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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... gentry ' . Similar distinctions must have existed in Ireland , although their precise outlines remain to be properly explored . There is some evidence to suggest that the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw a rise in the ...
... gentry ' . Similar distinctions must have existed in Ireland , although their precise outlines remain to be properly explored . There is some evidence to suggest that the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw a rise in the ...
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... gentry of middlemen — have already been discussed . All three , it may be suggested , must have contributed to the admission into polite society of men whose status and breeding would have excluded them from equivalent circles in ...
... gentry of middlemen — have already been discussed . All three , it may be suggested , must have contributed to the admission into polite society of men whose status and breeding would have excluded them from equivalent circles in ...
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... gentry . A similar transition was apparent in colonial Virginia , where the planter élite only gradually developed a distinctive gentry life - style , expressed in increased refinement in dress , housing , and styles of enter- tainment ...
... gentry . A similar transition was apparent in colonial Virginia , where the planter élite only gradually developed a distinctive gentry life - style , expressed in increased refinement in dress , housing , and styles of enter- tainment ...
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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