Gaelic Ulster In The Middle Ages

Author : Katharine Simms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781846827938
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages written by Katharine Simms and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nowadays, medieval Gaelic Ulster is virtually invisible. Physical evidence from the four centuries stretching between the invasion of the Anglo-Norman baron John de Courcy and the Plantation is rare. Although it left little physical trace, Gaelic Ulster was once a vigorous, confident society, whose members fought and feasted, sang and prayed. It maintained schools of poets, physicians, historians and lawyers, whose studies were conducted largely in their own Gaelic language, rather than in the dead Latin of medieval schools elsewhere in Europe. This monumental book explores the neglected history of Gaelic Ulster between the eleventh and early sixteenth centuries, and sheds further light on its unique society. The first section, "Political History", provides the reader with a chronological narrative, showing the influence of internal and external political change on the Ulster chieftains, while also illustrating how this northern province related to the rest of Ireland. The second section, "Culture and Society", aims to depict the world of Ulster during the Middle Ages. It delves into the "plain living and high thinking" of its somewhat enigmatic society, operating largely independently of towns or coinage, describing in its turn its chieftains, churchmen, scholars, warriors, court ladies and other women, and the amusements and everyday life of the people --

Author : Katharine Simms
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851157849
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Kings to Warlords written by Katharine Simms and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Native Irish chieftains, not totally subdued after the Norman invasion of Ireland, recovered a measure of their power in the later middle ages; unfamiliar sources illuminate developments. The Norman invasion of Ireland (1169) did not result in a complete conquest, and those native Irish chieftains who retained independent control of their territories achieved a recovery of power in the later middle ages. KatharineSimms studies the experience of the resurgent chieftains, who were undergoing significant developments during this period. The most obvious signs of change were the gradual disappearance of the title ri (king), and the ubiquitouspresence of mercenary soldiers. On a deeper level, the institution of kingship itself had died, as is shown by this study of the election and inauguration of Irish kings, their counsellors, officials, vassals, army, and sources ofrevenue, as they evolved between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries. Sources such as the Irish chronicles, bardic poetry, genealogies, brehon charters and rentals, family-tract and sagas are all used, in addition to the more familiar evidence of the Anglo-Norman administration, the Church, and Tudor state papers. Dr KATHARINE SIMMS lectures in the Department of Medieval History, Trinity College, Dublin.

Author : Kenneth W. Nicholls
Publisher : [Dublin] : Gill and Macmillan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaelic and Gaelicised Ireland in the Middle Ages written by Kenneth W. Nicholls and published by [Dublin] : Gill and Macmillan. This book was released on 1972 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since becoming a holy man, Purun Dass has never spoken to anyone, but when the beasts wake him one night during a summer of hard rains he knows he must warn the village below that the mountain on which he lives is about to fall on them.

Author : Katharine Simms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gaelic Lordships in Ulster in the Later Middle Ages written by Katharine Simms and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Katharine Simms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Gaelic Sources written by Katharine Simms and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gaelic language sources for medieval and early modern Irish history were the product of the bardic schools in history, poetry, law and medicine. Comprising annals, genealogies, poems, prose tracts and sagas, legal and medical material, colophons and marginalia, they have long been more familiar to Celticists than historians, apart from the editions of the Irish annals." "This book provides a practical guide for those interested in researching Gaelic Ireland who would like to glean usable historical information from such texts, and lays emphasis on works for which translated editions are available. It discusses the purposes for which they were originally created, their survival and accessibility in print and on the internet, and, above all, how to make use of them as historical sources. It is intended as an aid to those beginning postgraduate research, and for all interested in investigating Irish family or local history in the medieval and Tudor period." --Book Jacket.

Author : Sparky Booker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108588697
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland written by Sparky Booker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish inhabitants of the 'four obedient shires' - a term commonly used to describe the region at the heart of the English colony in the later Middle Ages - were significantly anglicised, taking on English names, dress, and even legal status. However, the processes of cultural exchange went both ways. This study examines the nature of interactions between English and Irish neighbours in the four shires, taking into account the complex tensions between assimilation and the preservation of distinct ethnic identities and exploring how the common colonial rhetoric of the Irish as an 'enemy' coexisted with the daily reality of alliance, intermarriage, and accommodation. Placing Ireland in a broad context, Sparky Booker addresses the strategies the colonial community used to deal with the difficulties posed by extensive assimilation, and the lasting changes this made to understandings of what it meant to be 'English' or 'Irish' in the face of such challenges.

Author : T. B. Barry
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852851224
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book COLONY & FRONTIER IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND written by T. B. Barry and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays explore aspects of the English colony in medieval Ireland and its relations with the Gaelic host society. They deal both with the foundation and expansion of the English lordship in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and with the problems sand adjustments that accompaneid its contraction in the later middle ages. Attention is paid both to the government and society of the colony itself, and to the interactions between settler and native.

Author : Katherine Simms
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Gaelic Lordships in Ulster in the Late Middle Ages written by Katherine Simms and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Finan
Publisher : BAR British Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nation in Medieval Ireland? written by Thomas Finan and published by BAR British Series. This book was released on 2004 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that concepts of nation, nationalism, national ideology and identity did exist in Ireland in the 13th and 14th centuries, and that the Irish people used the concept of nation especially in response to foreigness or foreigners.

Author : Clare Downham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107031311
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( 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: A concise and accessible overview of Ireland AD 400-1500 which challenges the stereotype of medieval Ireland as a backwards-looking nation.