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Women and the church in medieval Ireland, c.1140–1540

Women and the church in medieval Ireland, c.1140–1540

Dianne Hall

A major study of women and the medieval Irish church, this book includes ground-breaking investigations of medieval nunneries in Ireland, their personnel, patro…
Anglo-Norman parks in medieval Ireland

Anglo-Norman parks in medieval Ireland

Fiona Beglane

This illustrated volume examines the evidence for medieval parks in Anglo-Norman Ireland. It is the first book on the subject and concentrates on the parks docu…
Medieval Ireland

Medieval Ireland

Territorial, political and economic divisions

Paul MacCotter

Describes, for the first time, the nature of the unique economic areal system of Gaelic Ireland as it developed and changed between the Early Medieval and Anglo…
Medieval Irish buildings, 1100–1600

Medieval Irish buildings, 1100–1600

Tadhg O'Keeffe

The Irish landscape is dotted with thousands of medieval buildings, most of them in ruins. They are an invaluable resource, individually and collectively, for m…
Ireland and Wales in the middle ages

Ireland and Wales in the middle ages

Karen Jankulak & Jonathan M. Wooding, editors

The studies in this volume range across history, literature, archaeology, law and theology. Challenging assumptions as to the medieval isolation of what were in…
Tales of medieval Dublin

Tales of medieval Dublin

Sparky Booker & Cherie N. Peters editors

Walking through Dublin Castle or along the surviving medieval city walls, you can see only glimpses of what it would have been like to live in the city centurie…
Berengaria

Berengaria

In search of Richard the Lionheart's Queen

Anne Trindade

Richard the Lionheart is one of the most enduring of medieval heroes but little is known about Berengaria – the woman he married, in May 1191, on the way to the…
Medieval Dublin XI

Medieval Dublin XI

Seán Duffy, editor

The highlight of this eleventh volume of proceedings of the annual Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposium is undoubtedly Linzi Simpson’s monumental update of her …
Medieval Italy, medieval and early modern women

Medieval Italy, medieval and early modern women

Essays in honour of Christine Meek

Conor Kostick editor

This book pays tribute to Professor Christine Meek with sixteen essays that present the latest research in the evolution of Italian society towards the Renaissa…
The Jacobean plantations in seventeenth-century Offaly

The Jacobean plantations in seventeenth-century Offaly

An archaeology of a changing world

James Lyttleton

The assimilation of the Gaelic Irish lordships into the British state marks the end of medieval Ireland and the beginning of a society more recognizable to mode…