Princes, prelates and poets in Medieval Ireland : essays in honour of Katharine Simms / Seán Duffy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Duffy, Seán, 1962-

Contributor:

Simms, Katharine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--History--1172-1603.

Ireland.

History.

Ireland--Civilization--To 1172.

Civilization.

Ireland--History--To 1172.

Ireland--Civilization.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 599 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, 2013.

Summary:

This volume presents one of the largest and most authoritative collections of essays on the theme of medieval Ireland to appear in many years. Published to mark the retirement of Katharine Simms, the doyenne of studies of Gaelic Irish society in the later Middle Ages, the volume's contents congregate around themes that have characterized her landmark contributions to the field - from the changing function of kingship and lordship in Gaelic and Anglo-Norman Ireland, to the organization of the medieval Irish church, to the examination of the formation and achievement of Ireland's learned classes, particularly the poets. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Princes

Medieval Irish genealogies and genetics / Bart Jaski Jaski, Bart 3

Interlaced scholarship: genealogies and genetics in twenty-first-century Ireland / Catherine Swift Swift, Catherine 18

The two Colmáns / Eoin O'Flynn O'Flynn, Eoin 32

Re-examining cáin in Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Dauvit Broun Broun, Dauvit 46

William Gorm de Lacy: 'chiefest champion in these parts of Europe' / Colin Veach Veach, Colin, Freya Verstraten Veach Veach, Freya Verstraten 63

A register of lost deeds relating to the earldom of Ulster, c. 1230-1376 / Robin Frame Frame, Robin 85

Unity in diversity: a comparative analysis of thirteenth-century Kilkenny, Kalkar and Sopron / Anngret Simms Simms, Anngret 107

The Turnberry Band / Seán Duffy Duffy, Seán 124

Two lists of Ó Dubhda chieftains of Uí Fhiachrach / Nollaig Ó Muraíle Muraíle, Nollaig Ó 139

James the Usurper of Desmond and the origins of the Talbot-Ormond feud / Peter Crooks Crooks, Peter 159

The murder of John Dowdall, sheriff of Louth, 1402 / Brendan Smith Smith, Brendan 185

Irish kings and Carinthian dukes: John Lynch revisited / Annette Kehnel Kehnel, Annette 196

Part II Prelates

St Patrick and the kings / Donnchadh Ó Corráin Corráin, Donnchadh Ó 211

The authority of the contemplative in Muirchú's Life of Patrick / Damian Bracken Bracken, Damian 221

'Irish pilgrimage': a romantic misconception / Stephanie Hayes-Healy Hayes-Healy, Stephanie 241

Quo vadis? Mapping the Irish 'monastic town' / Howard B. Clarke Clarke, Howard B. 261

Church reform in Connacht / Helen Perros-Walton Perros-Walton, Helen 279

Ailbe Ua Máel Muaid, Uí Chennselaig and the Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae / Ailbhe MacShamhráin† MacShamhráin†, Ailbhe 309

Heresy in Ireland in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Bernadette Williams Williams, Bernadette 339

The medieval bishops of Elphin and the lost church at Kilteasheen / Thomas Finan Finan, Thomas 352

A medieval bronze pax from Dunbrody Abbey, Co. Wexford, and the fate of ornamenta from suppressed religious houses in Ireland / Raghnall Ó Floinn Floinn, Raghnall Ó 362

Part III Poets

The court poet in early Ireland / Alex Woolf Woolf, Alex 377

The world of medieval Irish learning / Edel Bhreathnach Bhreathnach, Edel 389

Some observations on an unpublished version of the Gospel of Nicodemus / Caoimhín Breatnach Breatnach, Caoimhín 406

A cosmological poem attributed to Moses / John Carey Carey, John 412

Ruaidhrí Ó Caiside's contribution to the Annals of Ulster / Daniel Mc Carthy Carthy, Daniel Mc 444

The landscape and settlements of the Uí Dhálaigh poets of Muinter Bháire / Elizabeth Fitz Patrick Patrick, Elizabeth Fitz 460

The Uí Dhomhnaill and their books in early sixteenth-century Ireland / Bernadette Cunningham Cunningham, Bernadette, Raymond Gillespie Gillespie, Raymond 481

Ave reversing Eva: miscellanea on Marian devotion in Irish bardic poetry / Damian McManus McManus, Damian 503

The portrayal of women in medieval Irish religious poetry / Kevin Murray Murray, Kevin 514

'Once I heard a story ... from scripture does it come': biblical allusions in Irish bardic religious poetry / Salvador Ryan Ryan, Salvador 524

Tadhg Ó Rodaighe and his school: aspects of patronage and poetic practice at the close of the bardic era / Pádraig Ó Macháin Macháin, Pádraig Ó 538

Dán Áráis, 1654 / Dáibhí Ó Cróinín Cróinín, Dáibhí Ó 552.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781846822803

1846822807

OCLC:

849374423