Early Modern Ireland

<p><em>Early Modern Ireland: New Sources Methods and Perspectives</em> offers fresh approaches and case studies that push the field of early modern Ireland and of British and European history more generally into unexplored directions.</p><p>The centuries between 1500 and 1700 were pivotal in Ireland’s history yet so much about this period has remained neglected until relatively recently and a great deal has yet to be explored. Containing seventeen original and individually commissioned essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging scholars this book covers a wide range of topics including social cultural and political history as well as folklore medicine archaeology and digital humanities all of which are enhanced by a selection of maps graphs tables and images. </p><p>Urging a reevaluation of the terms and assumptions which have been used to describe Ireland’s past and a consideration of the new directions in which the study of early modern Ireland could be taken <i>Early Modern Ireland: New Sources Methods and Perspectives</i> is a groundbreaking collection for students and scholars studying early modern Irish history. </p>