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The making of Englishmen

Titel:	The making of Englishmen : debates on national identity 1550-1650 / by Hilary Larkin
Verfasser:	Stroh, Hilary
Veröffentlicht:	Leiden : Brill, 2014
Umfang:	1 Online-Ressource
Format:	E-Book
Sprache:	Englisch
Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk:	Studies in the history of political thought ; v. 8
ISBN:	9789004243873

Zusammenfassung:	Making the Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550-1650 asks how Englishmen defined themselves at a time of profound change and uncertainty. It will seek to contextualise the ways in which Englishness came to be construed as free, plain and unCatholic, and situate this construction as part of a larger attempt to create a narrative which would distinguish them from the rest of Europe. But all such attempts were fraught with anxiety and contestation. The normative ideals of Englishness were constantly being undermined, affronted and ignored. In the disarray characteristic of the post-Reformation era, there were constant fears that the Englishman was becoming both slavish and treacherous in political, cultural and religious ways. Englishness was under threat.

Zusammenfassung:

Making the Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550-1650 asks how Englishmen defined themselves at a time of profound change and uncertainty. It will seek to contextualise the ways in which Englishness came to be construed as free, plain and unCatholic, and situate this construction as part of a larger attempt to create a narrative which would distinguish them from the rest of Europe. But all such attempts were fraught with anxiety and contestation. The normative ideals of Englishness were constantly being undermined, affronted and ignored. In the disarray characteristic of the post-Reformation era, there were constant fears that the Englishman was becoming both slavish and treacherous in political, cultural and religious ways. Englishness was under threat.

The making of Englishmen

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