Aurea mediocritas? The Middling Sort of People in the English-Speaking World in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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Aurea mediocritas? The Middling Sort of People in the English-Speaking World in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
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The 2014 volume addressed “Measure and Excess” in a variety of perspectives ranging from human temper to literary genres, from barbarian mores to the luxury of the opera, and from population counts to the severity of laws. For its 40th anniversary in 2015, the Society chose as its main focus of interest those of modest means, the middling sort of people, and raised the question of whether they embodied “the golden mean,” or in the words of Horace, “aurea mediocritas,” as they neither sank to ...
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Sippel, Alexandra
Publisher
Société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
XVII-XVIII
Date
2016-04-04
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
article
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urn:doi:10.4000/1718.352
http://journals.openedition.org/1718/352
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en
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info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/0291-3798
info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2117-590X
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