Debating Tudor Policy in Sixteenth-Century Ireland : 'Reform' Treatises and Political Discourse (Studies in Early Modern Irish History)

Heffernan, David

Manchester University Press（2018/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 272 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781526118165
• DDC分類 941.505

Full Description

Ireland was conquered and gradually colonized by the Tudors during the sixteenth century. This much is clear but whether or not this was the actual goal of English policy in Ireland at that time has long been debated by historians. Debating Tudor policy in sixteenth-century Ireland examines a set of sources which provide a unique insight into English rule in Tudor Ireland. These are policy papers or treatises written at the time on how to 'reform' Ireland and bring it under greater crown control. The study constitutes the first systematic study of the approximately six-hundred such treatises to have survived. In doing so it sheds light on how the Tudors arrived at the policies they decided to implement in Ireland and examines how English officials and other parties within Ireland viewed the Irish and the country at that time.

Contents

Introduction: Debating Tudor policy in Ireland: The 'reform' treatises
1. Conquest or conciliation? The policy debate in late Henrician Ireland, c.1515-1546
2. 'Reform' treatises and the inception of the Tudor conquest in mid-sixteenth-century Ireland, 1546-1565
3. Treatise writing and the expansion of Tudor government in mid-Elizabethan Ireland, 1565-1578
4. Complaint, reform and conflict: Treatise writing in late Elizabethan Ireland, 1579-1594
Conclusion
Select bibliography of primary sources
Index