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About this book
The Plantation of Ulster followed from the perceived recalcitrance and military strength of its Gaelic lords. This book examines the prelude to their final rebellion. After a brief survey of medieval Ulster's heritage from the Iron Age and Early Christian period, it gives a detailed narrative of Ulster history from the eleventh to the early sixteenth century, relating the politics and culture of the province to developments in the rest of Ireland and Europe. It then delves into the 'plain living and high thinking' of its somewhat enigmatic society, operating largely independently of towns or coinage, describing in turn its chieftains, churchmen, scholars, warriors, court ladies and other women, and the amusements and everyday life of the people.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Irish place and personal names
- Abbreviations
- I. Political history
- Introduction
- 1. Early background: Ulster’s central role in
- 2. Eleventh to twelfth centuries: Ulster’s growing isolation
- 3. The Ulster earldom to the late thirteenth century: co-existence and Anglicization
- 4. The fourteenth century: absenteeism and Gaelic recovery
- 5. The fifteenth century: ‘a balance of power’? Gaelicand Anglo-Irish paramount lordships
- 6 The Ulster chiefs and the Geraldine chief governors
- Plates
- II. Culture and society
- 7. Kings and kingship
- 8. The church in medieval Ulster
- 9. Ulster poets
- 10. Other Ulster ‘men of art/learning’ (áes eladan)
- 11. Warriors and warfare
- 12. Court ladies and the place of women in Gaelic society
- 13. The life of the people: popular assemblies, farming, houses, clothing and food
- 14. Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index