Early Modern Ireland: New Sources Methods and Perspectives offers fresh approaches and case studies that push the field of early modern Ireland and of British and European history more generally into unexplored directions. The centuries between 1500 and 1700 were pivotal in Irelandâs history yet so much about this period has remained neglected until relatively recently and a great deal has yet to be explored. Containing seventeen original and individually commissioned essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging scholars this book covers a wide range of topics including social cultural and political history as well as folklore medicine archaeology and digital humanities all of which are enhanced by a selection of maps graphs tables and images. Urging a reevaluation of the terms and assumptions which have been used to describe Irelandâs past and a consideration of the new directions in which the study of early modern Ireland could be taken Early Modern Ireland: New Sources Methods and Perspectives is a groundbreaking collection for students and scholars studying early modern Irish history. . Language: English