Michaelmas Tribute
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The Sting of Justice: A Mystery of Medieval Ireland
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A Secret and Unlawful Killing: a Mystery of Medieval Ireland
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Lordship and Principality: Colonial Policy in Ireland and Aquitaine in the 1360s
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The western suburb of medieval Dublin: its first century
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Livestock in the Brehon Laws
The content of Brehon Law is as varied as the life of the people, and ranges from law of the person to the regulation of almost trivial details of farming.
Viking raids on the Spanish Peninsula
The Muslims described «heathens» as Majus. The name Majus – Magians was originally used of the Zoroastrians. It was then extended to other unbelievers, together with the associations of the term — e. g. incest and fire-worship.
Columbanus, charisma and the revolt of the monks of Bobbio
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Medieval Dublin IX
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Angulus et Christus in the Five‐fold Division and Unification of the World and Nature in Eriugena and Maximus the Confessor
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English and Irish Medieval Fortified Ecclesiastical Structures and the Bishop’s Manor in Kilteasheen, Ireland
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The North Atlantic Frontier of Medieval Europe
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Manorial organisation in early thirteenth-century Tipperary
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Cultural geographies of the contact zone: Gaels, Galls and overlapping territories in late medieval Ireland
Cultural geographies of the contact zone: Gaels, Galls and overlapping territories in late medieval Ireland By John Morrissey Social & Cultural Geography, Vol. 6:4…
King John’s expedition to Ireland, 1210: the evidence reconsidered
King John’s expedition to Ireland, 1210: the evidence reconsidered By Seán Duffy Irish Historical Studies, Vol.30 (1996) Introduction: The valiant efforts of certain…
Dialect in medieval Irish? Evidence from placenames
The question of dialect in medieval Irish (incorporating Old and Middle Irish; c. 600–1200 AD) has received much passing attention but very little direct study.
Civilizing the Natives: State Formation and the Tudor Monarchy, c.1400-1603
From the 12th to the 17th centuries, however, the English monarchy adapted and exploited the theory in its dealings with the neighbouring Christian peoples of the British Isles, denigrating the Irish, Scots, and Welsh as primitive savages and barbarians
The State of Irish Hagiography
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Twelfth-Century Norman and Irish Literary Evidence for Ship-Building and Sea-Faring Techniques of Norse Origin
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Columba and Spiritual Proximity
Columba and Spiritual Proximity Rolfe, Alexander The Heroic Age Issue 7 Spring 2004 Abstract Argues that nearness to other monks was a dominant…
Milk Symbolism in the ‘Bethu Brigte’
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An Irish Legacy: The Privatization of Penance
The Christian conversion of the Irish, unparalleled in its peacefulness and lack of martyrs, began with the return to Ireland of the once enslaved Patrick.
Adomnán, Iona, and the Life of St. Columba: Their Place Among Continental Saints
Adomnán, Iona, and the Life of St. Columba: Their Place Among Continental Saints Wetherill, Jeffrey The Heroic Age Issue 6 Spring 2003 Abstract…
Oswald and the Irish
Oswald and the Irish Ziegler, Michelle The Heroic Age Issue 4 Winter 2001 Abstract To understand King Oswald of Bernicia (r. 634/5-642), it…
Pope Gregory the Great and the Irish
Pope Gregory the Great and the Irish By John R C Martyn Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association, Vol. 1 (2005) Abstract:…