A Devout and Commercial People
A Devout and Commercial People
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虔诚的商业人士
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2019
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H. Barker
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构成本章重点的商人和妇女在18世纪的当代文本中作为一个多样化而独特的社会群体出现：高于非熟练工人，但低于商人和专业人士。通过将这个基本上被忽视但很重要的社会群体整合到我们对18世纪社会的愿景中，本章将重新审视现有的对阶级和身份的理解，特别是关于“中等类型”的理解：这一群体最容易与朗福德的“一个礼貌和商业的人”联系在一起。虽然曼彻斯特的商人和女人肯定是商业性的，但不太清楚的是，他们最好的描述是礼貌。通过探索个人宗教信仰的性质以及漫长的18世纪宗教变革的影响，本章将表明，相当大一部分曼彻斯特居民的生活被他们对商业和宗教的奉献所主导，而他们倾向于忽视那些与礼貌和情感相关的更时尚的行为形式。
The tradesmen and women who form the focus of this chapter appeared in contemporary eighteenth-century texts as a diverse, yet distinct social group: above unskilled workers, but below merchants and those in the professions. By integrating this largely overlooked, but important, social group into our vision of eighteenth-century society this chapter will reconsider existing understandings of class and identity, particularly concerning the ‘middling sorts’: that group most readily associated with Langford’s A Polite and Commercial People. Though Manchester’s tradesmen and women were certainly commercial, it is not so clear that they were best described in terms of politeness. By exploring the nature of personal religious belief alongside the effects of religious change over the long eighteenth century, this chapter will suggest that the lives of a significant proportion of Manchester’s residents were dominated by their devotion to business as well as to religion, whilst they tended to ignore those more fashionable forms of behaviour associated with polite manners and sensibility.