Ireland and the Renaissance court : political culture from the cúirteanna to Whitehall, 1450-1640 /

Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c. 1450-1650. Chapters are contributed by both established and emergent scholars working in the fields of history, literary studies an...

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Other Authors: Edwards, David, 1963- (Editor), Kane, Brendan Michael, 1968- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2024.
Series:Studies in early modern Irish history.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction Contiguous court societies : the Renaissance Irish lordships and the Tudor and early Stuart English monarchy / David Edwards and Brendan Kane
  • part I. Indigenous court society in Ireland
  • Bouncers, stewards and gatecrashers : access and hierarchy at the Gaelic court in early modern Irish literature, c.1400-c.1650 / Micheál Hoyne
  • Court society in the south of Ireland, c.1430-c.1620 : evidence from the Butler bardic poems and other Irish sources / Gearóidín de Buitléir
  • The Gaelic court and Irish country-house poetry : the politics of an overlooked genre / Patricial Palmer
  • Latin letters and Renaissance civility in sixteenth-century Ireland / Jason Harris
  • part II. Made in Whitehall : Irish policy and a regnal court
  • Debating Irish policy at the court of Elizabeth I, c.1558-80 / David Heffernan
  • How to govern Ireland without leaving your armchair : the production of Irish knowledge in Elizabethan secretariats / Nicholas Popper
  • Court discourse, the mid-Elizabethan polity and Ireland, 1571-75 / Christopher Maginn
  • Magnificence and massacre : Essex and the Enterprise of Ulster, 1573-76 / Hiram Morgan
  • Counsel in extremis : Sir James Croft's A Discourse of 1583 and Elizabeth I's reform of Irish policy / David Edwards
  • part III. Positioning Ireland in the Renaissance court world
  • Our men in Scotland : the Gaelic Irish nobility and the Scottish Renaissance court, c.1400-c.1600 / Simon Egan
  • Ireland's militarised itinerant court and the Tudor state / R. Malcolm Smuts
  • 'Winning hearts and minds' : proclamations, audience and the discourse of Old English displacement / Valerie McGowan-Doyle
  • From court to courtliness : the verse epistle as imperial genre / Brendan Kane.