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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 influence of Terence B. Barry of Trinity College Dublin within Ireland and internationally. Barry’s long career changed the direction of castle studies and brought the archaeology of medieval Ireland to wider knowledge. These essays, authored by an international team of fifteen scholars, develop many of his original research questions to provide timely and insightful reappraisals of material culture and the built and natural environments. Contributors (in order of appearance) are Robin Glasscock, Kieran O’Conor, Thomas Finan, James G. Schryver, Oliver Creighton, Robert Higham, Mary A. Valante, Margaret Murphy, John Soderberg, Conleth Manning, Victoria McAlister, Jennifer L. Immich, Calder Walton, Christiaan Corlett, Stephen H. Harrison, and Raghnall Ó Floinn.

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Author:   Victoria L. McAlister ,  Linda Shine
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   23
Weight:   0.735kg
ISBN:  

9789004425453

ISBN 10:   9004425454
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   15 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Foreword Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Publications by T.B. Barry Notes on Contributors Introduction  Victoria L. McAlister and Linda Shine PART 1: Reappraising Watery Settlement 1 Moated Sites in Ireland: The Current State of Knowledge  Kieran O’Conor 2 Castle Strategy and the Rock of Lough Key  Thomas Finan and James G. Schryver 3 Form, Function and Fluidity in Castles: Water and Fortification in Medieval Britain  Oliver Creighton and Robert Higham PART 2: Rethinking Material Culture 4 Power and Literacy in Viking-Age Dublin  Mary Valante 5 Possessions, Luxury Objects, and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland  Margaret Murphy 6 Zooarchaeological Views into Late Medieval Ireland  John Soderberg PART 3: Settlement and Landscape Afterlives 7 The Decline of the Settlement at Clonmacnoise  Conleth Manning 8 What Is Lost Can Be Found: History and Geographical Information Systems as Tools for Identifying Deserted Medieval Rural Settlement  Victoria L. McAlister and Jennifer Immich 9 Intelligence and Landscapes: Past, Present, and Future  Calder Walton PART 4: Settlements in the Medieval and Modern Landscape 10 Stagonil, Powerscourt Demesne, County Wicklow: A Sub Manor of the Archbishop of Dublin  Christiaan Corlett 11 Arklow and the Cistercians: A Medieval Borough and Manor Reconsidered  Stephen H. Harrison 12 The End of Lagore: Later First Millennium CE, Medieval, Post-medieval and Modern Activity on an Early Medieval Royal Site  Raghnall Ó Floinn Bibliography Index

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Victoria McAlister, Ph.D. (2013), Trinity College Dublin, is Assistant Professor of History at Towson University. She is the author of The Irish Tower House: Society, Economy and Environment, c. 1300-1650 (2019) and numerous other works on the Irish medieval built and natural environments. Linda Shine, Ph.D. (2011), Trinity College Dublin, is an archaeologist with the National Monuments Service, Department of Housing, Heritage and Local Government, Ireland. She is the author of a number of peer reviewed publications on rural medieval settlement in Ireland and on public archaeology. She is the secretary of the Group for the Study of Irish Historic Settlement.

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