Eloquence and Education. School Rhetoric in Eighteenth-Century Sweden

Educating the senses: students, teachers and medical rhetoric in eighteenth-century London

Around Europe. School health education in Sweden.

We thank Dr. K. W. Cross of the hospital statistics department who provided the figures for emergency and non-emergency admissions to Birmingham Children's Hospirtal and Mrs. Irene Brown and Mrs. Margaret Hall who helped with the statistical analysis. We a,r especially graweful to Professor W. H. Trethowan who provided valuable crifticism and encouragement throughout the course of the study and...

Games of life and death: The judicial uses of dice in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Sweden

Gambling studies should take a broad view of the field and consider activities that are not strictly gambling but similar to it, such as cleromancy and secular uses of drawing of lots, to give us perspective on societal and cultural aspects of gambling. This paper presents historical data on judicial uses of throwing dice in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Sweden. The focus is on cases of man...

Eighteenth-Century Europe

Chapter 6: Varieties of the Public Sphere To this point, we have encountered changes, as well as continuity, in European politics, economics, society, and thought. Each of these developments contributed to a transformation that some consider the most fundamental transformation of the century -the emergence, between the state sector and private economic sphere, of autonomous institutions of civi...

Eighteenth-Century Europe