S. J. Connolly

Religion, Law, and Power

The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This 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. 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-industrial society in which the dominance of a landed elite depended on maintaining the balance between coercion, deference, and an absence of credible pretenders to power; 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 547g
• ISBN-13: 9780198205876
• ISBN-10: 0198205872
• Artikelnr.: 22180066

Autorenporträt

Dr Connolly is author of Priests and People in Pre-Famine Ireland 1780-1845 (Gill & MacMillan, Dublin, 1982), and Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, Dundalk, 1985).

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Introduction
I. A NEW IRELAND
1. December 1659: `A Nation Born in a Day'
2. Settlement and Explanation
3. A Foreign Jurisdiction
4. Papists and Fanatics
5. Counter-Revolution Defeated
II. AN ELITE AND ITS WORLD
6. Uneven Development
7. Gentlement and Others
8. Manners
III. THE STRUCTURE OF POLITICS
9. A Company of Madmen: The Politics of Party 1691-1714
10. `Little Employments...Smiles, Good Dinners'
11. Politics and the People
IV. RELATIONSHIPS
12. Kingdoms
13. Nations
14. Communities
15. Orders
V. THE INVENTIONS OF MEN IN THE WORSHIP OF GOD: RELIGION AND THE CHURCHES
16. Numbers
17. Catholics
18. Dissenters
19. Churchmen
20. Christians
VI. LAW AND THE MAINTENANCE OF ORDER
21. Resources
22. The Limits of Order
23. The Rule of Law
24. Views from Below: Disaffection and the Threat of Rebellion
25
Views from Above: Perceptions of the Catholic Threat
VII. `REASONABLE INCONVENIENCES: THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF THE PENAL LAWS'
26. `Raw Head and Bloody Bones': Parliamentary Management and Penal Legislation
27. Debate
28. The Conversion of the Natives
29. Protestant Ascendancy? The Consequences of the Penal Laws
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index.