Castles and Colonists
An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Manchester University Press
Published:1st Sep '10
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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,
‘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
ISBN: 9780719082467
Dimensions: 216mm x 138mm x 14mm
Weight: 395g
192 pages