Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia
“Protect my ears so that I do not listen to scandal, so that I do not listen to the foolishness of the evil world,” and he conti ...
MÁEL-SECHNAILL I (D. 862) most notable followers were Máel-Díthruib of Tír dá glass(Terryglass); Fedelmid mac Crimthainn, king o ...
launched a successful attack on Dublin in 849. In 851 he killed the king of North Brega, who had burned the churches and fortres ...
MÁEL-SECHNAILL II (949/950–1022) that the descendants of Flann Sinna were quarreling about the kingship of Mide. Domnall Donn, o ...
sons were either dead or not powerful enough to claim the kingship. After 1030, the kingship of Mide was held by the descendants ...
MALACHY (MÁEL-MÁEDÓIC) Irish sources as Máel-Máedóic Ua Morgair, Malachy was born in Armagh in 1095. He was the son of Mugrón Ua ...
the request he was to make did; what is more, it was successful and four years later the papal legate, Cardinal John Paparon, ga ...
MANORIALISM owing suit of court, giving counsel to the lord when requested, and to aid him with money grants on certain occasion ...
each particular category of landholder. Finally, the extent also tells us about the buildings at the manorial center, which incl ...
MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATION A life of Colum Cille written by his successor as abbot, Adomnán (c. 628–704), contains references to th ...
It does not seem fanciful to suggest that similar manu- scripts were probably produced at monasteries of the stature of Clonmacn ...
MARCH LAW lords who, by residing in England or on their property in the land of peace, had abandoned their lands in the marches ...
References and Further Reading Frame, Robin. “Power and Society in the Lordship of Ireland, 1272–1377.” Past and Present76 (1977 ...
MARRIAGE and status. Marriage among the lower classes counted for little or nothing—they had no birthright, little property, and ...
References and Further Reading Wasserschleben, F. W. Die irische Kanonensammlung.2nd ed., lib. 45 (“De questionibus mulierum”), ...
Dunamase to Mortimer of Wigmore, Kildare to the de Vescys, and Wexford to the de Valence family. This fragmentation weakened the ...
MEDICINE That medicine was widely practiced in Ireland both before and after the coming of the Anglo-Normans is clear from numer ...
MELLIFONT function under secular control into the seventeenth century. St. Stephen’s in Dublin also remained a med- ical and cha ...
as the “conspiracy of Mellifont,” was in large measure resolved by the Abbot of Stanley, Stephen of Lexing- ton, who conducted a ...
METALWORK became abundant as a result of Scandinavian imports of coinage from the Islamic world, and metal objects made of very ...
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