The Construction of Honour, Reputation and Status in Late Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century England

1996 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 201-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faramerz Dabhoiwala
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Relationship

Notions of honour and reputation were ubiquitous and important in early modern England for a variety of reasons. They were part and parcel of how individuals in this society conceived of the relationship between the personal and the public, and between the projection and the perception of one's character. More particularly, they lay at the heart of two crucial issues: how people thought about social status, and about the differences between men and women.

Debating Revolution: Early eighteenth century Sikh public philosophy on the formation of the Khalsa

2013 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 1096-1133 ◽  
Author(s):  
HARDIP SINGH SYAN
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Public Debate ◽  
Public Philosophy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century

AbstractThis paper examines the public debate that happened among Delhi's Sikh community following the formation of the Khalsa by Guru Gobind Singh. The detail of this debate was expressed in the early eighteenth century Sikh text, Sri Gur Sobha. The Sri Gur Sobha explains how Delhi's Sikhs became divided into pro-Khalsa and anti-Khalsa factions, and how this conflict resulted in a campaign of persecution against Delhi's Khalsa Sikhs. In this paper I endeavour to analyse exactly why this dispute occurred and how it reflects wider political and socio-economic processes in early modern India and Sikh society. In addition, the paper will explore how the elite Khatri community consequently became an object of hatred in eighteenth century Khalsa Sikh literature.

Goddess encounters: Mughals, Monsters and the Goddess in Bengal

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1435-1487 ◽  
Author(s):  
KUMKUM CHATTERJEE
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Community Formation ◽  
Regional Culture ◽  
Public Performance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis paper makes a case for exploring the cultural facets of Mughal rule as well as for a stronger engagement with sources in vernacular languages for the writing of Mughal history. Bengal's regional tradition of goddess worship is used to explore the cultural dimensions of Mughal rule in that region as well as the idioms in which Bengali regional perceptions of Mughal rule were articulated. Mangalkavya narratives—a quintessentially Bengali literary genre—are studied to highlight shifting perceptions of the Mughals from the late sixteenth century to the eighteenth century. During the period of the Mughal conquest of Bengal, the imperial military machine was represented as a monster whom the goddess Chandi, symbolizing Bengal's regional culture, had to vanquish. By the eighteenth century, when their rule had become much more regularized, the Mughals were depicted as recognizing aspects of Bengal's regional culture by capitulating in the end to the goddess and becoming her devotees. This paper also studies the relationship of the Mughal regime with Bengal's popular cultural celebration—the annual Durga puja—and explores its implications for the public performance of religion and for community formation during the early modern period.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Adriaan C. Neele
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
New England ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Reformed Theology ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Continuity And Discontinuity

Edwards’s debt to Protestant scholasticism, Reformed orthodoxy, and early modern Reformed theology has been largely overlooked in interpretations of his thought. The chapter argues that the model of continuity and discontinuity between the Reformation and post-Reformation era, expressed by the phrase “Calvin vs. the Calvinists,” should be considered and challenged in examining the relationship between Edwards and post-Reformation thought. Therefore, first, a broad sketch of interpretative models will be provided concerning the various appraisals of Reformed orthodoxy. Secondly, a proposal will be offered that the era of Protestant scholasticism and Reformed orthodoxy, as commonly and currently understood, should include early eighteenth-century New England history—thus treating the post-Reformation era as a transatlantic enterprise.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Newton
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century

Disease was not always for life in early modern England, nor did it necessarily lead to death. This book has sought to recalibrate our assessment of early modern health by showing that recovery did exist conceptually at this time, and that it was a widely reported phenomenon. A passage from a letter by the early eighteenth-century Norfolk architect John Buxton to his son Robert, reveals the ubiquity of recovery in everyday life:...

False Friends, Spiteful Enemies: a Community at Law in Early Modern England

1998 ◽  
Vol 71 (174) ◽  
pp. 52-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Churches
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Fast Growing ◽  
Early Eighteenth Century ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Town

Abstract This article examines a body of lawsuits from the fast‐growing colliery port of Whitehaven in northwest England, in the early eighteenth century. The matching estate correspondence illuminates how litigation affected relations between the major landowning family and their tenants, and how it was used by different interest groups within the town. Looking at the use of the law from the standpoint of the litigants, examining who initiated the suits and why, and with what results, will go some way in furthering our knowledge of the culture of the law in early modern England.

Afterword

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Brownlee
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern England ◽  
Popular Entertainment ◽  
Departure Point ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Relationship

The recent upturn in biblically based films in Anglophone cinema is the departure point for this Afterword reflecting on the Bible’s impact on popular entertainment and literature in early modern England. Providing a survey of the book’s themes, and drawing together the central arguments, the discussion reminds that literary writers not only read and used the Bible in different ways to different ends, but also imbibed and scrutinized dominant interpretative principles and practices in their work. With this in mind, the Afterword outlines the need for further research into the relationship between biblical readings and literary writings in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe.

scholarly journals Märta Tikkanen’s gender and alcohol saga

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-298
Author(s):  
Anne-Marie Mai
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Abuse ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Public ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Public Recognition ◽  
Alcohol Abuser ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Poetry Collection

Märta Tikkanen’s poetry collection Århundradets kärlekssaga ( The love story of the century, 1978) is a confessional book on life in a family where the husband and father is an alcohol abuser. It is also a love story about a married couple who love one another despite the terrible challenges posed to the relationship by alcoholism. The poetry collection became one of the most influential books in contemporary Nordic fiction, its themes on gender roles and alcohol abuse setting the trend in the Nordic discussion of women’s liberation. Märta Tikkanen’s courage to tell her own private story inspired other women to confess their gender equality problems to the public. The alcohol abuse of Märta Tikkanen’s husband Henrik Tikkanen was seen as an allegory for the more general problems in the relation between men and women. My essay introduces Märta Tikkanen’s poetry collection and discusses how the poems develop the theme of gender and alcohol. I will also compare her description of their marriage with Henrik Tikkanen’s self-portrait in his autobiographical novella Mariegatan 26, Kronohagen (1977). The analysis refers to contemporary research on gender and alcohol abuse and discusses how the poems contribute to a public recognition of the relationship between gender and alcohol abuse. The essay discusses the reception of Märta Tikkanen’s influential poems and explores her treatment of alcohol and gender in relation to other Nordic confessional or fictional books on alcohol abuse.

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