This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scottish — among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dialogues, poetry, drama, chronicles — by English, Welsh and Scots men and women in and about the Atlantic archipelago. It explores the many meanings of civility in the early modern period; it recovers some of the lost associations of civility as well as the complex use of the adjectives "civil" and "barbarous" in cultural and colonial encounters. ~ Product Description

Table of Contents

• • Acknowledgements  
  • Note on Spelling Conventions   
  • Notes on the Contributors   
  • Introduction    1
  • 1    Civil Tongues: Language, Law and Reformation    19
  • 2    Of Marriage, Morals and Civility    35
  • 3    ‘Civilized with death’: Civility, Duelling and Honour in Elizabethan England    51
  • 4    ‘Words more than civil’: Republican Civility in Lucy Hutchinson’s ‘The Life of John Hutchinson’    68
  • 5    ‘When civil fury first grew high’: Politics and Incivility in Restoration England    85
  • 6    Shakespeare the Barbarian    99
  • 7    Tacitus and the Reform of Ireland in the 1590s    115
  • 8    Drama, Ireland and the Question of Civility    131
  • 9    Uncivil Monarchy: Scotland, England and the Reputation of James IV    146
  • 10    The Civility of Early Modern Welsh Women    162
  • 11    The Cultural Impact of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Day    183
  • Index    200