If I Lose Mine Honor, I Lose Myself
If I Lose Mine Honor, I Lose Myself

Author: Courtney Erin Thomas

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2017-01-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1487501226

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Courtney Thomas offers an intriguing investigation of honour's social meanings amongst early modern elites in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.

Honor and Violence in the Old South
Honor and Violence in the Old South

Author: Bertram Wyatt-Brown

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780195042429

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Hailed as a classic by reviewers and historians, Bertram Wyatt-Brown's Southern Honor now appears in abridged form under the title Honor and Violence in the Old South. Winner of a Phi Alpha Theta Book Award and a Jefferson Davis Memorial Book Award and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History, this is the first major reinterpretation of Southern life and custom since W.J, Cash's The Mind of the South. It explores the meaning and expression of the ancient code of honor as whites—both slaveholders and non-slaveholders—applied it to their lives. Wyatt-Brown ranges widely—covering topics such as childbearing, marital patterns, duelling, slave discipline, and lynch-law—to discover the role of honor in the psyche of white Southerners.

Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson
Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Author: S. Austin Allibone

Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand

Published: 2023-12-13

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13: 3382826496

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1875. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor
Shakespeare and the Renaissance Concept of Honor

Author: Curtis Brown Watson

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2015-12-08

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 1400878950

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Presenting a background study of honor, the author compares ancient concepts with the sympathetic restatements of them that appeared during the Renaissance. He places Shakespeare's plays in the context of these Renaissance ideas, pointing up the sharp conflict between Christian morality and the revived pagan humanism. He demonstrates by pertinent evidence from the plays that Shakespeare favored humanist values over Christian values. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.