Medieval Ireland. An Encyclopedia

References and Further Reading Cochrane, R. “Abbey Knockmoy, County Galway: Notes on the Buildings and ‘Frescoes’.” JRSAI34 (190 ...

WATERFORD Ecclesiastical settlements were enclosed by ramparts from at least the seventh century, but it is not until the eleven ...

WATERFORD wine, re-exporting much of it in the late thirteenth century to supply the armies of the English Crown fighting in Sco ...

WEAPONS AND WEAPONRY The finds revealed that Waterford had strong trading links with Western England, Northwest France, and the ...

WEAPONS AND WEAPONRY Ballinderry crannog, County Westmeath, may illus- trate how far this process had advanced by the tenth cent ...

WEAPONS AND WEAPONRY century. This is difficult to quantify, but undoubtedly the English conquest markedly increased the amount ...

Halpin, A. “Irish Medieval Bronze Maceheads.” In Keimelia: Studies in MedievalArchaeology and History in Memory of Tom Delaney,e ...

It need not surprise us that literary reflexes of these links have also survived. The Welsh prose tale, Branwen uerch Lyr(Branwe ...

Several of Windsor’s appointees in the Irish admin- istration were dismissed, but the charges directed at Windsor himself were s ...

WISDOM TEXTS gnomic, or wisdom, literature. The wide variety of wisdom texts and the large number of gnomic state- ments scatter ...

and its ideas about the just king, similar to those expressed in the tecosca, speak for an Irish provenance. Though having a dif ...

WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC changes are believed to be brought about by the sup- plication and veneration of supernatural beings (usu- ...

Bremmer, Jan N. “The Birth of the Term ‘Magic’.” In The Metamorphosis of Magic from Late Antiquity to the Early Modern Period, e ...

WOMEN a female heiress, if she wished to hold all instead of only half of her father’s land, must undertake to pro- vide militar ...

along with those born of a church marriage, there was no economic incentive for Irish nobles to reform their marital habits. Arb ...

WOODWORK and relative quantities of tree species. The archaeo- logical, technological and dendrochronological anal- yses of wood ...

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I NDEX Note on Gaelic names and terms. Early medieval spelling has been preferred. Variants of a term differing from it mainly i ...

INDEX Annals of Tigernach , 21, 128, 246, 459 obituary of Colum Cille, 89 Annals of Ulster, 20, 22, 123, 169, 176, 246 Adomnán’s ...

INDEX Bosworth, battle of, 260 Braganstown massacre (1329), 436 Brandub mac Echach, 486 Braose, Philip de, 458 Braose, William d ...