Author:
Curtis, Edmund, 1881-1943, author.
Edition Statement:First paperback edition.
ImprintDublin, Ireland ; Chicago, IL : Four Courts Press, 2019.
Descriptionxxii, 407 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Note:Also referred to as "second edition"--Page 1.
Note:Introduction to second edition: On bumper crops and stiffening winds: a bibliographical essay / Peter Crooks -- Introduction: The Lecky professors / Peter Crooks -- Prologue: Irish history and its popular versions / Edmund Curtis -- Part 1. Government -- Ireland and the English crown, 1171-1541 / James Lydon -- The chief governors of medieval Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- William of Windsor and the Irish parliament / James Lydon -- The medieval Irish chancery / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- Anglo-Irish shire government in the thirteenth century / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- The native Irish and English law in medieval Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- Part 2. War -- Knight service in Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- Royal service in Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- The hobelar : an Irish contribution to medieval warfare / James Lydon -- An Irish army in Scotland, 1296 / James Lydon -- Irish levies in the Scottish wars, 1296-1302 / James Lydon -- Edward I, Ireland and the war in Scotland, 1303-1304 / James Lydon -- Richard II's expeditions to Ireland / James Lydon -- Richard, duke of York, as viceroy of Ireland, 1447-1460 : with unpublished materials for his relations with native chiefs / Edmund Curtis -- Part 3. Society -- The character of Norman settlement in Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- The organization of Anglo-Irish agriculture in the middle ages / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- The English and Ostmen in Ireland / Edmund Curtis -- The clan system among the English settlers in Ireland / Edmund Curtis -- The spoken languages of medieval Ireland / Edmund Curtis -- The problem of the frontier in medieval Ireland / James Lydon -- The middle nation / James Lydon -- Further reading -- Government, war and society in English Ireland, 1171-1541 : a guide to recent work / Peter Crooks.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:This volume brings together twenty classic essays by three of the greatest historians of later medieval Ireland: Edmund Curtis (d. 1943), Jocelyn Otway-Ruthven (d. 1989) and James Lydon. These scholars successively held the Lecky Chair of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin, for a period of nearly fifty years. The collection includes several of their most influential studies on the social, institutional, and political character of the English colony in Ireland between the invasion of the late 12th century and the 'Act of Kingly Title' in 1541. It includes Otway-Ruthven's unsurpassed studies of central and local government; and James Lydon's seminal explorations of the identity of the English community in medieval Ireland. To set the scene for this pioneering work, the collection opens with Edmund Curtis' lecture on 'Irish history and its popular versions' - delivered in 1925, as the fledgling Irish Free State was coming to terms with independence. The republication of these essays in a single collection will provide scholars, students and the general public alike with ready access to an invaluable intellectual resource.
