The Orders of Knighthood and the Formation of the British Honours System, 1660–…
The Orders of Knighthood and the Formation of the British Honours System, 1660-1760Author(s): Antti Matikkala\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: The Boydell Press\nISBN-13: 9781843834236, 978-1843834236\nSynopsis\nA detailed analysis of the political, social and cultural aspects of the British orders of knighthood in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.\n\n`Sheds considerable new light on the nature, development and functions of the orders in a key phase of their history, and goes a long way to explaining how such archaic institutions could flourish in a culture that is commonly thought anti-traditional and especially hostile to the \""middle ages\""'. Professor JONATHAN BOULTON, University of Notre Dame.\n\nThis is the first comprehensive study to set the British orders of knighthood properly into the context of the honours system - by analysing their political, social and cultural functions from the Restoration of the monarchy to the.
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