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Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland (The Manchester Spenser) - Hardcover

Book 1 of 21: The Manchester Spenser

Klingelhofer, Eric

 
9780719082467: Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland (The Manchester Spenser)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0719082463 ISBN 13: 9780719082467
Publisher: Manchester University Press, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Eric Klingelhofer is Professor of History at Mercer University, Georgia, USA

From the Back Cover

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,

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Publisher
Manchester University Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0719082463
ISBN 13 
9780719082467
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
192