The politics and culture of honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541-1641
By: Brendan Kane.
Series: Cambridge studies in early modern British history
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780521898645
Subjects: Honor -- Political aspects -- Great Britain -- History; Honor -- Political aspects -- Ireland -- History; Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century; Monarchy -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Ireland; Ireland -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1485-1603; Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1649; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 16th century; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 17th century; Great Britain -- History -- Tudors, 1485-1603; Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714
Description: "Through an exploration of overlapping concepts of noble honour amongst English and Irish elites, this book provides a cultural analysis of 'British' high politics in the early modern period. Analysing English- and Irish-language sources, Brendan Kane argues that between the establishment of the Irish kingdom under the English Crown in 1541 and the Irish rebellion of 1641, honour played a powerful role in determining the character of Anglo-Irish society, politics and cultural contact. In this age, before the rise of a more bureaucratic and participatory state, political power was intensely personal and largely the concern of elites. And those elites were preoccupied with honour. By exploring contemporary 'honour politics', this book brings a cultural perspective to our understanding of the character of English imperialism in Ireland and of the Irish responses to it. In so doing it highlights understudied aspects of the origins of the 'British' state"--Provided by publisher.

"This book explores the culture and politics of honor in Britain and Ireland from 1541 to 1641, the years linking St Leger's initiation of an Anglo-Irish honor politics to the end of Wentworth's struggle with lord chancellor Loftus on the eve of the War of the Three Kingdoms"--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: honour in Britain and Ireland; 1. The honour revolution of 1541; 2. Gaelic honour in Tudor Ireland; 3. 'British' honour and the Nine Years' War; 4. Making the Irish European: Gaelic honour after the Nine Years' War; 5. Gaelic and Old English honour in early Stuart 'Britain'; 6. A hierarchy transformed? Precedence disputes, the defence of honour and 'British' high-politics, 1603-1632; 7. Wentworth, the Irish Lord Deputyship and the Caroline politics of honour; Conclusion.