The instructions of King Cormac Mac Airt
Author : Cormac Mac Airt
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : Cormac Mac Airt
Publisher :
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 30,33 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 9780197263242
Author : Kuno Meyer
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0486842118
Presented in a question-and-answer dialogue between a king and his son, this ancient Celtic document offers timeless advice on how to live an honest, respectable, and successful life.
Author : Robin Chapman Stacey
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 21,13 MB
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0812294041
What does it mean to talk about law as theater, to speak about the "performance" of transactions as mundane as the sale of a pig or as agonizing as receiving compensation for a dead kinsman? In Dark Speech, Robin Chapman Stacey explores such questions by examining the interaction between performance and law in Ireland between the seventh and ninth centuries. Exposing the inner workings of the Irish legal system, Stacey examines the manner in which publicly enacted words and silences were used to construct legal and political relationships in a society where traditional hierarchies were very much in flux. Law in early Ireland was a verbal art, grounded as much in aesthetics as in the enforcement of communal norms. In contrast with modern law, no sharp distinction existed between art and politics. Visualizing legal events through the lens of procedure, Stacey helps readers recognize the creative, fluid, and inherently risky nature of these same events. While many historians have long realized the mnemonic value of legal drama to the small, principally nonliterate societies of the early Middle Ages, Stacey argues that the appeal to social memory is but one aspect of the role played by performance in early law. In fact, legal performance (like other more easily recognized forms of verbal art) created and transformed as much as it recorded.
Author : David R. Wyatt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 31,11 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9004175334
Modern sensibilities have clouded historical views of slavery, perhaps more so than any other medieval social institution. Anachronistic economic rationales and notions about the progression of European civilisation have immeasurably distorted our view of slavery in the medieval context. As a result historians have focussed their efforts upon explaining the disappearance of this medieval institution rather than seeking to understand it. This book highlights the extreme cultural/social significance of slavery for the societies of medieval Britain and Ireland c. 800-1200. Concentrating upon the lifestyle, attitudes and motivations of the slave-holders and slave-raiders, it explores the violent activities and behavioural codes of Britain and Ireland s warrior-centred societies, illustrating the extreme significance of the institution of slavery for constructions of power, ethnic identity and gender.
Author : Helen Oxenham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1783271167
An examination of how the feminine was viewed in early medieval Ireland, through a careful study of a range of texts.
Author : Rosie Lavan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192555820
Throughout his career in poetry, Seamus Heaney maintained roles in education and was a visible presence in the print and broadcast media. Seamus Heaney and Society presents a dynamic new engagement with one of the most celebrated poets of the modern period, examining the ways in which his work as a poet was shaped by his work as a teacher, lecturer, critic, and public figure. Drawing on a range of archival material, this book revives the varied contexts within which Heaney's work was written, published, and circulated. Mindful of the different spheres which surrounded his pursuit of poetry, it assesses his achievements and status in Ireland, Britain, and the United States through close analysis of his work in newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, and manuscript drafts of key writings now held in the National Library of Ireland. Asserting the significance of the cultural, institutional, and historical worlds in which Heaney wrote and was read, Seamus Heaney and Society offers a timely reconstruction of the social lives of his work, while also exploring the ways in which he questioned and sustained the privacy and singularity of poetry. Ultimately, it considers how the enduring legacy of a great poet emerges from the working life of a contemporary writer.
Author : Margaret Schaus
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 986 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0415969441
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Author : Seán Duffy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2035 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2005-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1135948232
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.
Author : Lisa M. Bitel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801485442
"This book disperses the shadows in an obscure but important landscape. Lisa Bitel addresses both the history of women in early Ireland and the history of myth, legend, and superstition which surrounded them. It is a powerful and exact book and an invaluable addition to our expanding sense of Ireland through the eyes of Irish women."--Eavan Boland, author of In a Time of Violence: Poems"It is refreshing to read in a book by a woman on medieval women that not all clerics hated women and that not all men were oversexed villains consciously bent on exploiting women. [Bitel] challenges not only the medieval Irish male construct of female behavior, but she is also courageous enough to question constructs of medieval women invented by modern Irish medieval historians."--Times Higher Education Supplement