Patronage
[ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… later secular governments. In this sense, patronage was a constitutive element in the ongoing distribution of power in Europe. Additionally, it also came to describe the relation between someone able to dispense something with social or … factor in the production of literary texts. 4 . Oliver Goldsmith, Enquiry into the Present State of Polite Learning in Europe, 2nd ed. (London: J. Dodsley, 1774), p. 93. Paul Korshin describes the system of patronage in the eighteenth …
Aristocracy | Art | Commerce | Exhibitions | Literature | Patronage | Subscription
… seventeenth century became the ‘archetype of French aristocratic sociability’. 2 As Joan DeJean notes, ‘whereas most European nations at one time or another knew some degree of salon activity […] only in France did salons flourish without … yet, some salon activity continued despite the Revolution. Take for instance Madame de Staël’s cosmopolitan salon of the European intelligentsia and émigrés at the Château de Coppet in Switzerland, or the salons that endeavored to resurrect …
Enlightenment | France | Gaming | Networks | Patronage
… the weak links designate the relationships Voltaire developed with several of the admirers who flocked from all over Europe to Ferney in the hopes of seeing the great man; these he would grace with the occasional letter or reception. It is they who contributed most to shaping the myth of the ‘patriarch’ of Europe. And so, though Voltaire described himself as the ‘recluse’ or ‘marmot’ of the Alps, he was, on the contrary, a …
… aftermath of the French Revolution, as in The French Revolution (1791), existing only in typescript, America (1793) and Europe (1794). To avoid confrontation in the decade of the British backlash and treason trails, he published his works as …
Kit-Cat Club
[ Association / Associational culture / Politics & Society ]
… of aristocratic officeholders dispensing sinecures, licences, honours, and other jobs – for example, populating various European embassies and Irish colonial offices – rather than direct financial support. Six of Vanbrugh’s main …