ISBN:
9781783275939
,
1783275936
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 276 Seiten
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Irish historical monographs series 22
Series Statement:
Irish historical monograph series
DDC:
305.4821094150903
Keywords:
Ormond family
;
Ormond family
;
Upper class women History
;
Aristocracy (Social class) History
;
Aristocracy (Social class)
;
Politics and government
;
Upper class women
;
History
;
Great Britain Politics and government 1485-1603
;
Ireland Politics and government 1172-1603
;
Great Britain
;
Ireland
;
Ormonde Familie
;
Irland
;
Weiblicher Adel
;
Geschichte 1450-1660
Abstract:
Aristocratic women's lives in late medieval and early modern Western Europe -- The Ormond women through the Wars of the Roses and immediate aftermath : marriage, absenteeism and illegitimacy -- New beginnings : the heiresses, the usurper and royal intervention - the succession of Margaret and Anne Butler -- Dynastic consolidation and female political entity : Margaret Fitzgerald, Countess of Ormond and Ossory (1472-1542) -- Family, marriage and politics : the six daughters of Margaret Fitzgerald and Piers Butler and the ongoing revival of the earldom in the sixteenth century -- 'You have too piteous a face to be a warrior' : Joan Fitzgerald, Countess of Ormond, Ossory and Desmond - agent, peace broker, advocate -- Black Tom's women : unions, succession and decline.
Abstract:
"This book examines the lives of aristocratic Anglo-Irish women in late medieval and early modern Ireland as illustrated by an in-depth cross generational analysis of women born or married into the important Ormond family between the 1450s and 1660. It outlines and assesses their individual and collective significance in negotiating the preservation and advancement of the family's political, landed, economic, social and confessional interests, from the chronic instability of the Wars of the Roses, through the vicissitudes of the Tudor, Stuart, Commonwealth and Restoration eras. In gauging the relative significance of the Ormond women's experiences and contributions, the book explores their roles in both private dynastic and wider public circles within the broader context of aristocratic families elsewhere in Ireland, England and continental Europe. The cross-generational approach provides a chronological and comparative appraisal of all aspects of each of these women's lives, roles and contributions - private, public, social, economic, confessional and political - all of which were intimately intertwined with the Ormond family's changing political fortunes, succession challenges, shifting dynastic alliances, and financial difficulties over the course of two centuries of profound change and upheaval in Ireland"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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