Huguenot Contributions to England’s Intellectual Life, and England’s Intellectual Commerce with Europe, c.1680–1720

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ID23208024
AuthorsGraham C Gibbs (corresponding author)
Year1987
Pages20-41
Publication date1987-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueHuguenots in Britain and France (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/978-1-349-08176-9_2
OpenAlexW2428267114
ISBN9781349081769
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited14

England, as an island, and in part because she was an island, had always been accessible to European, or at least to Western European cultural influences. In a cultural sense the Channel had been a highway and not a moat. English culture was not insular but Western European long before the arrival in numbers of the Huguenot Diaspora of Louis XIV's reign.1 The English constitution, it is true, was very different from that of any other European country, and it became increasingly different after 1689. The English became convinced that they had no political lessons to learn from any foreigner. Nor did European travel, in the form of the increasingly fashionable Grand Tour, do anything to diminish in Englishmen their sense of the superiority of the English political system; indeed, it seems often to have confirmed that sense of superiority, narrowed the English political mind, and reinforced national prejudices and stereotypes about foreigners.2 Moreover, if the Grand Tour in many cases did little to broaden the political horizons of those English aristocratic young bloods who were obliged to engage in it — and greatly irked some of them — the real sufferers seem usually to have been their French tutors, frequently Huguenots. A tutorship in a noble household may have constituted a lifebelt to a literate and penurious Huguenot of good family, but it also constituted for some an intolerable yoke.KeywordsRoyal SocietySeventeenth CenturyIntellectual LifeEnglish NewspaperEnglish CultureThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

Constitution · Diaspora · Political science · Politics · Classics · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Historical Influence and Diplomacy · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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