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CHCI-Mellon Crises of Democracy Global Humanities Institute Curriculum
(Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes, 2019)The Crises of Democracy Global Humanities Institute (GHI) was an 18-month project (2018-19) funded by the Consortium of Humanities and Centres institutes and the A.W. Mellon Foundation. The GHI brought together a consortium ... -
A Visigothic Computus of AD 722 (Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VMI 11, 26r?27r)
(Brepols, 2023)Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, VMI 11 contains a short text (26r–27r) overlooked by scholars of early medieval computus. This short note demonstrates its Visigothic origin and AD 722 as the year of composition. The text ... -
Draft Trinity Colonial Legacies Working Paper on TCD and Slavery
(2023)In April 2023 the Board of Trinity College Dublin voted to de-name the Berkeley Library. Built in 1967 as the New Library and named after the Irish Philosopher, cleric, and Trinity alumnus, Bishop George Berkeley in 1978, ... -
Working Paper on George Berkeley's Legacies at Trinity
(2023)This Working Paper details the memorialisation of Bishop George Berkeley (1685-1753) at Trinity College Dublin. It begins by first explaining who George Berkeley was, before moving on to discuss how he has been memorialised ... -
Gaelicisation, Education and the Gaelic Script
(Peter Lang, 2024)On St Brigit’s Day 1922, the new Provisional Government of the Saorstát, announced the first of a series of far-reaching changes to the national education system. The first of these, known as Public Notice No. 4, was ... -
Review of Toby Lincoln, An Urban History of China
(2023)Perhaps the greatest achievement of this book is the way that Toby Lincoln manages to convey a great enthusiasm for the vibrancy of Chinese cities. Author and reader alike are seduced by these exciting concentrations of ... -
Female Revolutionaries and Political Violence in India and Ireland 1919-1939
(Routledge, 2023)Post-Famine Irish family constructs were complex and hinged to a great degree on social class and household means. The term ‘family’ is hard to define since it may be used to describe a range of relationships, from related ... -
Injection: A Gender Perspective on Domestic Slavery
(Palgrave, 2023)This “injection” comes from the point of view of a historian of slavery turned historian of sexuality. The history of sexuality sits very uneasily with the history of enslavement, however, because of the problem of agency ... -
Climatic, Weather and Socio-Economic Conditions Corresponding with the mid-17th Century Eruption Cluster
(Routledge, 2022)The mid-17th century is characterized by a cluster of explosive volcanic eruptions in the 1630s and 1640s, climatic conditions culminating in the Maunder Minimum, and political instability and famine in regions of western ... -
New challenges for the Human Oceans Past agenda
(2022)We contend that the harvest of marine resources played a critical, but as yet underappreciated and poorly understood, role in global history. In a review of the field of marine environmental history and archaeology we ... -
Cowboys, Cod, Climate and Conflict: Navigations in the Digital Environmental Humanities
(Routledge, 2022)The DEH can be seen as an academic response to three major interwoven changes and challenges: the digital revolution; global warming and global warming and social-political agency related to environmental change. In the ... -
The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region
(European Geosciences Union, 2022)The 852/3 CE eruption of Mount Churchill, Alaska, was one of the largest first-millennium volcanic events, with a magnitude of 6.7 (VEI 6) and a tephra volume of 39.4–61.9 km3 (95 % confidence). The spatial extent of the ... -
Investigating Hydroclimatic Impacts of the 168-158 BCE Volcanic Quartet and their Relevance to the Nile River Basin and Egyptian History
(Routledge, 2023)The Ptolemaic era (305–30 BCE) is an important period of Ancient Egyptian history known for its material and scientific advances, but also intermittent political and social unrest in the form of (sometimes widespread) ... -
Lunar Eclipses Illuminate Timing and Climate Impact of Medieval Volcanism
(Routledge, 2023)Explosive volcanism is a key contributor to climate variability on interannual to centennial timescales1. Understanding the far-field societal impacts of eruption-forced climatic changes requires firm event chronologies ... -
Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Approach
(2023)Beer was a staple of early modern diets across northern Europe and the Atlantic World. While its profound social, economic, and cultural significance is well established, little is known about the nature and quality of the ... -
Food and Power in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: Studying Household Accounts from Dublin Castle
(2022)Studying the food practices of one vast and prominent Irish household reveals a com plex history of consumption, status, and power in sixteenth-century Europe. This article is a close analysis of the little studied but ... -
Categorizing Dicuil's 'De cursu solis lunaeque'
(Brepols, 2022)Dicuil’s so-called Liber de astronomia has confused many modern scholars. Based on an analysis of its structure, this paper argues that the very nature of the work has often been misunderstood. It was never meant to be a ... -
Introduction to the Memorials and Transcription Books in the Registry of Deeds
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Graeco-Arabic Astronomy for Twelfth-Century Latin Readers
(2022)This volume makes available two little-known twelfth-century Latin sources on mathematical astronomy: the anonymous Ptolomeus et multi sapientum… (c.1145), which is attributable to the famous Jewish astrologer Abraham Ibn ...
