Review: Rabbi, Mystic, or Impostor? The Eighteenth-Century Ba’al Shem of London

Philanthropy and police: London charity in the eighteenth century

on the passions and errors of the soul, published in 1525. Such criticisms, however, do not detract from the main value of this book as a clear exposition in English of interesting and, in their own day, influential theories of the emotions. First of all, we want to compliment Dr Paul Maquet from Belgium for this highly accomplished translation of a difficult text. "latrophysics" is a concept i...

Charitable knowledge: hospital pupils and practitioners in eighteenth-century London

Over the past fifteen years, many aspects of the eighteenth-century British medical world have received the attention of historians. To this already sizeable and growing literature, Susan C Lawrence's book Charitable knowledge makes an impressive addition. What is distinctive about her contribution is its imaginative synthesis of many strands of development and its larger aim of demonstrating w...

Aestheticizing the ancestral city: antiquarianism, topography and the representation of London in the long eighteenth century.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755) defined `Metropolis' as the `mother city'. Forged from the Greek m et er, the use of maternal metaphors for London had a long tradition in literature which reached its emotive peak in the poetic responses to the Great Fire of 1666. A notable case in point is Roger l'Estrange's Vox Civitatis: or, London's Call to her Natural and Adopted Children; Exciting them ...

Literature of the Eighteenth Century

Eighteenth century in England was an age equal to the age of Augustus Caesar, when the Roman society had reached the peak of its glory. The name Augustan Age was chosen by writers who saw in Pope, Addison, Swift, Johnson and Burke the modern parallels to Horace, Virgil and Cicero, and all that brilliant company who made Roman literature famous in the day of Augustus. Past ages of England were l...

The case of the British inquisition: money and women in mid-eighteenth-century London debating societies.