Showing papers on "Honour published in 2018"
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11 Oct 2018
TL;DR: Sidney's "Discourses Concerning Government" as mentioned in this paper was published posthumously in 1698, 15 years after his execution for complicity in a plot to assassinate Charles II. Although there is nothing in the work incompatible with a constitutional monarchy, the indictment claimed that it was a "false, seditious and traitorous libel", citing sentences which stated that the king is subject to law and is responsible to the people.
Abstract: Written in response to Sir Robert Filmer's "Patriarcha" (1680), the "Discourses Concerning Government" by Algernon Sidney (1623-1683) has been respected for more than three centuries as a classic defence of republicanism and popular government. Sidney rejected Filmer's theories of royal absolutism and divine right of kings, insisting that title to rule should be based on merit rather than on birth; and republics, he thought, were more likely to honour merit than were monarchies. Like Milton, Sidney revered and idealised the Commonwealth (1649-1660) as England's noble achievement in the grand tradition of ancient Greece and Rome. Sidney's treatise was published posthumously in 1698, 15 years after he was executed for complicity in a plot to assassinate Charles II. Sidney's papers, including a draft of the "Discourses", were used as evidence against him. Although there is nothing in the work incompatible with a constitutional monarchy, the indictment claimed that it was a "false, seditious and traitorous libel", citing sentences which stated that the king is subject to law and is responsible to the people. Sidney's "Discourses" was widely read in the colonies, and influenced a number of American revolutionary leaders.
284 citations
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15 Nov 2018
TL;DR: In this article, Braddick et al. discuss the importance of order, hierarchy and subordination in early modern society, and discuss the role of women in these grids of power.
Abstract: Introduction: grids of power: order, hierarchy and subordination in early modern society Michael J. Braddick and John Walter 1. Ordering the body: illegitimacy and female authority in seventeenth-century England Laura Gowing 2. Child sexual abuse in early modern England Martin Ingram 3. Sex, social relations and the law in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century London Faramerz Dabhoiwala 4. Exhortation and entitlement: negotiating equality in English rural communities, 1550-1650 Steve Hindle 5. Public transcripts, popular agency and the politics of subsistence in early modern England John Walter 6. 'Bragging and daring words': honour, property, and the symbolism of the hunt in Stowe, 1590-1642 Dan Beaver 7. Administrative performance: the representation of political authority in early modern England Michael J. Braddick 8. Negotiating order in early seventeenth-century Ireland Raymond Gillespie 9. Order, orthodoxy and resistance: the ambiguous legacy of English puritanism, or, Just how moderate was Stephen Denison? Peter Lake 10. Making orthodoxy in late Restoration England: the trials of Edmund Hickeringill, 1662-1710 Justin Champion and Lee McNulty.
61 citations
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: The Festschrift as discussed by the authors is a collection of papers in honour of Geoffrey Khan, the Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge, written by his former and current students and post-doctoral re...
Abstract: This Festschrift is a collection of papers in honour of Geoffrey Khan, the Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Cambridge, written by his former and current students and post-doctoral re ...
52 citations
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29 Nov 2018TL;DR: Hennings as mentioned in this paper explores the relationship between European powers and Russia beyond the conventional East-West divide from the Peace of Westphalia to the reign of Peter the Great and shows that Russia, despite its perceived isolation and cultural distinctiveness, participated in the developments and transformations that were taking place more broadly in diplomacy.
Abstract: In this book on early modern diplomacy, Jan Hennings explores the relationship between European powers and Russia beyond the conventional East-West divide from the Peace of Westphalia to the reign of Peter the Great. He examines how, at a moment of new departure in both Europe and Russia, the norms shaping diplomatic practice emerged from the complex relations and direct encounters within the world of princely courts rather than from incompatible political cultures. He makes clear the connections between dynastic representation, politics and foreign relations, and shows that Russia, despite its perceived isolation and cultural distinctiveness, participated in the developments and transformations that were taking place more broadly in diplomacy. The central themes of this study are the interlocking manifestations of social hierarchy, monarchical honour and sovereign status in both text and ritual. Related issues of diplomatic customs, institutional structures, personnel, negotiation practice, international law, and the question of cultural transfer also figure prominently.
