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Renaissance Humanism and Ethnicity Before Race - The Irish and the English in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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Renaissance Humanism and Ethnicity Before Race - The Irish and the English in the Seventeenth Century (Hardcover, New)
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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 response. Then he turns to Irish debates on nobility,
medicine and theology in order to illuminate the problem of human
heredity. He concludes by demonstrating how the Enlightenment swept
away these humanist theories of body and society, prior to the
development of modern racial ideology in the late eighteenth
century. -- .
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