{"product_id":"ireland-s-english-pale-1470-1550-the-making-of-a-tudor-region-9781783276608","title":"Ireland’s English Pale, 1470-1550: The Making of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChallenges the argument that the English Pale was contracting during the early Tudor period.  A key argument of this book is that the English Pale - the four counties around Dublin under English control - was expanding during the early Tudor period, not contracting, as other historians have argued. The author shows how the new system, whereby \"the four obedient shires\" were protected by new fortifications and a newly-constituted English-style militia, which replaced the former system of extended marches, was highly effective, making unnecessary money and troops from England, and enabling the Dublin government to be self-financing. The book provides full details of this new system. It also demonstrates how direct rule by an English army and governor, which replaced the system in the years after 1534, was much more costly and led on in turn to the policy of \"surrender and regrant\" under which Irish chiefs became subject to English law. The book highlights how this policy made the English Pale's frontiers redundant, but how ideologically ideas of \"English civility\" nevertheless survived, and \"the wild Atlantic way\" remained \"beyond the Pale\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is a welcome addition to the current scholarship on the English Pale and will certainly revitalise debate on this topic. * PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY *\u003cbr\u003eThis book will be of interest to anyone working on colonial politics in late medieval and Early Modern Ireland. [...] The book will also serve as a helpful guide to seigneurial governance in the late medieval Pale. -- CAMBRIAN MEDIEVAL CELTIC STUDIES\u003cbr\u003eEllis's findings alter our understanding of how the Pale developed through the late medieval and early Tudor period and challenge historians to question accepted wisdom. -- HISTORY IRELAND\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Maps    Preface                                                                                                                            List of Abbreviations                                                                                                                Introduction:  in search of Ireland's English Pale                                                      The horizons of English rule:  retreat and recovery                            The fortifications and identity of a military frontier                        County Dublin and the military frontier                                                        Strengthening the march in County Kildare                                            The English Pale's westward expansion:  County Meath                         The English Pale's northern frontier:  County Louth                                 Restoring the English Pale, 1534-41                                                  The waning of the English Pale                                                            Conclusion:  an English region in Tudor Ireland                                                         Bibliography                                       Index","brand":"Boydell \u0026 Brewer Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49412020896087,"sku":"9781783276608","price":71.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781783276608.jpg?v=1730515400","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ireland-s-english-pale-1470-1550-the-making-of-a-tudor-region-9781783276608","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}