The English Isles : cultural transmission and political conflict in Britain and Ireland, 1100-1500 / Seán Duffy and Susan Foran, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duffy, Seán, 1962-

Foran, Susan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Great Britain--Civilization--1066-1485.

Great Britain.

Civilization.

Great Britain--Politics and government--1066-1485.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

184 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Dublin : Four Courts Press, [2013]

Summary:

Leading medieval scholars discuss the impact of English imperialism and the ways in which English and wider European cultural norms were transmitted outwards towards Ireland, Scotland and Wales from the Norman Conquest onwards. Subjects examined include: some views of the Normans in eleventh- and twelfth-century Ireland; the cult of saints in the early Welsh March; twelfth- and thirteenth-century English views of what their kings could do; the Scottish experience in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; Scotland and the monarchy of Britain in The first English empire; the emergence of national identity among the religious of Britain in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; anglicization in medieval Ireland; foreign apologues in bardic poetry; post-medieval accounts of the lordship of the Isles. Book jacket.

Contents:

Some views of the Normans in eleventh- and twelfth-century Ireland / Patrick Wadden Wadden, Patrick 13

The cult of saints in the early Welsh March: aspects of cultural transmission in a time of political conflict / John Reuben Davies Davies, John Reuben 37

Expectations of empire: some twelfth- and early thirteenth-century English views of what their kings could do / John Gillingham Gillingham, John 56

Domination and conquest?: the Scottish experience in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Matthew Hammond Hammond, Matthew 68

A second England? Scotland and the monarchy of Britain in The first English empire / Dauvit Broun Broun, Dauvit 84

The emergence of national identity among the religious of Britain in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Niav Gallagher Gallagher, Niav 103

Anglicization in medieval Ireland: was there a Gaelic Irish 'middle nation'? / Freya Verstraten Veach Veach, Freya Verstraten 118

Foreign apologues in bardic poetry / Katharine Simms Simms, Katharine 139

The lost world: post-medieval accounts of the lordship of the Isles / Steve Boardman Boardman, Steve 151.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781846822230

1846822238

OCLC:

865531565