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Author : Sir William Herbert
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Croftus, Sive, de Hibernia Liber written by Sir William Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir William Herbert
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Croftus, Sive de Hibernia Liber written by Sir William Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191583359
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Edmund Spenser's Irish Experience written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1997-05-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spenser's Irish Experience is the first sustained critical work to argue that Edmund Spenser's perception and fragmented representation of Ireland shadows the whole narrative of his major work, The Faerie Queene, traditionally regarded as one of the finest achievements of the English Renaissance. The poem has often been read in specifically English contexts but, as Hadfield argues, demands to be read in terms of England's expanding colonial hegemony within the British Isles and the ensuing fear that such national ambition would actually lead to the destruction of England's post-Reformation legacy. Spenser should be seen less as an English writer and more as a new English writer in Ireland, his prose and poetry expressing the hopes and fears of his class. Where A View of the Present State of Ireland attempts to provide a violent political solution to England's Irish problem, The Faerie Queene exposes the apocalyptic fear that there may be no solution at all. The book contains an analysis of Spenser's life on the Munster plantation, readings of the political rhetoric and antiquarian discourse of A View of the Present State of Ireland, and three chapters which argue the case that the apparently Anglocentric allegory of The Faerie Queene reveals a land gradually—but clearly—transformed into its Irish other. Spenser emerges from this study as a writer whose experience in Ireland rendered him implacably opposed to the vacillations of his English monarch.
Author : Frank Karslake
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Book Auction Records written by Frank Karslake and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A priced and annotated annual record of international book auctions.
Author : Henry Hucks Gibbs
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Aldenham Library, Mainly Collected by Henry Hucks Gibbs, First Lord Aldenham written by Henry Hucks Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 492 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Richards
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230505066
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Early Modern Civil Discourses written by J. Richards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2003-09-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the concept of civility in the early modern period. It addresses a range of writings in English and Scots - among them, conduct manuals, colonial tracts, diaries, letters, dialogues, poetry, drama, chronicles - by English, Welsh and Scots men and women in and about the Atlantic archipelago. It explores the many meanings of civility in the early modern period; it recovers some of the lost associations of civility as well as the complex use of the adjectives 'civil' and 'barbarous' in cultural and colonial encounters.
Author : David Wootton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674989902
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)
Download or read book Power, Pleasure, and Profit written by David Wootton and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative history of the changing values that have given rise to our present discontents. We pursue power, pleasure, and profit. We want as much as we can get, and we deploy instrumental reasoning—cost-benefit analysis—to get it. We judge ourselves and others by how well we succeed. It is a way of life and thought that seems natural, inevitable, and inescapable. As David Wootton shows, it is anything but. In Power, Pleasure, and Profit, he traces an intellectual and cultural revolution that replaced the older systems of Aristotelian ethics and Christian morality with the iron cage of instrumental reasoning that now gives shape and purpose to our lives. Wootton guides us through four centuries of Western thought—from Machiavelli to Madison—to show how new ideas about politics, ethics, and economics stepped into a gap opened up by religious conflict and the Scientific Revolution. As ideas about godliness and Aristotelian virtue faded, theories about the rational pursuit of power, pleasure, and profit moved to the fore in the work of writers both obscure and as famous as Hobbes, Locke, and Adam Smith. The new instrumental reasoning cut through old codes of status and rank, enabling the emergence of movements for liberty and equality. But it also helped to create a world in which virtue, honor, shame, and guilt count for almost nothing, and what matters is success. Is our world better for the rise of instrumental reasoning? To answer that question, Wootton writes, we must first recognize that we live in its grip.
Author : Steven G. Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317894235
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Conquest and Union written by Steven G. Ellis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Isles is a multi-national arena, but its history has traditionally been studied from a distinctively English -- often, indeed, London -- perspective. Now, however, the interweaving of the distinct but mutually-dependent histories of the four nations is at the heart of some of the liveliest historical research today. In this major contribution to that research, eleven leading scholars consider key aspects of the internal relations of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales in the early modern period, and the problems of accommodating different -- and resistant -- cultures to a single centralizing polity. The contributors are: Sarah Barber; Toby Barnard; Ciaran Brady; Keith M. Brown; Jane Dawson; Steven G. Ellis; David Hayton; Philip Jenkins; Alan Macinnes; Michael Mac Craith; and John Morrill.