26 citations
Journal Article•
20 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the rationale and implications of the inclusion of slaves as victims of punishable hubris in the law about the graphē hubreōs, arguing that hubris against slaves was a punishable offence not because slaves had institutionally and legally recognized rights or a modicum of honour, but rather because it was hubris, as a disposition to overstep and overestimate one's claims to honour (although manifested in concrete acts), that was deemed unacceptable.
Abstract: This article discusses the rationale and the implications of the inclusion of slaves as victims of punishable hubris in the law about the graphē hubreōs. It argues that hubris against slaves was a punishable offence in Athens not because slaves had institutionally and legally recognized rights or a modicum of honour, but rather because it was hubris, as a disposition to overstep and overestimate one's claims to honour (although manifested in concrete acts), that was deemed unacceptable. The article also investigates the implications of the law for our understanding of the connectedness of ‘legal’ and allegedly ‘extra-legal’ spaces, as well as advocating an understanding of honour that is not necessarily competitive and zero-sum, but also cooperative and aimed at securing smooth social interaction in all spheres of social life.
17 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the role of excessive or "phantascistic" fantasies in the space of reasons in a long history of conflict in the Middle East and a shorter histo...
Abstract: Fantasies and especially excessive or ‘phantascistic’ fantasies, as they are referred to here, have the power to suppress within political communities, consciously and unconsciously alike, inner antagonisms in times of crisis. More precisely, they help to blur aporias within the ideological structures of a community through the evocation of a sensus communis (Kant) that establishes the community anew, similar to an act of religious conversion. Their impact on the space of reasons is analysed in this article as one that does not take part in the game of giving and asking for reasons, but operates in the background of communal reason via an emotionally and clandestine ‘code’ of what it means to be ‘We … – We who we are’. Next to theoretical elaborations of how and why these phantascistic fantasies are produced, the theory will be further explained through a series of exemplifications demonstrating the way that it has played out across a long history of conflict in the Middle East and a shorter histo...
16 citations
TL;DR: The 18th-century French political theorist the Baron de Montesquieu described honour as the "principle" or animating force of a well-functioning monarchy, which he thought the appropriate regime type for an economically unequal society extended over a broad territory as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The 18th-century French political theorist the Baron de Montesquieu described honour as the ‘principle’ – or animating force – of a well-functioning monarchy, which he thought the appropriate regime type for an economically unequal society extended over a broad territory. Existing literature often presents this honour in terms of lofty ambition, the desire for preference and distinction, a spring for political agency or a spur to the most admirable kind of conduct in public life and the performance of great deeds. Perhaps so. But it also seems to involve quite a bit of what the contemporary philosopher Aaron James calls ‘being an asshole’, and the article will explore what happens to Montesquieu’s political theory of monarchy – which is foundational for an understanding of modern politics – when we reverse the usual perspective and consider it through the lens of the arsehole aristocracy.
15 citations
TL;DR: Since the incorporation of anti-blasphemy laws protecting the religious sentiments of the Muslim majority in the Pakistan Penal Code in the 1980s, Pakistan has seen several cases of extra-judicial...
Abstract: Since the incorporation of anti-blasphemy laws protecting the religious sentiments of the Muslim majority in the Pakistan Penal Code in the 1980s, Pakistan has seen several cases of extra-judicial ...
12 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the sexual experiences of young adult women in the developing context of Malaysia using a qualitative phenomenological approach and found that women experience sexual pleasure under the control of religion and society with the concern of conserving a woman's purity and social honour; and imposing risks and responsibility on women.
