Books by jettot stéphane
Chache. ch, 2023
S. Jettot, "from dynastic to national emblem", Eric Hounshell and Ruth Amstutz, Shadow of the tree.
Selling Ancestry Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Br... more Selling Ancestry Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth-Century Britain, Oxford University Press 2023
Often cited but rarely studied in their own right, family directories allow a reconsideration of how ancestry and genealogy became an object of widespread commercialization across the eighteenth century. These directories replaced the expensive, locally-produced, early modern artefacts (tombs, windowpanes, illuminated pedigrees), and began to reach a wide audience of readers in the British Isles and the colonies.
In Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2023), Dr. Stéphane Jettot offers an insight into the cumulative process leading to the creation of these hybrid products — a combination of court almanacks, county histories, and town directories. Employed by contemporaries as reference tools to navigate through a dynamic and changing society, they could be used as a means to probe contemporary attitudes towards social status and political events. Published by the most prominent London booksellers who shared their copyrights among themselves, they relied on the considerable involvement of thousands of families in the counties.
In their correspondence with publishers, many new and old elites desired to insert their own narrative into a general history of Britain by dispatching documents, quotations, and anecdotes. Based on a unique source-base, this book provides a systematic review of these directories, their production, and sale, but also their potential role in shaping the character of social change. Dr. Jettot demonstrates the wider ramifications of genealogy and its structural ability to reinvent itself, associate amateurs and antiquarians alike, and thrive on the wavering lines between facts and fiction, offering an exciting and unique insight into the social history of eighteenth-century Britain.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
Genealogy and Social Status in the Enlightenment is at the crossroads of the history of science a... more Genealogy and Social Status in the Enlightenment is at the crossroads of the history of science and the social history of cultural practices, and suggests the need for a new approach on the significance of genealogies in the Age of Enlightenment.
While their importance has been fully recognised and extensively studied in early modern Britain and in the Victorian period, the long eighteenth century has been too often presented as a black hole regarding genealogy. Enlightened values and urban sociability have been presented as inimical to the praise of ancestry and birth. In contrast, however, various studies on the continental or in the American colonies, have shed light on the many uses of genealogies, even beyond the landed elite. Whether it be in the publishing industry, in the urban corporations, in the scientific discourses, genealogy was used, not only as a resilient social practice, but also as a form of reasoning, a language and a tool to include newcomers, organise scientific and historical knowledge or to express various emotions.
This volume aims to reconsider the flexibility of genealogical practices and their perpetual reconfiguration to meet renewed expectations in the period. Far from slowly vanishing under the blows of rationalism that would have delegitimized an ancient world based on various forms of hereditary determinism, the different contributions to this collective work demonstrate that genealogy is a pervasive tool to make sense of a fast-changing society.
Le présent ouvrage porte sur les ressorts de l’entreprise généalogique. L’investigation sur la pa... more Le présent ouvrage porte sur les ressorts de l’entreprise généalogique. L’investigation sur la parenté est un choix, souvent risqué : tout l’enjeu étant ici de mieux cerner les implications sociales de cette entreprise, à la croisée de l’individuel et du collectif, en la rapportant à un contexte complexe (culturel, matériel et socio-politique). L’histoire de la généalogie proposée est ainsi clairement distincte de l’étude des formes de la parenté et de la mémoire des familles, notamment élitaires.
Dans la continuité d’enquêtes sociales récentes, cette recherche collective analyse les mécanismes des pratiques généalogiques à partir de quatre thèmes complémentaires : la place de l’événement, le jeu des liens de sociabilité et de dépendance, les supports matériels et les imaginaires de la parenté qui lui sont associés, enfin, les choix éditoriaux. Le choix d’une longue séquence, du XVe siècle à nos jours, permet de réunir une pluralité d’entreprises et d’acteurs qui y concourent, des élites princières et citadines à la noblesse seigneuriale, en passant par le milieu des libraires-éditeurs et des artisans urbains. Si les généalogies étudiées n’ont pas de siècle d’or – déterminé en général selon les critères de l’érudition –, il existe cependant des contextes déterminants, qui sont identifiés à partir d’un large éventail de cas européens, mais peuvent aussi avoir une portée européenne. Aussi la dernière partie du volume est-elle consacrée à une inflexion notable du XVIIIe siècle : le développement européen de grandes entreprises éditoriales qui, mêlant biographies et cultures lignagères, anticipent sur l’apparition du marché généalogique des Who’s who et autres Bottins mondains.
