Renaissance humanism and ethnicity before race: The Irish and the English in the seventeenth century

Introduction: Defining race -- Two problems in the history of Irish humanism and ethnicity -- English humanism against Gaelic Irish society -- Gaelic humanism against English Irish society -- Humanists and genealogists on nobility and the human body -- Irish doctors and theologians on heredity and the human soul -- Irish Enlightenment, human societies, and human bodies.