10 Our men in Scotland
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Simon Egan
Abstract
This chapter opens with a chronologically sweeping overview of relations between modernising courts in both Scotland and Gaelic Ireland. Too frequently the lordships of Gaelic Ulster are viewed as the most remote and retrograde in Ireland over the late medieval and early modern periods, only brought into the glaring light of an anglicising cultural imperialism at the point of military defeat in 1603. Simon Egan paints a radically different picture whereby the developments of courts overseen by the Stuarts and those under the sway of the O’Donnells were interlinked and had a distorting effect on English high political considerations. Critically, the author draws attention to the influence of European ecclesiastical matters on Scottish and Irish political calculations and practice.
Abstract
This chapter opens with a chronologically sweeping overview of relations between modernising courts in both Scotland and Gaelic Ireland. Too frequently the lordships of Gaelic Ulster are viewed as the most remote and retrograde in Ireland over the late medieval and early modern periods, only brought into the glaring light of an anglicising cultural imperialism at the point of military defeat in 1603. Simon Egan paints a radically different picture whereby the developments of courts overseen by the Stuarts and those under the sway of the O’Donnells were interlinked and had a distorting effect on English high political considerations. Critically, the author draws attention to the influence of European ecclesiastical matters on Scottish and Irish political calculations and 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
