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Ireland and the Crimean War

Ireland and the Crimean War

David Murphy

In 1854 four of the major powers in Europe, Britain, France, Turkey and Russia became embroiled in a devastating and costly war. While hostilities began in Turk…
The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain

The intellectual world of the Country House in Ireland and Britain

Terence Dooley & Christopher Ridgway, editors

Country houses may be triumphs of architecture, fine and decorative art, and landscape design, but they are also about the history and transmission of ideas. In…
Language and style in Dante

Language and style in Dante

John C. Barnes & Michaelangelo Zaccarello editors

This volume opens with an essay where “style” is viewed medievally, as a near-synonym of “genre”: Zygmunt Barański argues that fully to appreciate the presence …
Transmission and generation in medieval and Renaissance literature

Transmission and generation in medieval and Renaissance literature

Essays in honour of John Scattergood

Karen Hodder & Brendan O'Connell, editors

This collection of essays focuses on the processes of intellectual transmission in medieval and Renaissance literature, paying particular attention to the ways …
Medieval Celtic literature and society

Medieval Celtic literature and society

Helen Fulton editor

This collection brings together the latest research from international scholars working on medieval Irish, Welsh, Cornish and Breton literature, making it a rea…
Lady with a mead cup

Lady with a mead cup

Ritual, prophecy and lordship in the European warband from La Tène to the Viking Age

Michael J. Enright

Lady with a Mead Cup is a broad-ranging, innovative and strikingly original study of the early medieval barbarian cup-offering ritual and its social, institutio…
Medieval French miracle plays

Medieval French miracle plays

Seven falsely accused women

Carol J. Harvey

In the Middle Ages, religious theatre was a popular medium for both the edification and the entertainment of the public. This book centres on seven of the forty…
The rituals and rhetoric of Queenship

The rituals and rhetoric of Queenship

Medieval to early modern

Liz Oakley-Brown & Louise J. Wilkinson, editors

This book explores the ways in which, whether a consort or a ruler in her own right, the late medieval and early modern queen was a pivotal, and often controver…
Medieval Latin lyrics

Medieval Latin lyrics

Helen Waddell

With an introduction by John Scattergood.

Helen Waddell, born in Tokyo in 1889, died in London 1965, was educated in Belfast at Victoria College and the Queen…
Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins

Dante and the Seven Deadly Sins

John C. Barnes & Daragh O'Connell, editors

This volume opens with the bold suggestion that the seven deadly sins constitute a key to the structure of Inferno and Paradiso as well as Purgatorio. It ends w…