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, and philology. They focus on Gaelic cirteanna, the indigenous centres of aristocratic life throughout the medieval period; on the regnal court of the emergent British empire based in London at Whitehall; and on Irish participation in the wider world of European elite life and letters. Collectively, they expand the chronological limits of 'early modern' Ireland to include the fifteenth century and recreate its multi-lingual character through exploration of its English, Irish and Latin archives.
This volume is an innovative effort at moving beyond binary approaches to English-Irish history by demonstrating points of contact as well as contention.
Edited by:
David Edwards,
Brendan Kane
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 624g
ISBN: 9781526177292
ISBN 10: 1526177293
Series: Studies in Early Modern Irish History
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 17 September 2024
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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 1 Bouncers, stewards and gate-crashers: Access and hierarchy at the Gaelic court in Early Modern Irish literature, c.1400-c.1650 – Micheál Hoyne 2 Court society in the south of Ireland, c.1430-c.1620: Evidence from the Butler bardic poems and other Irish sources – Gearóidín de Buitléir 3 The Gaelic court and Irish country-house poetry: The politics of an overlooked genre – Patricia Palmer 4 Latin letters and Renaissance civility in sixteenth-century Ireland – Jason Harris Part II: Made in Whitehall: Irish policy and a regnal court 5 Debating Irish policy at the court of Elizabeth I – David Heffernan 6 How to govern Ireland without leaving your armchair: The production of Irish knowledge in Elizabethan secretariats – Nicholas Popper 7 Court discourse, the mid-Elizabethan polity and Ireland, 1571-75 – Christopher Maginn 8 Magnificence and massacre: Essex and the Enterprise of Ulster, 1573-76 – Hiram Morgan 9 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 10 Our men in Scotland: The Gaelic Irish nobility and the Scottish Renaissance court, c.1400-c.1600 – Simon Egan 11 Ireland’s militarized itinerate court and the Tudor state – Malcolm Smuts 12 Winning hearts and minds: Proclamations, audience, and the discourse of Old English displacement – Valerie McGowan-Doyle 13 From court to courtliness: The verse epistle as imperial genre – Brendan Kane -- .
David Edwards is Senior Lecturer in History, University College Cork. Brendan Kane is Professor of History, University of Connecticut.
