Penn State University, 2008. — 267 p. This dissertation studies the career of Brian ”Bórumha” mac Cennétig from its beginning with his election to the kingship of his ancestral kingdom of Dál Cais in 976 until his death as the high-king of Ireland at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. He was arguably the most successful Irish king of the Middle Ages, and his sobriquet “bórumha”...
Four Courts Press, 2005. — 560 p. This volume is the culmination of an inter-disciplinary project undertaken as part of The Discovery Programme involving archaeologists, historians, linguists and place name experts. It includes prosopographies of the kings and queens of Tara from mythology to the eighth century; a re-assessment of the nature of the kingship of Tara; legal...
Four Courts Press, 2014. — 316 p. This is a study of Ireland's people, landscape, and place in the world from late antiquity to the reign of Brian Borama. The book narrates the story of Ireland's emergence into history, using anthropological, archaeological, historical, and literary evidence. The subjects covered include the king, the kingdom and the royal household, religion...
Dublin: Baile Átha Cliath, 1978. xxviii p. Introduction in English with text in Irish and Latin. Corpus iuris hibernici (CIH) - фундаментальное собрание источников древне- и среднеирландского права (V - XIV вв.) из всех доступных на момент 1978 г. рукописных собраний, библиотек и архивов. Правовая традиция Ирландии, как и Уэльса, необычайно богата и разнообразна, корнями...
Dublin: Baile Átha Cliath, 1978. xxviii p. Introduction in English with text in Irish and Latin. Corpus iuris hibernici (CIH) - фундаментальное собрание источников древне- и среднеирландского права (V - XIV вв.) из всех доступных на момент 1978 г. рукописных собраний, библиотек и архивов. Правовая традиция Ирландии, как и Уэльса, необычайно богата и разнообразна, корнями...
Cornell University Press, 1990. — 288 p. Isle of the Saints recreates the harsh yet richly spiritual world of medieval Irish monks on the Christian frontier of barbarian Europe. Lisa Bitel draws on accounts of saints' lives written between 800 and 1200 to explain, from the monks' own perspective, the social networks that bound them to one another and to their secular neighbors.
Cornell University Press, 1990. — 288 p. Isle of the Saints recreates the harsh yet richly spiritual world of medieval Irish monks on the Christian frontier of barbarian Europe. Lisa Bitel draws on accounts of saints' lives written between 800 and 1200 to explain, from the monks' own perspective, the social networks that bound them to one another and to their secular neighbors.
Ballinakella Press, 1992. — 78 p. Ireland, on the westernmost edge of Europe is an island and as such can only be reached by crossing the surrounding waters. Boats, rafts and ships have played a key role in her history ever since the ice started retreating from its shores. As wood is easily destroyed by bacteria and fungi, wind and weather, and even man himself, the chances of...
Oświęcim: Napoleon V, 2017. — 241 s. — ISBN 9788365855275. Podbój Irlandii przez Normanów w XII w. nie był tak spektakularny, jak to miało miejsce w wypadku normańskiego opanowania Italii czy Antiochii. Nowi przybysze dokonali jednak w krótkim czasie tego, co nie udało się w pełni wcześniej przez kilka wieków ich poprzednikom - wikingom, czy też iryjskim królom. Trwale zmienili...
London: Griffith, Farran & Co., 1894. — 328 c.
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Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 316 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series 109). Examines the complex interactions between English and Irish neighbours in the 'four obedient shires' and how this shaped English identity.;Introduction: Cultural Exchange and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland -- Defining the Region: The Four Obedient Shires --...
Cardiff: University of Wales P., 1977. — 244 p. Работа предлагает рассмотреть кельтскую христианизацию во всем флаконе: первых христианских поселенцев и святых, миссионерскую деятельность, плавания, основание монастырей и "святых мест" - с точки зрения исторической географии, ее метода и данных. Автор снабжает свою монографию богатыми картографическими и схематическими...
Boydell Press, 2016. — 326 p. This book charts the striking rise, fall and restoration of the first earl of Ulster, Hugh II de Lacy, described by one contemporary chronicler as 'the most powerful of the English in Ireland'. A younger son of the lord of Meath,de Lacy ascended from relatively humble beginnings to join the top stratum of Angevin society, being granted in 1205 the...
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2016. — 280 p. The Military and Hospitaller Orders emerged in the 12th century as Christendom engaged with the threats and the opportunities offered by its Muslim and non-Christian neighbours. In an Irish context, the Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar were the most significant expressions of this unusual vocation that sought to combine...
Anchor Books, 1996. — 246 p. The perfect St. Patrick's Day gift, and a book in the best tradition of popular history -- the untold story of Ireland's role in maintaining Western culture while the Dark Ages settled on Europe. Every year millions of Americans celebrate St. Patrick's Day, but they may not be aware of how great an influence St. Patrick was on the subsequent history of...
Yale University Press, 2003. — 199 p. — ISBN 0-300-09435-3 Other than in the area of architecture, Gothic is a word that has not been easily applied to late medieval Irish art. But exist it does, and has done so since it first reached Irelands shores through the twin efforts of the Church reform movement and the Anglo-Normans in the late twelfth century. These two cataclysmic...
