Making Ireland Roman: Irish Neo-Latin Writers and the Republic of Letters

Author/Contributor(s):	Harris, Jason
Publisher:	Cork University Press
Date:	12/31/2009
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

This collection of articles by leading scholars focuses on Irish writing in Latin in the Renaissance and aims to rewrite Irish cultural history through recovery and analysis of Latin sources. This book renders accessible for the first time the vastly important Irish contribution to the counter-reformation, to European Renaissance and baroque literature in Latin and to the intellectual culture of European Latinity. The ethnic, cultural and religious divisions within Ireland produced a divided Latin writing and reading community.