T. E. McNeill

Castles in Ireland (eBook, ePUB)

Feudal Power in a Gaelic World

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The castles of Ireland are an essential part of the story of medieval Europe, but were, until recently, a subject neglected by scholars. A lord's power and prestige was 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 Ireland tells the story of the nature and development of lordship and power in medieval Ireland. Ireland formed the setting to the interplay of the differing roles of competing lordships: English and Irish; feudal European and Gaelic; royal and baronial. Tom McNeill argues that the design of the castles contests the traditional view of Ireland as a land torn by war and divided culturally between the English and Irish.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134708857
• Artikelnr.: 42710441

Autorenporträt

Dr Thomas McNeill took his doctorate in archaeology at Queen's University, Belfast, where he is currently Lecturer in Medieval Archaeology. He is the author of The English Heritage Book of Castles and The Archaeology of Ulster (with J. P. Mallory).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction PART I: EARLY CASTLES: TO c. 1225 1 Before 1166 2 Early
castles of stone 3 Early castles of earth and timber 4 Castles and the
establishing of English lordships in Ireland PART II: FROM THE EARLY
THIRTEENTH TO THE MID-FOURTEENTH CENTURY 5 The central period of English
lordship 6 Castles in the English fashion 7 Castles in a divergent
tradition 8 Lesser stone castles 9 Castles of the Irish 10 Summary PART
III: CASTLES OF THE LATER MIDDLE AGES 11 The fourteenth century 12
Enclosure castles of the later middle ages 13 Tower-houses: dates and
distribution 14 Tower-houses: structure and use 15 The later middle ages
and the end of castles in Ireland, Epilogue