2 Court society in the south of Ireland, c.1430–c.1620
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Gearóidín de Buitléir
Abstract
This chapter offers a case study in the cultural intermingling characteristic of courts in Ireland across the late medieval and early modern periods. Taking as its subject the ‘English-Irish’ aristocratic dynasty of the Butler earls of Ormond and its cadet branches, the study draws on bardic encomium for tracking the effects of anglicisation, state centralisation and religious change on court culture and political mentalities. One of the poems to the Butlers, Triall gach ēinfhir gu cúirt tTeabóid, has been cited at the start of the introduction to this collection. The present chapter works through the entire extant corpus of poems to the family and considers the relationship between poetic ideals and social practice.
Abstract
This chapter offers a case study in the cultural intermingling characteristic of courts in Ireland across the late medieval and early modern periods. Taking as its subject the ‘English-Irish’ aristocratic dynasty of the Butler earls of Ormond and its cadet branches, the study draws on bardic encomium for tracking the effects of anglicisation, state centralisation and religious change on court culture and political mentalities. One of the poems to the Butlers, Triall gach ēinfhir gu cúirt tTeabóid, has been cited at the start of the introduction to this collection. The present chapter works through the entire extant corpus of poems to the family and considers the relationship between poetic ideals and social practice.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Series editors’ preface x
- Acknowledgements xi
- Abbreviations xiii
- Introduction – Contiguous court societies 1
- I Indigenous court society in Ireland 27
- 1 Bouncers, stewards and gatecrashers 29
- 2 Court society in the south of Ireland, c.1430–c.1620 45
- 3 The Gaelic court and Irish country-house poetry 65
- 4 Latin letters and Renaissance civility in sixteenth-century Ireland 86
- II Made in Whitehall 103
- 5 Debating Irish policy at the court of Elizabeth I, c.1558–80 105
- 6 How to govern Ireland without leaving your armchair 123
- 7 Court discourse, the mid-Elizabethan polity and Ireland, 1571–75 142
- 8 Magnificence and massacre 166
- 9 Counsel in extremis 195
- III Positioning Ireland in the Renaissance court world 213
- 10 Our men in Scotland 215
- 11 Ireland’s militarised itinerant court and the Tudor state 238
- 12 ‘Winning hearts and minds’ 261
- 13 From court to courtliness 278
- Index 297
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of contributors vii
- Series editors’ preface x
- Acknowledgements xi
- Abbreviations xiii
- Introduction – Contiguous court societies 1
- I Indigenous court society in Ireland 27
- 1 Bouncers, stewards and gatecrashers 29
- 2 Court society in the south of Ireland, c.1430–c.1620 45
- 3 The Gaelic court and Irish country-house poetry 65
- 4 Latin letters and Renaissance civility in sixteenth-century Ireland 86
- II Made in Whitehall 103
- 5 Debating Irish policy at the court of Elizabeth I, c.1558–80 105
- 6 How to govern Ireland without leaving your armchair 123
- 7 Court discourse, the mid-Elizabethan polity and Ireland, 1571–75 142
- 8 Magnificence and massacre 166
- 9 Counsel in extremis 195
- III Positioning Ireland in the Renaissance court world 213
- 10 Our men in Scotland 215
- 11 Ireland’s militarised itinerant court and the Tudor state 238
- 12 ‘Winning hearts and minds’ 261
- 13 From court to courtliness 278
- Index 297
