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Punch bowls [ Food & Drink ]

… of gatherings, both in domestic and non-domestic spaces. The punch bowl brought together disparate individuals for a ritual encounter and structured sociability.  Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés Punch Ceramic Tableware drinking masculinity ritual Celebration Conviviality Punch was a drink made from a blend of alcohol spirit, fruit, sugar, spices and water. … who might be associated with wine and those in the lower and plebeian ranks who would drink beer. 1 1 . Karen Harvey, ‘Ritual encounters: punch parties and masculinity in the eighteenth century’, Past and Present, (no. 214, 2012), pp. …

Toasting glass [ Food & Drink ]

… individuals, clubs and political organizations. Both resistant and elegant, new ranges of glasses were produced for the ritual of toasting. Special toastmaster glasses and custom-made glassware become part of clubs’ identity-sustaining … tastes and social standing, or political identities. Objects > Food & Drink Mots-clés Glass Tableware drinking Toasting ritual In the course of the seventeenth century, toasting, or health-drinking as it was known, evolved into a ritual that spread across all social categories. The custom of drinking out of communal bowls or cups was increasingly …

Hospitality (in the writings of James Cook and Watkin Tench) [ Social interaction / Mobility / Rituals & Ceremonies ]

… se manifeste le degré de sociabilité en Australie. Concepts > Social interaction Practices > Mobility Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Mots-clés Gift James Cook Watkin Tench travel literature Australia exploration Pacific Reciprocity ritual Le XVIII ème siècle est marqué par une vague de voyages outre-mer par lesquels scientifiques, botanistes, … en Australie. … Gift … James Cook … Watkin Tench … travel literature … Australia … exploration … Pacific … Reciprocity … ritual … Hospitality (in the writings of James Cook and Watkin Tench) …

Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) [ Cities / Politics & Society ]

… Places > Cities Practices > Politics & Society Mots-clés Civitas Codes Fashion Healing Health Invalid leisure Politeness ritual Spa The transformation of Bath in the long eighteenth century occurred against a background of urban, … the Woods, as interpreters of Palladianism, tried to eliminate conflict from the spa through the implementation of a ritual and encouraged the harmonious cohabitation of the sexes and of the middling orders with high society, often termed … body together with the body politic.   … Civitas … Codes … Fashion … Healing … Health … Invalid … leisure … Politeness … ritual … Spa … Bath (and the reinvention of spa sociability) …

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

… century with distinctions between sociability and conviviality. It also describes the use of the term, and the specific rituals associated with convivial culture. Practices > Eating & Drinking Practices > Rituals & Ceremonies Concepts > Character Concepts > Social interaction Mots-clés Conviviality Toasting Speech-making … gathering that developed in the late eighteenth century which emphasized eating and drinking accompanied by a series of ritualized forms of entertainment such as collective singing, toasting, and speech-making. The term ’ convivial ’ derives …

Foxhunting [ Games & Sports ]

… hunting it was useful rather than noble or heroic.  But in the eighteenth century, the sport began adopting many of the rituals and vocabulary of older hunting practices and was transformed into a fast-paced and fashionable pursuit. … to demonstrate their riding ability to those who mattered. As foxhunting rose in status, so did it take over some of the rituals associated with deer-hunting in earlier times.  The killing of the deer, for example, had been dignified with a … hunting it was useful rather than noble or heroic.  But in the eighteenth century, the sport began adopting many of the rituals and vocabulary of older hunting practices and was transformed into a fast-paced and fashionable pursuit. … sports …