Four Courts Press, 2019. — 368 p. — (Trinity Medieval Ireland Series 3). In the late twelfth century, Ireland was absorbed into the dominions of the kings of England. This transformed the social and political life of the island, with implications that resonate to the present day. How are we to interpret this formative period of Irish history? In the course of the twentieth...
Four Courts Press, 2016. — 447 p. — (Trinity Medieval Ireland Series 1). From the earliest moments of their involvement in Ireland, the Geraldines (or FitzGeralds) - the greatest of the Anglo-Norman dynasties established in Ireland after 1169 - became shrouded in myths, often of their own creation. This fund of mythology was later appropriated for political and polemical uses...
Routledge, 2013. — 476 p. — (Routledge Revivals). First published in 1923, this formative history of Ireland is an extensive study of the period from 1086 – 1513. Beginning with the O’Brien High Kinship, Edmund Curtis takes us through the Anglo-Norman conquest and its sequel, ending with the death of Gerald ‘the Great Earl’ of Kildare in 1513, a date when the second English...
Routledge, 2013. — 476 p. — (Routledge Revivals). First published in 1923, this formative history of medieval Ireland is an extensive study of the period from 1086 to 1513. Beginning with the O’Brien High Kinship, Edmund Curtis takes us through the Anglo-Norman conquest and its sequel, ending with the death of Gerald ‘the Great Earl’ of Kildare in 1513, a date when the second...
London: Longmans, Green, 1871. — 788 p. Святой Патрик (Патрикий) (англ. Saint Patrick; лат. Sanctus Patricius; ирл. Naomh Pádraig) христианский святой, покровитель Ирландии. Почитание его распространено в католицизме, в отдельных протестантских церквях (например, в англиканской, пресвитерианской, лютеранской) и в Русской православной церкви. Святому Патрику посвящено множество...
University of East Anglia, 2019. — 397 p. This is a thesis of two parts, concerning aspects of the political structure of two kingdoms: Ireland and England. Its focus is the role of John, the youngest son of King Henry II, as a ruler whose 'sovereign' authority spanned both kingdoms during a period in which he was the anointed king of neither. Part one, comprising chapters one...
Brepols, 2023. — 180 p. — (Studia Traditionis Theologiae 55). Saint Patrick is a central figure in the medieval Irish Church. As the convertor saint he was a central anchor through which Irish people came to understand their complicated religious past as well as their new place in the wider Christian world. This study considers some of the earliest and most influential writings...
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997. — 220 p. This collection of essays focuses on acculturation: the impact of cultures on one another. The topics concern Ireland's dealings with the outside world up to the late Middle Ages, considering Europe, Great Britain, and the far-flung world of the Vikings. Внимание! Выложенная работа не имеет аналогов в открытом доступе (по крайней мере,...
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997. — 220 p. This collection of essays focuses on acculturation: the impact of cultures on one another. The topics concern Ireland's dealings with the outside world up to the late Middle Ages, considering Europe, Great Britain, and the far-flung world of the Vikings. Внимание! Выложенная работа не имеет аналогов в открытом доступе (по крайней мере, на...
Frederick A. Praeger, 1958. — 270 p. — (Ancient peoples and places 8). Celtic Ireland was never conquered by the Romans but was converted to Christianity by Roman missionaries just at the time when the barbarians were breaking through the Imperial frontiers. While the rest of western Europe was plunged into the Dark Ages by the fall of the Roman Empire, Ireland entered her...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 420 p. Medieval Ireland is often described as a backward-looking nation in which change only came about as a result of foreign invasions. By examining the wealth of under-explored evidence available, Downham challenges this popular notion and demonstrates what a culturally rich and diverse place medieval Ireland was. Starting in the fifth...
Boydell and Brewer, 2014. — 294 p. An in-depth analysis of the key contribution made by the women members of this important ruling family in maintaining and advancing the family's political, landed, economic, social and religious interests. This book examines the lives of aristocratic Anglo-Irish women in late medieval and early modern Ireland as illustrated by an in-depth...
Four Courts Press, 2016. — 236 p. The intersection of Scottish and Irish politics and culture in the late Middle Ages is encapsulated in the figure of the galloglass. These West Highland and Hebridean warriors feature prominently in the military history of late medieval and early modern Ireland; yet, though often mentioned, their role has never been properly analyzed. In this...
Routledge, 2005. — 546 p. Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia presents the multiple facets of life in Ireland before and after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169, from the sixth to the sixteenth century. It provides reliable, scholarly information for the student, scholar, or general reader who wishes to learn more about this vivid period of history. The medieval period in Ireland...
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. — 640 p. 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...
Gill Books, 2014. — 368 p. Brian Boru is the most famous Irish person before the modern era, whose death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 is one of the few events in the whole of Ireland's medieval history to retain a place in the popular imagination. Once, we were told that Brian, the great Christian king, gave his life in a battle on Good Friday against pagan Viking enemies...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1997. — 232 p. This book surveys Irish history in the first half of this millennium, written in a style which will make it accessible to those new to the subject, incorporating the findings of recent research, and offering a reinterpretation of the evidence. Rather than having the English invasion as its starting point, as is previous practice, the volume...
