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Author : Helen Oxenham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783271160
An examination of how the feminine was viewed in early medieval Ireland, through a careful study of a range of texts.
Author : Katharine Simms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004070712
"This volume of essays, which includes papers first given at a conference of the Irish Association for Research in Women's History, represents a fresh approach to the discussion of the position of women in Ireland in the Middle Ages: it attempts to set the experience of Irish women into a wider, European context. This comparative approach makes it possible to shake off the image of isolation and idiosyncrasy that has for too long clung to many aspects of medieval Irish society, and especially to the subjects of women and marriage." "A secondary theme of the volume is the extent to which women, in Ireland and outside, were able to take the initiative and make their interests and wishes count in the societies in which they lived. A number of the essays discuss the sources for the history of women and use them in new ways to recover what is possible of the lives and experiences of medieval women." "A combination of essays by established academics and younger scholars, covering literary topics as well as political, social and legal conditions as they affected women, the volume presents the results of recent research and represents very much the 'cutting edge' of scholarly work on medieval women, especially, but not exclusively, in Ireland."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Mary O'Dowd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317877257
The first general survey of the history of women in early modern Ireland. Based on an impressive range of source material, it presents the results of original research into women’s lives and experiences in Ireland from 1500 to 1800. This was a time of considerable change in Ireland as English colonisation, religious reform and urbanisation transformed society on the island. Gaelic society based on dynastic lordships and Brehon Law gave way to an anglicised and centralised form of government and an English legal system.
Author : Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Irish
ISBN : UVA:X002013572
Author : Lisa M. Bitel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0801485444
"This book disperses the shadows in an obscure but important landscape. Lisa Bitel addresses both the history of women in early Ireland and the history of myth, legend, and superstition which surrounded them. It is a powerful and exact book and an invaluable addition to our expanding sense of Ireland through the eyes of Irish women."--Eavan Boland, author of In a Time of Violence: Poems"It is refreshing to read in a book by a woman on medieval women that not all clerics hated women and that not all men were oversexed villains consciously bent on exploiting women. [Bitel] challenges not only the medieval Irish male construct of female behavior, but she is also courageous enough to question constructs of medieval women invented by modern Irish medieval historians."--Times Higher Education Supplement
Author : Lynette Olson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783272181
New essays shed light on the mysterious St Samson of Dol and his Vita.
Author : Patrick Sims-Williams
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843847069
Edition and translation of this important genre of Old Welsh poetry.The "Stanzas of the Graves" or "Graves of the Warriors of the Island of Britain", attributed to the legendary poet Taliesin, describe ancient heroes' burial places. Like the "Triads of the Island of Britain", they are an indispensable key to the narrative literature of medieval Wales. The heroes come from the whole of Britain, including Mercia and present-day Scotland, as well as many from Wales and a few from Ireland. Many characters known from the Mabinogion appear, often with additional information, as do some from romance and early Welsh saga, such as Arthur, Bedwyr, Gawain, Owain son of Urien, Merlin, and Vortigern. The seventh-century grave of Penda of Mercia, beneath the river Winwæd in Yorkshire, is the latest grave to be included. The poems testify to the interest aroused by megaliths, tumuli, and other apparently man-made monuments, some of which can be identified with known prehistoric remains.This volume offers a full edition and translation of the poems, mapped with reference to all the manuscripts, starting with the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest extant book of Welsh poetry. There is also a detailed commentary on their linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological aspects. translation of the poems, mapped with reference to all the manuscripts, starting with the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest extant book of Welsh poetry. There is also a detailed commentary on their linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological aspects. translation of the poems, mapped with reference to all the manuscripts, starting with the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest extant book of Welsh poetry. There is also a detailed commentary on their linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological aspects. translation of the poems, mapped with reference to all the manuscripts, starting with the Black Book of Carmarthen, the oldest extant book of Welsh poetry. There is also a detailed commentary on their linguistic, literary, historical, and archaeological aspects.
Author : Fiona Edmonds
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783273362
WINNER OF THE FRANK WATSON BOOK PRIZE 2021. SHORTLISTED IN SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2021 The first full-scale, interdisciplinary treatment of the wide-ranging connections between the Gaelic world and the Northumbrian kingdom.
