Martial power and Elizabethan political culture : military men in England and Ireland, 1558-1594 / Rory Rapple.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rapple, Rory, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in early modern British history.

Cambridge studies in early modern British history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603--Military leadership.

Elizabeth.

Great Britain--History, Military--1485-1603.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Military policy.

Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Ireland.

Ireland--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 332 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Martial Power & Elizabethan Political Culture

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book studies the careers and political thinking of English martial men, left deeply frustrated as Elizabeth I's quietist foreign policy destroyed the ambitions that the wars of the mid-sixteenth century had excited in them. Until the mid 1580s, unemployment, official disparagement and downward mobility became grim facts of life for many military captains. Rory Rapple examines the experiences and attitudes of this generation of officers and points to a previously overlooked literature of complaint that offered a stinging critique of the monarch and the administration of Sir William Cecil. He also argues that the captains' actions in Ireland, their treatment of its inhabitants and their conceptualisation of both relied on assumptions, attitudes and political thinking which resulted more from their frustration with the status quo in England than any tendency to 'other' the Irish. This book will be required reading for scholars of early modern British and Irish history.

Contents:

Chimneys in summer

Martial men and their discontents

The limits of allegiance : English martial men, Europe and the Elizabethan regime

The captains and the Irish context

The limits of imperium : martial men and government

The limits of rhetoric : the captains and violence in Elizabethan Ireland to 1588

Unlimited indemnity : delegates versus viceroys.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-323) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-19570-5

1-281-98260-1

9786611982607

0-511-57516-5

0-511-46287-5

0-511-46518-1

0-511-46211-5

0-511-46444-4

0-511-46366-9

OCLC:

437089382