Cambridge: Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 2004. — 22 p. — (Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Manuscript Studies 2). Note to the user of the tables. The tables: Abbreviations used in insular script before A.D. 850; Words which can be abbreviated throughout their declension in insular script before A.D. 850; Purely Anglo-Saxon abbreviations in...
Boydell Press, 2021. — 221 p. A key argument of this book is that the English Pale - the four counties around Dublin under English control - was expanding during the early Tudor period, not contracting, as other historians have argued. The author shows how the new system, whereby "the four obedient shires" were protected by new fortifications and a newly-constituted...
Leiden; Boston: Brill Nijhoff, 2019. — xii, 337 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations. — (Medieval Law and Its Practice 27). In A Raven’s Battle-cry Charlene M. Eska presents a critical edition and translation of the previously unpublished medieval Irish legal tract Anfuigell. Although the Old Irish text itself is fragmentary, the copious accompanying commentaries...
Brepols Publishers, 2016. — 234 р. This work offers a new and innovative insight into the history of thirteenth-century Ireland by exploring the interplay between Gaelic lords, Anglo-Norman lords, and the medieval environmental landscape that connected them. Focusing on the king's cantreds of Roscommon, a space that was both the homeland of the O'Conor royal authority from the...
Brepols Publishers, 2016. — 230 p. — (Environmental Histories of the North Atlantic World 1). Examines one of the most important frontier regions of Europe in the thirteenth century by defining the relationship between Gaelic lords, Anglo-Norman lords, and the medieval environmental landscape of the King’s Cantreds, a space that was both the homeland of O’Conor royal authority...
Brepols Publishers, 2016. — 230 p. — (Environmental Histories of the North Atlantic World 1). Examines one of the most important frontier regions of Europe in the thirteenth century by defining the relationship between Gaelic lords, Anglo-Norman lords, and the medieval environmental landscape of the King’s Cantreds, a space that was both the homeland of O’Conor royal authority...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 374 p. — (Medieval History and Archaeology). Gaelic literati were an elite and influential group in the social hierarchy of Irish lordships between c. 1300 and 1600. From their estates, they served Gaelic and Old English ruling families in the arts of history, law, medicine, and poetry. They farmed, kept guest-houses, conducted schools, and...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. — xvii + 304 p. — ISBN 9780691184647. Saint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by rumors that he settled in Ireland for financial gain, the man who was to become Ireland’s patron saint battled against great odds before succeeding as a missionary. Saint...
2006. — 269 p. — (Studies in Celtic History).
The Céli Dé (`clients of God'), sometimes referred to as the Culdees, comprise the group of monks who first appeared in Ireland in the eighth century in association with St Máel Ruain of Tallaght. Although influential and important in the development of the monastic tradition in Ireland, they have been neglected in general...
Hambledon Continuum, 1998. — 354 p. In this collection of essays Robin Frame concentrates upon two main themes: the place of the Lordship of Ireland within the Plantagenet state; and the interaction of settler society and English government in the culturally hybrid frontier world of later medieval Ireland itself. As a preludeto both these themes, Ireland and Britain, 1170-1450...
Four Courts Press, 2022. — 384 p. For more than two centuries after 1199, Ireland was ruled by Plantagenet kings, lineal descendants of Henry II. The island became closely tied to the English crown not just by English law and by direct administration, but through other networks, above all the allegiance of a settler establishment led by aristocratic, ecclesiastical and civic...
Translation and introduction by John O'Meara. — Penguin Classics, 1983. — 144 p. Gerald of Wales was among the most dynamic and fascinating churchmen of the twelfth century. A member of one of the leading Norman families involved in the invasion of Ireland, he first visited there in 1183 and later returned in the entourage of Henry II. The resulting Topographia Hiberniae is an...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 340 p. This book tracks the development of social complexity in Ireland from the late prehistoric period on into the Middle Ages. Using a range of methods and techniques, particularly data from settlement patterns, Blair Gibson demonstrates how Ireland evolved from constellations of chiefdoms into a political entity bearing the...
Four Courts Press, 1992. — 372 p. Father Aubrey Gwynn (1891-1983) was responsible for a great leap forward in our understanding of the Irish Church in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The great majority of earlier work had been concerned with the Irish Church only as something peculiar to itself, a survival into the twelfth century of an ancient and Celtic organization,...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 340 p. This work is a groundbreaking study of the varieties of holy life available to, and pursued by, early medieval Irish women. The author explores a wide range of source material from legal texts, saints' lives, litanies, penitentials, canons, and poetry in order to illuminate female religious life and changes in attitudes towards it over time.
Walter de Gruyter, 2024. — 218 p. — (Monastic Life and Venerated Spaces). As part of the historicizing corpus of seventh-century Irish writing, the Lives framed the narrative of the early saints as an effective weapon in contemporary political and ecclesiastical conflicts. Cogitosus’s Life of Brigit, Muirchú’s and Tírechán’s accounts of Saint Patrick, and Adomnán’s Life of...
Sources of History Limited, Hodder and Stoughton, 1972. — 320 p. This book is meant to be useful and readable. It assumes some experience in ordinary historical techniques, but no expert knowledge. In discussing the various kinds of source material for early Irish history, the problems each kind raises and the sort of questions it will answer, the author discusses many of the...
