Castles and Colonists

An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland

Eric Klingelhofer, J. B. Lethbridge, Rebecca Mortimer

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English

Manchester University Press
01 September 2010

Castles & fortifications; British & Irish history

Series: The Manchester Spenser

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, -- .

By: Eric Klingelhofer
Series edited by: J. B. Lethbridge
Other: Rebecca Mortimer
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 395g
ISBN: 9780719082467
ISBN 10: 0719082463
Series: The Manchester Spenser
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 September 2010
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 -- .

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

Reviews for Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland

'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 -- .