Landscapes of the Learned : Placing Gaelic Literati in Irish Lordships 1300-1600 Hardback
by Prof Elizabeth (Independent researcher and writer in historical landscape studies, Inde FitzPatrick
Part of the Medieval History and Archaeology series
Hardback
Description
Gaelic literati were an elite and influential group in the social hierarchy of Irish lordships between c. 1300 and 1600. From their estates, they served Gaelic and Old English ruling families in the arts of history, law, medicine, and poetry.
They farmed, kept guest-houses, conducted schools, and maintained networks of learning.
In other capacities, they were involved in political assemblies and memorializing dynastic histories in landscape.
This book presents a framework for identifying and interpreting the settings and built heritages of their estates in lordship borderscapes.
It shows that a more textured definition of what this learned class represented can be achieved through the material record of the buildings and monuments they used, and where their lands were positioned in the political map.
Where literati lived and worked are conceived as expressions of their intellectual and political cultures.
Mediated by case studies of the landscapes of their estates, dwellings, and schools, the methodology is predominantly field based, using archaeological investigation and topographic and spatial analyses, and drawing on historical and literary texts, place-names and lore in referencing named people to places.
More widely, the study contributes a landscape perspective to the growing body of work on autochthonous intellectual culture and the exercise of power by ruling families in late medieval and early modern northern European societies.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:384 pages, numerous colour and black and white figures/illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:04/05/2023
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- ISBN:9780192855749
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:384 pages, numerous colour and black and white figures/illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:04/05/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9780192855749