If I Lose Mine Honour, I Lose Myself : : Honour among the Early Modern English Elite / / Courtney Thomas.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press ebook package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Thomas, Courtney,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Brief Notes --; Introduction: Approaching Honour --; Chapter One. Men and Honour --; Chapter Two. Women and Honour --; Chapter Three. Honour in the Community and at Home --; Chapter Four. Honour and the Family --; Conclusion. The Importance of Honour --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487512736; 9783110638967
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487512736
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Courtney Thomas.

Moving beyond the preoccupation of honour and its associations with violence and sexual reputation, Courtney Thomas offers an intriguing investigation of honour's social meanings amongst early modern elites in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. If I Lose Mine Honour I Lose Myself reveals honour's complex role as a representational strategy amongst the aristocracy. Thomas' erudite and detailed investigation of multi-generational family papers as well as legal records and prescriptive sources develops a fuller picture of how the concept of honour was employed, often in contradictory ways in daily life. Whether considering economic matters, marriage arrangements, supervision of servants, household management, mediation, or political engagement, Thomas argues that while honour was invoked as a structuring principle of social life its meanings were diffuse and varied. Paradoxically, it is the malleability of honour that made it such an enduring social value with very real meaning for early modern men and women.