A History Of Medieval Ireland

Author : Daibhi O Croinin
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317901762
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Medieval Ireland, 400-1200 written by Daibhi O Croinin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive survey covers the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the Norman settlement (400 - 1200 AD). Within a broad political framework it explores the nature of Irish society, the spiritual and secular roles of the Church and the extraordinary flowering of Irish culture in the period. Other major themes are Ireland's relations with Britain and continental Europe, and Vikings and their influence, the beginnings of Irish feudalism, and the impact of the Viking and Norman invaders. Splendid in sweep and lively in detail, it launches the newLongman History of Ireland in fine style.

Author : Clare Downham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108546846
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Ireland written by Clare Downham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Ireland is often described as a backward-looking nation in which change only came about as a result of foreign invasions. By examining the wealth of under-explored evidence available, Downham challenges this popular notion and demonstrates what a culturally rich and diverse place medieval Ireland was. Starting in the fifth century, when St Patrick arrived on the island, and ending in the fifteenth century, with the efforts of the English government to defend the lands which it ruled directly around Dublin by building great ditches, this up-to-date and accessible survey charts the internal changes in the region. Chapters dispute the idea of an archaic society in a wide-range of areas, with a particular focus on land-use, economy, society, religion, politics and culture. This concise and accessible overview offers a fresh perspective on Ireland in the Middle Ages and overthrows many enduring stereotypes.

Author : Edmund Curtis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415525969
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Medieval Ireland written by Edmund Curtis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1923, this formative history of Ireland is an extensive study of the period from 1086 – 1513. Beginning with the O’Brien High Kinship, Edmund Curtis takes us through the Anglo-Norman conquest and its sequel, ending with the death of Gerald ‘the Great Earl’ of Kildare in 1513, a date when the second English conquest of Ireland (the ‘Tudor Reconquest’) became imminent. This is a reissue of a definitive landmark study of Irish history by one of greatest Irish historians of the twentieth century.

Author : Elizabeth Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429879601
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland written by Elizabeth Boyle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland explores medieval Irish conceptions of salvation history, using Latin and vernacular sources from c. 700–c. 1200 CE which adapt biblical history for audiences both secular and ecclesiastical. This book examines medieval Irish sources on the cities of Jerusalem and Babylon; reworkings of narratives from the Hebrew Scriptures; literature influenced by the Psalms; and texts indebted to Late Antique historiography. It argues that the conceptual framework of salvation history, and the related theory of the divinely-ordained movement of political power through history, had a formative influence on early Irish culture, society and identity. Primarily through analysis of previously untranslated sources, this study teases out some of the intricate connections between the local and the universal, in order to situate medieval Irish historiography within the context of that of the wider world. Using an overarching biblical chronology, beginning with the lives of the Jewish Patriarchs and ending with the Christian apostolic missions, this study shows how one culture understood the histories of others, and has important implications for issues such as kingship, religion and literary production in medieval Ireland. This book will appeal to scholars and students of medieval Ireland, as well as those interested in religious and cultural history.

Author : Elva Johnston
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 1843838559
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Literacy and Identity in Early Medieval Ireland written by Elva Johnston and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much of our knowledge of early medieval Ireland comes from a rich literature written in a variety of genres and in two languages, Irish and Latin. Who wrote this literature and what role did they play within society? What did the introduction and expansion of literacy mean in a culture where the vast majority of the population continued to be non-literate? How did literacy operate in and intersect with the oral world? Was literacy a key element in the formation and articulation of communal and elite senses of identity? This book addresses these issues in the first full, inter-disciplinary examination of the Irish literate elite and their social contexts between ca. 400-1000 AD. It considers the role played by Hiberno-Latin authors, the expansion of vernacular literacy and the key place of monasteries within the literate landscape. Also examined are the crucial intersections between literacy and orality, which underpin the importance played by the literate elite in giving voice to aristocratic and communal identities.

Author : Edel Bhreathnach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846823428
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland in the Medieval World, AD 400-1000 written by Edel Bhreathnach and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a study of Ireland's people, landscape, and place in the world from late antiquity to the reign of Brian Borama. The book narrates the story of Ireland's emergence into history, using anthropological, archaeological, historical, and literary evidence. The subjects covered include the king, the kingdom and the royal household, religion and customs, free and unfree classes in society, exiles, and foreigners. The rural, urban, ecclesiastical, ceremonial, and mythological landscapes of early medieval Ireland anchor the history of early Irish society in the rich tapestry of archaeological sites, monuments, and place-names that have survived to the present day. A historiography of medieval Irish studies presents the commentaries of a variety of scholars, from the 17th-century Franciscan Micheal O Cleirigh to Eoin Mac Neill, the founding father of modern scholarship. *** "Bhreathnach draws on archaeological evidence to supply insights into a society that has left only oblique views in the written record, proposing a revised view of the place of Ireland in medieval Europe....the book features eight pages of color plates and many photos, and is a must for academic libraries, particularly those with extensive history or archaeology collections. Essential." - Choice, Vol. 52, No. 4, December 2014 *** Featured in 'Outstanding Academic Titles', a prestigious list of publications for the year 2014. - Choice, January 2015 [Subject: History, Medieval Studies, Archaeology, Anthropology, Irish Studies, Religious Studies]

Author : Finbar Dwyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848407404
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life in Medieval Ireland written by Finbar Dwyer and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this brilliant history of medieval Ireland evokes life as lived by the ordinary people rather than the small elite of nobles and warriors who have dominated discussions to date.

Author : Michael Richter
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312158125
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Ireland written by Michael Richter and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1996-02-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval Ireland is an extended essay on Irish society from the coming of Christianity in the fourth century to the Reformation in the sixteenth. Seen in wider European context, medieval Ireland emerges as exceptional and her contributions to the shaping of Europe, outstanding.

Author : Paul MacCotter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Ireland written by Paul MacCotter and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the socio-political and economic system of Gaelic Ireland as it developed during the period from its earliest history until the Anglo-Norman invasion.

Author : Edmund Curtis
Publisher : New York : Barnes & Noble
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Medieval Ireland from 1086 to 1513 written by Edmund Curtis and published by New York : Barnes & Noble. This book was released on 1968 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: