Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Spenser in Ireland Subject The topic of the resource Spenser in Ireland Description An account of the resource Spenser's time in Ireland Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Sarah Parrish Date Created Date of creation of the resource. 4-16-18 References A related resource that is referenced, cited, or otherwise pointed to by the described resource. “Biography.” Spenser Online, http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/spenseronline/scholarly-resources/biography/. Accessed March 2018. Hadfield, Andrew. Edmund Spenser: A Life. Oxford UP, 2012. Judson, Alexander C. The Life of Edmund Spenser. Edited by Greenlaw, E., Osgood, C.G., Padelford, F.M., Heffner, R.Oxford UP, 1945. Maley, Willy. A Spenser Chronology. MacMillian, 1994. Spenser, Edmund. Selected Letters and Other Papers. Edited by Christopher Burlinson and Andrew Zurcher, Oxford UP, 2009. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource March 22 1581 Subject The topic of the resource March 22 Description An account of the resource Spenser appointed Registrar/Clerk of the Faculties in the Court of Chancery, an office he holds for seven years. (Maley, 18) Spenser’s acquisition of this position “meant putting down into the soil of Ireland a first small root.” (Judson, 96) Hadfield believes that Spenser disliked his superior in this position, Adam Loftus, and satirized him in Mother Hubberds Tale. Hadfield also comments that "this experience [as registrar] contributed to Spenser's comments of Brehon Law in A View": "theare are more attainted Landes conceled from her maiestie then shee now hathe possessions in all Irelande." Hadfield goes on to say that "the Chancery court's guiding principle, equity, its importance in defining sovereignty as well as its potential abuse, is a key concept in Spenser's later work, especially the second part of [FQ], suggesting that his experience in the Dublin courts had a profound effect on his conception of the law and his literary imagination." (174-77) (Burlinson and Zurcher, 225)