HIST 383 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Smallpox, Spanish Empire, Legal Personality
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Lecture 5 - court culture and high politics. Article written in the spectator, the editors adopted the image of spectators walking around britain and reporting back to the public. Women sat on the other side of an opera house wearing patches to say whether they were whigs or tories. Patches were a beauty phenomenon where women would stick patches on their face - sometimes the black dots had shapes (like a moon for example) and this was used to show off the beauty of women. Men did this as well, it was a sign of decadence for the court. Women patched on the left if they were whig and right if they were tory and did not sit beside each other. The spectator said that women should stay out of politics and stay home. Underscore to extent which during the reign of queen anne, this was seen as a dominant issue.
