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Dante and the human body

Dante and the human body

John C. Barnes & Jennifer Petrie, editors

The essays in this volume explore Dante’s interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of historians, lite…
The exercise of power in medieval Scotland, 1200–1500

The exercise of power in medieval Scotland, 1200–1500

Steve Boardman & Alasdair Ross, editors

Through detailed case studies this volume re-evaluates the notion that the Scottish kingdom experienced a rapid and revolutionary change in government and arist…
Scotland and the Ulster plantations

Scotland and the Ulster plantations

Explorations in the British settlements of Stuart Ireland

William P. Kelly & John R. Young, editors

As we approach the 400th anniversary of the official Plantation of Ulster, this volume seeks to make an important historiographical contribution to that event. …
Medieval Lough Cé

Medieval Lough Cé

History, archaeology and landscape

Thomas Finan, editor

The role of Lough Cé and its relationship to the various lordships of north Roscommon in the later Middle Ages is examined in this collection of essays. Lough C…
An historical anthology of Irish church music

An historical anthology of Irish church music

Irish musical studies 6

Gerrard Gillen & Andrew Johnstone, editors

The sixth volume in the Irish musical studies series forms a logical sequel to the second volume, Music and the Church (1993), which explored the connective str…
Archives and Archivists

Archives and Archivists

Ailsa C. Holland & Kate Manning, editors

University College Dublin has provided education on archives for 35 years mainly in the Archives Department. This book of essays celebrates its role in a timely…
Insular inscriptions

Insular inscriptions

David Howlett

The author presents from stones, mosaics, walls, brasses, inscribed artefacts, colophons etc. scores of compositions from twenty centuries, illustrating the tho…
Making and meaning in insular art

Making and meaning in insular art

Rachel Moss, editor

Comprising papers from the 5th international conference on insular art held at Trinity College in August 2005, this volume deals with the technological and inte…
British books in biblical style

British books in biblical style

Early Alfredian and after the conquest

David Howlett

The author defines rules for composing literary texts exhibited in the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament, reproduced in the Vulgate Latin Bible, …
Cambro-Latin compositions

Cambro-Latin compositions

Their competence and craftmanship

David Howlett

Howlett charts a tradition of thought and composition from the fifth century to the thirteenth, from the Romano-British writers Pelagius, St Patrick, and Faustu…