From Tom Herron, who is currently having difficulty posting to the list...
>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 13:15:07 -0500
>From: "Tom Herron" <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Irish maps and Kalamazoo
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>Dear Dr. Davis,
>
>Have we met? I don't know... is there any chance you could forward
>on the following to the Sp List? I have some troubles getting
>things posted there. Best wishes, Thomas Herron
>
>Dear Sp List,
>
>A note on Irish maps and then K-zoo (Klingelhofer returns).
>
>1) Judson in his Life of Spenser maps the relevant Irish rivers, as
>I recall... for more contemporary views, including unpublished
>topographical maps, see Michael Swift, *Historical Maps of Ireland*
>(Chartwell Books, 1999), esp. "Munster, c. 1572" (pp. 28-9),
>"Munster, c. 1580" (p. 30), and "Idrone, c. 1580" (p. 35). The last
>is a very pretty one of the county most successfully
>occupied/claimed by Sir Peter Carew in the 1570's; McCabe in his
>recent *Spenser's Monstrous Regiment* (130) makes some hay out of
>Carew's property ambitions as they relate to the unearthing of hoary
>chronicles in the House of Temperance episode. The map also shows
>the Barrow river, which is Spenser's "goodly Barow, which doth
>hoord/ Great heapes of Salmons in his deepe bosome" (IV.xi.43).
>Swift culls his maps from the PRO and his book is disappointingly
>unscholarly, albeit cheap.
>
>For a beautiful topographical map of the Leix-Offaly plantation ca.
>1570(?), see the *Atlas of the Rural Irish Landscape* ed. F.H.
>Aalen. That book will also have rivers a plenty and for a while was
>a steal at $35 when it was remaindered.
>
>Finally on maps, as I recall, Ptolemy's "map" (rather place and
>tribal names cobbled together in modern times) puts the Brigantes in
>southeastern Ireland, in Leinster, not around Cork, in the
>southwestern province of Munster. Perhaps Spenser is satirizing the
>economic policies and/or corrupt leniency of the earl of Ormond in
>the Brigants episode.
>
>2) I just noticed that Eric Klingelhofer, the man who dug Kilcolman,
>will be giving a lecture at the upcoming K-zoo on "Spenser's Diet at
>Kilcolman." Unfortunately, it's at 1:30 on Friday, thus conflicting
>with a Sp-at-K-zoo panel. Is there no justice?
>
>I am giving a paper on "The Archaeology of Spenser" on Sat
>afternoon, as part of a "Celtic Settlement" panel. It will focus on
>looking for archaeological objects in his writing, not his house, as
>well as perhaps giving some far-flung materialist reading of a
>passage or two. I have yet to write it and so it may be sketchy.
>
>Best wishes, Thomas Herron
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