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Freemasonry [ Associational culture / Rituals & Ceremonies ]

… connaît un succès fulgurant à travers l’Europe. En deux décennies, la 'mode anglaise' est devenue un phénomène transnational sans équivalent. L’aristocratie britannique joue un rôle déterminant dans ce succès et crée une sociabilité … Practices > Associational culture Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Mots-clés Freemasonry aristocracy Royal Society Transnational Hospitality commerce Ship captains Entre-soi aristocratique et mondain En 1736, paraît Cérémonies et … 19, Correspondance (Lyon : ENS Éditions - Paris : Classiques Garnier, 2014), p. 93-94. En raison du caractère transnational de cette sociabilité aristocratique, la diplomatie des puissances européennes ne peut se désintéresser de …

Republic of Letters [ Concepts ]

… the salons, coffeehouses, and masonic lodges. Concepts Mots-clés Republic of Letters Correspondence networks academies Transnational Community Voltaire The Republic of Letters was both an abstract ideal of a cosmopolitan, egalitarian … important roles in networking for elections to the academy. 14  And, women wrote extensive correspondence within this transnational network of Europe’s intellectuals. Being connected with these women was in fact essential for support in … respective countries, and engaging in the scholarly exchange of ideas. The Republic of Letters provides a model of a transnational and transatlantic community, dispersed across different societies and united only thanks to the modern …

Parole towns in Britain [ Cities ]

… and contact point between British communities and their paroled ‘guests’. Places > Cities Mots-clés War Travel Europe Transnational sociability Residences Lodgings Parole was a form of captivity used by Britain for certain types of … a sad situation’. 11 . TNA ADM 105/61 intercepted letter dated 9th May 1797. 12 . Elodie Duche, Charitable Connections: Transnational Financial Networks and Relief for British Prisoners of War in Napoleonic France, 1803-1814 Napoleonica. La … a social space and contact point between British communities and their paroled ‘guests’. … War … Travel … Europe … Transnational sociability … Residences … Lodgings … Parole towns in Britain …

English theatre (and transnational sociability) [ Sports & Leisure / National & Transnational cultures / Translation, Dissemination & Reception ]

… of the theatre however goes far beyond the space of the physical theatre itself. Theatre is also at the centre of transnational networks, as performers travel across the Channel and texts are adapted, translated and plagiarised, often … whose personal influence and connections play pivotal roles. Places > Sports & Leisure Concepts > National & Transnational cultures Practices > Translation, Dissemination & Reception Mots-clés Theatre Audience Europe Travel … of Berlin. Translated from the German by a lady (London: G. G. and J. Robinson, 1795). But what was the impact of transnational sociability on the English stage? Transnational contact between theatrical circles followed a logic at …

Saratoga Springs (as a North American iteration of spa sociability) [ Sports & Leisure ]

… Sociability here was not simply an attempt to mimic the English model, but rather a reinterpretation of elements of transnational spa culture which shows both the transmission and adaptation of eighteenth-century British sociability on … as well as opportunities for excursions and activities in nature. These lay at the core of what might be called a transnational spa culture of the eighteenth century, and can be found from British spas, which are often seen as having … Sociability here was not simply an attempt to mimic the English model, but rather a reinterpretation of elements of transnational spa culture which shows both the transmission and adaptation of eighteenth-century British sociability on …

Huguenots in Northern Europe [ Commerce / Religion & Philanthropy ]