Government, war and society in medieval Ireland
By: essays by Edmund Curtis, A.J. Otway-Ruthven and James Lydon ; edited by Peter Crooks.
Contributors: Otway-Ruthven, Annette Jocelyn, 1909-; Lydon, James F.; Crooks, Peter.
Publisher: Four Courts Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Dublin; Portland, OR
Language: eng
Number of pages: 407
ISBN-13: 9781846821059
Subjects: Ireland -- History -- 1172-1603; Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1172-1603; Ireland -- Social life and customs -- To 1500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: The Lecky professors / Peter Crooks; title: Prologue: Irish history and its popular versions / Edmund Curtis; title: Part 1, Government : Ireland and the English crown, 1171-1541 / James Lydon; title: The chief governors of medieval Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven; title: William of Windsor and the Irish parliament / James Lydon; title: the medieval Irish chancery / A.J. Otway-Ruthven; title: Anglo-Irish shire government in the thirteenth century / A.J. Otway-Ruthven; title: The native Irish and English law in medieval Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven; title: Part 2, War : Knight service in Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven; title: Royal service in Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven; title: The hobelar : an Irish contribution to medieval warfare / James Lydon; title: An Irish army in Scotland, 1296 / James Lydon; title: Irish levies in the Scottish wars, 1296-1302 / James Lydon; title: Edward I, Ireland and the war in Scotland, 1303-1304 / James Lydon; title: Richard II's expeditions to Ireland / James Lydon; title: Richard, duke of York, as viceroy of Ireland, 1447-1460 : with unpublished materials for his relations with native chiefs / Edmund Curtis; title: Part 3, Society : The character of Norman settlement in Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven; title: The organization of Anglo-Irish agriculture in the middle ages / A.J. Otway-Ruthven; title: The English and Ostmen in Ireland / Edmund Curtis; title: The clan system among the English settlers in Ireland / Edmund Curtis; title: The spoken languages of medieval Ireland / Edmund Curtis; title: The problem of the frontier in medieval Ireland / James Lydon; title: The middle nation / James Lydon; title: Further reading; title: Government, war and society in English Ireland, 1171-1541 : a guide to recent work / Peter Crooks.