Sources of History Limited, Hodder and Stoughton, 1972. — 320 p. This book is meant to be useful and readable. It assumes some experience in ordinary historical techniques, but no expert knowledge. In discussing the various kinds of source material for early Irish history, the problems each kind raises and the sort of questions it will answer, the author discusses many of the...
Reprint Edition — Four Courts Press, 2013. — 360 p. Early medieval Ireland was ruled by a large number of lords, kings, and overkings. In a complicated network of affiliations, the Irish kings and the dynasties to which they belonged played a never-ending game of prevail or perish. Most kings had to deal with jealous relatives, unruly sons, dissatisfied noblemen, and ambitious...
Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies 11, Revised ed. (1929), New York: Octagon, 1966. Данный труд является, пожалуй, одним из самых главных по истории раннесредневековой Ирландии, опубликованных в первой половине XX века. Автор излагает материал не в привычной форме хронологического повествования, а через описание источниковой базы, строго систематизированной. Работа...
Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies 11, Revised ed. — New York: Octagon, 1966. — 867 p. Данный труд является, пожалуй, одним из самых главных по истории раннесредневековой Ирландии, опубликованных в первой половине XX века. Автор излагает материал не в привычной форме хронологического повествования, а через описание источниковой базы, строго систематизированной. Работа...
The O'Brien Press, 2020. — 176 p. A fascinating look at the lifestyle and values of ancient Ireland. Thousands of years ago, Celtic Ireland was a land of tribes and warriors; but a widely accepted, sophisticated and surprisingly enlightened legal system kept society running smoothly. The brehons were the keepers of these laws, which dealt with every aspect of life: land...
The O'Brien Press, 2013. — 256 p. The coming of the Normans to Ireland from 1169 is a pivotal moment in the country's history. It is a period full of bloodthirsty battles, both between armies and individuals. With colorful personalities and sharp political twists and turns, Strongbow 's story is a fascinating one. Combining the writing style of an award-winning novelist with...
Proceedings of the symposium ‘Expressions of Celticity through the ages’, Jyväskylä, November 28-30, 1997. — Ed. by Riitta Latvio, Petri Pietiläinen, Kirsi Ylänne. — Helsinki: Suomen keltologinen seura, 2000. — 148 p. Тезисы конференции в Финляндии 1997 г., посвященной ирландским произведениям, древним и современным, а также фольклору.
Proceedings of the symposium ‘Expressions of Celticity through the ages’, Jyväskylä, November 28-30, 1997. — Ed. by Riitta Latvio, Petri Pietiläinen, Kirsi Ylänne. — Helsinki: Suomen keltologinen seura, 2000. — 148 p. Тезисы конференции в Финляндии 1997 г., посвященной ирландским произведениям, древним и современным, а также фольклору.
Archaeopress, 2015. — 248 p. This text develops a new perspective on Late Bronze Age (LBA) Ireland by identifying and analysing patterns of ritual practice in the archaeological record. The bookends of this study are the introduction of the bronze slashing sword to Ireland at around 1200 BC and the introduction and proliferation of iron technology beginning around 600 BC....
O'Brien Press, 2014. — 256 p. Brian Boru, High King of Ireland, is often dismissed as a mythical figure, as all the known facts about him are contained within the several Irish annals. However thirty years of research have led Llyweyln to conclude with certainty that Brian Boru actually lived, a great battle took place in 1014, and Ireland won. Read about the life of Brian Boru...
John Donald, 2022. — 224 p. The Norman invasion of Britain, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is well known, but the later invasion of Ireland is much less well documented. Yet much of what we see today in Irish heritage has Norman roots. Ireland and Britain have many similarities, although relations between them have too often descended into bitterness and violence. This...
Book Trail Publishing, 2022. — 655 р. This book offers a fascinating insight into some of the majestic ruins that dot the Irish landscape. These Cistercian monasteries were repositories of prayer, learning, physical labour, exquisite stone structure and so much more. This text explores the monasteries, monastic estates and their management but, crucially, for the first time in...
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1980. — 168 p. Celtic scholar Proinsias Mac Cana (birth name: Francis McCann) was born in Belfast in 1926, and died in Dublin in 2004. He served as President of the Royal Irish Academy from 1979 to 1982, and received honorary degrees from universities including Dublin, Ulster, and Wales. He taught at Queen's University of Belfast...
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1980. — 168 p. Celtic scholar Proinsias Mac Cana (birth name: Francis McCann) was born in Belfast in 1926, and died in Dublin in 2004. He served as President of the Royal Irish Academy from 1979 to 1982, and received honorary degrees from universities including Dublin, Ulster, and Wales. He taught at Queen's University of Belfast...
Dublin Historical Association, 1975. — 50 p. — (Medieval Irish History series 3). Краткий, но очень ценный обзор по ирландским анналам. Обязательна для ознакомления специалистам по ирландским анналам и истории, а также всем, кто интересуется средневековой Ирландией. Внимание! Автор делал сканирование исходя из собственных ресурсов и возможностей аппаратуры. Книга не имеет...
Dublin: Published for the Irish texts Society. 1938. — 346 p. Corrigenda. Table of Abbreviations. From the creation to the dispersal of the nations. First Redaction. Second Redaction. Third Redaction. Verse Texts. Notes on Prose Texts. Notes on Verse Texts.
