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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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2024.
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| 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.