Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia
could be harnessed and a tide mill was constructed. Excavations have uncovered a sequence of three mills here, the first built i ...
ECCLESIASTICAL SITES The earliest biographers of St. Patrick, writing in the late seventh century, refer to churches built of cl ...
Romanesque features indicating a date around the mid- dle of the twelfth century. Cemeteries, Holy Wells and Bullauns Burial was ...
EDUCATION instruction mainly in grammar, philosophy, and poetry. Thefilidenjoyed a very high social status, producing works of h ...
EDUCATION of John Scottus Eriugena (an Irish scholar who worked in the Court of Charles II), especially his De Divisione Natura, ...
Irish customs, restrictions that were increasingly suc- cessful in changing the shape of Irish education so that, in the first h ...
ENGLISH LITERATURE, INFLUENCE OF See British Library Manuscript Harley 913; Eachtrai; French Literature, Influence of; Hiberno-E ...
EÓGANACHTA References and Further Reading Simms, Katharine. “Guesting and Feasting in Gaelic Ireland.” Jnl. Roy. Soc. Antiq. Ire ...
who legitimated Brian Boru’s usurpation of the king- ship of Munster in 978 by grafting an ancestor of their own, Cormac Cas, on ...
De Bernardo Stempel, Patrizia. “Ptolemy’s Celtic Italy and Ireland: A Linguistic Analysis.” In Ptolemy. Towards a Linguistic Atl ...
theDe opificio hominisof Gregory of Nyssa, and the Solutiones ad Chosroemby Prisicianus Lydus, which was doubtless the source of ...
ETYMOLOGY For modern readers the Periphyseon, or De divi- sione naturae(On the Division of Nature) is by far Eriugena’s most imp ...
ETYMOLOGY according to subjects, was at the same time their meth- odological guide and their practical model. Isidore’s philosop ...
F FACTIONALISM Within the colonial community of medieval Ireland, factionalism is a theme traditionally associated with the late ...
jealous protection of his rights was not untypical. In 1294, a protracted legal dispute between him and the chief governor, Will ...
A prolonged and cold winter meant that even the cattle had too little to eat and that alternative (i.e., wild) foods were not ev ...
buildings provided for that purpose. As monaster- ies/ecclesiastical settlements became more associated with secular interests t ...
Murphy, Denis, ed. Annals of Clonmacnoise . Dublin: Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1896. Ó Corráin, Donnchad. Ireland ...
Mac Cana, Proinsias. “Women in Irish Mythology.” The Crane Bag Vol. 4 No. 1 (1980): 7 − 11. O’Meara, J. J., ed. “Giraldus Cambre ...
poet, a jealous and embittered old man, and a strong and vigorous hunter/warrior; thus he reflects many aspects of the human con ...
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