Dublin: Published for the Irish texts Society, 1939. — 273 p. Addenda and Corrigenda to Volume 1. The early history of the Gaedil. First Redaction. Second Redaction. Third Redaction. Verse Texts. Notes on Prose Texts. Notes on Verse Texts. Cessair. First Redaction. Second Redaction. Third Redaction. Verse Texts. Notes on Prose Texts. Notes on Verse Texts. Liber Praecursorum:...
Dublin: Published for the Irish texts Society. 1940. — 224 p. Partholon (continued). Second and Third Redaction. Synchronism. Appendix. Verse Texts. Notes on Prose Texts. Notes on Verse Texts. Nemed. First Redaction. Second and Third Redaction. Synchronism. Verse Texts. Notes on Prose Texts. Notes on Verse Texts.
Dublin: Published for the Irish texts Society, 1941. — 358 p. Fir Bolg. First Redaction. Second Redaction. Third Redaction. Verse Texts. Notes on Prose Texts. Notes on Verse Texts. Tuatha de Danann. First Redaction. Second Redaction. Third Redaction. Verse Texts. Notes on Prose Texts. Notes on Verse Texts.
Dublin: Published for the Irish texts Society, 1956. — 600 p. The sons of Mil. First, Second and Third Redaction. Miniugad. Verse Texts. The roll of the kings. Eremon. First Redaction and Miniguad. Second Redaction. Third Redaction. The Interpolations. The kings after Christianity: All Versions. Verse Texts. Appendix.
Four Courts Press, 2008. — 320 p. This book describes, for the first time, the nature of the unique economic areal system of Gaelic Ireland as it developed and changed between the Early Medieval and Anglo-Norman periods, with special emphasis on the eleventh and twelfth centuries. The origins of this system are explored in their European context, and the components of the...
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2015. — 208 p. The rapid acquisition of knowledge about Ireland in Tudor times constituted a discovery of no small importance for the development of the early modern English state. How the Tudors, and the most influential members of the political establishment who served them, came to be acquainted with Ireland - with its history, with its politics...
Thames and Hudson Ltd, 2013. — 326 p. — ISBN: 9780500051757. An essential new history of ancient Ireland and the Irish, written as an engrossing detective story About eighty million people today can trace their descent back to the occupants of Ireland. But where did the occupants of the island themselves come from and what do we even mean by “Irish” in the first place? This is...
Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 1991. — 238 p. — (Studies in Celtic History 12). The eleventh century was a time of political change throughout the British Isles, and especially so in Wales. Dr Maund examines the relationship of Wales to England and Ireland, and the ways in which Wales was affected by the political activities of these neighbours, setting this in the context of...
Manchester University Press, 2019. — 288 p. This book examines the social role of castles in late-medieval and early modern Ireland. It uses a multidisciplinary methodology to uncover the lived experience of this historic culture, demonstrating the interconnectedness of society, economics and the environment. Of particular interest is the revelation of how concerned pre-modern...
Brill, 2022. — xxii, 344 p. — (Explorations in Medieval Culture 23). This volume brings together scholarship from many disciplines, including history, heritage studies, archaeology, geography, and political science to provide a nuanced view of life in medieval Ireland and after. Primarily contributing to the fields of settlement and landscape studies, each essay considers the...
Broadway, 2002. — 384 p. For the first thousand years of its history, Ireland was shaped by its wars. Beginning with the legends of ancient battles and warriors, Wars of the Irish Kings moves through a time when history and storytelling were equally prized, into the age when history was as much propaganda as fact. This remarkable book tells of tribal battles, foreign invasions,...
2nd Edition. — Four Courts Press, 2020. — 220 p. The kings of Aileach came to prominence in the north of Ireland c.AD 800, just as the first Viking fleets began to raid the coasts of Ulster. At first, Viking activity in this area followed a similar pattern to raiding activity elsewhere on the island. But it began to diverge after 866 when Áed Findliath, a high-king of Ireland...
Lynchburg, Virginia: Liberty University, 2025. — 255 p. This dissertation explores the influence of Celtic Pagan traditions on the early Irish Church in Ulster, from the introduction of Christianity in the late fourth century to the Viking invasions of the twelfth century. By integrating historical texts, archaeological findings, and comparative religious studies, it...
Brepols Publishers, — 1022 p. — (Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia 66). The twenty-one essays in this volume, published from 1971 onwards, together with the introductions and conclusion, treat of the Bible and apocryphal works in Ireland during the pre-Norman period, from A.D. 600 to 1200. The essays cover developments during the period from Professor Bernhard Bischoff's...
Brill, 2022. — 354 p. — (Commentaria 13). This book aims at bringing together and providing all the information available on the Bible in the early Irish church (A.D. 550-850), drawing on some sources not well known for this subject, such as Columbanus, the early writer Apponius, St Gall list of works in Irish script, and the Libri scottice scripti. The beginnings are stressed...
Routledge, 2000. — 256 p. The castles of Ireland are an essential part of the study of medieval Europe, but were, until recently, a subject neglected by scholars. A lord's power and prestige were displayed in the majesty and uniqueness of his castle. The remains of several thousand castles enable us to reconstruct life in Ireland during these crucial centuries. "Castles in...
