Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War

Beaver, Daniel C.

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“…23 It could also be attributed to the fact that the 'material turn' has hitherto been played out most loudly in other historical contexts, not least in studies of consumption and domesticity. 28 Alun Howkins and Linda Merricks' analysis of reactions to live animal exports also marks a notable exception to this general trend in rural history, if focused on middle-class opinion and the very recent past. Examinations of rural human-animal relations have, for instance, long been central to archaeological and anthropological research.…”

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“…27 Recent studies of the culture of hunting in early modern and modern Britain have also been attentive to the relationship between the hunter and the hunted, although this was necessarily an even more unequal bond than that between farmhands and farm animals. 28 Alun Howkins and Linda Merricks' analysis of reactions to live animal exports also marks a notable exception to this general trend in rural history, if focused on middle-class opinion and the very recent past. 29 Erica Fudge's several studies of early modern England have also done much to increase our understanding of the contradiction between, on the one hand, attempts to assert the biological superiority of humans over animals and, on the other, the fact that animals in a variety of contexts were still ascribed capabilities beyond the provision of food and labour.…”

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‘Some inhuman wretch’: Animal Maiming and the Ambivalent Relationship between Rural Workers and Animals

Griffin¹

2014

Rural History

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Abstract:The daily lives of many rural workers were intertwined with animals: those they kept, those in the wild, and those they were employed to work with and care for. And yet despite the importance of this connection, work in rural history has tended, with some notable exceptions, to conceive of animals as fleshy capital, game, or pest. In part this is because the archive does not tend to describe the relationships between workers and animals. This paper contends, however, that the archive of animal maiming offers important detail for beginning to understand the connection. While animal maiming was necessarily rooted in violence, with its various forms essentially involving the mutilation and violation of animals, nonetheless episodes of animal maiming can tell us much about the politics of giving care to animals. Examining episodes of animal maiming also allows us to understand how the non-human helped to constitute the relationships between humans, especially the uneven bond between employer and worker, as well as the complex, and often contradictory, attitudes of rural workers to animals.

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‘Some inhuman wretch’: Animal Maiming and the Ambivalent Relationship between Rural Workers and Animals

Griffin¹

2014

Rural History

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“…In those instances, too, there was criminalization of difference; demonization of other modes of life, conduct and language; interest in economic extraction by new elites (Eric Ash writes that in the early seventeenth century ‘tens of thousands of acres of fenland’ were ‘improved’, this on top of the sixteenth century's reclamations, enclosures, deforestation efforts, and other ‘improvements’); and fierce local resistance, both physical and propagandistic. Is the attack on Gaelic culture so alien from this that its only comparison is to found overseas? Might we be able to read bardic poems about the destruction of woods, for instance, in tandem with ballads defending the fenlands?…”

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Ordinary Violence? Ireland as Emergency in the Tudor State

Kane¹

2014

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This essay urges comparative study of violence in early modern Ireland and England. Ireland was colonized by the English in this period, and thus violence there is primarily studied through the lens of colonialism and in comparison with overseas colonial settings. Additionally, as argued below, scholars should be attentive to links with violence found in the other Tudor and Stuart realms, here focusing on England. To that end, the essay starts out by looking briefly at differences in the characterization and conceptualization of England's Irish and American colonial projects, the point being to make a case for seeing Ireland's centrality to the Tudor and Stuart states. From there, it offers a series of observations on similarities and points of contact between violence and its meanings in these two realms governed (at least in theory) by the same monarchy. In doing so, it claims that while the ‘extraordinary’, i.e. colonial, nature of violence in early modern Ireland is crucial for understanding the period, equally crucial is an understanding of the ‘ordinary’ aspects of that violence – defined as aspects of a more general state of terrific, quotidian violence experienced commonly within the realms. Analysis of both these colonial and the domestic contexts is necessary for assessing early modern Irish−English relations and their place in larger historical inquiries concerned with state/empire formation, modern imperialism and human rights.

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“…14 A variety of studies -many associated with a 'postrevisionist' moment -have also depicted long-simmering conflict preceding the Civil War and terrific violence during it. 15 No one doubted the violence of the Civil War, of course, although there has been debate over its horrors vis-à-vis contemporaneous ones in Ireland. 16 The year 1688, however, presents a rather different case.…”

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Introduction: Human Rights and the History of Violence in the EarlyBritish Empire

Kane¹

2014

History

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Specialists on early modern violence and on human rights history have much to gain through collaboration, or at least mutual awareness. Human rights historians are increasingly drawing on studies of early modern violence. However, as contended here, early modernists tend to approach the subject framed by their own geographical areas of interest. As such, we lack an overarching sense of violence and its meanings across the Tudor and Stuart realms and colonies, something that would be of great utility in understanding how developments in the early modern period relate to later ones. In the interests of promoting such broader investigation and comparison, the present essay briefly surveys important aspects of the approach to violence in the English, Irish and Atlantic historiographies, and in the literatures of massacre and of human rights. In doing so, it sets the essays included in this special edition in their historiographical contexts and highlights crucial interventions. It concludes with thoughts not only on how a more comprehensive understanding of violence in the early British empire might be of value to human rights historians, but how the new meta‐narrative of human rights history might spur greater comparative work amongst early modernists.

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Hunting and the Politics of Violence before the English Civil War

Cited by 14 publications

References 73 publications

‘Some inhuman wretch’: Animal Maiming and the Ambivalent Relationship between Rural Workers and Animals

‘Some inhuman wretch’: Animal Maiming and the Ambivalent Relationship between Rural Workers and Animals

Ordinary Violence? Ireland as Emergency in the Tudor State

Introduction: Human Rights and the History of Violence in the EarlyBritish Empire

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