Lordship in medieval Ireland
Subtitle: image and reality
By: Linda Doran and James Lyttleton, editors
Publisher: Four Courts Press for the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781846820410
Subjects: Politics and government; Castles; Kings and rulers; Land tenure; History
Notes: Includes bibliographic references (p. 269-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Perceptions of kingship in early medieval Irish vernacular literature  -- Edel Bhreathnach; title: Images of Gaelic lordship in Ireland, c.1200--c.1400  -- Freya Verstraten; title: The profits of lordship : Roger Bigod, Earl of Norfolk and the lordship of Carlow, 1270--1306  -- Margaret Murphy; title: Lords of the river valleys : economic and military lordship in the Carlow Corridor, c.1200--1350 - European model in an Irish context  -- Linda Doran; title: The Gaelic O'Driscoll lords of Baltimore, Co. Cork : settlement, economy and conflict in a maritime cultural landscape  -- Connie Kelleher; title: The MacMurroughs and the marches of Leinster, 1170--1340  -- Emmett O'Byrne; title: Castles and landscapes in Uí Fhiachrach Muaidhe, c.1235--c.1400  -- John Malcolm; title: Gaelic lords of the sea : the coastal tower houses of south Connemara  -- Paul Naessens; title: The MacCoghlans of Devlin Eathra : the transformation of a late medieval lordship in early modern Ireland -- James Lyttleton.