Daily Life in 18th-Century England, by Kirsten Olsen.Daily Life in 18th-Century England, by Kirsten Olsen. Westport, Connecticut, Greenwood Press, 1999. xiv, 416 pp. $45.00 U.S. (cloth).

2000 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 549-550
Author(s):  
Donna T. Andrew
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life

scholarly journals NEW IMAGES OF THE OB-UGRIC CULTURE: THE TRACES OF ISLAM IN THE RELIGIOUS ORNAMENT

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 325-330
Author(s):  
Olga Nikolaevna Naumenko
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Population ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Greek Orthodox ◽  
The North ◽  
Applied Art ◽  
New Phenomena ◽  
External Borrowing ◽  
Muslim Culture

The article considers the process of transformation of the Ob Ugrian culture on the basis of the analysis of the unique collection of objects of decorative and applied art of the XVII-XXI centuries. This process reflects the formation of a group with a syncretic culture (Ob-Ugric Istiaks). The action of the frontier through contacts with the Siberian Tatars led to the enrichment of culture through external borrowing. The author draws attention to the fact that the Ob Ugrians were ready for cultural transformation within the framework of adoption of other, but necessary norms for survival. The article emphasizes that the Orthodox missionaries were “late” in relation to this part of the Ob Ugrians, since by the 18th century Islam (in the regional version) had already become a part of their spiritual and daily life. Evolutionary processes have led to new phenomena in the Ugric culture. The author analyzes the decorative ornaments of the felon on wooden sculptures of Nikolay Mozhaisky of the 17th century, comparing them with ornaments of the indigenous population of the North, objects related to Christian and Muslim culture. The author’s attention was drawn to the chess ornament. In the process of the analysis several hypotheses of its origin are put forward - from the connection with the Greek Orthodox culture to the reflection of the Northern traditions and the Muslim ornament-girih in its Siberian version: the article focuses on the latter option. Ob-Ugric culture is syncretic in its content, covers a variety of forms of customs, faith, language, life. In the present article the author makes a certain contribution to the study of this problem, highlighting one of the sides of the original Ob-Ugric culture.

scholarly journals Colonists and the Natural Environment in 18th Century Sydney

2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-37
Author(s):  
Graeme Aplin
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Moment

Early European inhabitants of Sydney found themselves in a strange natural environment, far removed from those of the Britain they had left behind. They reacted to it in various ways, were constrained by it in various ways, and began to change their new environment from the moment they first stepped ashore. This study focuses on the two-way interaction between humans and nature, from the landing of the First Fleet to the end of the 18th century. It primarily uses first-hand accounts, attempting to read between the lines or deconstruct them to gain a possible overview of the range of early European reactions to the Sydney environment, and to at least begin to understand them. It also uses this evidence to look at and better understand the constraints that the environment placed on the daily life of the colonists in early Sydney, as well as the ways in which those early Sydneysiders changed their environment. Later historical works and more recent studies of Sydney’s natural environment are also used to help in furthering these understandings.

Life in the foreign quarters of Canton: The case of the Swedish East India Company in the long eighteenth century

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 798-802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Hellman
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
East India Company ◽  
Small Space ◽  
Intercultural Interaction ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Special Relations ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century

This note describes a project analysing the everyday life in the foreign quarters of Canton, focusing on the Swedish East India Company employees 1730–1830. Canton was a well-known hub in the global trade during the long 18th century. However, it had strict restrictions on the foreign traders. Additionally, this port had a complex make-up in terms of ethnicity, class and religion, and I argue for the need to take its many groups into account. The Swedish company is a rare topic of study compared to other, larger companies, but it provides an unusual perspective: that of the small and non-colonial European company meeting a large and powerful Asian empire. The intercultural interaction in Canton took place in a very small space. This environment, in a restricted space, under Asian control, with many different groups, made for special relations among the foreign traders, and between the foreigners. This is particularly clear when focusing on the everyday life. I have studied the daily life Swedish employees in terms of how they acted as parts of groups, how they lived in this cramped space, their communication (amongst themselves and with others), their consumption and material practices, and finally which practices and strategies they used to establish trust.

Urban Landscapes: Houses, Streets and Squares of 18th Century Lisbon

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 205-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Helena Barreiros
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Street Life ◽  
Common People ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Age Of Discovery ◽  
The 19Th Century

AbstractThis article retraces Lisbon's urban evolution, both planned and spontaneous, from the beginning of the Age of Discovery until the first decades of the 19th century. It highlights the 1755 earthquake as a powerful agent of transformation of Lisbon, both of the city's image and architecture and of street life. The article begins by summing up urban policies and urban planning from Manuel I's reign (1495-1521) to João V's (1707-1750); it goes on to depict Lisbon's daily life during the Ancien Regime, focusing on the uses of public and private spaces by common people. The Pombaline plans for the rebuilding of Lisbon after the 1755 earthquake are reappraised, stressing the radically original morphology and functions of the new streets and housing types. The contrast between pre- and post-1755 Lisbon's public spaces is sharp, in both their design and use, and gradually streetscape became increasely regulated in accordance with emergent bourgeois social and urban values. More than a century later, the city's late 19th- and early 20th-century urban development still bore the mark of Pombaline plans, made just after 1755, for the revived Portuguese capital.

scholarly journals Book Review: Daily Life in 18th-Century England, 2nd ed.

