12 ‘Winning hearts and minds’
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Valerie McGowan-Doyle
Abstract
How did the viceregal court communicate with those peoples over whom it claimed dominion? What signals did it send to those elites overseeing (semi-)autonomous and competing centres of authority throughout Ireland? Taking as her subject printed proclamations issued by the viceregal court, Valerie McGowan-Doyle explores the technologies of political persuasion and their effect on high politics across the realms. This critical genre of imperial governance has garnered precious little attention in the scholarly literature. McGowan-Doyle’s chapter offers the first dedicated study of these proclamations and uses them to reveal the close relationship between print and prerogative in the most local and quotidian aspects of the Irish experience under the Tudors.
Abstract
How did the viceregal court communicate with those peoples over whom it claimed dominion? What signals did it send to those elites overseeing (semi-)autonomous and competing centres of authority throughout Ireland? Taking as her subject printed proclamations issued by the viceregal court, Valerie McGowan-Doyle explores the technologies of political persuasion and their effect on high politics across the realms. This critical genre of imperial governance has garnered precious little attention in the scholarly literature. McGowan-Doyle’s chapter offers the first dedicated study of these proclamations and uses them to reveal the close relationship between print and prerogative in the most local and quotidian aspects of the Irish experience under the Tudors.
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
