Religion, Law, and Power

The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

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Beskrivning

This is a study of religion, politics, and society in a period of great significance in modern Irish history. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw the consolidation of the power of the Protestant landed class, the enactment of penal laws against Catholics, and constitutional conflicts that forced Irish Protestants to redefine their ideas of national identity. S. J. Connolly's scholarly and wide-ranging study examines these developments and sets them in their historical context. The Ireland that emerges from his lucid and penetrating analysis was essentially a part of ancien régime Europe: a pre-industrialized society, in which social order depended less on a ramshackle apparatus of coercion than on complex structures of deference and mutual accommodation, along with the absence of credible challengers to the dominance of a landed élite; in which the ties of patronage and clientship were often more important than horizontal bonds of shared economic or social position; and in which religion remained a central part of personal and political motivation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1995-02-16
Mått:156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt:546 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:358
Förlag:Clarendon Press
ISBN:9780198205876

Mer om författaren

Dr Connolly is author of Priests and People in Pre-Famine Ireland 1780-1845 (Gill & MacMillan, Dublin, 1982), and Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, Dundalk, 1985).

Recensioner i media

`Connolly's work is a fresh and stimulating examination of the century in which the structure and problems of modern Ireland took shape ... He is immensely well-informed, extracting the gold from the waste of earlier research and augmenting it with his own extensive accumulation. The diligence of his research is matched by the ingenuity of the questions he poses, his challenges to accepted orthodoxies and his convincing reassessments. All this is combined with an elegant style and a lightness of touch which makes the book exceedingly readable.'J.L. McCracken, Durban, EHR, Apr '93

Innehållsförteckning

Abbreviations; Introduction; I. A NEW IRELAND; 1. December 1659: `A Nation Born in a Day'; 2. Settlement and Explanation; 3. A Foreign Jurisdiction; 4. Papists and Fanatics; 5. Counter-Revolution Defeated; II. AN ELITE AND ITS WORLD; 6. Uneven Development; 7. Gentlement and Others; 8. Manners; III. THE STRUCTURE OF POLITICS; 9. A Company of Madmen: The Politics of Party 1691-1714; 10. `Little Employments...Smiles, Good Dinners'; 11. Politics and the People; IV. RELATIONSHIPS; 12. Kingdoms; 13. Nations; 14. Communities; 15. Orders; V. THE INVENTIONS OF MEN IN THE WORSHIP OF GOD: RELIGION AND THE CHURCHES; 16. Numbers; 17. Catholics; 18. Dissenters; 19. Churchmen; 20. Christians; VI. LAW AND THE MAINTENANCE OF ORDER; 21. Resources; 22. The Limits of Order; 23. The Rule of Law; 24. Views from Below: Disaffection and the Threat of Rebellion; 25; Views from Above: Perceptions of the Catholic Threat; VII. `REASONABLE INCONVENIENCES: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE PENAL LAWS'; 26. `Raw Head and Bloody Bones': Parliamentary Management and Penal Legislation; 27. Debate; 28. The Conversion of the Natives; 29. Protestant Ascendancy? The Consequences of the Penal Laws; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.