Childhood in Early Medieval Ireland
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 335
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Early Medieval Ireland and Europe: Chronology, Contacts, Scholarship
Author: Pádraic Moran
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782503553139
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe pivotal role of Ireland in the development of a decidedly Christian culture in early medieval Europe has long been recognized. Still, Irish scholarship on early medieval Ireland has tended not to look beyond the Irish Sea, while continental scholars try to avoid Hibernica by reference to its special Celtic background. Following the lead of the honorand of this volume, Prof. Daibhi O Croinin, this collection of 27 essays aims at contributing to a reversal of this general trend. By way of introduction to the period, the first section deals with chronological problems faced by modern scholars as well as the controversial issues relating to the reckoning of time discussed by contemporary intellectuals. The following three sections then focus on Ireland's interaction with its neighbours, namely a) Ireland in the Insular world, b) continental influences in Ireland, and c) Irish influences on the Continent. The concluding section is devoted to modern scholarship and the perception of the Middle Ages in modern literature.
Early Medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100
Author: Aidan O'Sullivan
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781904890607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book investigates and reconstructs evidence from archaeological excavations conducted between 1930 and 2012 and uses the findings to explore how the medieval Irish lived in the period AD 400-100.
Medieval Ireland
Author: Clare Downham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-12-07
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 110854794X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval Ireland is often described as a backward-looking nation in which change only came about as a result of foreign invasions. By examining the wealth of under-explored evidence available, Downham challenges this popular notion and demonstrates what a culturally rich and diverse place medieval Ireland was. Starting in the fifth century, when St Patrick arrived on the island, and ending in the fifteenth century, with the efforts of the English government to defend the lands which it ruled directly around Dublin by building great ditches, this up-to-date and accessible survey charts the internal changes in the region. Chapters dispute the idea of an archaic society in a wide-range of areas, with a particular focus on land-use, economy, society, religion, politics and culture. This concise and accessible overview offers a fresh perspective on Ireland in the Middle Ages and overthrows many enduring stereotypes.
Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland
Author: John Soderberg
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2022-01-04
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1793630402
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClonmacnoise was among the busiest, most economically complex, and intensely sacred places in early medieval Ireland. In Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise, John Soderberg argues that animals are the key to understanding Clonmacnoise’s development as a thriving settlement and a sacred space. At this sanctuary city on the River Shannon, animal bodies were an essential source of food and raw materials. They were also depicted extensively on religious objects. Drawing from new theories about the intersections between religion and economics, John Soderberg explores how transformations emerging from animal encounters made Clonmacnoise a sacred settlement and created the sacred bodies of early medieval Ireland.
Fosterage in Medieval Ireland
Author: Thomas O'Donnell
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Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789462989412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNovel treatment of medieval Irish sources Uses wide variety of genres of comment on the history of emotion Fills a gap in our understanding of fosterage as central to medieval Irish society.
Early Medieval Ireland
Author: Matthew Stout
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Published: 2023
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781913934859
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLiteracy and Identity in Early Medieval Ireland
Author: Elva Johnston
Publisher: Boydell Press
Published: 2013-08-15
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1843838559
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch of our knowledge of early medieval Ireland comes from a rich literature written in a variety of genres and in two languages, Irish and Latin. Who wrote this literature and what role did they play within society? What did the introduction and expansion of literacy mean in a culture where the vast majority of the population continued to be non-literate? How did literacy operate in and intersect with the oral world? Was literacy a key element in the formation and articulation of communal and elite senses of identity? This book addresses these issues in the first full, inter-disciplinary examination of the Irish literate elite and their social contexts between ca. 400-1000 AD. It considers the role played by Hiberno-Latin authors, the expansion of vernacular literacy and the key place of monasteries within the literate landscape. Also examined are the crucial intersections between literacy and orality, which underpin the importance played by the literate elite in giving voice to aristocratic and communal identities.
Early Medieval Ireland
Author: Charles Doherty
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKMedieval Childhood
Author: D. M. Hadley
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2014-08-31
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1782977015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe nine papers presented here set out to broaden the recent focus of archaeological evidence for medieval children and childhood and to offer new ways of exploring their lives and experiences. The everyday use of space and changes in the layout of buildings are examined, in order to reveal how these impacted upon the daily practices and tasks of household tasks relating to the upbringing of children. Aspects of work and play are explored: how, archaeologically, we can determine whether, and in what context, children played board and dice games? How we may gain insights into the medieval countryside from the perspective of children and thus begin to understand the processes of reproduction of particular aspects of medieval society and the spaces where children’s activities occurred; and the possible role of children in the medieval pottery industry. Funerary aspects are considered: the burial of infants in early English Christian cemeteries the treatment and disposal of infants and children in the cremation ritual of early Anglo-Saxon England; and childhood, children and mobility in early medieval western Britain, especially Wales. The volume concludes with an exploration of what archaeologists can draw from other disciplines – historians, art historians, folklorists and literary scholars – and the approaches that they take to the study of childhood and thus the enhancement of our knowledge of medieval society in general.
