Ireland and the Renaissance Court

David Edwards is Senior Lecturer in History, University College Cork.Brendan Kane is Professor of History, University of Connecticut.

"Ireland and the Renaissance Court represents an important and first-of-its-kind contribution to our understanding of the political governance, cultural politics and interconnections that took place between courts in early modern Ireland and England. The book’s use of Irish-language sources, innovative methodologies, interdisciplinary approaches, and keen insights makes it an essential collection, and one that will influence the field for years to come." Prof. Sarah Covington, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

• Introduction: Contiguous court societies: The Renaissance Irish lordships and the Tudor and Early Stuart English monarchy – David Edwards and Brendan KanePart I: Indigenous court society in Ireland1 Bouncers, stewards and gate-crashers: Access and hierarchy at the Gaelic court in Early Modern Irish literature, c.1400-c.1650 – Micheál Hoyne2 Court society in the south of Ireland, c.1430-c.1620: Evidence from the Butler bardic poems and other Irish sources – Gearóidín de Buitléir3 The Gaelic court and Irish country-house poetry: The politics of an overlooked genre – Patricia Palmer4 Latin letters and Renaissance civility in sixteenth-century Ireland – Jason HarrisPart II: Made in Whitehall: Irish policy and a regnal court5 Debating Irish policy at the court of Elizabeth I – David Heffernan6 How to govern Ireland without leaving your armchair: The production of Irish knowledge in Elizabethan secretariats – Nicholas Popper7 Court discourse, the mid-Elizabethan polity and Ireland, 1571-75 – Christopher Maginn8 Magnificence and massacre: Essex and the Enterprise of Ulster, 1573-76 – Hiram Morgan9 Counsel in extremis: Sir James Croft’s A Discourse of 1583 and Elizabeth I’s reform of Irish policy – David EdwardsPart III: Positioning Ireland in the Renaissance court world10 Our men in Scotland: The Gaelic Irish nobility and the Scottish Renaissance court, c.1400-c.1600 – Simon Egan11 Ireland’s militarized itinerate court and the Tudor state – Malcolm Smuts12 Winning hearts and minds: Proclamations, audience, and the discourse of Old English displacement – Valerie McGowan-Doyle13 From court to courtliness: The verse epistle as imperial genre – Brendan Kane