Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture

Thanks in no small part to the initiative and support of the editors of the series of which this book is a part (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History), the advance of research and interpretation in the history of England and Ireland in the early modern period has grown closer and more attuned to each country's particular developments than has ever been the case. The convergence, of course, has by no means been complete. The character of Elizabethan court politics now largely accepted by English historians of the sixteenth century is still not one which historians of Elizabethan Ireland, viewing the currents and eddyings of that small arena from the amplified perspective of the periphery, find easily recognisable. While, similarly, the distinctive problems confronted by the Tudor Reformation in Ireland have also been difficult for historians of the Reformation in England to assimilate. The obstacles to further inter-development are in part institutional—the fact that joint seminars, conferences and forms of publication remain insufficient—and in part archival, because so many researchers, given the relative paucity of surviving Irish-based sources, have continued to work within the rigorously demarcated avenues laid down by the great nineteenth-century systematisers of the English public records. But more interesting and more challenging than any of these issues is the fact that historians on both sides of the Irish Sea have continued to work within—or directly against—received conceptual and interpretative frameworks which, because they emerged independently of each other, have little capacity to bring about a closer interrelationship

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