Brepols, 2015. — 754 p. — (Festschrift for Dáibhí Ó Cróinín). The pivotal role of Ireland in the development of a decidedly Christian culture in early medieval Europe has long been recognized. Still, Irish scholarship on early medieval Ireland has tended not to look beyond the Irish Sea, while continental scholars try to avoid Hibernica by reference to its special Celtic...
The Lilliput Press, 2013. — 238 p. When the first edition of this book appeared in 1972 it was acclaimed as a revolutionary breakthrough in the study of late medieval Ireland and of the autonomous lordships into which it was divided. Since then it has repeatedly and extensively cited as an authority, but has long been out of print. This edition of a pioneering and brilliant...
Second edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 432 p. This impressive survey covers the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the Norman settlement. Within a broad political framework it explores the nature of Irish society, the spiritual and secular roles of the Church and the extraordinary flowering of Irish culture in the period. Other major themes are Ireland's...
Brepols, 2012. — 284 p. — (Studies in the Visual Cultures of the Middle Ages 2). More than merely containers for holy bodies and objects, reliquaries powerfully mediated the experience of the sacred for their medieval audiences: they presented beautiful, glorified visions of the relics inside, and allowed devotees proximity to sacred space. The forms of reliquaries - from small...
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. — 213 p. — (International Studies in Irish History). This book examines how early modern immigrant communities sought to influence the politics of their host governments. This study analyses the political activity of the Irish communities who settled in the territories of the Spanish Monarchy during the middle decades of the seventeenth century....
Brepols, 2020. — 204 p. — (The North Atlantic World. Land and Sea as Cultural Space, AD 400–1900, 2). Between the fifth and ninth centuries CE, the peoples of Britain, Ireland, and their surrounding islands were constantly interacting — sharing cultures and ideas that shaped and reshaped their communities and the way they lived. The influence of religious figures from Ireland...
Palgrave Macmillan, 1988. - 223 p. - (New Studies in Medieval History).
The Celts.
Ireland in Prehistoric Times.
Political Developments in Early Times.
The Beginnings of Christianity in Ireland.
The Formation of the Early Irish Church.
Christian Ireland in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries.
Secularisation and Reform in the Eighth Century.
The Age of the Vikings.
Ireland...
Gill Books, 2005. — 223 p. Medieval Ireland – The Enduring Tradition, the first instalment in the New Gill History of Ireland series, offers an overview of Irish history from the coming of Christianity in the fifth century to the Reformation in the sixteenth, concentrating on Ireland’s cultural and social life and highlighting Irish society’s inherent stability in an very...
Irish Academic Press, 1986. — 481 p. Классический труд по истории ирландского монашества в V - VII вв. Includes the following chapters: Christian Monasticism in General; Progress towards Monasticism; Cenobitism; or Monasticism in the Strict Sense; The Spread of Monasticism throughout the Christian World; The Introduction of Monasticism into Ireland; St. Patrick; Monasticism in...
Dublin: Talbott Press, 1931. — xv + 413 + xiv pp. From author's Preface: That the Irish Church for six centuries was markedly "monastic ” in character is a commonplace of ecclesiastical history. Now monasticism, as an organised institution, was not a phenomenon peculiar to Ireland, for it was found all over the Christian world. The date and place of its birth, the stages in its...
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1930. Монография Джона Сеймора (1880 -1950) является продолжением изучения репрезентаций "Иного мира", ярко запечатленном в кельтской и ирландской культурах. Здесь уже не сравнение с образами Иного мира других культур, что сделал старший современник Сеймора А. Натт (A. Nutt), а, скорее, более детальный разбор именно ирландских...
London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1930. Монография Джона Сеймора (1880 -1950) является продолжением изучения репрезентаций "Иного мира", ярко запечатленном в кельтской и ирландской культурах. Здесь уже не сравнение с образами Иного мира других культур, что сделал старший современник Сеймора А. Натт (A. Nutt), а, скорее, более детальный разбор именно ирландских...
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2020. — 569 p. — (Trinity Medieval Ireland Series 4). 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 688 p. The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience. The contributors are...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 254 p. This volume extends the 'British Isles' approach pioneered by Robin Frame and Rees Davies to the later middle ages. Through examination of issues such as frontier formation, colonial identities and connections with the wider world it explores whether this period saw the bonds between the British Isles weaken, strengthen, or simply alter.
Lexington Books, 2022. — 262 p. Clonmacnoise was among the busiest, most economically complex, and intensely sacred places in early medieval Ireland. In Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise, John Soderberg argues that animals are the key to understanding Clonmacnoise’s development as a thriving settlement and a sacred space....
Lexington Books, 2022. — 262 p. Clonmacnoise was among the busiest, most economically complex, and intensely sacred places in early medieval Ireland. In Animals and Sacred Bodies in Early Medieval Ireland: Religion and Urbanism at Clonmacnoise, John Soderberg argues that animals are the key to understanding Clonmacnoise’s development as a thriving settlement and a sacred space....
