Recreating Spenser: The Irish Castle of an English Poet

Abstract

This iBook showcases illustrations and subject matter taken directly from the website Centering Spenser: a digital resource for Kilcolman Castle, an ongoing open-access digital humanities project based at East Carolina University. The purpose of this iBook, like the website, is to educate the public and academia alike about Kilcolman Castle, a late-medieval tower house in County Cork, Ireland, at the time that it was occupied by the (in)famous English poet and colonial administrator Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599). Only this Preface and Chapter 5, on Virtual Reality developments, are original to this iBook. This book like the website is written and designed by Thomas Herron with the exception of “Modeling Methods and Software” (Chapter 3, Section 2, below), written by Wesley Owens. While this iBook cannot recreate some of the features of the website, it does offer a different (bibliographic) format for much of the website’s content and may be downloaded and read in a more convenient and/or conventional manner. A full list of contents of the website is found in Appendix 1.