Search results for 'ireland'

ISBN: 9781843834342
Published by : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
A plethora of organisations are devoted to the archaeology of the post-1550 period, with a range of different, and often oppositional, approaches. Fearing the fragmentation and balkanisation of the discipline, the editors convened a conference... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781902771731
Published by : Council for British Archaeology
From the 5th to 8th centuries AD there was a flourishing trade network linking the Atlantic coasts of Britain and Ireland to the Mediterranean and north-west Europe, bringing imported pottery and glass as well as new ideas from these areas. New... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780199227747
Published by : Oxford University Press
We are now familiar with the Three Age System, the archaeological partitioning of the past into Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. This division, which amounted at the time to a major scientific revolution, was conceived in Denmark in the 18... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780954088811
Published by : Rathmullan and District Local History Society
This book acts as a comprehensive gazetteer to sites associated with Saint Catherine of Alexandria in Ireland. The saint enjoyed huge popularity in the Middle Ages, unusual for a non-Irish saint, with a particular clustering of important sites ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780812239898
Published by : Pennsylvania University Press
In Dark Speech, Robin Chapman Stacey examines 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 en... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9780500286661
Published by : Thames and Hudson
From Stonehenge to Newgrange, one of the richest arrays of megalithic monuments in Europe is found in Britain and Ireland. Using massive stone blocks, timber posts and mounds of earth or chalk, the people of these islands built great monuments ... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503533179
Published by : Brepols
Series: STUDIA TRADITIONIS THEOLOGIAE
Volume: 5
The scientific knowledge that Irish, English and continental European scholars nurtured and developed during the years c. ad 500 to c. ad 1100 was assimilated, in the first place, from the wider Roman world of Late Antiquity. Time-reckoning, calen... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9782503517650
Published by : Brepols
Series: Publications of the Journal of Celtic Studies
Volume: 5
The culdees ( céli Dé , 'dependants of god', in Old and Middle Irish) were a strict-régime ascetic movement in the Gaelic Churches from the late eighth century. Various classes of (largely vernacular) Irish literature have been attributed to them,... .... Learn More

ISBN: 9781862322516
Published by : Tuckwell Press
The brief mention of the galloglas in Shakespeare's Macbeth typifies the attention that this warrior-class has recieved from historians and playwrights alike. This class of mercenary warrior originated in the Hebrides and western isles of Scot... .... Learn More