1. There has been healthy discussion of honour by early modern English historians, see particularly Mervyn James, English Politics and the Concept of Honour, 1485–1642 (first published in 1978)
2. Markku Peltonen, The Duel in Early Modern England: Civility, Politeness, and Honour (Cambridge, 2003)
3. Richard Cust, ‘Honour and Politics in Early Stuart England’, Past and Present, 149 (1995), 57–94
4. Cynthia Herrup, ‘“To Pluck Bright Honour from the Pale-Faced Moon”: Gender and Honour in the Castlehaven Story’, Transactions ofthe Royal Historical Society, 6th ser., 6 (1996), 137–60.
5. The literature on ‘honour’ in early modern Ireland includes William Palmer, ‘That “Insolent Liberty”: Honor, Rites of Power, and Persuasion in Sixteenth-Century Ireland’, Renaissance Quarterly, 46 (1993), 308–27