The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541-1641

AvBrendan Kane

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Through an exploration of overlapping concepts of noble honour amongst English and Irish elites, this book provides a cultural analysis of 'British' high politics in the early modern period. Analysing English- and Irish-language sources, Brendan Kane argues that between the establishment of the Irish kingdom under the English Crown in 1541 and the Irish rebellion of 1641, honour played a powerful role in determining the character of Anglo-Irish society, politics and cultural contact. In this age, before the rise of a more bureaucratic and participatory state, political power was intensely personal and largely the concern of elites. And those elites were preoccupied with honour. By exploring contemporary 'honour politics', this book brings a cultural perspective to our understanding of the character of English imperialism in Ireland and of the Irish responses to it. In so doing it highlights understudied aspects of the origins of the 'British' state.

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-01-23
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:430 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107630536

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Brendan Kane is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

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'… a rich and scholarly study of the role of honor in political and cultural contexts in Britain and Ireland … In this book, Brendan Kane has displayed sparkling enthusiasm for the subject at hand, making it entirely accessible to both a specialist and nonspecialist audience, through a skilfully written narrative. These factors, combined with its undoubted contribution to the historiography, make this book worthy of widespread attention.' Annaleigh Margey, Renaissance Quarterly

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Introduction: honour in Britain and Ireland; 1. The honour revolution of 1541; 2. Gaelic honour in Tudor Ireland; 3. 'British' honour and the Nine Years' War; 4. Making the Irish European: Gaelic honour after the Nine Years' War; 5. Gaelic and Old English honour in early Stuart 'Britain'; 6. A hierarchy transformed? Precedence disputes, the defence of honour and 'British' high-politics, 1603–32; 7. Wentworth, the Irish Lord Deputyship and the Caroline politics of honour; Conclusion.