Medievalists.net » Dublin 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 Archaeologists uncover human remains in Dublin http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/14/archaeologists-uncover-human-remains-dublin/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/14/archaeologists-uncover-human-remains-dublin/#comments Fri, 15 Aug 2014 03:09:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=51871 The remains of at least five people have been discovered by archaeologists working at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. Since they were found at a depth of 1.5 metres below the surface, it suggests the remains are most likely medieval or earlier in date.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/08/14/archaeologists-uncover-human-remains-dublin/feed/ 0 Kingdom, emporium and town: the impact of Viking Dublin http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/24/kingdom-emporium-town-impact-viking-dublin/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/24/kingdom-emporium-town-impact-viking-dublin/#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2014 13:21:01 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50661 In recent years the precise location and nature of Viking Dublin have been much debated. It is now generally accepted that there was a longphort phase from 841 to 902: a period of enforced exile from 902 to 917, and thereafter a dún phase.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/24/kingdom-emporium-town-impact-viking-dublin/feed/ 0 The contribution of insect remains to an understanding of the environment of Viking-age and medieval Dublin http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/06/contribution-insect-remains-understanding-environment-viking-age-medieval-dublin/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/06/contribution-insect-remains-understanding-environment-viking-age-medieval-dublin/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:44:18 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50179 This paper examines the important contribution that sub-fossil insect remains can make to an understanding of the environment of Viking-age and medieval Dublin.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/06/contribution-insect-remains-understanding-environment-viking-age-medieval-dublin/feed/ 0 Thomas Fitzanthony’s Borough: Medieval Thomastown in Irish History, 1171-1555 http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/22/thomas-fitzanthonys-borough-medieval-thomastown-in-irish-history-1171-1555/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/22/thomas-fitzanthonys-borough-medieval-thomastown-in-irish-history-1171-1555/#comments Sat, 23 Nov 2013 00:13:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45131 Thomas Fitzanthony’s Borough: Medieval Thomastown in Irish History, 1171-1555 Marilyn Silverman In the Shadow of the Steeple VI, Duchas-Tullaherin Parish Heritage Society (1998) Abstract In the year 1295, King Edward I “ordered that all goods belonging to subjects of the King of France should be seized and sold”. A man named Richard Ie Marshall then […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/22/thomas-fitzanthonys-borough-medieval-thomastown-in-irish-history-1171-1555/feed/ 0 Religious and Cultural Boundaries between Vikings and Irish: The Evidence of Conversion http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/religious-and-cultural-boundaries-between-vikings-and-irish-the-evidence-of-conversion/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/religious-and-cultural-boundaries-between-vikings-and-irish-the-evidence-of-conversion/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2013 23:33:40 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42248 If we compare sources from England, the horror with which viking attacks were viewed is immediately apparent. The heathenism of vikings is stressed as one of their dire attributes in Alcuin’s famous response to news of the attack on Lindisfarne in 793. Literary accounts of vikings also became more lengthy and imaginative over time.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/religious-and-cultural-boundaries-between-vikings-and-irish-the-evidence-of-conversion/feed/ 0 Intermarriage in fifteenth-century Ireland: the English and Irish in the ‘four obedient shires’ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/31/intermarriage-in-fifteenth-century-ireland-the-english-and-irish-in-the-four-obedient-shires/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/31/intermarriage-in-fifteenth-century-ireland-the-english-and-irish-in-the-four-obedient-shires/#comments Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:28:49 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=40197 The so-called ‘four obedient shires’ of Meath, Kildare, Louth and Dublin are a fruitful area for a study of marriage between the English of Ireland and the Irish, as these counties comprised the region of the colony most firmly under English control in the fifteenth century. Much of the anti-Irish rhetoric that survives in sources from the period...

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