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Early Modern Civil Discourses

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  • © 2003

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Editors:
  1. Jennifer Richards

    1. University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

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Part of the book series: Early Modern Literature in History (EMLH)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    • Jennifer Richards
    Pages 1-18

  3. Civil Tongues: Language, Law and Reformation

    • Cathy Shrank
    Pages 19-34

  4. Of Marriage, Morals and Civility

    • Helen Moore
    Pages 35-50

  5. ‘Civilized with death’: Civility, Duelling and Honour in Elizabethan England

    • Markku Peltonen
    Pages 51-67

  6. ‘Words more than civil’: Republican Civility in Lucy Hutchinson’s ‘The Life of John Hutchinson’

    • David Norbrook
    Pages 68-84

  7. ‘When civil fury first grew high’: Politics and Incivility in Restoration England

    • Sharon Achinstein
    Pages 85-98

  8. Shakespeare the Barbarian

    • Neil Rhodes
    Pages 99-114

  9. Tacitus and the Reform of Ireland in the 1590s

    • Andrew Hadfield
    Pages 115-130

  10. Drama, Ireland and the Question of Civility

    • Thomas Healy
    Pages 131-145

  11. Uncivil Monarchy: Scotland, England and the Reputation of James IV

    • Dermot Cavanagh
    Pages 146-161

  12. The Civility of Early Modern Welsh Women

    • Kate Chedgzoy
    Pages 162-182

  13. The Cultural Impact of the Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Day

    • Robert White
    Pages 183-199

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 200-206
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About this book

This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scots - among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dialogues, poetry, drama, chronicles - by English, Welsh and Scots men and women in and about the Atlantic archipelago. It explores the many meanings of civility in the early modern period; it recovers some of the lost associations of civility as well as the complex use of the adjectives 'civil' and 'barbarous' in cultural and colonial encounters.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK

    Jennifer Richards

About the editor

SHARON ACHINSTEIN Lecturer in English , University of Oxford, Fellow of St Edmund Hall, UK DERMOT CAVANAGH Senior Lecturer in English, University of Northumbria, UK KATE CHEDGZOY Professor of Renaissance Studies, University of Newcastle, UK ANDREW HADFIELD Professor of English, University of Sussex, UK THOMAS HEALY Professor of Renaissance Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK HELEN MOORE Lecturer in English, University of Oxford, Fellow of Corpus Christi College, UK DAVID NORBROOK Merton Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, UK MARKKU PELTONEN Professor of General History, University of Helsinki NEIL RHODES Professor of English Literature and Cultural History, University of St Andrews, UK CATHY SHRANK Lecturer in English, University of Aberdeen, UK ROBERT WHITE Professor of English, Communications and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia

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