Abstract: Little is known regarding the ways in which Malaysian women’s sexuality is constructed, and how their personal experiences, culture, religion and society influence their feeling, attitude and sexual behaviours. This study explored the sexual experiences of young adult women in the developing context of the country. A qualitative phenomenological approach was adopted. Purposive sampling was employed, and a total of 20 participants were recruited, comprised of the major ethnic groups in Malaysia. Four main themes emerged through the phenomenological analysis of the data, including: conditional pleasure; social honour and women’s purity; risk and responsibility; and transcendence of love and emotion. The findings of this study revealed that sexuality was experienced under the control of religion and society with the concern of conserving a woman’s purity and social honour; and imposing risks and responsibility on women. Despite the awareness of women’s right to experience sexual pleasure, it was commonly perceived that sexual activities beyond the social norms will result in social shaming and guilt. The authors recommend appropriate sexuality education regarding sexual assertiveness and communication, safe-sex practices, and improving sexual decision-making skills.
11 citations
TL;DR: Three types of femicide in Jordan - so-called 'honour killings', fatal intimate partner violence (IPV), and domestic violence committed by male family members other than the husband (DV) - are highlighted and compared with the killing of women in non-gender related situations such as during a robbery.
Dissertation•
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: Wright and Wright as mentioned in this paper described the full-armour of the Green Knight in Chaucer's "Clerk's Tale" and concluded: "Of hire array what should I make a tale?”.
Abstract: .................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction .............................................................................................................................. 4 Suitably Dressed: Clothing, Gifts and Honour in Erec and Enide .................................... 10 Clothing and Honour ....................................................................................................................... 12 Monica Wright, 3 .................................................................................................................... 12 Clothing and Gifts ............................................................................................................................ 16 Honour and Marriage ...................................................................................................................... 19 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 21 Dressing and Stripping: Power, Poverty, and Gender in Chaucer’s “Clerk’s Tale”.......... 23 Exchangeability and Clothing ......................................................................................................... 26 Constant Character........................................................................................................................... 31 Public Stripping and Power ............................................................................................................. 34 Conclusion: “Of hire array what should I make a tale?” ............................................................... 38 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Knots and Knighthood ................................................. 40 The Full Armour of Gawain............................................................................................................. 42 Out of armour: the demands of courtly love .................................................................................. 45 Body, clothes and (dis)honour: ....................................................................................................... 51 Conclusion ........................................................................................................................................ 53 Conclusion .............................................................................................................................. 54 Bibliography ........................................................................................................................... 58
Dissertation•
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a table of Table of Table 1 : Table of contents of the table of this article : Table 2 : Table 1.1.3.1
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss recommendations for intervention in honour-based violence (HBV) as recommended by individuals who face such violence in their everyday lives. But they do not discuss the impact of these interventions on the individuals themselves.
Abstract: This paper concerns recommendations for intervention in honour-based violence (“HBV”) as recommended by individuals who face such violence in their everyday lives. Utilising data extracted from int...
TL;DR: In this article, the authors engage with discourses surrounding "honour-related violence", son preference, and daughter deficit in Punjabi Sikh communities of northern India and Canada.
Abstract: This article engages with discourses surrounding “honour-related violence”, son preference and daughter deficit in Punjabi Sikh communities of northern India and Canada. I contextualise son prefere...
Dissertation•
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: This article examined the importance and influence of chivalry in British culture before, during and after World War One by examining the formative role of chivalence in education and literature in the nineteenth century, and showed how it becomes encoded in Britishculture, contributing not simply to a romanticised idea of war, but becoming an inextricable part of British identity.
