The linguistic and historical value of the Irish law tracts
Author: D.A. Binchy
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published: 1945
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 5874885463
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Author: D.A. Binchy
Publisher: Рипол Классик
Published: 1945
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 5874885463
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel A. Binchy
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Published: 1943
Total Pages: 46
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Seán Ó Nualláin
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013-11-18
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1443854271
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first annual conference of ICIS, the international congress of Irish studies, was held at, and academically sponsored by, the University of California at Berkeley in July 2012. The four main themes of the conference were: Performing Arts; Literature, Language, and Identity; Politics, Technology, and the Economy; and Issues of Intellectual Freedom. These proceedings of this highly successful event, in conjunction with the editor’s Ireland: a colony once again (CSP, 2012), attempt to explore the reinstatement of Irish identity in our present, vastly-changed political and cultural landscape.
Author: Stuart Piggott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-04-28
Total Pages: 1082
ISBN-13: 1107401143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume surveys the evolution of the man-made landscape in Britain over the period of some three millennia before the Roman conquest.
Author: Charlene Eska
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-11-23
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 9047441400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCáin Lánamna "The Law of Couples", an Old Irish text dated to c. 700, is arguably the most important source of information concerning women and the household economy in early Ireland. The text describes all the recognized marriages and unions, both legal and illegal, and provides information regarding the allocation of property in the event of a divorce. The text was heavily glossed over a period of several centuries and provides insights into changes in the Irish legal system. This book provides, for the first time, an English translation of the entire text and all the accompanying glosses and commentary. It also includes an introduction to early Irish society, linguistic and legal notes, and a glossary to the tract.
Author: T. M. Charles-Edwards
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-11-30
Total Pages: 729
ISBN-13: 0521363950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fully documented history of Ireland and the Irish from the fifth to the ninth centuries.
Author: W. L. Warren
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1977-11-28
Total Pages: 752
ISBN-13: 9780520034945
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This must surely rank as one of the classic historical biographies...it will hold its place not only as a work of reference but as a piece of historical literature."—Observer "W. L. Warren has written a life of the great Angevin whose scholarship and fair-mindedness should make it the classic account for the next fifty years. . . . Dr. Warren's monumental celebration is made to last."—The Times "The result is masterly. . . . it is alive all through, a fine work by a professional historian who can write and has an eye for significant detail, without burying us under it."—Sunday Telegraph
Author: Wilfred Lewis Warren
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 750
ISBN-13: 9780520022829
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHenry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgements ever since. Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists, playwrights and filmmakers, but with no unanimity of interpretation. That he was a great king there can be no doubt. Yet his motives and intentions are not easy to divine, and it is Professor Warren's contention that concentration on the great crises of the reign can lead to distortion. This book is therefore a comprehensive reappraisal of the reign based, with rare understanding, on contemporary sources; it provides a coherent and persuasive revaluation of the man and the king, and is, in itself, an eloquent and impressive achievement.
Author: John W. M. Bannerman
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
Published: 2016-04-14
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1907909370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Bannerman (1932-2008) saw the history of Scotland from a Gaelic perspective, and his outstanding scholarship made that perspective impossible to ignore. As a historian, his natural home was the era between the Romans and the twelfth century when the Scottish kingdom first began to take shape, but he also wrote extensively on the MacDonald Lordship of the Isles in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, while his work on the Beatons, the notable Gaelic medical kindred, reached into the early eighteenth century. Across this long millennium, Bannerman ranged and wrote with authority and insight on what he termed the 'kin-based society', with special emphasis upon its church and culture, and its relationship with Ireland. This collection opens with Bannerman's ground-breaking and hugely influential edition and discussion of Senchus fer nAlban ('The History of the Men of Scotland'), which featured in his Studies in the History of Dalriada (1974), now long out of print. To this have been added all of his published essays, plus an essay-length study of the Lordship of the Isles which first featured as an appendix in Late Medieval Monumental Sculpture in the West Highlands (1977). The book will be of interest to anyone who wants to know more about the Gaelic dimension to Scotland's past and present.
Author: Robin Chapman Stacey
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2018-09-06
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 0812295420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales, Robin Chapman Stacey explores the idea of law as a form of political fiction: a body of literature that blurs the lines generally drawn between the legal and literary genres. She argues that for jurists of thirteenth-century Wales, legal writing was an intensely imaginative genre, one acutely responsive to nationalist concerns and capable of reproducing them in sophisticated symbolic form. She identifies narrative devices and tropes running throughout successive revisions of legal texts that frame the body as an analogy for unity and for the court, that equate maleness with authority and just rule and femaleness with its opposite, and that employ descriptions of internal and external landscapes as metaphors for safety and peril, respectively. Historians disagree about the context in which the lawbooks of medieval Wales should be read and interpreted. Some accept the claim that they originated in a council called by the tenth-century king Hywel Dda, while others see them less as a repository of ancient custom than as the Welsh response to the general resurgence in law taking place in western Europe. Stacey builds on the latter approach to argue that whatever their origins, the lawbooks functioned in the thirteenth century as a critical venue for political commentary and debate on a wide range of subjects, including the threat posed to native independence and identity by the encroaching English; concerns about violence and disunity among the native Welsh; abusive behavior on the part of native officials; unwelcome changes in native practice concerning marriage, divorce, and inheritance; and fears about the increasing political and economic role of women.