The Renaissance and the Celtic countries / edited by Ceri Davies and John E. Law.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davies, Ceri.

Law, John E. (John Easton)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civilization, Celtic.

Physical Description:

viii, 115 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2005.

Summary:

Written by leading scholars in the field, this revealing volume sheds new light on the Renaissance in Ireland, Wales, and Scotland. The book covers a wide range of topics, including: Richard Stanihurst 's innovative interpretation of Irish history of 1584; the debate between the "old" and the "new" in Welsh poetry; the epigrams of the versatile and well-connected Welsh writer of Latin verse, John Owen; the rendering in epic style of the Psalms by the consummate Latinist, George Buchanan; and the printing press and book trade in Renaissance and Reformation Scotland. These studies show that by the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the Celtic countries were an integral part of the wider European Renaissance, and demonstrate how Celtic writers, scholars and patrons contributed to the cultural developments of the period.

Contents:

Richard Stanihurst's De rebus in Hibernia gestis / John Barry

John Owen the epigrammatist: a literary and historical context / Byron Harries

The poetic debate of Edmwnd Prys and William Cynwal / Gruffydd Aled Williams

Classical voices in Buchanan's hexameter Psalm paraphrases / Roger P.H. Green

A spirit of literature

Milville, Baillie, Wodrow and a cast of thousands: the clergy in Scotland's long Renaissance / Alastair J. Mann.

Notes:

Published on behalf of the Society for Renaissance Studies.

"First published as a special issue of Renaissance Studies"--T.p. verso.

Essays in this volume first presented at a one-day conference at the University of Wales, Swansea, Oct. 20, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1405120630

OCLC:

58411369