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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... taken as implying that drunkenness , brawling , and general disorder were universal . Quite clearly they were not . A reader of the voluminous correspondence of Alan Brodrick , later first Viscount Midleton , for example , will search ...
... taken as implying that drunkenness , brawling , and general disorder were universal . Quite clearly they were not . A reader of the voluminous correspondence of Alan Brodrick , later first Viscount Midleton , for example , will search ...
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... taken the side of the losers . So how did the victors maintain their position , once the fighting was over ? Was Ireland a conquered country , held down by force ? If so , what were the means of coercion ? If not , how was order in fact ...
... taken the side of the losers . So how did the victors maintain their position , once the fighting was over ? Was Ireland a conquered country , held down by force ? If so , what were the means of coercion ? If not , how was order in fact ...
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... taken , ' and the rest are dispersed in so great fear of one another by reason of the impunity and rewards to those of them who shall destroy any of their accomplices that at present we do not hear of any robberies they commit ' . In ...
... taken , ' and the rest are dispersed in so great fear of one another by reason of the impunity and rewards to those of them who shall destroy any of their accomplices that at present we do not hear of any robberies they commit ' . In ...
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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