Martial Power and Elizabethan Political Culture

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

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.