The Rule of Moderation

Shagan, Ethan H.

doi:10.1017/cbo9781139003711

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“…Ultimately based on Aristotelian notions of virtue, 'moderation' was 'at the centre of virtually all ethical writings in early modern England'. 89 'Moderation', on this account, was double-edged: it involved the exercise of self-control whilst justifying the imposition of coercive constraints on those who were incapable of such self-government. 'Moderation', moreover, operated across a whole range of discursive fields: religion and politics, gender and generational relations, and the social hierarchy.…”

Section: Francophobia and Practices Of Moderationmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘We do naturally … hate the French’

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2022

Stereotypes and Stereotyping in Early Modern England

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Thence to my Lord Bellasyse by invitation, and there dined with him and his lady and daughter; and at dinner there played to us a young boy, lately come from France, where he had been learning a year or two on the viallin, and plays finely. But impartially, I do not find any goodness in their ayres (though very good) beyond ours. 1 Like so many entries, this brief passage prompts various lines of inquiry. This chapter pursues just one of these: Pepys's engagement with 'Frenchness'. It argues that this engagement was structured by two powerful but contradictory stereotypes. On one hand, French things, people and France itself were identified with excess, or the absence of moderation. 2 In such cases, a national identity was constructed, if often only implicitly, in relation to a stereotyped French 'other'. At the same time, France, French things and, more equivocally, the French themselves were habitually identified with contemporary notions of distinction. 3 Here, the same constellation of places, things and people was used to construct and differentiate a cosmopolitan social identity. In other words, Pepys embraced a series of contradictory stereotypes, invoking different aspects of them depending on contexts. These conflicting stereotypes were bolstered by, and in turn buttressed, other social representations -relating to gender, class, religion and age -that were central to contemporary constructions of both 'self' and 'other'. This chapter is primarily expository in ambition. It uses a single source, Pepys's diary, to examine the production and reproduction of specific stereotypes within a circumscribed milieu and at a particular conjuncture, deploying theoretical insights from social psychology. At the same time, it is also intended as a historiographical intervention, challenging the accepted representation of English attitudes towards the French in the opening decades of the Restoration.

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Section: Francophobia and Practices Of Moderationmentioning

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‘We do naturally … hate the French’

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2022

Stereotypes and Stereotyping in Early Modern England

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“…As Ethan Shagan has pointed out in his consideration of the 'moderation' that informed the policy of Archbishop Whitgift, this was not conformity without control. 146 Hatton and Whitgift were not so much interested in creating a church to which all could belong as a political environment in which no other church could function. Given that Elizabethan politicians needed not look far to see the unholy strife and bloodshed that differences in religion could unleash, the via media of Hatton and Whitgift was less about benign dictatorship and more about outright authoritarianism.…”

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