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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…
Lawyers, the law and history

Lawyers, the law and history

Felix M. Larkin & N.M. Dawson, editors

The fourteen essays in this book cover a wide range of topics within the field of legal history. Most are adaptations of discourses given at meetings of the Iri…
The Viking Age: Ireland and the west

The Viking Age: Ireland and the west

Proceedings of the fifteenth Viking Congress, Cork, 2005

John Sheehan & Donnchadh Ó Corráin, editors

The relationship of Ireland with the Viking World is one of the enduring themes of the study of the Viking Age. The Fifteenth Viking Congress addressed key issu…
Evie Hone and the international avant-garde

Evie Hone and the international avant-garde

Joseph McBrinn

Evie Hone (1894–1955) is one of the few figures in Irish art history to have become a household name, to have found international fame and to have been describe…