Princes, prelates and poets in medieval Ireland : essays in honour of Katharine Simms /

Published to mark the retirement of Katharine Simms, this volume presents a comprehensive collection of essays on the theme of medieval Ireland.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Duffy, Seán, 1962-, Simms, Katharine
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dublin ; Portland, Oregon : Four Courts Press, [2013]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Medieval Irish genealogies and genetics / Bart Jaski
  • Interlaced scholarship : genealogies and genetics in twenty-first-century Ireland / Catherine Swift
  • The two Colmáns / Eoin O'Flynn
  • Re-examining cáin in Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Dauvit Broun
  • William Gorm de Lacy : 'chiefest champion in these parts of Europe' / Colin Veach and Freya Verstraten Veach
  • A register of lost deeds relating to the earldom of Ulster, c.1230-1376 / Robin Frame
  • Unity in diversity : a comparative analysis of thirteenth-century Kilkenny, Kalkar and Sopron / Anngret Simms
  • The Turnberry Band / Seán Duffy
  • Two lists of Ó Dubhda chieftains of Uí Fhiachrach / Nollaig Ó Muraile
  • James the Usurper of Desmond and the origins of the Talbot-Ormond feud / Peter Crooks
  • The murder of John Dowdall, sheriff of Louth, 1402 / Brendan Smith
  • Irish kings and Carinthian dukes : John Lynch revisited / Annette Kehnel
  • St. Patrick and the kings / Donnchadh Ó Corráin
  • The authority of the contemplative in Muirchú's Life of Patrick / Damian Bracken
  • 'Irish pilgrimage' : a romantic misconception / Stephanie Hayes-Healy
  • Quo vadis? : Mapping the Irish 'monastic town' / Howard B. Clarke
  • Church reform in Connacht / Helen Perros-Walton
  • AIlbe Ua Máel Muaid, Uí Chennselaig and the Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae / Ailbhe MacShamhráin
  • Heresy in Ireland in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries / Bernadette Williams
  • The medieval bishops of Elphin and the lost church at Kilteasheen / Thomas Finan
  • A medieval bronze pax from Dunbrody Abbey, Co. Wexford, and the fate of ornamenta from suppressed religious houses in Ireland / Raghnall Ó Floinn
  • The court poet in early Ireland / Alex Woolf
  • The world of medieval Irish learning / Edel Bhreathnach
  • Some observations on an unpublished version of the Gospel of Nicodemus / Caoimhín Breatnach
  • A cosmological poem attributed to Moses / John Carey
  • Ruaidhrí Ó Caiside's contribution to the Annals of Ulster / Daniel McCarthy
  • The landscape and settlements of the Uí Dhálaigh poets of Muinter Bháire / Elizabeth FitzPatrick
  • The Uí Dhomhnaill and their books in early sixteenth-century Ireland / Bernadette Cunningham and Raymond Gillespie
  • Ave reversing Eva : miscellanea on Marian devotion in Irish bardic poetry / Damian McManus
  • The portrayal of women in medieval Irish religious poetry / Kevin Murray
  • 'Once I heard a story
  • from scripture does it come' : biblical allusions in Irish bardic religious poetry / Salvador Ryan
  • Tadhg Ó Rodaighe and his school : aspects of patronage and poetic practice at the close of the bardic era / Pádraig Ó Macháin
  • Dán Árais, 1644 / Dáibhí Ó Cróinin.