If I Lose Mine Honour, I Lose Myself : Honour among the Early Modern English Elite /
Thomas, Courtney
If I Lose Mine Honour, I Lose Myself : Honour among the Early Modern English Elite / Courtney Thomas. - 1 online resource (320 p.) : 8 b&w illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Moving beyond the preoccupation of honour and its associations with violence and sexual reputation, Courtney Thomas offers an intriguing investigation of honour's social meanings amongst early modern elites in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. If I Lose Mine Honour I Lose Myself reveals honour's complex role as a representational strategy amongst the aristocracy. Thomas' erudite and detailed investigation of multi-generational family papers as well as legal records and prescriptive sources develops a fuller picture of how the concept of honour was employed, often in contradictory ways in daily life. Whether considering economic matters, marriage arrangements, supervision of servants, household management, mediation, or political engagement, Thomas argues that while honour was invoked as a structuring principle of social life its meanings were diffuse and varied. Paradoxically, it is the malleability of honour that made it such an enduring social value with very real meaning for early modern men and women.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487501228 9781487512736
10.3138/9781487512736 doi
HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century.
302.094209/031
If I Lose Mine Honour, I Lose Myself : Honour among the Early Modern English Elite / Courtney Thomas. - 1 online resource (320 p.) : 8 b&w illustrations
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Moving beyond the preoccupation of honour and its associations with violence and sexual reputation, Courtney Thomas offers an intriguing investigation of honour's social meanings amongst early modern elites in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. If I Lose Mine Honour I Lose Myself reveals honour's complex role as a representational strategy amongst the aristocracy. Thomas' erudite and detailed investigation of multi-generational family papers as well as legal records and prescriptive sources develops a fuller picture of how the concept of honour was employed, often in contradictory ways in daily life. Whether considering economic matters, marriage arrangements, supervision of servants, household management, mediation, or political engagement, Thomas argues that while honour was invoked as a structuring principle of social life its meanings were diffuse and varied. Paradoxically, it is the malleability of honour that made it such an enduring social value with very real meaning for early modern men and women.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781487501228 9781487512736
10.3138/9781487512736 doi
HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century.
302.094209/031