and design from China, Japan and other Asian countries … and refined women were contributing to the socio-cultural exchanges between East and West, between Oriental and European cultures of sociability. By combining European rituals of politeness with Chinese teaware, upper-class women were able to … those ‘who can enlarge their view to contemplate distant nations and remote ages’ 9 will pronounce positively on those cultures labelled as ‘barbarous’ departing widely from the European taste. In this encounter between East and West, …
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Portraitists' studios [ Sports & Leisure / Institutions ]
… portrait painter Jonathan Richardson (1667-1745) had insisted that his colleagues develop the social skills and artistic culture which would allow them to entertain their sitters with gentlemanly subjects, and thereby endow their features … 6 . Visible at https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_2007-7008-1 [consulted 23 Sept. 2022]. In a world of culture torn between rapid commercialisation and a tradition of disinterested civic humanism, the insistence on refined …
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Huguenots in Northern Europe [ Commerce / Religion & Philanthropy ]
… ports où leur intégration est plus ou moins grande selon les pays d’accueil. Ils donnent naissance à une société multiculturelle caractérisée par des relations familiales et économiques transnationales. People > Commerce People > Religion … jour dans les différents pays du Refuge. À Hambourg, à la fin du XVII e siècle, Gabriel d’Artis publie un hebdomadaire culturel, le Journal d’Hambourg , où il présente des comptes-rendus d’ouvrages divers. 4 De 1778 à 1772, la Gazette … participent au multiculturalisme de la ville hanséatique. 4 . Myriam Yardeni, Le refuge huguenot. Assimilation et culture (Paris : Honoré Champion, 2002), p. 116. La communauté négociante d’origine huguenote est totalement intégrée, à …
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William Blake [ Art and Literature ]
… (Bentley, The Stranger from Paradise, 110). See also Jon Mee, Enthusiasm and Regulation: Poetics and the Policing of Culture in the Romantic Period (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), ch. 6. 11 . Joseph Viscomi, Blake and the Idea of … In the late eighteenth century, the old system of patronage, where artists were sponsored, was replaced by a commercial culture where works were purchased rather than commissioned. Some of Blake’s poetic works were stocked in Johnson’s …
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