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1 online resource (xxvii, 537 pages, 14 pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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"Donnchadh Ó Corráin: writings 1968-2015": pages xvii-xxv |
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Tributes / Adrian Hardiman, David Edwards -- History -- 1. The 'Papal letters to the Irish' cited by Bede: how did he get them? / Michael Herren -- 2. Observations on the context and landscape of the West Ossory crosses / Edel Bhreathnach -- 3. A road well travelled: the terminology of roads in early Ireland / Charles Doherty -- 4. The status of Munster churches / Joseph J. Flahive -- 5. Law and the learned in northern Iberia in the early Middle Ages: some comparisons with Ireland / Wendy Davies -6. Irish saints in a Regensburg litany / Dagmar Ó Riain-Raedel & Pádraig Ó Riain -- 7. The naval power of Norse Dublin / Poul Holm 8. Skuldelev 2 and Viking-age ships and fleets in Ireland / Colmán Etchingham -- 9. Follow the money: the financial resources of Diarmait Mac Murchada / Catherine Swift -- 10. The Welsh conquest of Ireland Seán Duffy -- 11. Did Ireland exist in the twelfth century? / David N. Dumville -- 12. Conquestus and adquisicio: some early Cork charters relating to St Thomas' Abbey, Dublin / Marie Therese Flanagan -- 13. Léitheoir sa teach screaptra? / Diarmuid Ó Murchadha -- 14. The medieval rural dean and rural deanery in Ireland / Paul MacCotter -- 15. Pulp facts and core fictions: translating a cathedral from Aghaboe to Kilkenny / John Bradley -- 16. The 'named' son in late medieval Ireland / Kenneth Nicholls -- 17. Genealogies of Uí Chearbhaill Éile: building on the work of Dinneen and others / Nollaig Ó Muraíle -- 18. Flaithrí, Firbisigh and Maoilechlainn: three Uí Mhaoil Chonaire brothers in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries / Benjamin Hazard -- 19. The history of an Irish book / Dáibhí Ó Cróinín -- Medieval Archaeology -- 20. From Kaupang and Avaldsnese to the Irish Sea / Dagfinn Skre -- 21. An early medieval horse-harness mount, of Irish manufacture, from Yorkshire / James Graham-Campbell -- 22. The Viking events of AD902-19 and the Lough Ennell hoards / John Maas -- 23. 'Meagre lead': the ubiquity of lead in Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin / Patrick F. Wallace -- 24. Vikings on Ireland's Atlantic shore / Eamonn P. Kelly -- 25. The 'Shannon' shrine: a suggested provenance / Raghnall Ó Floinn -- 26. Lia lógmar ('precious stone') in early Irish literature / Niamh Whitfield -- 27. Early medieval agriculture in Ireland: the case for tillage / Michael A. Monk -- 28. A note on the dairthech / Conleth Manning -- 29. Relics and recluses revisited: some thoughts on Cormac's Chapel, Cashel / Tomás Ó Carragáin -- Language and Literature -- 30. Under the abbot's cloak: the symbolism of Columba's clothing in Adomnán's Vita Columbae / David Woods -- 31. Blood, dust and cucumbers: constructing the world of Hisperic Latinity / Anthony Harvey -- 32. The 'Altus Prosator' of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus / David Howlett -- 33. The oldest gloss tradition on Martianus Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii: its form, character and routes of transmission / Sinéad O'Sullivan -- 34. The Irish hybrid lists of the Seven Heavens / Marina Smyth -- 35. Peregrini in the ocean: spirituality and reality / Jonathan M. Wooding -- 36. Immacallam Choluim Chille 7 ind Óclaig: language and authority in the early-medieval Irish tale / Elva Johnston -- 37. In search of Mael Muru Othna / John Carey -- 38. The strange case of Ailill mac Mágrach and Cet mac Mátach / Bart Jaski -- 39. The treatment of place-names in the early fianaigecht corpus / Kevin Murray -- 40. An edition of Tigernmas mac Follaig aird / Peter J. Smith -- 41. The saga of Ireland and the British Isles / Gísli Sigurđsson -- 42. Mo cheithre rain duit, a Dhonnchaidh: advice to a prince by Tadhg (mac Dáire) Mac Bruaideadha / Emma Nic Cárthaigh -- 43. The fortunes of CELT / Beatrix Färber -- 44. Risky, experimental, emergent: the timeliness and genius of CURIA and CELT / Willard McCarty. |
| Summary |
This volume contains contributions from leading scholars working at the forefront of Irish medieval studies. It includes essays on archaeology, ecclesiology, hagiography, medieval history, genealogy, language, literature, and toponymy. Subjects explored include: Latin and learning in early medieval Ireland; the historical context of early medieval literature; Viking armies and the importance of the Hiberno-Scandinavian naval fleets; Ireland and its connections with the Scandinavian world; recent studies of wooden and Romanesque churches in pre-Norman Ireland; the coming of the Anglo-Normans; hitherto unpublished Anglo-Norman charters; the origin and function of medieval rural deaneries; secular and ecclesiastical histories of later medieval Kilkenny and the "named son" in sixteenth-century Ireland |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Ó Corráin, Donnchadh.
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Ireland -- History -- To 1603.
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Archaeology, Medieval -- Ireland.
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Ireland -- Civilization.
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Middle Ages.
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Ireland -- Kings and rulers.
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Vikings -- Ireland.
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Viking antiquities.
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Civilization, Viking -- Ireland.
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Archaeology, Medieval |
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Civilization |
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Civilization, Viking |
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Kings and rulers |
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Middle Ages |
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Viking antiquities |
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Vikings |
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Ireland https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqvXDFC7pX6tHkq6DX68C |
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To 1603 |
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Electronic books.
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History
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| Added Author |
Purcell, Emer, editor.
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MacCotter, Paul, editor.
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Nyhan, Julianne, editor.
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Sheehan, John (John G.), editor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjqrYj7xKC4RpR3qc7d333
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Ó Corráin, Donnchadh, honouree.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Clerics, Kings and Vikings. Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2015] 9781846822797 (DLC) 2015487311 (OCoLC)913556237 |
| ISBN |
9781846828966 (electronic bk.) |
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1846828961 (electronic bk.) |
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9781846822797 |
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1846822793 |
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