Papers by jettot stéphane
Les séances ont lieu, sauf indication contraire, le jeudi de 17h à 18h30 à la Maison de la Recher... more Les séances ont lieu, sauf indication contraire, le jeudi de 17h à 18h30 à la Maison de la Recherche de Sorbonne Université (28 rue Serpente, Paris 6 e), salle D421-https://sfbh.hypotheses.org/ Le séminaire est tributaire de la situation sanitaire. Pour éviter tout déplacement inutile, les participants sont invités à consulter le blog, ou à s'abonner à la liste de diffusion.
Le present ouvrage porte sur les ressorts de l’entreprise genealogique. L’investigation sur la pa... more Le present ouvrage porte sur les ressorts de l’entreprise genealogique. L’investigation sur la parente est un choix, souvent risque : tout l’enjeu etant ici de mieux cerner les implications sociales de cette entreprise, a la croisee de l’individuel et du collectif, en la rapportant a un contexte complexe (culturel, materiel et socio-politique). L’histoire de la genealogie proposee est ainsi clairement distincte de l’etude des formes de la parente et de la memoire des familles, notamment elitaires. Dans la continuite d’enquetes sociales recentes, cette recherche collective analyse les mecanismes des pratiques genealogiques a partir de quatre themes complementaires : la place de l’evenement, le jeu des liens de sociabilite et de dependance, les supports materiels et les imaginaires de la parente qui lui sont associes, enfin, les choix editoriaux. Le choix d’une longue sequence, du XVe siecle a nos jours, permet de reunir une pluralite d’entreprises et d’acteurs qui y concourent, des elites princieres et citadines a la noblesse seigneuriale, en passant par le milieu des libraires-editeurs et des artisans urbains. Si les genealogies etudiees n’ont pas de siecle d’or – determine en general selon les criteres de l’erudition –, il existe cependant des contextes determinants, qui sont identifies a partir d’un large eventail de cas europeens, mais peuvent aussi avoir une portee europeenne. Aussi la derniere partie du volume est-elle consacree a une inflexion notable du XVIIIe siecle : le developpement europeen de grandes entreprises editoriales qui, melant biographies et cultures lignageres, anticipent sur l’apparition du marche genealogique des Who’s who et autres Bottins mondains.
Genealogical knowledge in the making (Jost Eixkmeyer, Markus Friedrich, Volker Bauer eds), 2019
Eager to be both recognised as noble by Louis XIV and be naturalised as French, exiled Irish fami... more Eager to be both recognised as noble by Louis XIV and be naturalised as French, exiled Irish families had to provide pedigrees and genealogical documents to the administration. In exchange for a substantial fee, they were helped by a Jacobite herald in Paris who acted as broker between the families and the administration and who contributed to the drafting of credible genealogies by gathering documents from both sides of the channel. By studying the sources exchanged between the herald and his numerous correspondents, one can shed lights on the various rhetorical strategies used by the families to achieve their goals.
