Princes, Prelates and Poets in Medieval Ireland

Essays in Honour of Katharine Simms

Sean Duffy

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2020
• Topic: History
• eBook ISBN:
  9781846829239
• Subtopic: European Medieval History
• Index: History

This volume is one of the largest and most authoritative collections of essays that have been published in many years on the theme of medieval Ireland. Presented to mark the retirement of Katharine Simms, the doyenne of studies of Gaelic Irish society in the later Middle Ages, the book's contents congregate around themes that have characterized Simms' landmark contributions to the field - from the changing function of kingship and lordship in Gaelic and Anglo-Norman Ireland, to the organization of the medieval Irish church, to the examination of the formation and achievement of Ireland's learned classes, particularly the poets.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Dedication
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Editor’s preface
• Abbreviations
• Notes on contributors
• 1. Medieval Irish genealogies and genetics
• 2. Interlaced scholarship: genealogies and genetics in twenty-first-century Ireland
• 3. The two Colmáns
• 4. Re-examining cáin in Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
• 5. William Gorm de Lacy: ‘chiefest champion in these parts of Europe'
• 6. A register of lost deeds relating to the earldom of Ulster, c.1230-1376
• 7. Unity in diversity: a comparative analysis of thirteenth-century Kilkenny, Kalkar and Sopron
• 8. The Turnberry Band
• 9. Two lists of Ó Dubhda chieftains of Uí Fhiachrach
• 10. James the Usurper of Desmond and the origins of the Talbot-Ormond feud
• 11. The murder of John Dowdall, sheriff of Louth, 1402
• 12. Irish kings and Carinthian dukes: John Lynch revisited
• 13. St Patrick and the kings
• 14. The authority of the contemplative in Muirchú’s Life of Patrick
• 15. ‘Irish pilgrimage’: a romantic misconception
• 16. Quo vadis? Mapping the Irish ‘monastic town’
• 17. Church reform in Connacht
• 18. Ailbe Ua Máel Muaid, Uí Chennselaig and the Vitae Sanctorum Hiberniae
• 19. Heresy in Ireland in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries
• 20. The medieval bishops of Elphin and the lost church at Kilteasheen
• 21. A medieval bronze pax from Dunbrody Abbey, Co.Wexford, and the fate of ornamenta from supressed religious houses in Ireland
• 22. The court poet in early Ireland
• 23. The world of medieval Irish learning
• 24. Some observations on an unpublished version of the Gospel of Nicodemus
• 25. A cosmological poem attributed to Moses
• 26. Ruaidhrí Ó Caiside’s contribution to the Annals of Ulster
• 27. The landscape and settlements of the Uí Dhálaigh poets of Muinter Bháire
• 28. The Uí Dhomhnaill and their books in early sixteenth-century Ireland
• 29. AVE reversing EVA: miscellanea on Marian devotion in Irish bardic poetry
• 30. The portrayal of women in medieval Irish religious poetry
• 31. ‘Once I heard a story … from scripture does it come’: biblical allusions in Irish bardic religious poetry
• 32. Tadhg Ó Rodaighe and his school: aspects of patronage and poetic practice at the close of the bardic era
• 33. Dán Áráis, 1654
• A bibliography of the published writings of Katharine Simms (to 2012)
• Index
• Plates