The Renaissance in the Celtic Countries

This revealing volume sheds new light on the Renaissance in Ireland, Wales and Scotland.

• A revealing look at the Renaissance in Ireland, Wales and Scotland.
  
• Written by leading scholars in the field.
  
• Covers a wide range of topics, such as the printing press and book trade in Reformation Scotland, and the debate between the “old” and the “new” in Welsh poetry.
  
• Shows that the Celtic countries were an integral part of the wider European Renaissance.
  
• Demonstrates how Celtic writers, scholars and patrons contributed to the cultural developments of the period.

Five essays from a conference in Swansea, Wales, in October 2001 help dispel the image of Celtic countries as determined to shackle their native cultures to the past and resisting all that new-fangled Renaissance nonsense. They also comprised a special edition of Renaissance Studies, for which no data is provided. Distributed in the US by Blackwell Publishing. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Ceri Davies is Professor of Classics at the University of Wales, Swansea.

John E. Law is Reader in History at the University of Wales, Swansea and editor of Renaissance Studies.