The Politics and Culture of Honour in Britain and Ireland, 1541-1641

Brendan Kane is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.

• Introduction: honour in Britain and Ireland; 1. The honour revolution of 1541; 2. Gaelic honour in Tudor Ireland; 3. 'British' honour and the Nine Years' War; 4. Making the Irish European: Gaelic honour after the Nine Years' War; 5. Gaelic and Old English honour in early Stuart 'Britain'; 6. A hierarchy transformed? Precedence disputes, the defence of honour and 'British' high-politics, 1603–32; 7. Wentworth, the Irish Lord Deputyship and the Caroline politics of honour; Conclusion.

'… a rich and scholarly study of the role of honor in political and cultural contexts in Britain and Ireland … In this book, Brendan Kane has displayed sparkling enthusiasm for the subject at hand, making it entirely accessible to both a specialist and nonspecialist audience, through a skilfully written narrative. These factors, combined with its undoubted contribution to the historiography, make this book worthy of widespread attention.' Annaleigh Margey, Renaissance Quarterly