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