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This book is the first to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire, an Ireland of colonizing English farmers and an imported Protestant elite living in fortified manors and medieval castles -- .

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‘This is both a significant and an important volume…an account of his excavation of Kilcolman, [is] followed by his interesting thesis on how much Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene influenced vernacular architecture throughout Ireland and Britain.’
The Spenser Review, January 2013

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Table of Contents

Epigraph
List of figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Archaeology and empire
2. Fortification
3. Settlement
4. Vernacular architecture
5. Kilcolman Castle
6. Spenserian architecture
7. Conclusions.
Select bibliography
Index

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    Publisher: Manchester University Press
    Publication Date: 9/1/2010 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780719082467, 978-0719082467
    ISBN10: 0719082463

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This book is the first to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire, an Ireland of colonizing English farmers and an imported Protestant elite living in fortified manors and medieval castles -- .

    Trade Review

    ‘This is both a significant and an important volume…an account of his excavation of Kilcolman, [is] followed by his interesting thesis on how much Edmund Spenser’s Faerie Queene influenced vernacular architecture throughout Ireland and Britain.’
    The Spenser Review, January 2013

    -- .

    Table of Contents

    Epigraph
    List of figures
    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    1. Archaeology and empire
    2. Fortification
    3. Settlement
    4. Vernacular architecture
    5. Kilcolman Castle
    6. Spenserian architecture
    7. Conclusions.
    Select bibliography
    Index

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