Menageries
[ Sports & Leisure / Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… by and to consume collectively thereby becoming part of London life in the eighteenth century. Privileged gentry, aristocracy, and ordinary people established social relations in menageries in which they also expressed cultural … Places > Sports & Leisure Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés Advertisement Animals Aristocracy Australia Curiosity Exhibitions Exoticism Fragrance Menageries Travel Royal Menageries: The Queen’s Zebra … by and to consume collectively thereby becoming part of London life in the eighteenth century. Privileged gentry, aristocracy, and ordinary people established social relations in menageries in which they also expressed cultural …
… which each participant is a prey in the eye of the rapacious gamester. Objects > Sports & Gaming accessories Mots-clés Aristocracy Domesticity Furniture Gambling Gaming Playing Playing games was a crucial aspect of daily sociability especially among the aristocracy and the middle classes in the long eighteenth century as we can see from the numerous treatises and … 19 Aug. 2022. The concern for an excessive amount of time spent at the gaming table was especially levelled at the aristocracy and the upper classes as this leisure activity was seen as a form of moral decadence. Gaming was in fact …
… places where female aristocrats could regulate entry to high society. Places > Cities Places > Institutions Mots-clés Aristocracy Consumption Clubs Elite Gambling Gender Opera ‘The West End of the Town‘ (as it was usually known in the long … distinctive for locations that served the leisure and retail needs of the elite. This allowed the Mayfair-based aristocracy who shaped the area to define itself. Yet West End locations for elite sociability co-existed with a vigorous … Golden Age (London: Allen Lane, 2013), p. 179. The West End was paradoxical. It proclaimed the values of monarchy and aristocracy. Thus, even during the Civil War and Interregnum, John Holden's bookshop on the Strand featured works by …
… of the multiple interconnected worlds that he frequented. People > Art and Literature People > Travel Mots-clés Aristocracy Diplomacy Finance Gambling Memoirs Networks Theatre In his novel Icosameron (1787), organized as a narrative … lover, priest, and spy.’ 3 Born in 1725 to a couple of actors in Venice, a city which heavily privileged ranks and aristocracy, Giacomo Casanova had no status and no resources to enjoy its beguiling pleasures. To ensure the life of … to establish a type of lottery that he had successfully launched in Paris and for that he needed to be introduced to the aristocracy and the Court. Thus, on his second day in London, dressed in a tailcoat ( habillé en frac ), he carried …
… on their long history, which is also briefly sketched here. Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Antagonism Aristocracy Disorder Gentleman Honour Law Masculinity Mundanity Religion Duelling was not simply an English affair, but … série, n° 3-4, 2016) pp. 379-82. 6 . Quoted by V.G. Kiernan, The Duel in European History. Honour and the Reign of the Aristocracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), p. 80. Against Duelling Francis Bacon was of course involved in the … by the Puritans, and Cromwell issued a proclamation against it in 1654. Under the Restoration, the return of the aristocracy made duelling more frequent. Duels endured in England in the eighteenth century and the law which condemned …
Patronage
[ Politics & Society / Social interaction ]
… most directly reflected upon by contemporaries. Practices > Politics & Society Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés Aristocracy Art Commerce Exhibitions Literature Patronage Subscription In its original meaning, patronage meant the right … Friends in Eighteenth-Century England: Household, Kinship, and Patronage (New Hall: Cambridge University Press, 2004). … Aristocracy … Art … Commerce … Exhibitions … Literature … Patronage … Subscription … Patronage …
Aristocracy | Art | Commerce | Exhibitions | Literature | Patronage | Subscription
… sur les pratiques sociales britanniques qu’elle livre dans son autobiographie. People > Art and Literature Mots-clés Aristocracy Emigration French Revolution Portrait Travel Women Fille du peintre de pastels Louis Vigée, sœur aînée d’un … sur l’art en Europe (1750-1850). Essais (Paris : Publications de l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, 2012). … Aristocracy … Emigration … French Revolution … Portrait … Travel … Women … Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun …
Aristocracy | Emigration | French Revolution | Portrait | Travel | Women
… à la quête de sociabilité de ses acteurs. Practices > Associational culture Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Mots-clés Aristocracy Commerce Freemasonry Hospitality Entre-soi aristocratique et mondain En 1736, paraît Cérémonies et coutumes … Margaret C., The Origins of Freemasonry. Facts & Fictions (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). … Aristocracy … Commerce … Freemasonry … Hospitality … Freemasonry …
… of the entertainment, and conversation also took up a fair amount of time. As in the Bluestocking salons, members of the aristocracy freely mixed with the talented, and women, musicians as well as visitors, participated on an equal footing … of the entertainment, and conversation also took up a fair amount of time. As in the Bluestocking salons, members of the aristocracy freely mixed with the talented, and women, musicians as well as visitors, participated on an equal footing …
Art | Audience | Bluestockings | Conversation | Music