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Landscapes of the Learned - Placing Gaelic Literati in Irish Lordships 1300-1600 (Hardcover)
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Landscapes of the Learned - Placing Gaelic Literati in Irish Lordships 1300-1600 (Hardcover)
Series: Medieval History and Archaeology
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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. 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 Celtic societies.
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