INDEX
Religion, 337–339
manuals of, 338
sermons, 339
Religious houses
claustral plan of (cloister), 1
early Irish monasteries, 405
of main monastic orders, 2–3
mendicant friars (thirteenth century), 406–407
surrounding possessions (granges) of, 3
twelth-century reform, 405–406
Religious institutions as medical centers, 324
Religious organizations, 184
Reliquaries, 408–409
Remonstrance of the Irish Princes (to John XXII), 361,
395–396, 474, 481
Renaissance in Ireland, 409–410
Rethorica Alerani, 410
Rhetoric and rhetorical embellishments, 410
Richard FitzGilbert de Clare. See Strongbow
Richard II, 283, 304, 411–413
Richard III, 260
Richard IV, 260
Ring-barrows, 388
Ringforts, 342, 412–413
Ringworks, 342
Ritual deposits and ritual killing, 388
Rivalries, promotion of, 161
Roads and routes, 413–414
Robert de Vere, 437
Robert of Clairvaux, 2
Robert I, 52
Rokeby, Thomas de, 78
Roman Catholic Church
ecclesiastical courts, 110
influence on Brehon law, 44
Romance (literary form)
influence of foreign, 415
subject matter of, 415–416
in medieval Ireland, 415
Romanesque architecture, 27
Roman martyrology, 209
Ros Ailithir, 13
Roscommon, castle of, 68
Rothe, David, 95
Rous, Hugh de, 250
Royal authority, delegation of, 433
Ruaidrí Mac Duinn Sléibe, 108
The Rule of Fothad, 71
The Rule of the Céli De, 71, 309
S
Sacral kingship, 252
Sacrifice, 388
horse ritual, 165
Samain, 389
Sanas Chormaic (Cormac mac Cuilennáin), 107
Sanctions, of satire, 417
Sandford, John de, 78
Sapientes, 6
Satire, 417
Savages, the, 418
Scél Mucce Meic Dathó [The Tale of Mac Dathó’s Pig], 495
Senchas, 6
Scandinavian influence, 418–419
Scholastic texts, Hiberno-Latin, 216
Schools and scholarship
bardic, 35–38
classical influences on, 88–89
early Irish texts preserved by, 36
of history (Senchas), 36
law, 37
medical, 37–38
secular, in high Middle Ages, 35–36
and Ulster poets, 36, 37
Sciences, 419–421
Scotti, 421–422
Scottish influence, 422
Scottus, Clemens, 64, 205
Scottus, Josephus, 64
Scottus, Martin, 65
Scottus, Sedulius, 65, 88
life and work of, 425–426
poetry of, 379
Scribae, 6
Scribes
The Book of Leinster and, 273–274
discouraging Fíanaigecht, 166
work of, 268, 423
Scriptoria, 423
Sculpture, 112–113, 424
Scutage, 78, 168, 332, 432
Seáan Mór Ua Dubagáin, 488
Second Synod of Patrick, 321
Ségéne (Abbot of Iona), 368, 370
Self-government, municipal, 497–499
Senchus Fer nAlban [History of the Men of Scotland], 352
Senchas Már, 43, 264–265, 282
Senchas na Relec [Burial Ground Lore], 87, 181
Sén Dédon de for don te [God’s blessing, bear us, succour
us] (Colmán), 379
Sermons, 339
Sheela-na-gig, 426–427
Sheep, 8
Shee, Richard, 76, 95
Shields, 511–513
Shipbuilding, 112, 428
Shipping, 427–428
Ships, 427–428
Sick-maintenance, 43
Sigurd Hlodvisson, 92
Silken Thomas, rebellion of, 323
Síl Muiredaig. See Uí Briúin Aí
Silver, from Viking Age, 418
Simnel, Lambert, 81, 378