The English Historical Review, 2014
The Oil Paintings in Public Ownership continues its triumphal progress with the publication of th... more The Oil Paintings in Public Ownership continues its triumphal progress with the publication of this volume devoted to the Palace of Westminster. With each volume one has to wonder more and more at the National Lottery Fund's refusal to help finance its distinguished work. In addition to a small reproduction in colour, the volume provides the name of the artist with dates, title, date of execution, medium and support, dimensions and collection inventory number. Alas, one painter, Woolston (fl. 1991) lacks his forename, and 'active 1980s' is barely adequate for Susan Henderson, one of the major revelations of the volume. An anomaly should be noted: a number of the copies are given to the copyist rather than the original painter, copy by x. None of the previous catalogues published by the Public Catalogue Foundation has an index of subjects. This is perhaps generally understandable, but the omission here is serious, as a significant section is of portraits of men associated with the palace either as members, administrative officials, or regular frequenters. Surely this could have been compiled by the staff of the Parliamentary Art Collection with little effort and time? That exercise, it is true, would have highlighted the inconsistencies in the descriptions in the current lists of the holdings of the Parliamentary Art Collection. But the use of forms of titles and names not infrequently different from those used in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, The Complete Peerage and The History of Parliament, is perverse and unhelpful. The inclusion throughout of descriptive suffixes such as MP, Speaker, prime minister, lord chancellor, clerk of the parliament, gentleman usher of the black rod, parliamentary reporter etc. would have transformed the production and emphasized the highly-distinctive nature and value of the collection. Their addition would not have taken much effort. Malcolm Hay, the curator of the Parliamentary Art Collection, informs us that it includes over 8,000 works of art but fails to say that 730 are paintings, and these are the subject of this volume. Analysis of the 730 is informative. Not surprisingly, the greater number are portraits. The other groups can be broadly categorised as topographical, histories, rituals and ceremonial, occasions, and finally, modelli and studies. Four still lives and three studies for a Last Night at the Proms, 1995 appear a little out of place. Collections of portraits, particularly official portraits, often with mechanical copies, can be notoriously dull. The collection at Westminster is no exception. That said, there are some unexpected delights, especially the clutch of paintings by Mary Beale. The family group showing Speaker Lenthall with his wife and children will deservedly become better known as a result of this publication. This shows Lenthall as the father
Frédérique Lachaud, Isabelle Les-Cent-Giles et François-Joseph Ruggiu (éd.), Histoires ď outre-Ma... more Frédérique Lachaud, Isabelle Les-Cent-Giles et François-Joseph Ruggiu (éd.), Histoires ď outre-Manche, tendances récentes de l'historiographie britannique. Frédérique LACHAUD, Isabelle LES-CENT-GILES et François-Joseph ...
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Books by jettot stéphane
Often cited but rarely studied in their own right, family directories allow a reconsideration of how ancestry and genealogy became an object of widespread commercialization across the eighteenth century. These directories replaced the expensive, locally-produced, early modern artefacts (tombs, windowpanes, illuminated pedigrees), and began to reach a wide audience of readers in the British Isles and the colonies.
In Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2023), Dr. Stéphane Jettot offers an insight into the cumulative process leading to the creation of these hybrid products — a combination of court almanacks, county histories, and town directories. Employed by contemporaries as reference tools to navigate through a dynamic and changing society, they could be used as a means to probe contemporary attitudes towards social status and political events. Published by the most prominent London booksellers who shared their copyrights among themselves, they relied on the considerable involvement of thousands of families in the counties.
In their correspondence with publishers, many new and old elites desired to insert their own narrative into a general history of Britain by dispatching documents, quotations, and anecdotes. Based on a unique source-base, this book provides a systematic review of these directories, their production, and sale, but also their potential role in shaping the character of social change. Dr. Jettot demonstrates the wider ramifications of genealogy and its structural ability to reinvent itself, associate amateurs and antiquarians alike, and thrive on the wavering lines between facts and fiction, offering an exciting and unique insight into the social history of eighteenth-century Britain.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
While their importance has been fully recognised and extensively studied in early modern Britain and in the Victorian period, the long eighteenth century has been too often presented as a black hole regarding genealogy. Enlightened values and urban sociability have been presented as inimical to the praise of ancestry and birth. In contrast, however, various studies on the continental or in the American colonies, have shed light on the many uses of genealogies, even beyond the landed elite. Whether it be in the publishing industry, in the urban corporations, in the scientific discourses, genealogy was used, not only as a resilient social practice, but also as a form of reasoning, a language and a tool to include newcomers, organise scientific and historical knowledge or to express various emotions.
This volume aims to reconsider the flexibility of genealogical practices and their perpetual reconfiguration to meet renewed expectations in the period. Far from slowly vanishing under the blows of rationalism that would have delegitimized an ancient world based on various forms of hereditary determinism, the different contributions to this collective work demonstrate that genealogy is a pervasive tool to make sense of a fast-changing society.
