The book is a comparative study of Gaelic lordships on the margins of the emerging nation states of the later middle ages. Kingston examines the fluctuating for…
This collection of essays by a renowned scholar in this field focuses on one of the most important thinkers of the medieval, or indeed any, age. With essays on…
This book is reflects the vitality of the ongoing debate in Irish universities on gender roles, where masculine and feminine are no longer seen as binary opposi…
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…
Through detailed case studies this volume re-evaluates the notion that the Scottish kingdom experienced a rapid and revolutionary change in government and arist…
This collection of essays explores the life and legacy of the Irish scholar and jurist, Whitley Stokes (1830–1909). During his twenty-year career in India, Stok…
When the Irish Public Record Office was destroyed by fire in 1922 one of the most important collections to be lost was the Christ Church deeds, which had been d…
As we approach the 400th anniversary of the official Plantation of Ulster, this volume seeks to make an important historiographical contribution to that event. …
The story of Ireland’s conversion to Christianity will never be known in detail. Too few records survive. Yet there are some, including two writings of St Patri…
An incandescent vision, a wildness of imagination, sensibility to sound and colour and form … human passion, love, sorrow and anger’. Thus Myles Dillon describe…
