Medievalists.net » Anglo-Irish http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 What’s the Matter?: Medieval Literary Theory and the Irish Campaigns in The Bruce http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/02/whats-matter-medieval-literary-theory-irish-campaigns-bruce/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/02/whats-matter-medieval-literary-theory-irish-campaigns-bruce/#comments Wed, 02 Jul 2014 12:05:13 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50848 John Barbour’s Bruce, composed in the mid 1370s, is the first long poem in the Scots vernacular. It contains twenty books, the first thirteen of which trace the Wars of Liberty from their origins until triumph at the Battle of Bannockburn. At this point the Irish ‘matter’ enters the poem.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/07/02/whats-matter-medieval-literary-theory-irish-campaigns-bruce/feed/ 0 The Earls of Desmond in the Fourteenth Century http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/the-earls-of-desmond-in-the-fourteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/the-earls-of-desmond-in-the-fourteenth-century/#comments Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:57:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45167 This thesis explores these ambitions and relationships. It looks at the complex, sometimes violent, relationships between the earls of Desmond and local gentry, neighbouring magnates, absentee landholders, the royal government and the English crown as well as with the Irish.

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