Rory Rapple

Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture

Military Men in England and Ireland, 1558-1594

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines the careers and political thinking of Elizabethan martial men, whose military ambitions were thwarted by a quietist foreign policy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780521843539
• ISBN-10: 0521843537
• Artikelnr.: 25044386

Autorenporträt

Rory Rapple is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Chimneys in summer
2. Military men and their discontents
3. The limits of allegiance: English military men, Europe and the Elizabethan regime
4. The captains and the Irish context
5. The limits of imperium: military men and government
6. The limits of rhetoric: the captains and violence in Elizabethan Ireland to 1588
7. Unlimited indemnity: delegates versus viceroys
Conclusion.