The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland 1536-1588This book offers an extended reinterpretation of English policy in Ireland over the sixteenth century. It seeks to show that the major conflicts between Tudor governors and native lords which characterised the period were not the result of a deliberate Tudor strategy of confrontation, but argues that they arose from a failed experiment in legal reform and cultural assimilation which had been applied with remarkable success elsewhere in the Tudor dominions. The book identifies a distinct administrative style which evolved in Irish government during the middle of the century under a complex set of pressures acting on the would-be reformers both in Ireland and at the Tudor court, and argues that it was this highly centralised and intensely activist mode of government that undermined the aims of reform policy and provoked alienation and hostility. |
Contents
the viceroyalties of Lord Leonard Grey | 13 |
Ireland and the midTudor crisis 15471556 | 45 |
the viceroyalties of the earl of Sussex | 72 |
the viceroyalties of Sir Henry Sidney | 113 |
Government in Ireland 15361579 | 159 |
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The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland ... Ciaran Brady No preview available - 1995 |
The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland ... Ciaran Brady No preview available - 1995 |
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