Religion, Law, and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland, 1660-1760This 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 regime Europe: a pre-industrialized society, in which social order depended less on the 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 elite; 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. |
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... James II provides important clues to their political outlook on the eve of the Glorious Revolution . Secondly , the events of James's reign make it possible to define with a new clarity the mechanisms of power operating in late ...
... James II provides important clues to their political outlook on the eve of the Glorious Revolution . Secondly , the events of James's reign make it possible to define with a new clarity the mechanisms of power operating in late ...
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... James II with undisguised euphoria . " The Irish ' , Clarendon's secretary reported in June 1686 , ' talk of nothing ... James II's own caution . But the real clash of interests came after James , now deposed in England , came to Ireland ...
... James II with undisguised euphoria . " The Irish ' , Clarendon's secretary reported in June 1686 , ' talk of nothing ... James II's own caution . But the real clash of interests came after James , now deposed in England , came to Ireland ...
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... James II 35 , 157 Cattle Acts 106 , 107 Cavan , Co. 29 , 222 Charlemont , William Caulfield , Ist Viscount 21 Charlemont , James Caulfield , 4th Viscount , Ist earl of 64 , 200 Charles II : and government of Ireland 106 and Irish ...
... James II 35 , 157 Cattle Acts 106 , 107 Cavan , Co. 29 , 222 Charlemont , William Caulfield , Ist Viscount 21 Charlemont , James Caulfield , 4th Viscount , Ist earl of 64 , 200 Charles II : and government of Ireland 106 and Irish ...
Contents
A New Ireland | 5 |
An Élite and its World | 41 |
The Structure of Politics | 74 |
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Religion, Law, and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland, 1660-1760 Sean J. Connolly No preview available - 1995 |
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