Dans la continuité d’enquêtes sociales récentes, cette recherche collective analyse les mécanismes des pratiques généalogiques à partir de quatre thèmes complémentaires : la place de l’événement, le jeu des liens de sociabilité et de dépendance, les supports matériels et les imaginaires de la parenté qui lui sont associés, enfin, les choix éditoriaux. Le choix d’une longue séquence, du XVe siècle à nos jours, permet de réunir une pluralité d’entreprises et d’acteurs qui y concourent, des élites princières et citadines à la noblesse seigneuriale, en passant par le milieu des libraires-éditeurs et des artisans urbains. Si les généalogies étudiées n’ont pas de siècle d’or – déterminé en général selon les critères de l’érudition –, il existe cependant des contextes déterminants, qui sont identifiés à partir d’un large éventail de cas européens, mais peuvent aussi avoir une portée européenne. Aussi la dernière partie du volume est-elle consacrée à une inflexion notable du XVIIIe siècle : le développement européen de grandes entreprises éditoriales qui, mêlant biographies et cultures lignagères, anticipent sur l’apparition du marché généalogique des Who’s who et autres Bottins mondains.
Papers by jettot stéphane
Conference and Seminar Documentation by jettot stéphane
Often cited but rarely studied in their own right, family directories allow a reconsideration of how ancestry and genealogy became an object of widespread commercialization across the eighteenth century. These directories replaced the expensive, locally-produced, early modern artefacts (tombs, windowpanes, illuminated pedigrees), and began to reach a wide audience of readers in the British Isles and the colonies.
In Selling Ancestry: Family Directories and the Commodification of Genealogy in Eighteenth Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2023), Dr. Stéphane Jettot offers an insight into the cumulative process leading to the creation of these hybrid products — a combination of court almanacks, county histories, and town directories. Employed by contemporaries as reference tools to navigate through a dynamic and changing society, they could be used as a means to probe contemporary attitudes towards social status and political events. Published by the most prominent London booksellers who shared their copyrights among themselves, they relied on the considerable involvement of thousands of families in the counties.
In their correspondence with publishers, many new and old elites desired to insert their own narrative into a general history of Britain by dispatching documents, quotations, and anecdotes. Based on a unique source-base, this book provides a systematic review of these directories, their production, and sale, but also their potential role in shaping the character of social change. Dr. Jettot demonstrates the wider ramifications of genealogy and its structural ability to reinvent itself, associate amateurs and antiquarians alike, and thrive on the wavering lines between facts and fiction, offering an exciting and unique insight into the social history of eighteenth-century Britain.
This interview was conducted by Dr. Miranda Melcher whose forthcoming book focuses on post-conflict military integration, understanding treaty negotiation and implementation in civil war contexts, with qualitative analysis of the Angolan and Mozambican civil wars.
While their importance has been fully recognised and extensively studied in early modern Britain and in the Victorian period, the long eighteenth century has been too often presented as a black hole regarding genealogy. Enlightened values and urban sociability have been presented as inimical to the praise of ancestry and birth. In contrast, however, various studies on the continental or in the American colonies, have shed light on the many uses of genealogies, even beyond the landed elite. Whether it be in the publishing industry, in the urban corporations, in the scientific discourses, genealogy was used, not only as a resilient social practice, but also as a form of reasoning, a language and a tool to include newcomers, organise scientific and historical knowledge or to express various emotions.
This volume aims to reconsider the flexibility of genealogical practices and their perpetual reconfiguration to meet renewed expectations in the period. Far from slowly vanishing under the blows of rationalism that would have delegitimized an ancient world based on various forms of hereditary determinism, the different contributions to this collective work demonstrate that genealogy is a pervasive tool to make sense of a fast-changing society.
Dans la continuité d’enquêtes sociales récentes, cette recherche collective analyse les mécanismes des pratiques généalogiques à partir de quatre thèmes complémentaires : la place de l’événement, le jeu des liens de sociabilité et de dépendance, les supports matériels et les imaginaires de la parenté qui lui sont associés, enfin, les choix éditoriaux. Le choix d’une longue séquence, du XVe siècle à nos jours, permet de réunir une pluralité d’entreprises et d’acteurs qui y concourent, des élites princières et citadines à la noblesse seigneuriale, en passant par le milieu des libraires-éditeurs et des artisans urbains. Si les généalogies étudiées n’ont pas de siècle d’or – déterminé en général selon les critères de l’érudition –, il existe cependant des contextes déterminants, qui sont identifiés à partir d’un large éventail de cas européens, mais peuvent aussi avoir une portée européenne. Aussi la dernière partie du volume est-elle consacrée à une inflexion notable du XVIIIe siècle : le développement européen de grandes entreprises éditoriales qui, mêlant biographies et cultures lignagères, anticipent sur l’apparition du marché généalogique des Who’s who et autres Bottins mondains.
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