Baker, David and Maley, Willy and Palmer, Patricia (2018) What ish my network? Introducing MACMORRIS: Digitising cultural activity and collaborative networks in early modern Ireland. Literature Compass, 15. ISSN 1741-4113

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Abstract

Early modern Ireland is one of the most dynamic literary and political spaces in Renaissance Europe. It is the site of vibrant writing in English, Irish, and Latin and of translation from Latin, Spanish, and Italian into English and Irish. While it has received extensive critical attention from historicists, cultural materialists, feminists, and new‐British historians over the past three decades, their focus has been the colonial context of the English Renaissance (and writers like Edmund Spenser) rather than the Gaelic and Old English cultures and communities thrown into crisis by the Tudor conquest (ignoring, thereby, writers like, say, Eochaidh Ó hEoghusa or Richard Stanihurst). MACMORRIS is a digital‐ humanities project designed to correct that lopsided focus by mapping cultural activity across the island in all languages. Working in an interdisciplinary and comparative framework, it will identify every significant cultural figure working in Ireland between, roughly, 1569 and 1641 and trace their nodal points and networks.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	networks; MACMORRIS; Digitising; cultural activity; collaborative networks; early modern Ireland;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Arts & Humanities > School of English, Media & Theatre Studies > English
Item ID:	13079
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12496
Depositing User:	Patricia Palmer
Date Deposited:	23 Jun 2020 14:03
Journal or Publication Title:	Literature Compass
Publisher:	Wiley-Blackwell
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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