Campaign Journals of the Elizabethan Irish Wars
In this review-essay, Willy Maley gives extended consideration to what he describes as “a treasure-chest of information on the workings of the English colonial administration in Spenser’s lifetime”:
“Some years ago Bert Hamilton said to me at a Spenser conference, ‘Soon we’ll know it all.’ Reading David Edwards’s collection of nineteen journals from the archives of Elizabethan Ireland, it becomes clear that we may never know it all.”
Cite as:
"Campaign Journals of the Elizabethan Irish Wars,"
Spenser Review
(Winter 2016).
Accessed April 19th, 2024.
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The journals cover every phase of the conflict, from preparation to the frequently gruesome aftermath, and provide unique insights into the Tudor conquest and how individuals who took part experienced it.
Link / ReplyIt is a book engaged with scholarly metamorphoses and its effects on bodies—whether corporeal or textual—and that alone should make any Spenserian take notice.
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