Medieval literature

The Dublin Annals of Prior John de Pembridge OP and his Dominican continuator

An account of Irish affairs, 1162-1370

Bernadette Williams, editor

When the Dominicans arrived in Dublin in 1224, they established a house on the north bank of the river Liffey next to the bridge where the Four Courts are situa…

Time’s Subjects

Horology and Literature in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

John Scattergood

There is ample evidence, from the earliest periods onwards, that mankind has sought to measure and organize temporal movement by means of intellectual theories …

Ireland and the Crusades

Edward Coleman, Paul Duffy & Tadhg O'Keeffe, editors

The crusades – a broad term encompassing a disparate series of military expeditions, with the avowed intent of preserving/expanding Christianity and the heterod…

Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

Cultures and connections

Claire Breay & Joanna Story, editors

Manuscripts that were made and used in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms before the Norman conquest of England are treasure troves of art and text. Many of these books a…

Trinity College Library Dublin

A descriptive catalogue of manuscripts containing Middle English and some Old English

John Scattergood, with Niamh Pattwell & Emma Williams

The world-famous collection of manuscripts in Trinity College Library Dublin largely consists of items which came to the College in 1661 from the library of Arc…

In enigmate

The history of a riddle, 400–1500

Erin Sebo

This book is a study of a single riddle as it is transmitted, translated and transformed over more than a thousand years. Beginning with the influential late an…

Four Offaly Saints

The Lives of Ciarán of Clonmacnoise, Ciarán of Seir, Colmán of Lynally and Fíonán of Kinnitty

Pádraig Ó Riain

Lying just south of the line that divided Ireland’s two halves, Leath Chuinn to the north and Leath Mhogha to the south, the churches of the present county of O…

Medieval Welsh Poems

Joseph P. Clancy

This anthology of Welsh poems from c.575 to c.1525 offers the general reader the most substantial collection of medieval Welsh verse yet rendered into English, …

The Early Finn Cycle

Kevin Murray

The Finn (or Fenian) Cycle (fíanaigecht) is classified by modern scholarship as one of four medieval Irish literary cycles along with the Ulster Cycle, the Cycl…

Sacred histories

A festschrift for Máire Herbert

John Carey, Kevin Murray & Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh, editors

This collection of essays in honour of Máire Herbert focuses primarily on the textual culture of Ireland (in Latin and Irish) in its historical context from the…

Latin Psalter manuscripts in Trinity College Dublin and the Chester Beatty Library

Laura Cleaver & Helen Conrad O'Briain

The book of Psalms was at the core of devotional practice in western Christianity throughout the Middle Ages. The study of medieval Latin Psalters provides evid…

The medieval manuscripts at Maynooth

Explorations in the unknown

Peter J. Lucas & Angela M. Lucas

This book provides an in-depth guide to the Maynooth medieval manuscripts (some sixteen of them, plus fragments) with illustrations. The descriptions of the man…