- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 online resource (xi, 532 p.) :) : digital file.
- Summary
- In facing Latin and English texts, Great Deeds in Ireland is the first full translation of the controversial Latin history of Ireland by the famous Dublin intellectual, Richard Stanihurst. Great Deeds in Ireland provides a contemporary account of Ireland's geography and people and what the author considered to be the greatest event in Irish history -- the Anglo-Norman conquest. Stanihurst celebrated the origins of the English colony in Ireland while simultaneously allegorizing the dilemma facing his own community from a new wave of Protestant English conquerors. The Anglo-Irishman's attempt to introduce Ireland to Europe's Renaissance elite in a literary tour-de-force went awry after many Gaelic Irish, also exiled on the continent, objected to the book's satirical portrayal of Ireland's clergy and its representation of the country's customs, history and learned classes. The book was burned on the orders of the Inquisition in Portugal, marked prohibido in libraries in Spain and provoked a number of angry responses from readers and other writers over the following eighty years. Because of its centrality to debates about Ireland, Stanihurst's De Rebus was the first book translation undertaken by the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies established at University College Cork.
- Uniform Title
- Richardi Stanihursti Dubliniensis De rebus in Hibernia gestis. English & Latin (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Richardi Stanihursti Dubliniensis De rebus in Hibernia gestis.
- Subject
- Ireland > History > To 1172
- Note
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-518) and indexes.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language (note)
- English and Latin on opposite pages.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Text and translation -- Book one -- Book two -- Book three -- Book four -- Appendix -- Stanihurst's index -- Errata -- Privileges -- Notes to translation -- Bibliography -- Index.
- OCLC
- ssj0000905562
- Author
Stanyhurst, Richard, 1547-1618.
- Title
Great Deeds in Ireland [electronic resource] : Richard Stanihurst's De Rebus in Hibernia Gestis / [edited by] John Barry and Hiram Morgan.
- Imprint
Cork, Ireland : Cork University Press, 2013 (Baltimore, Md. : Project Muse, 2013) (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 509-518) and indexes.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language
English and Latin on opposite pages.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Morgan, Hiram, 1960-
Barry, John.
Project Muse.
- Other Form:
Print version: 190900572X 9781909005723