TY - BOOK ID - 61317206 TI - The making of Englishmen : debates on national identity, 1550-1650 PY - 2013 SN - 9004243879 900423473X 1306027993 PB - Brill DB - UniCat KW - National characteristics, English KW - Group identity KW - Nationalism and literature KW - English language KW - History KW - Rhetoric KW - Political aspects. KW - Germanic languages KW - Literature and nationalism KW - Literature KW - Collective identity KW - Community identity KW - Cultural identity KW - Social identity KW - Identity (Psychology) KW - Social psychology KW - Collective memory KW - English national characteristics KW - European history UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:61317206 AB - Making the Englishmen: Debates on National Identity 1550-1650 asks how Englishmen defined themselves at a time of profound change and uncertainty. It will seek to contextualise the ways in which Englishness came to be construed as free, plain and unCatholic, and situate this construction as part of a larger attempt to create a narrative which would distinguish them from the rest of Europe. But all such attempts were fraught with anxiety and contestation. The normative ideals of Englishness were constantly being undermined, affronted and ignored. In the disarray characteristic of the post-Reformation era, there were constant fears that the Englishman was becoming both slavish and treacherous in political, cultural and religious ways. Englishness was under threat. ER -