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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Medieval Ireland"”.
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Animal exploitation in medieval Ireland
… seeks to investigate animal exploitation in medieval Ireland by integrating the two proxies best suited to deal with it, the zooarchaeological record and the historical record. Three problems present themselves in such an endeavour. The first is a more general problem within the realm of …
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Disease and Illness in Medieval Ireland
… the medical system, and illness/disease for the medieval period (5th-12th centuries) in Ireland. On examining three archival source-types (hagiographical material, annals, medico-legal law texts), it became clear that there were different perspectives on health and healing for this period. Two …
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An archaeology of female monasticism in medieval Ireland
… evidence for female monasticism in medieval Ireland, with a particular emphasis on the later medieval period. Female monasticism has been considered from an archaeological perspective in several countries, most notably Britain, but has yet to be considered in any detail in Ireland. …
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Philosophy in Early Medieval Ireland: Nature, Hierachy and Inspiration
Where we find medieval distinctions between philosophy and theology, the term ‘philosophy’ describes the mode and degree the soul’s participation in the gracious revelation of God’s wisdom apart from – though ideally in cooperation with – the further means of grace which are manifest through the …
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When We Were Monsters: Ethnogenesis in Medieval Ireland 800-1366
… the process of identity construction occurred in medieval Ireland as a reaction to laws passed by the first centralized government on the island. This thesis tracks ethnogenesis through documents relating to change in language, custom, and law. This argument provides insight into how a new …
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Ironworking in late medieval Ireland, c. AD. 1200 to 1600
The landscape of late medieval Ireland, like most places in Europe, was characterized by intensified agricultural exploitation, the growth and founding of towns and cities and the construction of large stone edifices, such as castles and monasteries. None of these could have taken place without …
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The Social and Ideological Role of Crannogs in Early Medieval Ireland
In early medieval Ireland, people built and lived on small islets o f stone, earth and wood situated in the watery shallows o f lakes. These artificial islands, known to modem scholars as crannogs, are amongst the most remarkable and evocative features of the Irish archaeological landscape, …
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Monasticism and its limits: rematerialising monastic space in early medieval Ireland
… of monastic lifestyles that pertained in early medieval Ireland. The study then examines the Christian landscapes of two case-studies in mid-Western Ireland in order to illustrate how monasticism functioned on the ground in these areas. As this research shows, the material complexities of early …
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Theme and variations: Christianity and regional landscapes in early medieval Ireland
… the impact of Christianity on the landscape in Ireland from the conversion period to the coming of the Anglo-Normans. The premise is that ecclesiastical and secular settlement formed a cohesive whole which characterised the societal organisation of early medieval Ireland. The matter of the …
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"Feathered Glory": A Poet in Flight from Medieval Ireland to the Twentieth Century
… Glory</em> explores the relevance of the medieval Irish character Suibhne, usually anglicized as Sweeney, to twentieth-century writers. Suibhne is the protagonist of the twelfth-century text <em>Buile Suibhne</em>, in which he is depicted as a minor king who goes mad on the field of …
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Constructing Spiritual Landscapes: Aspects of Centrality and Peripherality in Anglo- Saxon England and Early Medieval Ireland
… of their ecclesiastic identity was founded on Ireland itself. Rather than acknowledge isolation and peripherality as the Anglo-Saxons did, the Irish constructed their homeland to be holy and central in much the same way that the early Christians constructed the holiness of Jerusalem and its …
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'Of the holy londe of Irlande': A reconsideration of some Middle English Texts in late medieval Ireland
… of Anglo-Irish reading communities in late medieval Ireland, and specifically, the audiences that existed for texts in English. The research undertaken focuses on issues surrounding the production and reception (contemporary and subsequent) of a corpus of late medieval manuscripts of assumed …
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Craft activity and settlement in early medieval Ireland in the fifth to twelfth centuries AD: chronology and society
… economic structures—over the course of the early medieval period (AD 400–1200) in Ireland are summarised and considered, focusing particularly on the period after c. AD 700 up to c. AD 1000. Through a data-driven analysis of radiocarbon dates, this thesis considers whether the process of …
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Animals and the economy of medieval Ireland: a zooarchaeological analysis of the faunal remains from Caherconnell Cashel, Co. Clare
… of early (400–1100 AD) and late (1100–1550 AD) medieval Ireland, and were particularly vital to the food economy, farming practices, and social status of a settlement and its occupants. With the Anglo-Normans dominating the archaeology of the later period, there is a significant gap of knowledge …
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Pioneering new approaches to woodland ecology and human activity in medieval Ireland (c.500-1550AD): an investigation using archaeological charcoal
… influenced wood selection strategies during the medieval period in Ireland using the archaeological charcoal record. It examined the functional and cultural factors that influenced wood selection and wood use during a period of dynamic social, economic and political change and provided valuable …
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Health in the medieval world: Regionality and the bioarchaeology of Ireland and Britain
… study assesses regional health patterns in early medieval Ireland and Britain by analysing and interpreting palaeopathological indicators of stress. This was achieved by incorporating the results of demographic and palaeopathological study into the specific historical contexts. Although relatively …
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Interpretatio Hiberniana: Classical Influences in Medieval Irish Depictions of Otherworldly Characters
Interpretatio Hiberniana: Classical Influences in Medieval Irish Depictions of Otherworldly Characters Brigid Kathleen Ehrmantraut This thesis examines the reception of Classical mythology in Ireland, primarily between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, and analyzes the influence of Classical …
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Instruction of throwing events in track and field : an historical analysis
… shot put), originating in ancient Greece and pre-Medieval Ireland and Scotland, require complex physical interaction. An historical analysis of the features of traditional media which have been used as coaching tools in these events - books, video, audio, diagrams, photographs and hypertext - …
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The Archaeology and History of Medieval Trim, County Meath
… a large corpus of primary documents relating to medieval Irish towns has been accompanied by a revolution in approaches to source material and research methodology. More recently, archaeology has come to play a central role as a means of understanding Ireland’s urban past. Large-scale excavations …
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Ars rhetorica et sacrae litterae: St. Patrick and the Art of Rhetoric in Early Medieval Briton and Ireland
… as the nature of rhetorical education in early medieval Britain and Ireland The literary significance of Patrick's extant writings, Epistola ad milites Corotici and Confessio, beyond their apparent historical value, has regularly been disputed by prominent scholars. Questions of the level of …
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