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Solidarity as ritual in the late Elizabethan court
Faction, emotion, and the Essex circle
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Bradley J. Irish focuses on the affective ties that constitute communities and build subjects, and in his focus on courtly factionalism in the Essex circle, he flips the script on previous critical evaluations of these famously unhappy political rivalries. Focusing instead on the sociological effects of solidarity, a positive emotional experience, in ‘Solidarity as ritual in the late Elizabethan court: faction, emotion, and the Essex circle’, Irish argues that participation in social groups and their everyday rituals of court life operated to solidify solidarity and with it, factionalism, in the late Elizabethan court, revealing how a ‘positive’ emotion can have extreme and deleterious historical consequences.

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