Presidential Address: The Treaty of Seville (1729)

1933 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 1-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Lodge
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Active Part ◽  
Special Study ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Interstate Relations ◽  
Minor Problem ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
Senior Colleague

The first impulse to make a special study of the Treaty of Seville came from my interest in the career of that eminent diplomatist, Benjamin Keene, on whom I discoursed at some length last February. But at that time my attention was concentrated upon Keene's second mission to Spain from 1749 to 1757, and I only gave a very superficial glance at his earlier mission from 1727 to 1739. In reference to this I stated that he played an active part in bringing about the Treaty of Seville, that he was deposed at the last minute from being the sole English signatory of the treaty by the return of William Stanhope, and that he felt some chagrin because all the credit and reward for making that treaty went to his senior colleague, whereas he himself received no recognition of his services. There was no doubt about his discontent, because I found frank expression of it in his letters, but I was curious to ascertain how far this discontent was justified. The study of this minor problem led me on to consider the importance of the treaty in the history of Europe. I came to the conclusion that it was a notable landmark in the rather tangled diplomacy of the second and third decades of the eighteenth century. The tangle arose from the temporary dislocation of interstate relations in Europe from normal into abnormal grooves, and a prominent cause of that dislocation was that national interests were largely superseded or overshadowed by dynastic claims and uncertainties.

scholarly journals Ricerche sul teatro classico spagnolo in Italia e oltralpe (secoli XVI-XVIII)

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Multidisciplinary Approach ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Italian History ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
European Theatre ◽  
Theatrical Companies

At the height of its development and up to the eighteenth century, the Spanish classical theatre significantly contributed to the formation of the modern European theatre. Theatre texts and theatrical companies were in fact circulating outside the Iberian peninsula and the Spanish experience of theatre triggered literary debates and reflections that played a central role to the cultural history of Europe, from Neoclassicism to the beginnings of Romanticism. It is a complex phenomenon crossing linguistically and culturally diversified territories, and which therefore needs an inter- and multidisciplinary approach. We tried to respond to this need by involving scholars and researchers in the fields of Hispanic, French, Italian, history of entertainment and musicology for the drafting of this volume.

scholarly journals Honos alit artes. Studi per il settantesimo compleanno di Mario Ascheri. IV. L’età moderna e contemporanea

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social History ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Administration Of Justice ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
The Relationship

The studies included in this volume analyze the legal and social history of Europe and North America by the end of the eighteenth century to the contemporary age. The study investigates the relationship between culture and legal status (science, law and government), the administration of justice and the transformation of the legal professions. That lights up the separation, in the whole complex of Western legal tradition, that identifies the countries of the common law.

Presidential Address: Sir Benjamin Keent, K.B.: A Study in Anglo-Spanish relations in the earlier Part of the Eighteenth

1932 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 1-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Lodge
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Special Study ◽  
Smith College ◽  
Hundred Years War ◽  
Trade Disputes ◽  
Spanish History ◽  
Domestic Trade ◽  
Anglo American

During the Anglo-American Conference last July I made the acquaintance of an American Professor who was engaged in a special study of Anglo-Spanish relations in the eighteenth century. She (for the Professor was feminine) made some observations that interested me. She said that the century was often described as the period of a second Hundred Years' War between England and France, but that this might be more accurately described as a Hundred Years' War between England and Spain. She added that the cause of that war was trade disputes. I, with my head full of the asiento and the permitted ship, replied that there were constant quarrels about colonial trade, but she contended that England was equally interested in the domestic trade with Spain itself. Subsequently she was kind enough to send me some interesting papers on Spanish history in the eighteenth century which she had contributed to the Smith College Studies in History.

Presidential Address: Can the History of Science be History?

1969 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 207-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Rupert Hall
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
International Meeting ◽  
Scientific Texts ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
Century Thought

It was in the closing year of the nineteenth century that Paul Tannery organized at an international historical congress the first international meeting devoted to the history of science. If antiquity would make a scholarly subject respectable, scholarship in the history of science must be beyond reproach; still earlier than Tannery and his colleagues in many European countries were the German historian of chemistry Kopp, and William Whewell, Master of Trinity; the eighteenth century had produced substantial works like those on mathematics and astronomy of Montucla and Delambre; Isaac Vossius and others virtually take these studies back to the Renaissance and Polydore Vergil. Just as in our day such classical scholars as Heiberg, Bailey, Housman, Drachman or Peck have chosen scientific texts as their subjects, so in the past, too, learning and science have met on this common ground. Few creative mathematicians of the seventeenth century thought that attention to the writings of Euclid or Archimedes was a waste of time.

