The ‘Decline of Neighbourliness’ Revisited

Wrightson, Keith

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“…Neighbourliness combined reciprocity, personal knowledge and charity, all typically bound up in ideas of space and proximity, even if social, economic, demographic and religious developments had seen greater segmentation and stratification of society. 49 Naomi Tadmor has described it as the 'living idiom' of daily life and social relationships, a central set of governing principles that guided how people (should, at least) interact. 50 However, neighbourliness was understood fundamentally in religious terms, and as a Christian obligation: it was a spiritual idiom.…”

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“…51 To be at loggerheads with a neighbour was not solely 'unneighbourly', but to be 'out of charity': this further stressed the religious significance of community and good relationships, and those 'out of charity' were also advised not to take communion, until they had reconciled. 52 Those who persisted in disputes, significantly, were often described as 'unchristianlike' in their conduct. 53 Here, there is a similarity with the unchristian Irish.…”

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Religion, civility and the ‘British’ of Ireland in the 1641 Irish rebellion

Redmond

2021

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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This article examines the 1641 Irish rebellion through a neglected manuscript account from 1643, written by Henry Jones and three of his 1641 deposition colleagues. The ‘Treatise’ offers important insights into the rebellion, but also advances a broader understanding of the significance of the early modern efforts to civilise Ireland and the impact of these schemes, especially plantation, on the kind of conflict that erupted in the 1640s. It is an evaluation that brings together both the long pre-history of the rebellion, and what eventually unfolded, offering new perspectives into a crucial and contested debate within modern historiography. The ‘Treatise’ also presents the opportunity to interrogate the position of the settler community, and their careful construction and presentation of a religiously- and culturally-driven improvement of the country. While it was a period of crisis, the rebellion offered an important opportunity to reflect on the wider project of Irish conversion and civility. It was a moment of creation and self-creation, as the emerging ‘British’ community not only digested the shock of the rebellion, but sought to fashion narratives that underlined their moral claims to Ireland on the grounds of true religion and civility.

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Religion, civility and the ‘British’ of Ireland in the 1641 Irish rebellion

Redmond

2021

Ir. Hist. Stud.

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“…Keith Wrightson recently suggested that neighborliness remained an important way to negotiate community in England, despite the long tradition bemoaning its decline from the late middle ages onwards. 8 The question of periodization, that is, the boundary between the medieval and early modern periods, has implications for the study of neighborliness in the British Isles. Naomi Tadmor suggested that new translations of the Bible in English emphasized the rhetoric of neighborliness as the Ten Commandments received more attention in a Protestant Early Modern world than they had in the Catholic medieval one.…”

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Being a Neighbor: Ideas and Ideals of Neighborliness in the Medieval West

McDonough¹

2017

History Compass

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This essay takes stock of current scholarship on neighbors in the Middle Ages to think through medieval understandings of the notion of neighborliness. When historians invoke the ideas of neighbors and neighborliness, they mean something beyond the people who lived in adjoining buildings or on adjacent plots of land. When medieval people called someone a “neighbor,” the label conveyed a set of obligations, behaviors, and expectations, rooted in the idea that neighbors were among the group of people who were privy to the intimacies of each others' lives, at times both monumental and mundane. Medieval neighborliness was not uncomplicated or understood as unequivocally positive of course. Neighbors were not always a source of unconditional support or love. Despite a Christian rhetoric that emphasized a love of one's neighbor as a vehicle for loving God, medieval studies have suggested that the figure of the neighbor was, in fact, a source of danger and disquiet. This notion of neighborliness as a source of unease explains, perhaps, why scholars of medieval religion and religious interaction showcase some of the most fruitful uses of the concept. This article considers how scholars have accessed medieval notions of neighbors and neighborliness in their exploration of medieval community.

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“…6 Lately, Keith Wrightson has reiterated the belief that 'perhaps neighbourliness did indeed decline in early modern England'. 7 Is there any evidence for a similar shift in Maltese society or were there any factors that had a stabilizing effect on the population and held parish communities together?…”

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Religion, kinship and godparenthood as elements of social cohesion in Qrendi, a late-eighteenth-century Maltese parish

Ciappara

2010

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This micro-study examines the Maltese parish of St Mary's (Qrendi) in the second half of the eighteenth century. First it will be argued that – as in many other contemporaneous communities – migration to other parishes made its population extremely fluid. A second interest lies in the extent to which social distinctions and unruly behaviour further disrupted village solidarity. Finally there will be a consideration of the thesis that such unstable elements were counterbalanced by various integrative ties that bound the Qrendin together, such as charity, the obligations of neighbourliness and an intense devotion to the parish, kinship and godparenthood.

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The ‘Decline of Neighbourliness’ Revisited

Cited by 15 publications

References 42 publications

Religion, civility and the ‘British’ of Ireland in the 1641 Irish rebellion

Religion, civility and the ‘British’ of Ireland in the 1641 Irish rebellion

Being a Neighbor: Ideas and Ideals of Neighborliness in the Medieval West

Religion, kinship and godparenthood as elements of social cohesion in Qrendi, a late-eighteenth-century Maltese parish

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