Series editors’ preface

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Series editors’ preface x
5. Acknowledgements xi
6. Abbreviations xiii
7. Introduction – Contiguous court societies 1
8. I Indigenous court society in Ireland 27
9. 1 Bouncers, stewards and gatecrashers 29
10. 2 Court society in the south of Ireland, c.1430–c.1620 45
11. 3 The Gaelic court and Irish country-house poetry 65
12. 4 Latin letters and Renaissance civility in sixteenth-century Ireland 86
13. II Made in Whitehall 103
14. 5 Debating Irish policy at the court of Elizabeth I, c.1558–80 105
15. 6 How to govern Ireland without leaving your armchair 123
16. 7 Court discourse, the mid-Elizabethan polity and Ireland, 1571–75 142
17. 8 Magnificence and massacre 166
18. 9 Counsel in extremis 195
19. III Positioning Ireland in the Renaissance court world 213
20. 10 Our men in Scotland 215
21. 11 Ireland’s militarised itinerant court and the Tudor state 238
22. 12 ‘Winning hearts and minds’ 261
23. 13 From court to courtliness 278
24. Index 297