Annals of the Four Masters - Irish History, Kingship and Society in the Early Seventeenth Century Cunningham BernadettePaperback
Annals of the Four Masters - Irish History, Kingship and Society in the Early Seventeenth Century Cunningham BernadettePaperback There was something about the form and substance of the Annals of the…
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Annals of the Four Masters - Irish History, Kingship and Society in the Early Seventeenth Century Cunningham BernadettePaperback
There was something about the form and substance of the Annals of the Four Masters, compiled in the 1630s, that allowed them to become accepted as an authentic, reliable and comprehensive record of Gaelic society. The Four Masters' approach to making their own annals conveys their regard for the older written records that had preserved for them, in manuscript, the history of their ancestors. Drawing on a rich heritage of manuscript sources on Irish history, these annals have long been regarded as an essential element of the cultural capital of a community that valued its Gaelic past.
The original manuscripts of these annals are used to This study surveys the scholarly and political context, both Irish and European, that inspired the annalists, reconstructing the networks of professional expertise and patronage that contributed to the pursuit of scholarship about the Irish past.