Ireland and the Renaissance Court

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

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 -- .