Ireland Encastellated, AD 950–1550
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Ireland Encastellated, AD 950–1550

Insular castle-building in its European contect

  1. 241 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Ireland Encastellated, AD 950–1550

Insular castle-building in its European contect

About this book

Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have attracted very little attention among Irish scholars. This book seeks to remedy this by approaching the corpus of Irish castles as a non-Irish scholar might do. Is there a case for dating the first castles in Ireland to the tenth century in line with the revised chronology of castle-building on the Continent? Are castles in Ireland typical of their periods by contemporary standards in England and France in particular? Are any castles in Ireland genuinely innovative or radical by those contemporary standards? What inferences about Ireland's place in medieval Europe can be drawn from the evidence of its castles and their forms?

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Information

Publisher
Four Courts Press
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781846829901
Edition
0
Topic
History
Subtopic
Irish History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Frontispiece
  3. Title page
  4. Copyright page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of contents
  7. List of illustrations
  8. Abbreviations
  9. A note on placenames
  10. 1. Introduction
  11. 2. Beginnings: voices and words, rings and mounds
  12. 3. Signifying lordship in an age of medieval historicism: the rectangular donjon
  13. 4 After Romanitas: castles of the new medieval modernism
  14. 5 The long tail of European influence: a late medieval epilogue
  15. 6 Conclusion
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index