Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia

METALWORK the chalices was a simple vessel of bronze, the other an elaborate construction of silver decorated with great brillia ...

———.Irish Art in the Romanesque Period 1020—1200. London, 1970. Ó Floinn, Raghnall. “Schools of Metal Working in Eleventh- and T ...

was controlled by the Laigin up to the early sixth century. According to the annals, Fiachu, one of the sons of Niall Noígiallac ...

MILITARY SERVICE, ANGLO-NORMAN The Templars were founded around 1119 by Hugh de Payens for the protection of pilgrims to the Hol ...

MILITARY SERVICE, ANGLO-NORMAN being defined more precisely and based on territorial units. Thus the crown was able to assess mi ...

MILITARY SERVICE, GAELIC from the Western Isles. By the late fifteenth century they were able to do the unthinkable—billet their ...

MILITARY SERVICE, GAELIC Mac Murchada of Leinster (d. 1171) famously did between 1167 and 1170. Other Irish kings were not slow ...

MILLS AND MILLING Bartlett, Robert and Angus McKay, ed. Medieval Frontiers Soci- eties. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989. B ...

century. The earliest form was the post mill, a small wooden-framed building, which pivoted on a large upright beam (the post), ...

Almost all of Mo-Ninne’s life and works are leg- endary; her Lives consist mainly of a series of miracles and wonder-working. Th ...

MORAL AND RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION NiceneCreed, but contain much instruction on how Christians should live. Biblical Exegesis By th ...

MORTIMER in Ireland, the writings of John Cassian not only formed the basis of instruction, but provided the the- oretical basis ...

MORTIMER Inheritance On September 24, 1301, Roger Mortimer (c. 1287– 1330), lord of Wigmore in Herefordshire, married Joan de Ge ...

MORTIMER Mortimers and their Irish tenantry. Whether militarily or in a social context, therefore, the Mortimers cer- tainly had ...

Otway-Ruthven, A. J. A History of Medieval Ireland. London: Ernest Benn, 1968. See alsoAnglo-Irish Relations; Bruce, Edward; Con ...

Chronologically, most Irish mottes probably date to the short period from the end of the twelfth century up until the first quar ...

him among the Mochtheine, who resided in the district of Armagh. In either case, his portrayal of Patrick as a conquering hero a ...

MUNSTER Irish settlement in Wales and western England at that time, and Cashel, the capital of the Eóganachta in Munster, possib ...

supporting a dense network of villages and towns and forming the basis for high volumes of exports from Munster’s ports. The tid ...

MUSIC is little to suggest that the harp, as it is known today, corresponds to the earlier instruments. This problem of identifi ...