Sociabilité et institutionnalité Structures d’hospitalité et pratiques sociales à Lyon (xvi^e-xviii^e siècles)

This article studies the history of hospitality, and seeks to interpret the structures (forms and places) of hospitality as the result of processes of negotiation. To better understand this social structure, the article introduces the notion of “institutionality” and analyses the slow growth of commercial hospitality in Lyon from the late Middle Ages, its stabilisation in the modern era, and the development of a social link between rules, on the one hand, and individual practices on the other.