This collection of seventeen articles on Irish history showcases current scholarship on the renaissance history of the capital and the lands directly controlled by the English crown known as The Pale. The volume is divided into sections covering history and architecture; and music, language and letters; and individual essays discuss topics such as the Tudor state and the Irish east of Leinster, the material settings of worship in the sixteenth-century Pale, renaissance influence at Christ Church Cathedral, languages of legitimacy and British politics in the renaissance Pale, and the survival of books owned by Old English and Gaelic Irish families in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The volume includes numerous black and white illustrations as well as a collection of full-color plates. The contributors are academics in history, Renaissance studies, and related fields from US and UK institutions. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Following the acclaimed volume Ireland in the Renaissance, c.1540-1660 (2007) by the same editors, this multi-disciplinary collection in history, art history, literature, and archaeology takes a wide look at the region of the English Pale in Ireland - and the concept of the Pale itself - during the early modern period. The subjects covered include: the archaeological traces of Pale fortifications * hidden houses at Athy, Co. Kildare, and Carstown, Co. Louth * the Gaelic Irish of east Leinster and their countrymen at the London court * gardens * music * powerful Geraldine women * the classical and political pretentions of the 'Old English' literary community * church settlement * a new interpretation of the Earl of Strafford's daunting pile at Jigginstown near Naas, Co. Kildare * and more.
