Ireland and the Renaissance court: Political culture from the cúirteanna to Whitehall, 1450-1640

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Ireland and the Renaissance court

Political culture from the cúirteanna to Whitehall, 1450-1640

Edited by: David Edwards and Brendan Kane

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c. 1450-1650. Chapters are contributed by both established and emergent scholars working in the fields of history, literary studies, and philology. They focus on Gaelic cúirteanna, the indigenous centres of aristocratic life throughout the medieval period; on the regnal court of the emergent British empire based in London at Whitehall; and on Irish participation in the wider world of European elite life and letters. Collectively, they expand the chronological limits of ‘early modern’ Ireland to include the fifteenth century and recreate its multi-lingual character through exploration of its English, Irish and Latin archives. This volume is an innovative effort at moving beyond binary approaches to English-Irish history by demonstrating points of contact as well as contention.

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Contributor: David Edwards David Edwards is Senior Lecturer in History at University College Cork

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"Ireland and the Renaissance Court represents an important and first-of-its-kind contribution to our understanding of the political governance, cultural politics and interconnections that took place between courts in early modern Ireland and England. The book’s use of Irish-language sources, innovative methodologies, interdisciplinary approaches, and keen insights makes it an essential collection, and one that will influence the field for years to come."
Prof. Sarah Covington, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Series editors’ preface Publicly Available Download PDF	x
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction – Contiguous court societies The Renaissance Irish lordships and the Tudor and early Stuart English monarchy David Edwards and Brendan Kane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I Indigenous court society in Ireland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
1 Bouncers, stewards and gatecrashers Access and hierarchy at the Gaelic court in early modern Irish literature, c.1400–c.1650 Micheál Hoyne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	29
2 Court society in the south of Ireland, c.1430–c.1620 Evidence from the Butler bardic poems and other Irish sources Gearóidín de Buitléir Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
3 The Gaelic court and Irish country-house poetry The politics of an overlooked genre Patricia Palmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
4 Latin letters and Renaissance civility in sixteenth-century Ireland Jason Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	86
II Made in Whitehall Irish policy and a regnal court Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
5 Debating Irish policy at the court of Elizabeth I, c.1558–80 David Heffernan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
6 How to govern Ireland without leaving your armchair The production of Irish knowledge in Elizabethan secretariats Nicholas Popper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
7 Court discourse, the mid-Elizabethan polity and Ireland, 1571–75 Christopher Maginn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	142
8 Magnificence and massacre Essex and the Enterprise of Ulster, 1573–76 Hiram Morgan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	166
9 Counsel in extremis Sir James Croft’s A Discourse of 1583 and Elizabeth I’s reform of Irish policy David Edwards Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	195
III Positioning Ireland in the Renaissance court world Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213
10 Our men in Scotland The Gaelic Irish nobility and the Scottish Renaissance court, c.1400–c.1600 Simon Egan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	215
11 Ireland’s militarised itinerant court and the Tudor state R. Malcolm Smuts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	238
12 ‘Winning hearts and minds’ Proclamations, audience and the discourse of Old English displacement Valerie McGowan-Doyle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	261
13 From court to courtliness The verse epistle as imperial genre Brendan Kane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	278
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297

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November 11, 2024

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9781526177308

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https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526177308

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court studies; cultural encounter; elite culture; lordship; monarchy; political culture; regnal courts; Tudor government

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