Abstract: The re-emergence of chivalry in the mid-eighteenth century fundamentally altered Britain’s perception of etiquette, duty, masculinity and the ideology surrounding war. This thesis demonstrates the importance and influence of chivalry’s persistence before, during and after World War One. By examining the formative role of chivalry in education and literature in the nineteenth century, we see how it becomes encoded in British culture, contributing not simply to a romanticised idea of war, but becoming an inextricable part of British identity. While many scholars would argue against the continued use or popularity of chivalry during WWI, condemning its role in glamourising conflict, this work demonstrates how organisations such as the War Propaganda Bureau, the Boy Scouts and the public school system strove to encourage the citizens of war-time Britain to adopt the central tenets of chivalry (honour, bravery and self- sacrifice), declaring them crucial to morale and victory. This work evidences how chivalry did not simply survive WWI but by altering the vocabulary and images associated with it, adapted to the demands of Britain’s wartime and post-war environment. Through critical analysis of literature ranging from poetry and plays to pamphlets and meeting minutes, this thesis demonstrates how the central tenets of chivalry are not only ingrained in the British response to war, but helped to provide moral justification of violence, created brotherhood between soldiers, engendered solidarity on the Home Front, and provided an ethical framework through which combatants and non-combatants could understand the need for war. World War One did not destroy chivalry; rather it was refashioned to make a historicizing connection to a legacy of heroism which continues in modern British nationalism, duty and morality.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluate the function and duties of an armour bearer from the context of honour and shame, using interand extra-textual sources, and conclude that the position of a shield bearer for the king is a position of honour or shame.
Abstract: The imagery of a shield in the Psalms is applied to YHWH in many instances: from YHWH as the shield of salvation or as the shield of refuge, to the destroyer of the shield. In Psalm 35:2, YHWH takes on the position and duties of an armour bearer (or shield bearer) for the king. This article raises the question as to whether or not the position of armour bearer for the king is a position of honour or shame? To answer this question, the article evaluates the function and duties of an armour bearer from the context of honour and shame, using interand extra-textual sources.
01 Jan 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors have encouraged students to pursue a concerned archaeology that goes beyond establishing cultural chronologies to formulating critical inquiries fundamental to the preservation of cultural artifacts and artifacts.
Abstract: Throughout his career, Paul Sinclair has encouraged students to pursue a concerned archaeology that goes beyond establishing cultural chronologies to formulating critical inquiries fundamental to o ...
TL;DR: This paper investigated the idea of prizes in the works of civil economist Antonio Genovesi and its seeds in Thomas Aquinas' thought, and provided a historical argument to problematise this opposition.
Abstract: In this economic debate, incentives (material, extrinsic) and awards (symbolic, intrinsic) are conceived as two opposite tools to prompt human actions. In this article, we provide a historical argument to problematise this opposition. We investigate the idea of prizes (“premi”) in the works of civil economist Antonio Genovesi, and its seeds in Thomas Aquinas’ thought. They both discuss if material rewards can crowd-in intrinsic motivations. Aquinas considered the crowding-out risks related to honour (award). Genovesi stressed the role of private prizes (incentives) and market in fostering the development of society, and claims that crowding-in is more common than crowding-out.
TL;DR: The conceptual foundations of the duty are unclear and remain undertheorized, leaving courts, Indigenous peoples, the Crown, and private industry to wonder precisely what consultation should involve.
Abstract: It has been uncontroversial in Canada since the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Haida Nation v British Columbia (Minister of Forests) that the Crown bears a constitutional duty to consult Indigenous peoples before proceeding with any conduct that threatens potential or unproven Indigenous rights or title. This duty is rooted in the honour of the Crown and is important to the broader goal of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Canadians. But section 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982 mentions neither the honour of the Crown nor the duty to consult. The conceptual foundations of the duty are unclear and remain undertheorized, leaving courts, Indigenous peoples, the Crown, and private industry to wonder precisely what consultation should involve. This article attempts to fill this theoretical gap. First, it argues, as an analytical matter, that the duty to consult is most coherently understood to flow from a commitment to creating space within the existing structures of Canadian democrac...
01 Jan 2018
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01 Jan 2018
20 Jul 2018
TL;DR: The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past as discussed by the authors, and the present is another country; they do things differently there.
Abstract: The campaigns in universities across the world to reject, rename and remove historic benefactions have brought the present into collision with the past. In Britain the attempt to remove a statue of one of Oxford’s most famous benefactors, the imperialist Cecil Rhodes, has spread to other universities and their benefactors, and now also affects civic monuments and statues in towns and cities across the country. In the United States, memorials to leaders of the Confederacy in the American Civil War and to other slaveholders have been the subject of intense dispute. Should we continue to honour benefactors and historic figures whose actions are now deemed ethically unacceptable? How can we reconcile the views held by our ancestors with those we now hold today? Should we even try, acknowledging, in the words of the novelist L. P. Hartley, that ‘the past is another country; they do things differently there’?