Author : S. J. Connolly
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199563713
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Contested Island written by S. J. Connolly and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive study of Ireland's transformation from a medieval to a modern society looks at the way in which the country's different religious groups, and nationalities, clashed and interacted during the transition
Author : David Edwards
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526177285
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Ireland and the Renaissance court written by David Edwards and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-09-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland and the Renaissance court is an interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring Irish and English courts, courtiers and politics in the early modern period, c. 1450-1650. Chapters are contributed by both established and emergent scholars working in the fields of history, literary studies, and philology. They focus on Gaelic cúirteanna, the indigenous centres of aristocratic life throughout the medieval period; on the regnal court of the emergent British empire based in London at Whitehall; and on Irish participation in the wider world of European elite life and letters. Collectively, they expand the chronological limits of ‘early modern’ Ireland to include the fifteenth century and recreate its multi-lingual character through exploration of its English, Irish and Latin archives. This volume is an innovative effort at moving beyond binary approaches to English-Irish history by demonstrating points of contact as well as contention.
Author : Claire Cross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521893633
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Law and Government Under the Tudors written by Claire Cross and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of specially commissioned research essays by scholars on the government of Tudor England, designed as a tribute from a group of advanced students to their supervisor. Professor Sir Geoffrey Elton, to whom the volume is dedicated, is internationally celebrated, and the most influential living historian of the period. Each essay reflects the special interest of the author, within the broader theme of 'Law and Government'. The book will be read by many who have been influenced by Professor Elton's teaching, but who may not necessarily be students or historians of Tudor England.
Author : Ian Campbell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152610265X
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Renaissance humanism and ethnicity before race written by Ian Campbell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern ideology of race, so important in twentieth-century Europe, incorporates both a theory of human societies and a theory of human bodies. Ian Campbell’s new study examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this elite discourse was grounded in a commitment to the languages and sciences of Renaissance Humanism. Emphasising the education of all of early modern Ireland’s antagonistic ethnic groups in common European university and grammar school traditions, Campbell explains both the workings of the learned English critique of Irish society, and the no less learned Irish response. Then he turns to Irish debates on nobility, medicine and theology in order to illuminate the problem of human heredity. He concludes by demonstrating how the Enlightenment swept away these humanist theories of body and society, prior to the development of modern racial ideology in the late eighteenth century.
Author : Thomas Herron
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351898663
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Spenser's Irish Work written by Thomas Herron and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Edmund Spenser's writings within the historical and aesthetic context of colonial agricultural reform in Ireland, his adopted home, this study demonstrates how Irish events and influences operate in far more of Spenser's work than previously suspected. Thomas Herron explores Spenser's relation to contemporary English poets and polemicists in Munster, such as Sir Walter Raleigh, Ralph Birkenshaw and Parr Lane, as well as heretofore neglected Irish material in Elizabethan pageantry in the 1590s, such as the famously elaborate state performances at Elvetham and Rycote. New light is shed here on the Irish significance of both the earlier and later Books of The Fairie Queene. Herron examines in depth Spenser's adaptation of the paradigm of the laboring artist for empire found in Virgil's Georgics, which Herron weaves explicitly with Spenser's experience as an administrator, property owner and planter in Ireland. Taking in history, religion, geography, classics and colonial studies, as well as early modern literature and Irish studies, this book constitutes a valuable addition to Spenser scholarship.
Author : Queen's University of Belfast. Library
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Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Catalogue of Books in the Library of Queen's College, Belfast written by Queen's University of Belfast. Library and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia Palmer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521793186
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (931 download)
Download or read book Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland written by Patricia Palmer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-09-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palmer explores the part that language played in shaping colonial ideology and English national identity.
Author : Padraig Lenihan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317868668
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Consolidating Conquest written by Padraig Lenihan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking and controversial new study tells the story of two nations in Ireland; an Irish Catholic nation and a Protestant nation, emerging from a blood-stained century. This survey confronts the violence and enmity inherent in the consolidation of conquest. Lenihan contends that the overriding grand narrative of this period was one of conflict and dispossession as the native elite was progressively displaced by a new colonial ruling class. This struggle was not confined to war but also had cultural, religious, economic and social reverberations. At times the darkness was relieved throughout the period by episodes of peaceful cooperation. Consolidating Conquest places events in Ireland in the context of three Stuart kingdoms, religious rivalry within and between those kingdoms, and the shifting balance of power as monarchy and commonwealth, Whitehall and Westminster, fought for ultimate power.
