Space and settlement in medieval Ireland / Vicky McAlister and Terry Barry, editors.
This volume is a selection of some of the most inspirational papers given at the first three Space and Settlement conferences held annually in Trinity College Dublin. Each contribution represents the new frontier of research in this growing field of academic endeavour, which broadly embraces the dis...
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Oliver Creighton
- Acknowledgments
- Lothlind / Benjamin Hudson
- The Normans and the Irish Sea world in the era of the Battle of Clontarf / Patrick Wadden
- Studying early medieval Irish urbanization: problems and possibilities / Rebecca Wall Forrestal
- Fleets, forts and the geography of Toirdelbach Ua Conchobair's bid for the high-kingship / Mary Valante
- On the edge of the colony: Overk and the Carlow Corridor / Linda Shine
- The spatial dynamic of the Irish tower house hall / Rory Sherlock
- The tower houses of Co. Down: stylistic similarity, functional difference / Gillian Eadie
- The death of the tower house? An examination of the decline of the Irish castle tradition / Vicky McAlister
- Deer parks: lost medieval monuments of the Irish countryside / Fiona Beglane
- The economic hinterland of Drogheda in the later Middle Ages / James A. Galloway
- Reconstructing battlefield landscapes / Damian Shiels
- Conclusion / Terry Barry.