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Renaissance Humanism and Ethnicity Before Race: The Irish and the English in the Seventeenth Century
Ian Campbell
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Hardback. Examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this elite discourse was grounded in a commitment to the languages and sciences of Renaissance Humanism Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBR; 3JD; HBJD1; HBTB; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 162 x 25. Weight in Grams: 546.
The modern ideology of race, so important in twentieth-century Europe, incorporates both a theory of human societies and a theory of human bodies. Ian Campbell’s new study examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this elite discourse was grounded in a commitment to the languages and sciences of Renaissance Humanism. Emphasising the education of all of early modern Ireland’s antagonistic ethnic groups in common European university and grammar school traditions, Campbell explains both the workings of the learned English critique of Irish society, and the no less learned Irish ... Read more
The modern ideology of race, so important in twentieth-century Europe, incorporates both a theory of human societies and a theory of human bodies. Ian Campbell’s new study examines how the elite in early modern Ireland spoke about human societies and human bodies, and demonstrates that this elite discourse was grounded in a commitment to the languages and sciences of Renaissance Humanism. Emphasising the education of all of early modern Ireland’s antagonistic ethnic groups in common European university and grammar school traditions, Campbell explains both the workings of the learned English critique of Irish society, and the no less learned Irish ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719088360
SKU
9780719088360
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About Ian Campbell
Ian Campbell is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies, University College Cork -- .
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