The Associative Branches of the Irish Barnacle: Gerald of Wales and the Natural World
There are many birds here that are called barnacles, which nature, acting against her own laws, produces in a wonderful way.
Irish Hagiographical Lives in the Twelfth Century: Church Reform before the Anglo-Norman Invasion
In order to further disentangle the reality and fiction of this view of culture versus barbarity and of reform versus wickedness, I shall analyse twelfth-century Irish vitae.
Rhetoric and Ethnicity in Gerald of Wales
This paper was given at the 2013 Celtic Studies Association of North America Annual Meeting at the University of Toronto.
Expectations of empire: some twelfth- and early thirteenth-century English views of what their kings could do
In this paper I shall try to see what the ways in which a number of twelfth- and early thirteenth-century English authors interpreted the past might reveal about their assumptions about the reach of the king’s government.
Toward a New History of Medieval Theatre: Assessing the Written and Unwritten Evidence for Indigenous Performance Practices
Toward a New History of Medieval Theatre: Assessing the Written and Unwritten Evidence for Indigenous Performance Practices Symes, Carol (Department of History, University of…
Gerald of Wales and the Angevin Kings
Gerald of Wales and the Angevin Kings Steele, Helen Published Online (2006) Abstract On the 10th of November 1203, Silvester Giraldus Cambrensis attended…
Looking East and West : the reception and dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England [1185-c.1500]
Looking East and West : the reception and dissemination of the Topographia Hibernica and the Itinerarium ad partes Orientales in England [1185-c.1500] David, Sumithra…
England against the Celtic fringe : a study in cultural stereotypes
To the Norman and Angevin, the medieval Celt was the true barbarian. This article examines English perceptions of Celts during the High Middle Ages