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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Page 152
... Bishop Berkeley's Querist , 147 . 33 See e.g. his letter of 15 Sept. 1677 : ' Bishops here have to carry on in a manner which brings shame upon the mitre and crozier .... No bishop in Ireland has two servants ; it is one and the same ...
... Bishop Berkeley's Querist , 147 . 33 See e.g. his letter of 15 Sept. 1677 : ' Bishops here have to carry on in a manner which brings shame upon the mitre and crozier .... No bishop in Ireland has two servants ; it is one and the same ...
Page 271
... bishops of the Church of Ireland , went on to enter a formal protest against the bill's claims to ratify the Articles , when in fact no one of the said articles is therein , as we conceive , fully confirmed ' , and those in whose favour ...
... bishops of the Church of Ireland , went on to enter a formal protest against the bill's claims to ratify the Articles , when in fact no one of the said articles is therein , as we conceive , fully confirmed ' , and those in whose favour ...
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... bishops of the established church to tough anti - Catholic measures were not of course new . Several of the key statutes introduced in the reigns of William III and Anne had found their strongest opponents among the bishops in the Lords ...
... bishops of the established church to tough anti - Catholic measures were not of course new . Several of the key statutes introduced in the reigns of William III and Anne had found their strongest opponents among the bishops in the Lords ...
Contents
A New Ireland | 5 |
An Élite and its World | 41 |
The Structure of Politics | 74 |
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