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 269
... measure was redrafted to include the banishment not just of members of religious orders , but also of bishops and all others exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction . Despite this considerable widening of its scope and representations ...
... measure was redrafted to include the banishment not just of members of religious orders , but also of bishops and all others exercising ecclesiastical jurisdiction . Despite this considerable widening of its scope and representations ...
Page 277
... measures than it wished to sanction , their contribu- tion in 1709 was significantly to weaken the measure before them . In par- ticular , a clause that would have banned Catholics from trading as merchants and forbidden Catholic ...
... measures than it wished to sanction , their contribu- tion in 1709 was significantly to weaken the measure before them . In par- ticular , a clause that would have banned Catholics from trading as merchants and forbidden Catholic ...
Page 287
... measure of greater toleration for those who did so . The younger Synge's sermon involved him in a pamphlet ... measures against Catholicism diplomatically embarrassing and possibly distasteful in itself . If the demand for such measures ...
... measure of greater toleration for those who did so . The younger Synge's sermon involved him in a pamphlet ... measures against Catholicism diplomatically embarrassing and possibly distasteful in itself . If the demand for such measures ...
Contents
A New Ireland | 5 |
An Élite and its World | 41 |
The Structure of Politics | 74 |
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