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… Image James Gillray, ‘Mendoza’, Met Museum, 66.683.9, 1788. Image Jack Broughton, Rules to Be Observed on All Battles of the Stage, 1743. Image C.R. Ryley, 'Daniel Mendoza & Richard Humphreys', United … a disciplined violence useful to maintain a pugilistic spirit in times of peace. Practices > Games & Sports Mots-clés Rules Sports The popularity of boxing in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is attested by the great … the confusion of social classes, the middling-class mixing with the rank-and-file.   Boxing as an art & a science The rules of prizefighting The growing popularity of boxing in the mid-eighteenth century coincided with a global movement to …

… role of celebrity in the emergence of new communities. Places > Health Places > Nature Mots-clés Celebrity Fame Health Rules Spa Spa sociability is very often considered as a paradigm of an ‘open society.’ Openness for Neil McKendrick in … Yet they were immediately put under the firm guidance of the Master of Ceremonies and had to comply with a set of eleven rules that aimed at the harmonious cohabitation of the sexes and social classes. The clock-like organization of leisure … 1803 that an English Master of Ceremonies ‘cares for everything … and everywhere insists on the strict observance of the rules.’ German spa physicians, who in the main cared for medical matters, bore only in a few cases ‘a distant resemblance …

… The creation of Methodist societies was fundamental to Wesley's projects and ideas, and he carefully elaborated rules and regulations so as to bett er organise the social and religious life of his followers. 4 The regular meetings … discipline as those who did not abide by them could be expelled. ‘If there be any among us who observe them not [the rules], who habitually break any one of them, let it be made known unto them who watch over that soul, as they that must … repent not, he hath no more place among us. We have delivered our own souls.’ (Wesley, The Nature, Design, and General Rules of the United Societies , 73) Moreover, the Methodist connection was quickly divided into ‘ the United Societies, …

… letters and forged ones ;  The   Spectator  banned gossip and personal satire 5  while  The   Free-Thinker  fixed the rules of controversy and debates by forbidding personal abuses and misuse of words. 6 In addition, some of the papers …

… Philadelphia Dancing Assembly a desideratum. Founded in 1749, the Assembly thrived, even into the early Federal period. Rules governing all aspects of participation, including the dancing itself, sustained the Assembly’s role in determining … Philadelphia Assembly more strictly than those of London or Bath, governing its meetings, management, tickets, and more. Rules were occasionally reinforced, perhaps to bolster managers’ authority against more democratic portions of the young … century; rather, attendees ‘moved with measured dignity in grave minuets or gayer country dances.’ 7   Assembly rules required that each set, formed in order of dancers’ arrival, have ten couples; if a set came up short, its couples …

… lines, a sparing use of colours other than black and white, and little ornament, but he also created eagerly absorbed rules about comportment in society. The fascination with the historical Brummell also led to numerous, … In Regency London, a few hundred families belonged to good society, following its often very elaborate formal rules. By questioning hierarchies while assuming a position of power, Brummell was playing a paradox game. Despite his … comically point at a lack of style, comportment, or judgement. Brummell simultaneously played with and inverted the rules of polite conversation: he implicitly demanded verbal precision, brevity, and style, but used others’ errors or …

… an example of restricted professional and cultural sociability. The statutes limited the number of members and imposed rules of good behaviour to ensure that politeness prevailed within the institution. Social connections, exclusively … were seventy-seven of them, mostly painters, in the first year of the institution), were also expected to respect social rules of good behaviour and the Council could act as a disciplinary body if necessary, both for Academicians and pupils. … an example of restricted professional and cultural sociability. The statutes limited the number of members and imposed rules of good behaviour to ensure that politeness prevailed within the institution. Social connections, exclusively …