Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Religion, Law, and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760
S. J. Connolly
€ 18.00
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Religion, Law, and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760
paperback. This is a study of religion, politics and society in a period of great significance in modern Irish history, the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It explores the consolidation of Protestant power, the enactment of penal laws against Catholics, and constitutional conflicts. Num Pages: 358 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 546. This is a study of religion, politics and society in a period of great significance in modern Irish history, the late 17th and early 18th centuries. It explores the consolidation of Protestant power, the enactment of penal laws against Catholics, and constitutional conflicts. Num Pages: 358 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 21. Weight in Grams: 546. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
This is a study of religion, politics and society in a period of great significance i modern Irish history. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw the consolidation of the power of the Protestant landed class, the enactment of penal laws against Catholics, and constitutional conflicts that forced Irish Protestants to redefine their ideas of national identity. S. J. Connolly's scholarly and wide ranging study examines these developments and sets them in their historical context. The Ireland that emerges from his lucid and penetrating analysis was essentially a part of ancien régime Europe: a pre-industrial society in which ... Read more
This is a study of religion, politics and society in a period of great significance i modern Irish history. The late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries saw the consolidation of the power of the Protestant landed class, the enactment of penal laws against Catholics, and constitutional conflicts that forced Irish Protestants to redefine their ideas of national identity. S. J. Connolly's scholarly and wide ranging study examines these developments and sets them in their historical context. The Ireland that emerges from his lucid and penetrating analysis was essentially a part of ancien régime Europe: a pre-industrial society in which ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Clarendon Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
358
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198205876
SKU
KMK0023482
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About S. J. Connolly
Dr Connolly is author of Priests and People in Pre-Famine Ireland 1780-1845 (Gill & MacMillan, Dublin, 1982), and Religion and Society in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, Dundalk, 1985).
Reviews for Religion, Law, and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760
groundbreaking study
Albion
an admirable achievement, unleashing a very active cat amongst the historiographical pigeons
Irish Times
Albion
an admirable achievement, unleashing a very active cat amongst the historiographical pigeons
Irish Times