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The role of the hospital in medieval England

The role of the hospital in medieval England

Gift-giving and the spiritual economy

Sheila Sweetinburgh

Hospitals in medieval England gave and received gifts as part of the spiritual economy, engaging in an ongoing process of gift-exchange and reciprocity with the…
Medieval Dublin V

Medieval Dublin V

Seán Duffy, editor

These proceedings of the fifth public symposium, held by the Friends of Medieval Dublin in 2003, include numerous essays on the city during medieval times.

Seá…
Poverty in late Middle English literature

Poverty in late Middle English literature

The meene and the riche

Dinah Hazell

Studies of medieval poverty tend to focus on a few works, particularly Piers Plowman and related texts, and on the indigent and rural poor. This book presents a…
The laity, the church and the mystery plays

The laity, the church and the mystery plays

A drama of belonging

Tony Corbett

With a Foreword by Dame Judi Dench.

Over the course of more than two hundred and fifty years, from the fourteenth century until well after the Reformation had …
Robin Hood
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Robin Hood

Medieval and post-medieval

Helen Phillips, editors

This collection of essays on the Robin Hood tradition explores both its medieval contexts and the evolution of the legend after the medieval period. They deal w…
The lost tradition

The lost tradition

Essays on Middle English alliterative poetry

John Scattergood

Four stresses, a line broken in two by a caesura, and a pattern of alliteration linking the two half-lines were features of the staple manner of Anglo-Saxon ver…
Piers Plowman and the Poor

Piers Plowman and the Poor

Anne M. Scott

This book will be of interest to scholars in the field of medieval literature in general, and Piers Plowman in particular, as well as to cultural historians of …
The Uí Chellaig lords of Uí Maine and Tír Maine

The Uí Chellaig lords of Uí Maine and Tír Maine

An archaeological and landscape exploration of a later medieval inland Gaelic lordship

Daniel Patrick Curley

The Ó Cellaig (O’Kelly) lordship of Uí Maine and Tír Maine was a substantial political territory and influential cultural power in later medieval Connacht. This…
Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present

Law and the idea of liberty in Ireland from Magna Carta to the present

Peter Crooks & Thomas Mohr, editors

Magna Carta is among the most famous documents in the history of the world, credited with being the first effective check in writing on arbitrary, oppressive an…
Ireland, 1815–1870

Ireland, 1815–1870

Emancipation, famine and religion

Donnchadh Ó Corráin & Tomás O'Riordan, editors

This book opens by exploring how nationalist Ireland mobilized a mass democratic movement under O’Connell to secure Catholic Emancipation. This world was soon t…