Renaissance Humanism and Ethnicity Before Race

The Irish and the English in the Seventeenth Century

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Ian Campbell

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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. -- .

Author Biography:

Ian Campbell is a postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies, University College Cork -- .

Release date Australia

November 30th, 2013

Author

Ian Campbell

Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

256

Dimensions

156x234x23

ISBN-13

9780719088360

Product ID

21517327

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