Ireland and the Renaissance Court : Political Culture from the cuIrteanna to Whitehall, 1450-1640 Hardback

Edited by David Edwards, Brendan Kane

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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 cÃºirteanna, 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 â€˜early modernâ€™ 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. -- .