O'Brien Pres, 2005. — 264 p. Kidnap, jailbreak, power, faith, murder, betrayal, scholarship, survival and above all, sheer endurance - all are themes in Dermot Somers' stories of heroic and historic travels from the mythic legends of prehistory to the dawn of modern Ireland. With the aid of maps and photographs, Dermot Somers - mountaineer, Gaelic scholar, TV presenter, and writer...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. — 368 p. What does it mean to talk about law as theater, to speak about the "performance" of transactions as mundane as the sale of a pig or as agonizing as receiving compensation for a dead kinsman? In Dark Speech , Robin Chapman Stacey explores such questions by examining the interaction between performance and law in Ireland between...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994. — 360 p. In contemporary society, the maintenance of social order relies upon the existence of a state that creates and enforces the written regulations by which its citizens live. In emerging societies like those of early medieval Europe, however, the question of order was much more complex. No powerful, impersonal entity existed to...
Ed. by Padraig Ó Héalaí, Máirtín Ó Briain, Inverin, Co. Galway: Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2002. (In Irish. На ирландском). Breandán Ó Madagáin was professor of modern Irish at NUI Galway from 1975 –1997, and during this time he enriched the lives of the many people he encountered with his knowledge and passion for the Irish language and its traditions. This collection of essays from...
Cambridge University Press, 1970. — 280 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series 3). This book examines the way in which the central English government dealt with Irish ecclesiastical matters from the time of the invasion and partial conquest of Ireland by Henry II in 1171 up to the Statute of Kilkenny. The struggle involved the king, the clergy in...
Cambridge University Press, 1970. — 280 p. — (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Third Series 3). This book examines the way in which the central English government dealt with Irish ecclesiastical matters from the time of the invasion and partial conquest of Ireland by Henry II in 1171 up to the Statute of Kilkenny. The struggle involved the king, the clergy in...
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000. — 322 p. Prominent in the literature of early Ireland are the tales known as 'echtrai' (adventures) and 'immrama' (voyages), stories telling of journeys to the Otherworld of Celtic legend. These tales have long held a fascination for both scholars and general readers, but there is no satisfactory, comprehensive treatment of them in print. This...
University of Glasgow, 2005. — 335 p. The institution of kingship was a fundamental feature of medieval Irish society; if we can better understand kingship, we can similarly gain a greater appreciation of the distinctive features of that society. This thesis investigates the practices of Irish kings and dynasties in the Central Middle Ages (roughly, the ninth to twelfth...
Four Courts Press, 2000. — 216 p. The Franciscan Order was one of the most remarkable and influential forces in medieval and early modern Irish society. While the earlier and later phases of the movement have attracted the historian's notice, the remarkable second flowering, which occurred between 1400 and 1534, has not been explained until now. This study traces the reforming...
Maynooth: An Sagart, 1989. — 472 p. Данный сборник посвящен одному из самых титулованных и заслуженных кельтологов века XX-ого, но отголоски его заслуг мы чувствуем и в веке XXI-ом, - Джеймсу Карни; его многочисленная библиография приведена в конце тома. Под обложкой были собраны самые последние на тот момент достижения историков и филологов по теме средневековой ирландской...
Four Courts Press, 2017. — 157 p. — (Trinity Medieval Ireland Series 2 ). This book radically reassesses the reform of the Irish Church in the twelfth century, on its own terms and in the context of the English Invasion that it helped precipitate. Professor CorrÃ?Â?Ã?¡in sets these profound changes in the context of the pre-Reform Irish church, in which he is a foremost...
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. — 660 p. Scarcely a parish in Ireland is without one or more dedications to saints, in the form of churches in ruins, holy wells or other ecclesiastical monuments. This book is a guide to the (mainly documentary) sources of information on the saints named in these dedications, for those who have an interest in them, scholarly or otherwise. The...
Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2022. — 64 p. Дополнительный том к /file/4307830/ In the eleven years since its publication by Four Courts Press in 2011 A dictionary of Irish saints has rarely been far, either from my mind or from my desk. Beginning with notes added to an interleaved copy, followed by entries in red in the online copy generously provided by Four Courts Press, I have...
Текст переведен по cетевому изданию: Annals of the Four Masters. CELT: The Corpus of Electronic Texts. Перевод с англ. - Зотов О. А. — 2001. Анналы королевства Ирландии - хроники средневековой истории Ирландии, написанные на ирландском языке и датированные от 2242 года от сотворения мира, года потопа, до 1616 года нашей эры. Включают как ранние тексты, так и оригинальные; были...
СПб.: Евразия, 2006. — 368 с. — (Clio magna). — ISBN: 5-8071-0169-3. В книге освещается история раннесредневековой Ирландии, рассматриваются различные аспекты ее социального и политического развития, при этом основное внимание уделяется королям Ирландии. Изложение основывается на тщательном анализе многочисленных памятников ирландского языка и литературы. Книга снабжена...
СПб.: Евразия, 2006. — 368 с. — (Clio magna). Это первая книга, специально посвященная ирландской истории, выходящая на русском языке. В ней освещается самая интересная и сложная эпоха - раннее средневековье, рассматриваются различные аспекты социального и политического развития Ирландии. Изложение основывается на строгом и тщательном анализе многочисленных памятников...
СПб.: Евразия, 2006. — 368 с. — (Clio magna). Это первая книга, специально посвященная ирландской истории, выходящая на русском языке. В ней освещается самая интересная и сложная эпоха - раннее средневековье, рассматриваются различные аспекты социального и политического развития Ирландии. Изложение основывается на строгом и тщательном анализе многочисленных памятников...
