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If I Lose Mine Honour, I Lose Myself : Honour among the Early Modern English Elite / Courtney Thomas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thomas, Courtney, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social psychology--History.
- Social psychology.
- Social psychology--Great Britain.
- Great Britain.
- Genre:
- History.
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (317 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- "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."-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Brief Notes; Introduction: Approaching Honour; 1 Men and Honour; 2 Women and Honour; 3 Honour in the Community and at Home; 4 Honour and the Family; Conclusion: The Importance of Honour; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 19. Feb 2019)
- ISBN:
- 9781487512743
- 1487512740
- 9781487512736
- 1487512732
- OCLC:
- 1088922619
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