The march in the islands of the medieval west / edited by Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh and Emmett O'Byrne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ní Ghrádaigh, Jenifer.

O'Byrne, Emmett

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Series:

Later medieval Europe ; v. 9.

Later medieval Europe

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social change.

History.

Ireland--History--1172-1603.

Ireland.

Social change--Ireland--History.

Ethnology--Ireland.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

x, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Summary:

Theories of liminality have long-informed scholarship on peripheral regions of medieval Europe. Few of these regions were, however, as aggressively portrayed as frontier-or march by contemporary commentators and legislators-or later historians-as was Ireland, both as a whole, and along internal ethnic borders. Drawing together the work of historians, art-historians and archaeologists, this book seeks to explode some of the myths created and manipulatively used by medieval settlers and their apologists. Exploring and interrogating afresh both documentary sources and material culture, the articles gathered here reveal the complexities, frustrations, and distorted visions which warped relations across ethnic and cultural boundaries, while placing Ireland's marches within the context of the creation and destruction of English royal ambitions. Book jacket.

Contents:

Town and Country: Aggressive Symbiosis

Religious and Cultural Boundaries between Vikings and Irish: The Evidence of Conversion / Clare Downham Downham, Clare 15

From Dyflinnarskíri to the Pale: Defining and Defending a Medieval City-State, 1000-1500 / Howard B. Clarke Clarke, Howard B. 35

"The Key of the County": Saggaxt and the Manorial Economy of the Dublin March c. 1200-1540 / Margaret Murphy Murphy, Margaret 53

New Ross: From European Archetype to Town "Situated in the Marches" / L.M. Doran Doran, L.M. 79

Materialising Identity

Style over Substance: Architectural Fashion and Identity Building in Medieval Ireland / Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh Ghrádaigh, Jenifer Ní 97

Creating Borders in Twelfth-century Ireland? Toirrdelbach Ua Conchobair's Diversion of the River Suck / Anne Connon Connon, Anne, Brian Shanahan Shanahan, Brian 139

Callan and Ormond: Architecture of the "Middle Nation"? / Danielle O'Donovan O'Donovan, Danielle 171

The March in Roscommon, 1170-1400: Culture Contact, Continuity and Change / Rory McNeary McNeary, Rory, Brian Shanahan Shanahan, Brian 195

Rival Writs on the Frontier / Perceived Identity and Real Authority: Re-Examining the Sources

The Politics of Grievance and the Making of Medieval Irish Identity Blood, Law and Identity in Leinster and the Crown of England 1200-1340 / Emmett O'Byrne O'Byrne, Emmett 229

Royal Authority and Its Limits: The Dominions of the English Crown in the Early Fourteenth Century / Seymour Phillips Phillips, Seymour 251

The March Laws: For Use or Ornament? / William W. Scott Scott, William W. 261.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

9004225862

OCLC:

778327662

Publisher Number:

99951504999