Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia

their well-established Continental links, ally themselves with the forces of Counter Reformation Catholicism. COLMÁNN. Ó CLABAIG ...

RENAISSANCE as in the case of Oswald in contemporary Anglo-Saxon England. The shrine of St. Lachtaín’s arm, of approx- imately 1 ...

evangelization from 1571, although the venture was not seriously persevered with. Both Protestant and Catholic Reformations gave ...

RICHARD II References and Futher Reading Best, R. I., O. Bergin, and M. A. O’Brien. The Book of Leinster, formerly Lebar na Núac ...

Richard attempted, for a time, to maintain his expedi- tionary settlement. It was from the start under great pressure, protected ...

ROADS AND ROUTES excavations at Deer Park Farms, County Antrim, where arathwas found to enclose a group of five contem- porary w ...

ROADS AND ROUTES ninth-century inland raids and for the purpose of estab- lishing over-wintering encampments or longphortset- tl ...

ROMANCE Moloney, Aonghus. “From East and West, Crossing the Bogs at Clonmacnoise.” In Clonmacnoise Studies(Vol. 1, Seminar Paper ...

ROMANCE Fenian Cycle; the Tuatha Dé Danann, descendants of a pre-Celtic people, who inhabited the Other- wordalthough their rol ...

S SATIRE Satire has a long-standing role in Ireland’s history and literature. Still a modern characteristic feature of its prose ...

SAVAGE The Savage family was one of the principal English families of medieval Ulster. William Savage witnessed one of John de C ...

SCIENCES respect during the course of the eleventh and twelfth centuries. While the beneficial effects of Norse-driven com- merc ...

SCIENCES Computus and Astronomy Computistical literature must have been well estab- lished in Ireland by the sixth century. The ...

SCOTTI/SCOTS Palestine are largely derived from written sources, though he also refers to oral information communi- cated from a ...

Scotia minor for Scotland and Scotia maior for Ireland, to show support for Edward Bruce’s invasion of Ireland. NICHOLAS EVANS R ...

SCRIPTORIA SCRIPTORIA Every medieval monastery needed a stock of working copies of bibles, Psalters, and missals for the liturgi ...

SCULPTURE SCULPTURE Apart from cross-inscribed stones that may have started as early as the seventh century in Ireland, sculp- t ...

SEDULIUS SCOTTUS Nelson, E. Charles, and Roger Stailey. “Medieval naturalism and the botanical carvings at Corcomroe Abbey (Coun ...

works include the so-called Proverbia Graecorum and the Sententia Ciceronis de virtutibus et vitiis (drawn from De inventione), ...

SHIPS AND SHIPPING continental carvings. Later examples found in secular contexts on town walls and tower houses may have functi ...