
Castles and Colonists
An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland
Eric Klingelhofer(Author)
Manchester University Press
Published on 1. September 2010
Book
Hardback
192 pages
978-0-7190-8246-7 (ISBN)
Description
Castles and colonists is the first book to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire. Klinglehofer shows how an Ireland of colonising English farmers and displaced Irish 'savages' are ruled by an imported Protestant elite from their fortified manors and medieval castles.
Richly illustrated, it displays how a generation of English 'adventurers' including such influential intellectual and political figures as Spenser and Ralegh, tried to create a new kind of England, one that gave full opportunity to their Renaissance tastes and ambitions.
Based on decades of research, Castles and colonisers details how archaelogy had revealed the traces of a short-lived, but significant culture which has been, until now, eclipsed in ideological conflicts between Tudor queens, Hapsburg hegemony and native Irish traditions, -- .
Richly illustrated, it displays how a generation of English 'adventurers' including such influential intellectual and political figures as Spenser and Ralegh, tried to create a new kind of England, one that gave full opportunity to their Renaissance tastes and ambitions.
Based on decades of research, Castles and colonisers details how archaelogy had revealed the traces of a short-lived, but significant culture which has been, until now, eclipsed in ideological conflicts between Tudor queens, Hapsburg hegemony and native Irish traditions, -- .
Reviews / Votes
'This is both a significant and an important volume...an account of his excavation of Kilcolman, [is] followed by his interesting thesis on how much Edmund Spenser's Faerie Queene influenced vernacular architecture throughout Ireland and Britain.'The Spenser Review, January 2013 -- .
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Language
English
Place of publication
Manchester
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7190-8246-7 (9780719082467)
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07/2013
Manchester University Press
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Person
Eric Klingelhofer is Professor of History at Mercer University, Georgia, USA -- .
Content
Epigraph
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Archaeology and empire
2. Fortification
3. Settlement
4. Vernacular architecture
5. Kilcolman Castle
6. Spenserian architecture
7. Conclusions.
Select bibliography
Index -- .
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Archaeology and empire
2. Fortification
3. Settlement
4. Vernacular architecture
5. Kilcolman Castle
6. Spenserian architecture
7. Conclusions.
Select bibliography
Index -- .