...Sarah Hogan Edmund Spenser’s A View of the Present State of Ireland is one of the most notorious works in the imperial archive, yet its fantasy of annihilating reform, or what might now be called “creative destruction,” schemes a highly specific kind of colonial project driven by novel kinds...

... for early modern reception studies as they address poetry, romance, letters, history, hagiography, autobiography, and literary reviews. The transnational perspectives that emerge lead from the Low Countries to Italy, Ireland to France and the Spanish Netherlands, Spain to England, and England to France...

... Press Life Writing for the Counter- Reformation: The English Translation and Reception of Teresa de Ávila s Autobiography Danielle Clarke University College Dublin Dublin, Ireland On December 19, 2017 in Paris, the art world was stunned by a record- breaking sale of a self- portrait by a seventeenth...

...John McCafferty St. Brigid is one of three patron saints of Ireland. Venerated for over a millennium as an abbess and ruler, provider of miraculous ale and dairy products, protector of cattle and of people, she has been a constant of Irish folk and religious life. Still referenced by groups...

... to the ways that English colonial practices in Ireland helped to shape colonial interventions elsewhere. Many of the leading figures of plantation efforts in the Americas, including Sir Walter Ralegh and Sir Humphrey Gilbert, had first served in Ireland, while Thomas Hariot...

...? The conversation on Book V has been perhaps overly colored by attention to the topical issues Spenser addresses — his stances toward Ireland, Spain, and other crossroads of late sixteenth-century Europe — and not scrupulous enough about accounting for how these issues are domesticated into the epic...

..., disciplinarity (pedagogy) was always already folded within this colonial symbolics of blood. The intimacy of blood and pedagogy is revealed in Froissart’s account of Richard II’s military expedition in Ireland in 1394.21 Experi- menting with the “strange...

... spatial delimitation challenges the efforts of English nation-­making projects — such as colonial endeavors in the New World and Ireland, the 1579 Christopher Saxton county maps, and hostility and war brought to a head with the Spanish 62  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 43.1...

... of Aurelius Ambrosius.1 Under the king’s orders, Merlin and an army of Britons seize the rock formation known as the Giant’s Ring from Ireland. With great ceremony, Merlin reestablishes the formation on Britain’s Salisbury Plain. Mannyng’s account of this episode in his Chroni- cle does not in essence...

.... Spenser gives a lengthy account of the concept of frank-­pledge in his View of the Present State of Ireland (1633).47 Lambarde further details the role of a master as guarantor for any pledges made by his ser- vants under Old English law in his Archaionomia (1568).48 This parallel-­text edition...

..., Queen’s University, Belfast, 2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiv, 210 pp.; 1 chronology. $70.00, paper $24.99. Dickson, David. Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster, 1630 – 1830. History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora. Madison: University of Wiscon- sin Press, 2005. xv, 726...

... of Pluralism in Modern Britain and France. Studies in the History of Religious and Politi- cal Pluralism, vol. 1. Oxford: Peter Lang, 2007. 368 pp. Paper $83.95. Breen, Colin. An Archaeology of Southwest Ireland, 1570–1670. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2007. 239 pp.; 75 illus. $65.00. [On the rural...

.... $59.95. Clarke, Howard B., and Ruth Johnson, eds. The Vikings in Ireland and beyond: Before and after the Battle of Clontarf. Pathways to our Past, vol. 4. Dublin: Four Courts Press for the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 2015. xxxiv, 526 pp.; 70 figs., 31 color plates, 10 tables. $70.00...

.... Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2006. 329 pp. eur 36.00. O’Connor, Laura. Haunted English: The Celtic Fringe, the British Empire, and De-Anglicization. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xviii, 240 pp. $49.95. O’Neill, Stephen. Staging Ireland: Representations in Shakespeare and Renais...

... example came at the very beginning of James s English reign, as he attempted to consolidate his authority over England and Ireland, while the rest of Europe watched for signs of whether he would abandon Elizabeth s alliance with the United Provinces. On three separate occasions in May 1603...

... of the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, (2000) 2002. xi, 417 pp.; 2 illus., 24 halftones. Paper $18.95. Hassmann, Elisabeth. Meister Michael: Baumeister der Herzoge von Öster- reich. Wien: Böhlau Verlag, 2002. 668 pp.; 161 illus. 95.00. Hoffman, Ronald. Princes of Ireland...

... “So short a space of time”: Early Modern Convent Chronology and Carmelite Spirituality  539 – 566 Herdt, Jennifer A. Virtue, Identity, and Agency  1 – 12 Hogan, Sarah Utopia, Ireland, and the Tudor Shock Doctrine: Spenser’s Vision of Capitalist Imperialism  461 – 486 Irwin, Terence...

..., 1999. xxii, 550 pp. $39.95, paper $29.95. Dooley, Ann, and Harry Roe, trans. Tales of the Elders of Ireland (Acallam na Senórach). Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. xliii, 245 pp.; 5 maps. Paper $12.95. Faierstein, Morris M...

..., Edel. Ireland in the Medieval World, AD 400–1000: Land- scape, Kingship, and Religion. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2014. xiv, 293 pp.; 38 figs., 15 color plates. $70.00, paper $35.00. Bjornlie, M. Shane. Politics and Tradition between Rome, Ravenna, and Constantinople: A Study of Cassiodorus...

... the British Isles during the 1580s, when Scotland and Ireland demanded particularly delicate negotiations. Scotland s relationship with England was mediated through Tudor- Stuart tensions (particularly in the negotia- tions for royal succession), and England s ties with Ireland were strained to a breaking...