The essays in this interdisciplinary collection are drawn from a conference at the Institute of Historical Research in the University of London. Historians, fundraisers, a sociologist and a museum director examine these current issues from different perspectives, with an introductory essay by Sir David Cannadine, president of the British Academy. Together they explore an emerging conflict between the past and present, history and ideology, and benefactors and their critics.
Published as part of the IHR Shorts Series by the Institute of Historical Research.
06 Feb 2018
TL;DR: The Editor-in-Chief of EJIS as mentioned in this paper is a great honour, and I will do my best to live up to the expectations of the editors of the journal.
Abstract: This editorial is my first as the new Editor-in-Chief of EJIS. Assuming leadership of such a prominent journal is a great honour, and I will do my best to live up to the expectations. It is comfort...
31 Dec 2018
31 Aug 2018
TL;DR: The social basis of scientific fraud and the most relevant aspects of Japanese cultural values and traditions, as well as the concept of honour which is deeply involved in the way Japanese scientists react when they are accused of and publicly exposed in scientific fraud situations is examined.
Abstract: Practices related to research misconduct seem to have been multiplied in recent years. Many cases of scientific fraud have been exposed publicly, and journals and academic institutions have deployed different measures worldwide in this regard. However, the influence of specific social and cultural environments on scientific fraud may vary from society to society. This article analyzes how scientists in Japan deal with accusations of scientific fraud. For such a purpose, a series of scientific fraud cases that took place in Japan has been reconstructed through diverse sources. Thus, by analyzing those cases, the social basis of scientific fraud and the most relevant aspects of Japanese cultural values and traditions, as well as the concept of honour which is deeply involved in the way Japanese scientists react when they are accused of and publicly exposed in scientific fraud situations is examined.
02 Nov 2018
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the nature and extent of violent practice in the motorcycle underworld, by considering the murder of Gerry Tobin, and then using the biography of the founding member of the Hell's Angels motorcycle club (HAMC) for a critical analysis.
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the nature and extent of violent practice in the motorcycle underworld. It does this by considering the murder of Gerry Tobin, and then uses the biography of the founding member of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle club (HAMC) for a critical analysis. The authors are interested in understanding the role of masculine honour and collective identity, and its influences in relation to violence – namely, fatal violence in the motorcycle underworld. The authors argue that motorcycle gangs are extreme examples of what Hall (2012) considers “criminal undertakers” – individuals who take “special liberties” often as a last resort.,The methodological approach seeks to analyse the paradigm of “masculine honour”, and how the Outlaws MC (OMC) applied this notion when executing the seemingly senseless murder of Gerry Tobin. So too, the author triangulate these findings by critically analysing the biography of the founding member of the Californian chapter of the HAMC – Sonny Barger. Further to this, a case study inevitably offers “constraints and opportunities” (Easton, 2010, p. 119). Through the process of triangulation, which is a method that utilises “multiple sources of data”, the researcher can be confident that the truth is being “conveyed as truthfully as possible” (Merriam, 1995, p. 54).,What is clear within the OB worldview is that it can only be a male dominant ideology, with no allowance for female interference (Wolf, 2008). Thus, Messerschmidt’s (1993) notion of “hegemonic masculinity” fits the male dominated subcultures of the HAMC and OMC, which therefore provides the clubs with “exclusive” masculine identities (Wolf, 2008). For organisations like the HAMC, retaliation is perceived as an alternative form of criminal justice that is compulsory to undertake in order to defend their status of honour and masculinity.,Based on our understanding, this is the first critical think piece that explores a UK case of homicide within the context of the motorcycle underworld. It also provides a comprehensive understanding of violent practice with the motorcycle underworld from criminological and sociological perspectives. This paper will inform readers about an overlooked and under researched underworld culture.