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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 ... -
A.D. 672 - the apex of apocalyptic thought in the early medieval Latin West?
(de Gruyter, 2020)In Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, the Second Coming of Christ was connected to the beginning of the seventh millennium. This raised apocalyptic expectations for the end of sixth millennium. When exactly this was ... -
Abstract Machine Geographical Information Systems (GIS) for literary and cultural studies: Mapping Kavanagh
(Edinburgh University Press, 2011)Drawing upon previous theoretical and practical work in historical and qualitative applications of Geographical Information Systems (GIS), this paper, in Giles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's terminology, conceptualizes GIS ... -
Aftershocks: Violence in Dissolving Empires after the First World War
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)This special issue deals with the phenomenon of the emergence of radical violence in what might be called `shatter zones? of empires after the end of the First World War. It argues that the emergence of violence was due ... -
The Annals of Lampert of Hersfeld
(Manchester University Press: Manchester/New York,, 2015)This is a translation of the eleventh-century Latin Annals of Lampert, monk of Hersfeld, with detailed commentary and introduction. No translation has hitherto been published in English, despite the fact that it is one of ... -
Astronomical Shop Talk in Paris, ca 1246: An Edition and Translation of John of London's Letter to R. de Guedingue
(2021)A unique source on the practical aspects of the scientia astrorum (astronomy and astrology) in medieval Europe has come down to us in the shape of a letter written shortly after 1246 by John of London, an astronomer ... -
ATROCITIES AT SEA AND THE TREATMENT OF PRISONERS OF WAR BY THE PARLIAMENTARY NAVY IN IRELAND, 1641-1649
(2010)In 1643, Robert Rich, the second earl of Warwick, the parliamentary lord high admiral, issued directions for naval officers in the Irish squadron to execute any soldiers seized whilst crossing from Ireland to join royalist ... -
Before Humpty Dumpty: the first English empire and the brittleness of bureaucracy, 1259?1453
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Best of times, worst of time
(Martello Publishing, 2021)James Malton’s twenty-five engravings of Dublin were first published in London between 1792 and 1797, appearing at intervals in batches. The young Malton had been trained as an architectural draughtsman, coming to Dublin ... -
Between Apathy and Antipathy: The Vikings in Irish and Scandinavian History
(1995)"Neither apathy nor antipathy can ever bring out the truth of history" (Eoin MacNeill, Phases of Irish History, Dublin, 1919, vi). Around 1970 the subject of "the Vikings in Ireland" was seen, historiographically, as a ... -
Beyond the Cartesian Imagination: Placing Beckett
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'The cage of my moment': a conversation with Emma Donoghue about history and fiction
(2019)This conversation with the Irish author Emma Donoghue is focused on her relationship with history and fiction. Topics discussed include the relationship between scholarly research and the writing of historical fiction, ... -
'The "Calculus of Faction" and Richard II's Duchy of Ireland'
(Boydell Press, 2008)