Edinburgh clubs and societies [ Clubs & Societies / Associational culture ]
… upper-class society as well as with the intellectual and working circles of Edinburgh. In particular, it assesses their influence and impact on both the Scottish Enlightenment and the evolution of Scotland’s relation with England during the … 1 Up until the nineteenth century, they were all exclusively based in the Old Town. These places of sociability were influenced by the Enlightenment ideas circulating mainly in France at the time. The traditional privileged relationship … intellectual and political networks In the context of the Auld Alliance and of the institutional Union of 1707, the influence of France was decisive in the fast and successful dissemination of Enlightenment ideas and manners through …
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