Philip De la Cour (1710–1785), a Jewish Physician in eighteenth-century London and Bath

2019 ◽  
pp. 096777201988676
Author(s):  
Kenneth Collins
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Jewish Physician

Portugal exiled its Jews in 1497. In 1536, the Portuguese Inquisition began to persecute Jews who continued to practice their religion in secret. It became difficult for the secret Jews to leave Portugal, but small communities of emigres grew up around Europe, especially in London, Amsterdam and Salonica (Thessaloniki), and beyond. As the Portuguese Inquisition became more active in the early decades of the eighteenth-century, Jews, who had been accustomed to practising their religion in secret, while outwardly conforming to Catholicism, were again sought out for persecution. Philip De la Cour's parents escaped from Portugal and arrived in London around 1707 and his eventful life in London and Bath illustrates many of the aspects of eighteenth-century Jewish medical life.

Telescope and Microscope. A micro-historical approach to global China in the eighteenth century

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 1315-1344
Author(s):  
EUGENIO MENEGON
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Global Networks ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Chinese Christians ◽  
Statistical Series ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century

AbstractOne of the challenges of global history is to bridge the particularities of individual lives and trajectories with the macro-historical patterns that develop over space and time. Italian micro-history, particularly popular in the 1980s–1990s, has excavated the lives of small communities or individuals to test the findings of serial history and macro-historical approaches. Micro-history in the Anglophone world has instead focused more on narrative itself, and has shown, with some exceptions, less interest for ampler historiographical conclusions.Sino-Western interactions in the early modern period offer a particularly fruitful field of investigation, ripe for a synthesis of the global and the micro-historical. Cultural, social, and economic phenomena can be traced in economic and statistical series, unpublished correspondence, and other non-institutional sources, in part thanks to the survival of detailed records of the activities of East India companies and missionary agencies in China. Recent scholarship has started to offer new conclusions, based on such Western records and matching records in the Chinese historical archive.In this article, I offer a methodological reflection on ‘global micro-history’, followed by four micro-historical ‘vignettes’ that focus on the economic and socio-religious activities of the Roman Catholic mission in Beijing in the long eighteenth century. These fragments uncover unexplored facets of Chinese life in global contexts from the point of view of European missionaries and Chinese Christians in the Qing capital—‘end users’ of the local and global networks of commerce and religion bridging Europe, Asia, Africa, and South and Central America.

scholarly journals Obraz życia wspólnotowego w dobie średniopolskiej na podstawie górnośląskich ksiąg sądowych

2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-188
Author(s):  
Mirosława Siuciak
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Process Writing ◽  
Thought Process ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Court Records ◽  
Legal Rules ◽  
Legal Texts ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
Financial Transactions

The article presents excerpts from Polish-language court records made from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century in Upper Silesia. Emerging from these books is an image of life in small communities as seen through the lens of financial transactions, inheritance processes, financial claims within families, cases of disorderly behaviourand violations of social order. The quoted fragments show how the society and the officials representing it managed establishing legal rules for the community and how legal texts were constructed. Although they reflect the schematic manner typical of official regulations, many of the phrases they include allow us to recreate the method used for the construction of the text or even their author’s thought process (writing it or commissioning its writing to a qualified official). These texts provide an opportunity to reconstruct the system of values that served as a basis for the functioning of a given community and the internal hierarchy that guaranteed social order.

The Financial Condition of Parish Priests in late Eighteenth-Century Malta

2002 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
FRANS CIAPPARA
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Financial Condition ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Late Eighteenth ◽  
Personal Wealth ◽  
Parish Priests

Parish priests in late eighteenth-century Malta often grumbled about their poverty, but their excuses were generally self-serving and related to the financial demands of their bishop; like incumbents in mainland Europe, they were not in a bad financial situation. Their relative affluence was a result of revenues such as tithes, mass legacies and surplice fees. In small communities this income may have been tiny, but parish priests were not entirely dependent on parochial revenues, since they were generally drawn from middle-rank families and might possess personal wealth in addition.

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