Illustrating the Past is a study of the status of visual and verbal media in early modern
English representations of the past. It focuses on general attitudes towards visual and verbal …

Though British history and identity in the early modern period are intensively researched
areas, the role of literature in the construction of'Britishness' is under-examined. English …

Medieval Ireland: An Encyclopedia brings together in one authoritative resource the multiple
facets of life in Ireland before and after the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169, from the sixth to …

By the fourteenth century the descendants of those who had gone from Britain to Ireland in
the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries had come to call themselves 'the English of …

The story of late Tudor Ireland is, in part, a story of language. The political and military
developments that brought New English and native Irish into a closer and increasingly …

Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotlande and Irelande are an impressive
monument to the fruitful co-operation of sixteenth-century scholars. This paper explores part …

When word first came that a large group of damaged ships scattered from the defeated
Spanish Armada had crashed along Ireland's northern and western coasts in the fall of …

The question of why towns decline is the antithesis of the question of why towns grow. In the
case of medieval Ireland, as elsewhere in Europe, more attention has been paid to the latter …

What was a mark? Livery of seisin? Letters patent? This remarkable Dictionary of Irish Local
History will be able to tell you. Entries are fully cross-referenced and come replete with full …

'The mayor, aldermen, merchants and inhabitants of Dublin are notorious papists, hating the
English nation and government', wrote a state official in 1596. It was noted about the same …