Plantagenet Ireland
About this book
For two centuries after 1199, Ireland was ruled by Plantagenet kings, lineal descendants of Henry II. The island became closely tied to the English crown not just by English law and direct administration, but through other networks, above all the allegiance of a settler establishment led by aristocratic, ecclesiastical, and civic elites that benefited from being within the orbit of royal patronage and service. This book contains fifteen interlinked studies, several of which appear here for the first time. The opening chapters trace Ireland's changing place within a wider Plantagenet realm that itself altered geographically and institutionally during the period. In the thirteenth century Gaelic leaders were pushed to the geographical and political margins. In the fourteenth, English control and English custom retreated, posing fresh challenges to the crown and its ministers. Despite the alarmist claims of settler communities, Plantagenet Ireland was far from collapsing. Later chapters explore the altered distribution of power across the island. English chief governors, some of whom had experience of other borderlands of the Plantagenet realm, exercised power in a mixture of cultural modes, which enabled them to draw in, rather than simply confront, Gaelic lords and marcher lineages.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- List of tables and illustrations
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Colony and Metropolis
- 1. Ireland within the Plantagenet orbit
- 2. Ireland after 1169: barriers to acculturation on an ‘English’ edge
- 3. Historians, aristocrats and Plantagenet Ireland,1200–1360
- 4. Lordship and liberties in Ireland and Wales, c.1170–c.1360
- 5. Exporting state and nation: being English in medieval Ireland
- 6. The immediate effect and interpretation of the 1331 ordinance Una et eadem lex: some new evidence
- 7. Kingship at a distance: did the absence of the Plantagenet kings from Ireland matter?
- Part Two: Government, Power and Society
- 8. Devolution or decomposition? Interactions of government and society in an age of ‘decline’
- 9. Rediscovering medieval Ireland: Irish chancery rolls and the historian
- 10. G.O. Sayles and the ‘institutional turn’ in the historiography of the Lordship of Ireland
- 11. Two Plantagenet borderlands: Anthony Lucy in Cumbria and Ireland
- 12. The justiciarship of Ralph Ufford: warfare and politics in fourteenth-century Ireland
- 13. Thomas Rokeby, sheriff of Yorkshire, justiciar of Ireland
- 14. Two kings in Leinster: the crown and the MacMurroughs in the fourteenth century
- 15. Lordship beyond the Pale: Munster in the later Middle Ages
- Index