Presidential Address: The Mission of Henry Legge to Berlin, 1748

1931 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Richard Lodge
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Good Deal ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
As If

I have written a good deal about diplomacy during the War of the Austrian Succession, in defiance of Carlyle, who calls it “an unintelligible, huge, English-and-Foreign Delirium … a universal rookery of Diplomatists, whose loud cackle and cawing is now as if gone mad to us; their work wholly fallen putrescent and avoidable, dead to all creatures.” But I have never found occasion to say all that I wanted to say about a curious and little known episode that occurred just about the close of the war. Some interesting letters about Legge's mission to Berlin were printed in the first of Archdeacon Coxe's massive volumes on The Administration of Henry Pelham. But these letters serve to whet rather than to satisfy the enquirer's appetite, and there is a great deal more material in the Record Office and in the Newcastle Papers. Also it is possible in the present day to find in the sixth volume of Frederick's Politische Correspondenz ample accounts of the mission from the Prussian point of view. As I have had occasion to survey all this evidence, it occurred to me that I might fill an obvious gap in my studies of the diplomacy of the period by taking Legge's mission as the subject of my Presidential Address, and by endeavouring to bring out is connection with the general history of Europe and especially with the contemporary negotitations at Aix-la-chappelle.

The Wilmot Committee: Redefining Relief and National Interest in Britain during the French Revolution

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Hannah Weiss Muller
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Charitable Giving ◽  
National Interest ◽  
British Government ◽  
National Interests ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relief Efforts

Abstract Although anti-Catholicism and anti-Jacobinism primed many Britons to fear what one observer called “the hordes of vagabond French” who reached their shores in the fall of 1792, others launched widespread relief efforts. Among the more remarkable was the Wilmot Committee. This subscription charity convened in September 1792, channeling donations from the public to destitute French priests at a time when the British government remained hesitant to directly aid refugees from revolutionary France. This article situates the committee's particular structures in both their eighteenth-century philanthropic contexts and Britain's history of aid to foreign refugees. It then traces interconnections between charitable giving and wartime exigencies, arguing that the Wilmot Committee, which managed relief efforts first to clergy and then also to laity throughout the subsequent war years in an evolving partnership with government, played a crucial role in shaping and shifting attitudes toward foreigners during an era of ideological revolution. Ultimately, the committee worked alongside legislation like the Aliens and Emigrant Corps Acts to underline that foreigners of different religious persuasions—provided their loyalties were confirmed, their principles appropriate, and their backgrounds appealing—might be mobilized to strengthen national interests. By the 1790s, shared opposition to revolutionary republican ideology came to supersede shared Protestantism in predicting foreigners’ utility to Britain.

Carlo Denina’s Lettres Critiques: Transnational History in an Age of Information Overload

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 519-541
Author(s):  
Edward Jones Corredera
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Information Overload ◽  
Transnational History ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
French Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Of Europe ◽  
Age Of Information

Abstract This article recovers the transnational historical approach of the eighteenth-century Piedmontese thinker Carlo Denina (1731-1813) and his Lettres Critiques. The Lettres, which have remained largely overlooked to this day, addressed a number of cultural debates on the epistemology of the Encyclopédie, the art of translation, and European geopolitics, by drawing on a transnational approach to the history of Europe. This article frames Denina’s transnational gaze in the context of early modern concerns over information overload and eighteenth-century ideas of cultural superiority and alterity. The article follows the ways the Lettres Critiques addressed three querelles: Morvilliers’ 1782 rhetorical attack on Spain, German debates on the merits of French culture and the nature of knowledge, and Madrid’s protracted response to William Robertson’s History of America (1777). The article sheds light on an overlooked eighteenth-century vision of transnational history as a solution to embryonic forms of nationalism and the politicization of knowledge.

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