Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland

Booker, Sparky

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“…'Allegiance' or 'cliental' fosterage involved the children of lords being maintained and educated for a number of years (possibly until about the age of 14) by their fathers' clients, who exchanged their loyalty (and sometimes considerable funds) for the increased status and influence that their position afforded. 48 For example, one of the conditions of a treaty of 1557 between Thomas, Earl of Ormond, and the O'Mulrians was that the earl promised the fosterage his firstborn child to them. 49 However, due to lack of documentation, it is impossible to tell to what extent sixteenth-century practices followed medieval custom.…”

Section: Fosteragementioning

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“…The term alterage means fosterage (from Irish 'altram' or Latin 'altor', foster-father), but its exact sense here is unclear -Booker suggests it 'may have been the practice in which the parent paid the fostere[r] rather than the reverse'. 76 The features of Old English fosterage suggested by the sources below seem to indicate a sort of wet-nursing/fosterage hybrid, where middling and upper sort townspeople and rural gentry arranged (probably usually through some kind of payment) for their children to be cared for from infancy until they were several years old, possibly in some cases around the age of seven, in families (many of them with Gaelic surnames) that were of similar or lower status to their own. This may have been what was originally or regionally termed 'alterage', but by our period only nursing and fosterage terms are used in relation to it.…”

Section: Old English Fosteragementioning

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‘Kindred Without End’: Wet-Nursing, Fosterage and Emotion in Ireland, c. 1550–1720

Tait

2020

Irish Economic and Social History

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Wet-nursing and fosterage were widely used in early modern Ireland. Despite the difficulties of reconstructing practices surrounding the nourishment and care of infants and young children, the limited surviving sources provide some evidence for the practical arrangements involved, the role of these practices in extending families and creating long-lasting ties of ‘fictive kinship’, the emotional and economic connections they forged and deeply held concerns that they might inspire and extend political disloyalty and disaffection. While fosterage is mostly associated with Gaelic communities, by the sixteenth century, a distinct brand of fosterage was significant to Old English families as well. New English and Protestant families also increasingly participated in networks referred to as fosterage, and references in the 1641 depositions testify to the degree to which these practices linked settlers and natives and the horror inspired by their abandonment.

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Section: Fosteragementioning

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Section: Old English Fosteragementioning

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‘Kindred Without End’: Wet-Nursing, Fosterage and Emotion in Ireland, c. 1550–1720

Tait

2020

Irish Economic and Social History

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“…Booker's book encourages the discussion of medieval identities which emerge as a result of ethnic interplay. She mentions that both Irish and English tried to find such an identity which could be acceptable in both communities 52 but does not elaborate on this idea.…”

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Reflections on the Medieval and Early Modern Insular Identities

Fyodorov¹,

Levin²

2020

Vestnik SPbSU. History

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The article reflects on the monograph by Sparky Booker Cultural exchange and identity in late medieval Ireland: The English and the Irish of the four obedient shires (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018) which offers a revised perspective on the issue of assimilation and acculturation in late medieval Ireland on the basis of the material of the four obedient shires: Dublin, Meath, Louth, and Kildare. The scholar presents a complex and multi-faceted image of interethnic interplay in the region distinguishing between cultural and legal dimensions. She demonstrates that cultural practices were not the main resource of identity in the late medieval Ireland in which political allegiance and descent were prioritized. She highlights two aspects: the discursive level and the level of everyday interaction. Despite the obvious merits of the book, the material presented there requires more theoretical consideration of the issue of medieval identities. The authors of the article argue that the situation of interethnic interplay in the four obedient shires described by Booker could have been suitable for the emergence of consensual identity. Having coined this term, the authors define it as the type of identity which originates in the situation of interethnic interplay; entails intercultural switching; and has supragentile character, i.e., not insisting on common descent. The discourse of consensual identity did not emerge in the four shires during the period under consideration because of the absence of common subjecthood of the English and the Irish as well as prevalence of gentilism but its full potential was realized during the Early Stuarts.

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Women, Marriage and Sex in Early Tudor Ireland: Evidence from an Irish Act Book

Jefferies

2023

J. Eccles. Hist.

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Preserved among the so-called ‘Armagh registers’ is an act book of the consistory and metropolitan court of Armagh that was compiled in the early sixteenth century. Its fortuitous survival facilitates a systematic study of how an Irish church court processed litigation concerning women's marriages or other sexual relationships, and their sexual reputations, and in doing so reveals a great deal about important aspects of the lives of women in early Tudor Ireland.

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Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland

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‘Kindred Without End’: Wet-Nursing, Fosterage and Emotion in Ireland, c. 1550–1720

‘Kindred Without End’: Wet-Nursing, Fosterage and Emotion in Ireland, c. 1550–1720

Reflections on the Medieval and Early Modern Insular Identities

Women, Marriage and Sex in Early Tudor Ireland: Evidence from an Irish Act Book

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