2017 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Michael Hawkins
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Race And Class ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Broad Overview

Kirstin Olsen’s book provided a broad overview of England in the eighteenth century. It offers insight into what is considered the “every day” for the populace of eighteenth-century England. Olsen focuses on everything from gender and marriage to science to clothing and fashion. Each chapter is a written account of how the subject was a part of the daily life of a person. Accounts include things such as how they would have used certain clothing items, what type of books many were reading, and how science interacted with their lives. Each chapter’s information is supported by selected primary sources and accompanied by a further reading section. Any student interested in gender, race, and class issues in eighteenth-century England will find this a useful resource.

scholarly journals O życiu rodzinnym i edukacji córek księcia Franciszka Ksawerego de Saxe w świetle dokumentów Archives départemantales de l’Aube

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Jakuboszczak
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Electronic Version ◽  
Complex World ◽  
Educational Progress ◽  
Royal Family ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
History Of

Francis Xavier of Saxony, the son of Augustus III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, left a very extensive correspondence, which has been preserved until our times in the Departmental Archives in Troyes. The collection constitutes a very important source for the history of everyday life and the history of education of aristocracy in the 18th century. A part of the collection is available in the electronic version on the website of the Archives. Numerous children of the Prince, the sons, as well as daughters, obtained the education suitable for the royal family – comprehensive, competent, pursuing the spirit of the Enlightenment. The period of pursuing knowledge by the children of Francis Xavier was not the time of severing the ties with the parents. The relationships between the father and his sons and daughters were lasting and became more intense in the course of time. Carefully selected tutors and governesses were a very important link between the Prince and his wife and the children. Preceptors not only controlled the educational progress, but also every aspect of daily life, especially of the girls. The Prince expected detailed reports which facilitated control over the adolescent boys and girls, for whom best matches for marriage were being arranged. A complex world of relationships of Francis Xavier’s family completes for us the picture of everyday life of the ruling families, so often confined by the tight restraints of the ceremonial.

scholarly journals The Educational Functions of the First Woman’s Almanac in Britain: Media Literacy and The Ladies’ Diary, 1704–1713

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 ((2) 18) ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Anna Miegoń
Keyword(s):  
Media Literacy ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Media Content ◽  
Educational Tool ◽  
Usable Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation

While 18th-century almanacs transmitted usable information that was meant to be relevant to daily life, at the beginning of the century they also began to function as an educational tool that enabled readers to act as producers of media content, and, as a result, to develop media literacy via the practice of writing and responding to amateur poetry. In this article, I define media literacy as a cultural category shaped by specific media-related skills: the creation, interpretation, evaluation, and negotiation of media content. I examine John Tipper’s The Ladies’ Diary (1704–1713), one of the best-selling almanacs of the era, as an educational tool that, through the strategy of inviting and publishing amateur poetry, promoted and taught media competencies. Tipper’s almanac, I argue, should thus be acknowledged as an influential document in the history of media education.

Daily Life in 18th Century England (2nd edition)

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 29-31
Author(s):  
John Kendall
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life

scholarly journals Jean-Baptiste Del Amo: Bloodhound and animalist

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-376
Author(s):  
Juan Manuel Ibeas-Atlamira ◽  
Lydia Vázquez
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Symbolic World ◽  
Rake's Progress

The purpose of this paper is to study the 18th century’s sources of Une éducation libertine by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo. This immersive novel showcases a young man initiation story as a rake’s progress. Our transartistic and transtextual approach will allow us to explain the Del Amo storyworld and founts. We focus, in particular, on the daily life in Paris in 1760 (Paris, professions, money, food, cafés, theaters…), in some clichés of the 18th century (justice, sexuality, religion, ‘libertinage’…), the symbolic world of Del Amo and his onomastic exploration. We expose this approach in order to prove that this novel is a tribute to the 18th century but also to evidence that is a masterpiece of the 21th century.

scholarly journals Functional Analysis of Garments in 18th Century Burials from St. Michael’s Crypt in Vienna, Austria

2020 ◽  
pp. 123-135
Author(s):  
Karina Grömer ◽  
Michael Ullermann
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
City Center ◽  
Imperial Palace ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Textile Analysis ◽  
The City ◽  
Modern Analytical

The Michaelergruft in Vienna (St. Michael’s crypt), Austria, is located near the imperial palace Vienna and has been used between 1560 and 1784 by the local nobility of the city center in Vienna. The inventory of a large number of coffins has been preserved due to favorite environmental conditions, it offers the possibility to study specific details about the funeral customs of the 17th and 18th century in Central Europe. Selected burials dating to the 18th century from the Michaelergruft serve as case studies for developing new theoretical and methodological approaches in investigating the textiles and garments found in the coffins. Garments found in crypts usually are analysed due to costume history, aspects of conservation and preparation. Also textile analysis and modern analytical methods are applied to the material. In discussing the garments from St. Michael’s crypt, questions about the interpretation of the costume arise such as if they are “normal” daily life (or festivy) garments or specific funeral costumes. In the following paper criteria are discussed which enable to distinguish between “functional garments” worn also in daily life, “adapter garments” (daily life clothing that has been re-sewn, cut or altered to be used as garment for the dead), and “funeral costumes” that have been deliberately made.

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