title: In search for nationalism in early modern Ireland
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Levin, Feliks E.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:53:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-10-09T15:53:05Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2017-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Levin F. E. In search for nationalism in early modern Ireland. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2017, vol. 62, issue 3, pp. 645–654.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2017.315
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/8453
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The study represents reflection on a recent publication of articles by the renowned Irish historian
  Brendan Bradshaw “’And so began the Irish nation’: nationality, national consciousness and nationalism
  in pre-modern Irelandˮ dedicated to the issue of national consciousness and nationalism in
  early modern Ireland. Bradshaw’s materials are concerned not only with local Irish questions, but also
  with the debate between ethnosymbolists and modernists about the roots of nation and nationalism.
  Bradshaw proves, rather convincingly, that the early Modern period was the defining time for the subsequent
  development of identity processes on the island. He highlights the institutional factor of the
  formation of the idea of the Irish nation. It was the emergence of the kingdom of Ireland in 1541 within
  British composite monarchy and the rising level of political consciousness of English elites in Ireland
  that enabled manifestations of the idea.
  However, there are certain imperfections of the methodological nature in the collection, which is
  hardly surprising, since the materials are republished and do not correspond to the current scholarly
  experience of humanities. Having formulated a vague definition of nationalism as ‘patriotically
  inspired commitment to upholding the freedom, identity and unity of one’s nation’, the Irish historian
  attempts to find it in the examined period, thus endowing personalities of the 16th and 17th centuries
  with a level of political thinking which is characteristic of the Modern age. Bradshaw’s perception
  of the texts is quite straightforward since he considers them to be representative of group ideology
  and ignores their individuality. The fragments of the text provided by him are sometimes interpreted
  literally on the basis of the context of the period without the recourse to discourse analysis. As the
  result of such a reading of sources, the identity processes of early Modern time are represented in an
  overly simplified way. The author of this paper tries to demonstrate which factors impeded formation
  of nationalism in the examined period. Refs 38.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This study was funded by Russian fund of Humanities (RHF) 16-01-008 ‘Institutes, theory and practice
  of Western European monarchies of the XVI–XVIII centuries’.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 62; Issue 3
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Irish nation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nationalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: early Modern Ireland
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the kingdom of Ireland
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: British composite monarchy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: ethnosymbolism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: modernism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: In search for nationalism in early modern Ireland
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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