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Conviviality [ Eating & Drinking / Rituals & Ceremonies / Character / Social interaction ]

… James Gillray, ‘Anacreontick's in full song’, © National Portrait Gallery, NPG D12773, 1801. Résumé This entry describes conviviality as it was practised in the eighteenth century with distinctions between sociability and conviviality. It also describes the use of the term, and the specific rituals associated with convivial culture. … & Drinking Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Concepts > Character Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés Community Conviviality Hilarity Politics Song Toasting Conviviality was a term used to describe a particular form of masculine …
Community  |  Conviviality  |  Hilarity  |  Politics  |  Song  |  Toasting
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Taverns [ Food & Drink venues ]

Celebration  |  Conviviality  |  Dining  |  French Revolution  |  Prostitution  |  Radicalism
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Betting book [ Sports & Gaming accessories ]

… book provides a snapshot of a complex recreational practice that not only promoted social interaction and gentlemanly conviviality, but also challenged sociability and friendship. This specific object can be considered as the physical … to the playful and conflictual form of sociable interactions. Objects > Sports & Gaming accessories Mots-clés Conflict Conviviality Gambling Gentleman The betting book is the material expression of the sociable practice of betting, which … book provides a snapshot of a complex recreational practice that not only promoted social interaction and gentlemanly conviviality, but also challenged the rules of sociability and friendship. Available in London gentlemen’s clubs for …
Conflict  |  Conviviality  |  Gambling  |  Gentleman
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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]

… individuals for a ritual encounter and structured sociability.  Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés alcool Celebration Conviviality Drinking Masculinity Ritual Tableware Punch was a drink made from a blend of alcohol spirit, fruit, sugar, … the refined pot, punch bowls in particular were intended to bring together disparate individuals in good fellowship and conviviality. Merry and raucous, patriotic and celebratory, considered and thoughtful: the associations of the punch bowl … Punch Bowls and Punch Drinking in America', Magazine Antiques (n° 214, 2002), p. 176–83 . … Alcohol … Celebration … Conviviality … Drinking … Masculinity … Ritual … Tableware … Punch bowls …
Alcohol  |  Celebration  |  Conviviality  |  Drinking  |  Masculinity  |  Ritual  |  Tableware
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Gin and the Gin Craze [ Food & Drink / Eating & Drinking / Social interaction ]

… History of Drink and the English, 1500-2000  (London: Routledge, 2016). Smyth, Adam (ed.),  A Pleasing Sinne: Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-Century England  (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004). Warner, Jessica & Ivis, Frank, ‘Gin and … History of Drink and the English, 1500-2000  (London: Routledge, 2016). Smyth, Adam (ed.),  A Pleasing Sinne: Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-Century England  (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2004). Warner, Jessica & Ivis, Frank, ‘Gin and …
Alcohol  |  Crime  |  Friendship  |  Poverty
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Beau Nash [ Fashion ]

… of spa sociability, he contributed to the emergence of a British model of sociability in a decisive way. Through his conviviality, his influence on dress and manners, he participated in the forging of a refined and polite nation. This … of spa sociability, he contributed to the emergence of a British model of sociability in a decisive way. Through his conviviality, his influence on dress and manners, he participated in the forging of a refined and polite nation. This …
Fashion  |  Gaming  |  Manners  |  Politeness  |  Refinement  |  Spa  |  Wit
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Francis Dashwood [ Association / Associational culture ]

… Hell-fire Club provides a remarkable if distorted mirror image of the eighteenth-century society’s focus on manners and conviviality. People > Association Practices > Associational culture Mots-clés Blasphemy Diaries Grand Tour Politics … Hell-fire Club provides a remarkable if distorted mirror image of the eighteenth-century society’s focus on manners and conviviality. … Blackett-Ord, Mark, The Hell-Fire Duke (Windsor Forest, Berks.: The Kensal Press, 1982). Mannix, Daniel …
Blasphemy  |  Diaries  |  Grand Tour  |  Politics  |  Religion  |  Secrecy  |  Travel
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Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]

Alcohol  |  Drinking  |  Ritual  |  Tableware  |  Toasting
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Reading [ Reading & Writing ]

… of the book clubs, particularly those popular with men. These were places where talking, drinking and other forms of conviviality almost totally overshadowed the practice of reading, as suggested by the 1788 satirical poem ‘The Country …
Clubs  |  Family  |  Fiction  |  Streets
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