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Food and Social Politics in Early Modern Ireland: Representing the Peasant in The Parliament of Clan Tomas
(2022)
Recent historiography has demonstrated the immense material and metaphorical importance of food to representing social distinction in medieval and early modern Europe. To date there has been no effort to explore the Irish ...
A Fourteenth-Century Scholastic Dispute on Astrological Interrogations
(2021)
This article examines and edits an anonymous text from the late 1330s (Quesitum fuit utrum per interrogationes …), which was written to refute the arguments presented in a lost quaestio disputata by an unknown Parisian ...
Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context
(2021)
At the height of the Irish War of Independence,
1919–1921, 45-year-old Kate Maher was brutally
raped. She subsequently died of terrible wounds, almost
certainly inflicted by drunken British soldiers. This article
discusses ...
'The Scum of Controversy': Recantation Sermons in the Churches of England and Ireland, 1673-1779
(2022)
Recent studies of Anglicanism during the “long” eighteenth century have illuminated the fundamental role played by sermons, both as evangelistic and political tools. Virtually no scholarly attention, however, has been ...
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 ...
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 ...
FISHING FOR SURVIVAL IN THE ?BLUE ECONOMY?? FOUND POEMS FROM THE IRISH ISLANDS
(ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies., 2022)
Almost three thousand islanders live on eighteen islands off the west coast of Ireland. These islands are not connected to the mainland by a land causeway. While many of these islands are dependent on a small-scale fishing ...
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 ...
The Forgotten Drought of 1765-1768: Reconstructing and Re-evaluating Historical Droughts in the British and Irish Isles
(2020)
Historical precipitation records are fundamental for the management of water resources, yet rainfall observations typically span 100–150 years at most, with considerable uncertainties surrounding earlier records. Here, we ...
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 ...