1 Introduction – 1641
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Jane Ohlmeyer
Abstract
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book highlights the significance of the sixteenth century wars of religion, but argues that the appropriate context within which to investigate the 1641 rebellion is one of European expansionism. It covers the colonial world that Edward Waterhouse so vividly portrayed in his Declaration. The book deals with methods and sources for a more comprehensive mapping of the content of the depositions, emphasising the use of mid-seventeenth century cartographic evidence such as the Down Survey. It examines how a geographical analysis of the depositions helps us to understand the forces shaping the nature of the 1641 rebellion at elite levels. The book provides a wider comparative framework both cultural and demographic to examine the certainties and uncertainties surrounding the evidence and the subsequent construction and use made of that evidence.
Abstract
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book highlights the significance of the sixteenth century wars of religion, but argues that the appropriate context within which to investigate the 1641 rebellion is one of European expansionism. It covers the colonial world that Edward Waterhouse so vividly portrayed in his Declaration. The book deals with methods and sources for a more comprehensive mapping of the content of the depositions, emphasising the use of mid-seventeenth century cartographic evidence such as the Down Survey. It examines how a geographical analysis of the depositions helps us to understand the forces shaping the nature of the 1641 rebellion at elite levels. The book provides a wider comparative framework both cultural and demographic to examine the certainties and uncertainties surrounding the evidence and the subsequent construction and use made of that evidence.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures ix
- List of contributors xi
- Series editors’ preface xv
- Acknowledgements xvii
- 1 Introduction – 1641 1
- 2 Early modern violence from memory to history 17
- 3 The ‘1641 massacres’ 37
- 4 1641 in a colonial context 52
- 5 Towards a cultural geography of the 1641 rising/rebellion 71
- 6 Out of the blue 95
- 7 News from Ireland 115
- 8 Performative violence and the politics of violence in the 1641 depositions 134
- 9 Atrocities in the Thirty Years War 153
- 10 Why remember terror? 176
- 11 Language and conflict in the French Wars of Religion 197
- 12 How to make a successful plantation 219
- 13 An Irish Black Legend 236
- 14 Afterword 254
- Index 274
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Dedication v
- Contents vii
- List of figures ix
- List of contributors xi
- Series editors’ preface xv
- Acknowledgements xvii
- 1 Introduction – 1641 1
- 2 Early modern violence from memory to history 17
- 3 The ‘1641 massacres’ 37
- 4 1641 in a colonial context 52
- 5 Towards a cultural geography of the 1641 rising/rebellion 71
- 6 Out of the blue 95
- 7 News from Ireland 115
- 8 Performative violence and the politics of violence in the 1641 depositions 134
- 9 Atrocities in the Thirty Years War 153
- 10 Why remember terror? 176
- 11 Language and conflict in the French Wars of Religion 197
- 12 How to make a successful plantation 219
- 13 An Irish Black Legend 236
- 14 Afterword 254
- Index 274
