13 From court to courtliness
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Brendan Kane
Abstract
This collection’s concluding chapter considers what happened when access to the world of the court became more exclusive with the growth of England’s empire. For aspiring English courtiers, the union of the crowns in 1603 and the heightened importance of Whitehall created a simple numbers problem by which too many competed for too few places. In Ireland, the state’s sustained attacked on indigenous courts obviated the traditional roles available to poets, churchmen and other councillors and hangers-on. Among the aspirant and the displaced across the realms emerged a new genre of communication by which the practice of courtliness could be maintained at a distance: the verse letter.
Abstract
This collection’s concluding chapter considers what happened when access to the world of the court became more exclusive with the growth of England’s empire. For aspiring English courtiers, the union of the crowns in 1603 and the heightened importance of Whitehall created a simple numbers problem by which too many competed for too few places. In Ireland, the state’s sustained attacked on indigenous courts obviated the traditional roles available to poets, churchmen and other councillors and hangers-on. Among the aspirant and the displaced across the realms emerged a new genre of communication by which the practice of courtliness could be maintained at a distance: the verse letter.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- 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
