Anticlericalism, popular politics and the Henrician Reformation

Ordinary Violence? Ireland as Emergency in the Tudor State

“…The first is simply the reminder that this language was levelled at many more types of people than simply Irish and Indians. As noted above, numerous scholars have cited English people calling other English people barbarous and savage, be this on account of cultural difference (say, that obtaining in the north or western marches), riotous behaviour, or even political challenge (‘barbarous’ being one of the descriptions of John Stubbs in the official proclamation banning his critique of Elizabeth's potential French match, The Discoverie of a Gaping Gulf , and condemning him to lose his writing hand by the executioner's axe). This was also a very common language used to disparage other nationals – be they Scottish, Spanish, Russian, or so on – and also those of competing confessions.…”