"The conference was ... the 16th in a sequence of annual symposia organized by the Friends of Medieval Dublin, the proceedings of which appear annually ... published by Four Courts Press"--Page 14.
Walking through Dublin Castle or along the surviving medieval city walls, you can see only glimpses of what it would have been like to live in the city centuries ago. Tales of Medieval Dublin provides a chance for modern audiences to meet the Irish, Norse, and English men and women who lived in this colorful medieval city, and to hear their fascinating stories. While providing the most up-to-date research, the 14 tales in this book are written to appeal to anyone interested in the city's past. They span almost 1,000 years of Dublin 's history and trace the lives of warriors, churchmen, queens, bards, and barons, as well as those individuals who are so often ignored in the historical record, like housewives, tax collectors, masons, lawyers, notaries, peasants, and slaves. This volume serves both as a history of the medieval city, and as a window into the day-to-day lives of the men and women who lived there.
Among the subjects covered in this celebration of medieval Dublin are: cross-cultural processes between Scandinavian settlers and the native Irish; spiritual and secular aspects of the city; and representations of Viking and medieval Dublin in texts and maps.
This is the first major publication of the Discovery Programme's Medieval Rural Settlement Project. The book is a study of the medieval region that contained and was defined by the presence of Ireland's largest nucleated settlement. Combining documentary and archaeological data, this volume explores the primary settlement features of the hinterland area, including defensive monuments, manors, the church, and the Pale. It examines the ways in which resources of the region were managed and exploited to produce food, fuel, and raw materials for both town and country, and it investigates the processing of these raw materials for human consumption. Then as now, the city profoundly affected its surrounding area through its demands for resources and through the ownership of land by Dubliners (ecclesiastics and lay) and the control of trade by city merchants. In addition to presenting a timely examination of urban-rural interaction, the book contributes to wider debates on topics such as settlement landscapes, the role of lordship, and the productivity of agriculture.
Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia brings together in one authoritative resource the multiple facets of life in Ireland before and after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169, from the sixth to sixteenth century. Multidisciplinary in coverage, this A–Z reference work provides information on historical events, economics, politics, the arts, religion, intellectual history, and many other aspects of the period. With over 345 essays ranging from 250 to 2,500 words, Medieval Ireland paints a lively and colorful portrait of the time. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages website.
Contains a wealth of new scholarly research on Dublin's medieval past, including paired papers by Joseph Harbison & René Gapert re-examining skulls found on the site of the Hospital of St John the Baptist, Thomas Street. Paul Duffy presents the findings of his excavation at the site of the medieval church of St Peter of the Hill at Aungier St/Stephen's St. Aisling Collins explains the significant findings from the dig of the church and graveyard at St James's. Franc Myles reports the findings of his excavation at Keysar's Lane beside St Audeon's church in High Street; Jon Stirland reports on the discovery of two parallel ditches located to the rear of nos 19-22 Aungier St; and Edmond O'Donovan reports on his excavation in the internal courtyard at the site of the Bank of Ireland (Parliament House, College Green). Alan Hayden reports on his excavation of property plots fronting onto Kevin Street and New Street and what they tell us about the supposed 14th-century decline of Dublin. Historical papers include Brian Coleman's study of taxation and resistance in 15th-century Dublin, Stephen Hewer examines the oldest surviving original court roll of the Dublin bench, dating from 1290.
This book explores the living conditions and environments as experienced by early medieval people in Ireland, touching upon a wide range of environmental, architectural, artefactual and historical datasets from significant archaeological excavations of settlement sites across Ireland and Northern Europe.
A selection of 14 key articles from scholarly journals dealing with the medieval history of the city of Dublin. This is a companion volume to Medieval Dublin : the making of a metropolis.
This proceedings volume includes Linzi Simpson's report on recently uncovered evidence of the earliest Viking settlements at Dublin, Andy Halpin's analysis of the later developmental phases of the Hiberno-Norse town, and Ailbhe MacShamhráin's report on the Dublin material in the new Monasticon Hibernicum Project.