Санкт-Петербург: Евразия, 2006. — 368 с. Это первая книга, специально посвященная ирландской истории, выходящая на русском языке. В ней освещается самая интересная и сложная эпоха — раннее средневековье, рассматриваются различные аспекты социального и политического развития Ирландии. Изложение основывается на строгом и тщательном анализе многочисленных памятников ирландского языка...
Санкт-Петербург: Евразия, 2006. — 368 с. Это первая книга, специально посвященная ирландской истории, выходящая на русском языке. В ней освещается самая интересная и сложная эпоха — раннее средневековье, рассматриваются различные аспекты социального и политического развития Ирландии. Изложение основывается на строгом и тщательном анализе многочисленных памятников ирландского языка...
Санкт-Петербург: Евразия, 2006. — 364 с. — (Clio magna). — ISBN: 5-8071-0169-3. Это первая книга, специально посвященная ирландской истории, выходящая на русском языке. В ней освещается самая интересная и сложная эпоха — раннее средневековье, рассматриваются различные аспекты социального и политического развития Ирландии. Изложение основывается на строгом и тщательном анализе...
3-е изд., испр. и доп. — М.: Языки славянской культуры (ЯСК), 2018. — 512 с.: ил. — (Studia historica). — ISBN: 978-5-907117-22-8. Книга посвящена основам традиционной древнеирландской культуры, мифам и повседневной жизни древнеирландского общества. Затрагиваются самые различные стороны традиционного мировоззрения и повседневности ‒ время и пространство, брак и семья, война и...
М.: Языки славянских культур, 2016. — 472 с. Книга посвящена основам традиционной древнеирландской культуры, мифам и повседневной жизни древнеирландского общества. Затрагиваются самые различные стороны традиционного мировоззрения и повседневности - время и пространство, брак и семья, война и гостеприимство, экономика и власть. В исследовании на основе литературных и...
М.: Языки славянских культур, 2015. — 472 с. Книга посвящена основам традиционной древнеирландской культуры, мифам и повседневной жизни древнеирландского общества. В исследовании на основе литературных и археологических памятников воссоздается языковая и мифологическая картина мира Древней Ирландии. Автор затрагивает существенные вопросы ирландской мифологии и истории и дает свои...
3-е изд., испр. и доп. — М.: Языки славянской культуры (ЯСК), 2018. — 512 с.: ил. — (Studia historica). — ISBN 978-5-907 И 7-22-8 Книга посвящена основам традиционной древнеирландской культуры, мифам и повседневной жизни древнеирландского общества. Затрагиваются самые различные стороны традиционного мировоззрения и повседневности — время и пространство, брак и семья, война и...
2-е изд. — М.: Языки славянской культуры (ЯСК), 2019. — 432 с. — (Studia historica). — ISBN: 978-5-907117-27-3. Монография представляет собой комплексное исследование историографии монастыря Ионы, где были созданы наиболее значимые памятники средневековой ирландской литературы – «Житие святого Колумбы» Адомнана и первая ирландская летопись. Впервые в истории отечественной науки...
Пер. Ю. Н. Варзонина; сост., лит. ред. и коммент. А. Ю. Шабанова; [ред.О. А. Платоновой]; [предисл. И. П. Петровского]. — Тверь, 2016. — 136 с. Монашеские уставы Кельтской Церкви открывают перед нами одну из самых интересных страниц истории Западного христианства периода неразделенной Церкви (до 1054). К сожалению, на русский язык переведены и изданы весьма немногие документы,...
Москва: Альма Матер, 2024. — 406 с. — (Эпохи. Средние века. Исследования). — ISBN 978-5-904994-46-4. В основе издания - комментированные переводы повестей о посещениях иного мира в средневековой ирландской традиции, среди них - научный перевод знаменитого латинского «Плавания святого Брендана», впервые публикуемый па русском языке. Ряд других текстов, относящихся к монастырской...
М.: Альма Матер, 2024. — 406 с. — (Эпохи. Средние века. Исследования). — ISBN 978-5-904994-46-4. В основе издания – комментированные переводы повестей о посещениях иного мира в средневековой ирландской традиции, среди них – научный перевод знаменитого латинского «Плавания святого Брендана», впервые публикуемый па русском языке. Ряд других текстов, относящихся к монастырской и...
М.: АСТ, 2020. — 322 с. — ISBN: 978-5-17-116723-3. В Средние века верили, что именно на озере Лох Дерг, расположенном на севере Ирландии, в графстве Донегол, находится вход в чистилище — место, где пребывают души, слишком грешные для рая, но слишком праведные для ада. По преданию, проход туда открыл первый и великий святой Ирландии Патрик, специально для убеждения маловерных,...
Под редакцией Г.К. Косикова; составление, перевод, вступительная статья и комментарии С.В. Шкунаева. — М.: Изд-во МГУ, 1991. — 284 с. — ISBN: 5-211-00885-5. В книгу включены впервые переведенные на русский язык произведения мифологического и исторического (или королевского) циклов, а также более позднего по происхождению цикла Финна. Публикуются некоторые из так называемых...
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