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Religion, Law, and Power

Religion, Law, and Power The Making of Protestant Ireland, 1660-1760

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Publisher's Synopsis

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. 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 régime Europe: a pre-industrialized society, in which social order depended less on a 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 élite; 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780198205876
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Imprint: Clarendon Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 941.507
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 346
Weight: 546g
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Spine width: 21mm