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Conviviality
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… agenda in mind. Where the ideal of coffee-house conversation (however accurate) was that distinctions of rank and class could be suspended and the best argument would win the day, convivial gatherings would appoint a ‘ chair ‘ who … sheet music, some of which ended up in collections of genteel music to be sung in the parlour rooms of the middle classes, although in general were considered more suitable for male tavern meetings than the mixed company of private …
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… so polymorphous as to be nearly undefinable. Though it is all but impossible to document the theatricals of the lower classes, we know that members of every social stratum participated in this fashionable pastime. Society theatre was as …
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… contempt, as the pursuits of children affect rational men.’ 3 One of the oldest of conditions, coming down from the classical world, it received a considerable cultural boost during the Renaissance period, partly through its …
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Republic of Letters
[ National & Transnational cultures / Reading & Writing ]
… Letters allowed for the free exchange of ideas across national borders, in a community comprised of different religions, classes, and genders. Members of different religious affiliations and from different nations, members born to the …
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