Author: Kathleen Winifred Hughes
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Author: Kathleen Hughes
Publisher: Variorum Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Daibhi O Croinin
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317192702
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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This impressive survey covers the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the Norman settlement. Within a broad political framework it explores the nature of Irish society, the spiritual and secular roles of the Church and the extraordinary flowering of Irish culture in the period. Other major themes are Ireland's relations with Britain and continental Europe, the beginnings of Irish feudalism, and the impact of the Viking and Norman invaders. The expanded second edition has been fully updated to take into account the most recent research in the history of Ireland in the early middle ages, including Ireland’s relations with the Later Roman Empire, advances and discoveries in archaeology, and Church Reform in the 11th and 12th centuries. A new opening chapter on early Irish primary sources introduces students to the key written sources that inform our picture of early medieval Ireland, including annals, genealogies and laws. The social, political, religious, legal and institutional background provides the context against which Dáibhí Ó Cróinín describes Ireland’s transformation from a tribal society to a feudal state. It is essential reading for student and specialist alike.

Author: Tomás Ó Carragáin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781782054306
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520

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Between the fifth century and the ninth, several thousand churches were founded in Ireland, a higher density than in most other regions of Europe. This period saw fundamental changes in settlement patterns, agriculture, social organisation and beliefs, and churches are an important part of that story. The premise of this book is that landscape archaeology is one of the most fruitful ways to study them. By considering their placement in relation to pagan ritual sites, royal sites, burial grounds and settlements, we can begin to discern the shifting strategies of kings, ecclesiastics and ordinary people. The result is a new perspective on the process of conversion and consolidation complementary to those provided by historians.

Author: Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781138885424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This impressive survey covers the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the Norman settlement. It explores the nature of Irish society, the spiritual and secular roles of the Church and the extraordinary flowering of Irish culture. The expanded second edition includes added material on Ireland's relations with the Later Roman Empire, advances and discoveries in archaeology, and Church Reform in the 11th and 12th centuries. A new opening chapter on early Irish primary sources introduces students to the key written sources that inform our picture of early medieval Ireland, including annals, genealogies and laws. It is essential reading for student and specialist alike.

Author: John P. McCarthy
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 0816074739
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 593

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Ireland, from the European Nations series, is a useful reference guide for any student interested in the modern history of Ireland.

Author: Maribel Dietz
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 9780271047782
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Dietz finds that this period of Christianity witnessed an explosion of travel, as men and women took to the roads, seeking spiritual meaning in a life of itinerancy. This book is essential reading for those who study the history of monasticism, for it was a monastic context that religious travel first claimed an essential place within Christianity.

Author: Paul Fouracre
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521362917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1022

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Author: Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191543454
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :

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A New History of Ireland is the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day. Volume I begins by looking at geography and the physical environment. Chapters follow that examine pre-3000, neolithic, bronze-age and iron-age Ireland and Ireland up to 800. Society, laws, church and politics are all analysed separately as are architecture, literature, manuscripts, language, coins and music. The volume is brought up to 1166 with chapters, amongst others, on the Vikings, Ireland and its neighbours, and opposition to the High-Kings. A final chapter moves further on in time, examining Latin learning and literature in Ireland to 1500.

Author: Daibhi O Croinin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198217374
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1398

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'A New History of Ireland' provides a comprehensive synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, onwards.