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If I Lose Mine Honour, I Lose Myself - Honour among the Early Modern English Elite (Hardcover)
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If I Lose Mine Honour, I Lose Myself - Honour among the Early Modern English Elite (Hardcover)
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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.
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