The making of Englishmen : : debates on national identity, 1550-1650 / / by Hilary Larkin.

• Superior document: Studies in the History of Political Thought, Volume 8
• Author: Larkin, Hilary.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2013; 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of political thought ; v. 8.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (359 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; The Rise of an Ethos of Plainness /; The Plain-Speaking Englishman /; The Image of the Englishman /; The Development of an anti-Catholic Narrative /; The Estrangement of English Catholics /; The Fabrication of a Jesuited Mock Weal /; The Growth of a Rhetoric of Liberty /; The Rights-Bearing Englishman /; The Neo-Classical Englishman /; Conclusion /; Bibliography /; Index of Subjects /; Index of Names /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004243879
• ISSN: 1873-6548
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Hilary Larkin.

Making the Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550-1650 asks how Englishmen defined themselves at a time of profound change and uncertainty. It will seek to contextualise the ways in which Englishness came to be construed as free, plain and unCatholic, and situate this construction as part of a larger attempt to create a narrative which would distinguish them from the rest of Europe. But all such attempts were fraught with anxiety and contestation. The normative ideals of Englishness were constantly being undermined, affronted and ignored. In the disarray characteristic of the post-Reformation era, there were constant fears that the Englishman was becoming both slavish and treacherous in political, cultural and religious ways. Englishness was under threat.