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Crisis and Survival in Late Medieval Ireland
Brendan Smith
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Description for Crisis and Survival in Late Medieval Ireland
This volume explores the ways in which the English settlers in Louth maintained their English identity in the face of plague and warfare, through the turbulent decades between 1330 and 1450. Num Pages: 280 pages, 6 maps, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 235 x 23. Weight in Grams: 604.
Medieval Ireland is associated in the public imagination with the ruined castles and monasteries that remain prominent in the Irish landscape. Crisis and Survival in Late Medieval Ireland: The English of Louth and their Neighbours, 1330-1450 examines how the society that produced these monuments developed over the course of a turbulent century, focussing particularly on county Louth, situated on the coast north of Dublin and adjacent to the earldom of Ulster. Louth was one of the areas that had been most densely colonised by English settlers in the decades around 1200, and ties with England and loyalty to the English ... Read more
Medieval Ireland is associated in the public imagination with the ruined castles and monasteries that remain prominent in the Irish landscape. Crisis and Survival in Late Medieval Ireland: The English of Louth and their Neighbours, 1330-1450 examines how the society that produced these monuments developed over the course of a turbulent century, focussing particularly on county Louth, situated on the coast north of Dublin and adjacent to the earldom of Ulster. Louth was one of the areas that had been most densely colonised by English settlers in the decades around 1200, and ties with England and loyalty to the English ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199594757
SKU
V9780199594757
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About Brendan Smith
Brendan Smith received his B.A. (Mod.) and Ph.D. from Trinity College Dublin and held a postdoctoral Newman Scholarship at University College Dublin before taking up a lectureship at the University of Bristol in 1993.
Reviews for Crisis and Survival in Late Medieval Ireland
An outstanding piece of local history based upon extensive archival and secondary research, and supported by a full scholarly apparatus of maps, footnotes, bibliography, and index ... Highly recommended.
A.C. Reeves, CHOICE
Smith has thus produced a work with broad appeal and provides food for thought. Highly recommended.
Linda E. Mitchell, The Medieval Review
...a painstakingly ... Read more
A.C. Reeves, CHOICE
Smith has thus produced a work with broad appeal and provides food for thought. Highly recommended.
Linda E. Mitchell, The Medieval Review
...a painstakingly ... Read more