Transactions of the Royal Historical Society

Publishes general papers and a section on English politeness: conduct, social rank and moral virtue.

Résumé
Volume 12 publishes a themed section on 'English politeness: conduct, social rank and moral virtue, c.1400-c.1900'. Other papers include England and the Continent in the Ninth Century; Travellers and the Oriental City, c.1840-1920; The Myths of the South Sea Bubble.

Contenu

Presidential address: England and the Continent in the ninth century: I, ends and beginnings Janet L. Nelson; 1. Some pardoners' tales: the earliest English indulgences Nicholas Vincent; 2. Travellers and the Oriental city, c.1840 1920 Mark Mazower; 3. Individualising the Atlantic slave trade: the biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua of Djougou (1854) Robin Law; 4. The myths of the South Sea Bubble Julian Hoppit; 5. The place of Tudor England in the messianic vision of Philip II of Spain Geoffrey Parker; 6. The charity of early modern Londoners Ian W. Archer; 7. Matrix of modernity? (The Colin Matthew Memorial Lecture) Roy Porter; English Politeness: Conduct, Social Rank and Moral Virtue, c.1400 c.1900: A Conference Held at the Huntingdon Library, San Marino, California, USA, 14 15 September 2001, and the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, 24 November 2001: Introduction John Tosh; 8. From civilitas to civility: codes of manners in medieval and early modern England John Gillingham; 9. Rank manners and display: the gentlemanly house, 1500 1750 Nicholas Cooper; 10. The uses of eighteenth-century politeness Paul Langford; 11. Polite 'persons': character, biography and the gentleman Philip Carter; 12. Topographies of politeness R. H. Sweet; 13. Polite consumption: shopping in eighteenth-century England Helen Berry; 14. Creating a veil of silence? Politeness and marital violence in the English household Elizabeth Foyster; 15. Courses in politeness: the upbringing and experience of five teenage diarists, 1671 1860 Anthony Fletcher; 16. The brash colonial: class and comportment in nineteenth-century Australia Penny Russell; 17. Gentlemanly politeness and manly simplicity in Victorian England John Tosh; Report of council for 2001 2.