Justin Champion, John Coffey, Tim Harris, and John Marshall, eds. Politics, Religion and Ideas in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain: Essays in Honour of Mark Goldie. Studies in Early Modern Cultural, Political and Social History 34. Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019. Pp. 363. $115.00 (cloth).

2020 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
Johann Sommerville
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social History ◽  
Eighteenth Century Britain ◽  
John Marshall

Bourgeoisie

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Maza
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social History ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
French History ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

The concept of a group called “the bourgeoisie” is unusual in being both central to early modern and modern European history, and at the same time highly controversial. In old regime France, people frequently used the words “bourgeois” or “bourgeoisie” but what they meant by them was very different from the meaning historians later assigned to those terms. In the nineteenth century the idea of a “bourgeoisie” became closely associated with Marxian historical narratives of capitalist ascendancy. Does it still make sense to speak of a “bourgeoisie”? This article attempts to lay out and clarify the terms of the problem by posing a series of questions about this aspect of the social history of Ancien Régime France, with a brief look across the Channel for comparison. It considers first the problem of definition: what was and is meant by “the bourgeoisie” in the context of early modern French history? Second, what is the link between eighteenth-century economic change and the existence and nature of such a group, and can we still connect the origins of the French Revolution to the “rise” of a bourgeoisie? And finally, can the history of perceptions and representations of a bourgeoisie or middle class help us to understand why the concept has been so problematic in the longer run of French history?

Picturing Art History in Eighteenth-Century Britain

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-113
Author(s):  
Edward Wouk
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Art History ◽  
Northern European ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Alps ◽  
Eighteenth Century Britain ◽  
Modern Artists

Rylands English MS 60, compiled for the Spencer family in the eighteenth century, contains 130 printed portraits of early modern artists gathered from diverse sources and mounted in two albums: 76 portraits in the first volume, which is devoted to northern European artists, and 54 in the second volume, containing Italian and French painters. Both albums of this ‘Collection of Engravings of Portraits of Painters’ were initially planned to include a written biography of each artist copied from the few sources available in English at the time, but that part of the project was abandoned. This article relates English MS 60 to shifting practices of picturing art history. It examines the rise of printed artists’ portraits, tracing the divergent histories of the genre south and north of the Alps, and explores how biographical approaches to the history of art were being replaced, in the eighteenth century, by the development of illustrated texts about art.

Ruly and Unruly Passions: Early Modern Perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 ◽  
pp. 21-38
Author(s):  
Elizabeth S. Radcliffe
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
David Hume ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nicolas Malebranche ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Famous Argument ◽  
Eighteenth Century Britain ◽  
Ralph Cudworth

AbstractA survey of theories on the passions and action in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain and western Europe reveals that few, if any, of the major writers held the view that reason in any of its functions executes action without a passion. Even rationalists, like Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth and English clergyman Samuel Clarke, recognized the necessity of passion to action. On the other hand, many of these intellectuals also agreed with French philosophers Jean-François Senault, René Descartes, and Nicolas Malebranche that, for passions to be useful or to become virtues, they must be governed by reason. Without the moderation of reason, passions will be unruly, distort our notions of good, and disrupt our rational volitions. In response to these popular early modern perspectives, Enlightenment thinker David Hume offered a now-famous argument that reason without passion cannot motivate, drawing the further conclusion that reason cannot govern the passions, either. Given that no one in Hume's era seemed to defend the claim that reason alone can motivate action, what was Hume's intention?

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2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 84-119
Author(s):  
Paul Hyland ◽  
R. C. Richardson ◽  
Ivan Roots ◽  
Elizabeth Truax ◽  
Stevie Simkin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Local History ◽  
Annotated Bibliography ◽  
Arthurian Legend ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Eighteenth Century Britain ◽  
Restoration England ◽  
British Culture
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