Chapter 6. Competing Logics of Public Order: Matrimony and the Fight against Illicit Sexuality in Germany and Switzerland from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

2016 ◽  
pp. 176-200 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Illicit Sexuality

Respectable Mistresses

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole von Germeten
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Legal History ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Sexually Active ◽  
History Of

This chapter begins with a quote from the celebrated seventeenth-century Mexico City Poet, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, highlighting the hypocritical intersection between gender and sexuality in this era. The focus here is on the legal history of eighteenth-century middle class women who retained a degree of public honor as they took part in sex work inside their homes.The confused eighteenth-century reactions by church, state, and neighbors to sexually active women often derived from increased opportunities for permitted or at least tolerated socializing between the sexes. These new social spaces challenged official ideas of public order and permissible gender interaction.

Mira lo que hace el diablo: The Devil in Mexican Popular Culture, 1750-1856

2002 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonya Lipsett-Rivera
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Popular Culture ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Late Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sharp Knife ◽  
The One ◽  
Illicit Sexuality ◽  
The Devil

As she lay bleeding to death from an accidental knife wound, María Josefa Vargas said to her husband: “Look what the Devil has done (Mira lo que hace el diablo).” María Josefa and her husband, José Rosario, were both indigenous, natives of Almoloya and Tenancingo respectively, and at the time living in Malinalco in the Valley of Mexico. They had been fighting playfully over some meat that María Josefa had bought to make cecina Mock anger and a very sharp knife made for bad companions, and José Rosario accidentally cut María Josefa in the leg.María Josefa's words are one of those elusive examples of the key place occupied by the Devil in Mexican popular culture in the late eighteenth century. By the late colonial period the Devil seems to have become more of a concern for rural Mexicans, particularly within indigenous communities, than he had been before. Once a European import, the Devil had become a more evident part of the symbols used by Indians in the countryside. He had become less of a concern to Church and State authorities and was rather used to explain accidents, such as the one cited above, but more frequently as an excuse or a reason for unacceptable conduct, such as violence or illicit sexuality.

scholarly journals The Plague of the Blue Locusts

1975 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert D. Storch ◽  
F. Engels
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Reform Movement ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Great Success ◽  
Collective Mind ◽  
The Social ◽  
Significant Extension ◽  
Peripheral Areas ◽  
Urban Disorder

The implantation of a modern police in the industrial districts of Northern England resulted from a new consensus among the propertied classes that it was necessary to create a professional, bureaucratically organized lever of urban discipline and permanently introduce it into the heart of working-class communities. The coming of the new police represented a significant extension into hitherto geographically peripheral areas of both the moral and political authority of the state. This was to be accomplished by the creation of a powerful and quite modern device – a bureaucracy of official morality. By 1840 it came to be “an axiom in police that you guard St. James by watching St. Giles”. This was a novel attitude. Eighteenth-century governments and the upper classes in general were surely apprehensive of the movements of the lower orders, but did not consider it either useful or necessary to watch St Giles all the time. One could learn what one needed to know about what was on the collective mind of St Giles when it rioted; one might even use or manipulate its riots in useful ways as the reform movement of 1830–32 did with great success. Previous to the nineteenth century urban disorder was not necessarily perceived as subversive of the social order. “Provided that the ruler did his duty, the populace was prepared to defend him with enthusiasm. But if he did not, it rioted until he did. This mechanism was perfectly understood by both sides, and caused no political problems beyond a little occasional destruction of property […]. Since the riots were not directed against the social system, public order could remain surprisingly lax by modern standards.”

Hoarding, Speculation, and the Public Order of the Market in France, End of the Eighteenth Century–1914

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (03) ◽  
pp. 727-759
Author(s):  
Alessandro Stanziani
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Industrial Concentration ◽  
Old Regime ◽  
The Public ◽  
Gradual Development ◽  
New Phenomena ◽  
Regulated Competition

France regulated competition through the gradual development of jurisprudence rooted in Old Regime practices of speculation and hoarding. This article aims to understand the reasons for this institutional legacy in order to determine if and how these norms could be adapted to the new phenomena of industrial concentration as they appeared at the turn of the nineteenth century.I argue that French regulation of futures trades and speculation are aimed to stabilize and enhance markets and not to limit them, and that continuities in market and capitalism regulation were much more important than usually held.

scholarly journals Official Objectives of the Visitatio Leprosorum: Ambiguity, Ambivalence, and Variance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luke Demaitre
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Hansen's Disease ◽  
Hansen’S Disease ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Western European ◽  
Ongoing Project

Until the eighteenth century, authorities regularly responded to reports of leprosy by ordering a formal examination, resulting in a certified judgment on the health and future of the suspect. This chapter is part of an ongoing project involving the collation of 600 certificates, recorded between 1250 and 1807, and preserved in Western European archives, set in the wider context of urban regulations, institutional statutes, and royal or imperial edicts. Contrary to prevailing stereotypes, public responses to leprosy varied quantitatively, qualitatively, regionally, and chronologically. A wide range of dynamics beyond the issue of contagion, which monopolizes retrospective discussions of Hansen’s disease, is apparent. Public order was more often the paramount concern of examiners, while separation did not necessarily equate with exclusion.

“Quite a Genteel and Extreamly Commodious House”

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vaughn Scribner
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Differentiation ◽  
Public Order ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
British North America ◽  
Low Country ◽  
And Control ◽  
Eastern Seaboard

When investigated through the tavern space, the processes of social differentiation so often associated with more populated northern “urban crucibles” appear less geographically determined than previously supposed. Colonial elites throughout British North America attempted to impose order and control over society during the eighteenth century. Elites’ quest for social differentiation and public order thus went beyond place. Whether patricians’ efforts occurred in Williamsburg or New York, such endeavors centered around the colonies’ most popular, accessible, and numerous public space—the tavern. This article will use Chesapeake and Low Country taverns to demonstrate, through outwardly broad but nonetheless effective comparisons with taverns in the northern colonies, that colonists throughout the eastern seaboard experienced very similar processes of social differentiation despite living thousands of miles apart. The tavern places Chesapeake and Low Country urban centers on an equal footing with their northern counterparts in their contributions to elites’ attempts at order and control.

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