… the luxury debates through classical Greek and Roman literature. 4 Especially, tales of the rise to power and wealth of Rome and its ultimate fall contained critique of excess and riches. If Tacitus claimed that the ‘virtus’ – the virtue – …
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… 1780. Ce motif était prisé à l’époque de la Renaissance, après la découverte archéologique de la Domus aurea de Néron à Rome. Après avoir mis à l’honneur l’année précédente une chambre à coucher tendue de papiers veloutés damassés, qui …
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… of popular control: Trust and parochial corruption in early modern England’, in John Sabapathy and María Ángeles Martín Romera (eds.), Popular Control, special issue of Journal of Social History (forthcoming, c. 2023); S. and B. Webb, …
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… p. 362. 18 . For its conception by Shaftesbury and Chesterfield, see Philip Ayres, Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), p. 48. 19 . Lawrence Klein, ‘Liberty, …
… relationship between the British and the French. ‘Our tearful dramas are more popular in London than in Paris, and Romeo and Beverlei attract larger audiences here than the masterpieces of Racine and Corneille. It seems that we have …
… Crab, Living Near Uxbridg (London, 1655), p. 1. 16 . Quoted in Gordon Campbell, The Hermit in the Garden: From Imperial Rome to Ornamental Gnome (Oxford University Press, 2013), p. 1. So, was there a place for solitude in the heightened …