Author : Rosemary Cullen Owens
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780717164554
A Social History of Women in Ireland is an important and overdue book that explores the role and status of women in Ireland from 1870 until 1970, looking at politics, sociology, marriage patterns, religion, education and work among other topics. It provides a vital missing piece in the jigsaw of modern Irish history. Using a combination of primary research and published works, A Social History of Women in Ireland explores the role and status of women in Ireland. It examines lifestyle options available to women during this period as well as providing an overview of the forces working for change within Irish society. In bringing together a wide-ranging portfolio of material, A Social History of Women in Ireland 1870–1970 fills an important gap in the literature of the period by focusing on the experiences of Irish women, a group so often overlooked in histories of revolutionary men and prominent politicians. Crucial to a determination of the status of women throughout this period is an examination of the choices available regarding work, marriage and emigration. Rosemary Cullen Owens stresses at all times the importance of class and land ownership as key determinants for women's lives. A decrease in home industries allied to increasing mechanisation on the farm resulted in a contraction of labour opportunities for rural women. With the establishment of an independent farming class, the distinguishing criteria for status in rural Ireland became ownership of land, in which single-minded patriarchal figures dominated. In this context, the position of women declined, and a society evolved with a high pattern of late-age marriages, large numbers of unwed sons and daughters, and an accepted pattern of emigration. In the cities and towns, the condition of lower-working-class women was especially distressing for most of the period, with particular problems regarding housing, health and sanitation. Through the work of campaigning activists, equal educational and political rights were eventually attained. From the early 1900s there was some expansion in female employment in shops, offices and industry, but domestic service remained a high source of employment. For middle-class women, employment opportunities were limited and usually disappeared on marriage. The civil service — a major employer in an economy that was generally un-dynamic and stagnant — operated a bar on married women for much of the period. Rosemary Cullen Owens not merely traces these injustices but also the campaigns fought to right them. She locates these struggles in the wider social context in which they took place. This important book restores balance to the narrative of modern Irish history, changing the focus from key male political figures to society at large by unveiling the often forgotten story of the country's women over a tumultuous century of change. In doing so, Rosemary Cullen Owens enriches our understanding of Irish history from 1870 to 1970. A Social History of Women in Ireland: Table of Contents Introduction Part 1. Irishwomen in the Nineteenth Century - 'A progressively widening set of objectives'—The Early Women's Movement - Developments in Female Education - Faith and Philanthropy—Women and Religion Part 2. A New Century—Action and Reaction - Radical Suffrage Campaign - Feminism and Nationalism - Pacifism, Militarism and Republicanism Part 3. Marriage, Motherhood and Work - The Social and Economic Role of Women in Post-Famine Ireland - Trade Unions and Irish Women - Women and Work Part 4. Women in the New Irish State - The Quest for Equal Citizenship 1922–1938 - The Politicisation of Women Mid-Twentieth Century Epilogue: A Woman's World?
Author : Christine Meek,Katharine Simms
Publisher : Four Courts PressLtd
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1851822062
This comparative approach makes it possible to shake off the image of isolation and idiosyncrasy that has for too long clung to many aspects of medieval Irish society, and especially to the subjects of women and marriage.
Author : Jennifer Redmond,Elaine Farrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000145083
This book is the first collection of essays to focus exclusively on Irish women’s experiences in the First World War period, 1914-18, across the island of Ireland, contextualising the wartime realities of women’s lives in a changing political landscape. The essays consider experiences ranging from the everyday realities of poverty and deprivation, to the contributions made to the war effort by women through philanthropy and by working directly with refugees. Gendered norms and assumptions about women’s behaviour are critically analysed, from the rhetoric surrounding ‘separation women’ and their use of alcohol, to the navigation of public spaces and the attempts to deter women from perceived immoral behaviour. Political life is also examined by leading scholars in the field, including accounts from women on both sides of the ‘Irish question’ and the impact the war had on their activism and ambitions. Finally, new light is shed on the experiences of women working in munitions factories around Ireland and the complexity of this work in the Irish context is explored. Throughout, it is asserted that while there were many commonalities in women’s experiences throughout the British and Irish Isles at this time, the particular political context of Ireland added a different, and in many respects an unexamined, dimension. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.
Author : Margaret MacCurtain,Mary O'Dowd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X001926136
Onderwerpen: eigendom 16e eeuw; piraterij met Gráinne O'Mally en Anne Bonny; oorlog 1640; literatuur 1500-1800; onderwijs; reformatie; abortus; gek zijn 1600-1850; bakers; huisindustrie.
Author : Sara Elin Roberts
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781783277261
A ground-breaking study of the lawbooks which were created in the changing social and political climate of post-conquest Wales.
Author : LYLE
Publisher : Early Medieval North Atlantic
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9463729054
Myth and History in Celtic and Scandinavian Traditions explores the traditions of two fascinating and contiguous cultures in north-western Europe. History regularly brought these two peoples into contact, most prominently with the Viking invasion of Ireland. In the famous Second Battle of Moytura, gods such as Lug, Balor, and the Dagda participated in the conflict that distinguished this invasion. Pseudohistory, which consists of both secular and ecclesiastical fictions, arose in this nexus of peoples and myth and spilled over into other contexts such as chronological annals. Scandinavian gods such as Odin, Balder, Thor, and Loki feature in the Edda of Snorri Sturluson and the history of the Danes by Saxo Grammaticus. This volume explores such written works alongside archaeological evidence from earlier periods through fresh approaches that challenge entrenched views.
Author : E.M. Trauth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401098366
In this book Eileen Trauth peers inside the day-to-day work lives of the people who have been bringing about Ireland's transition from a small agricultural country to a healthy information economy. It is one of few book-length interpretive studies in the information systems field. This book links the disciplines of information systems, international management, economic development, history, and public policy to tell the story behind the statistics about Ireland's economic development. The findings from this ten-year study illustrate the range of socio-cultural factors, which influence the emergence of an information sector. Ireland's story contains a message for other nations that this change to a new way of working and living is intimately connected to the cultural context within which it occurs. This book reveals the ethnographic approach that was used by taking the reader through the interpretive process as it occurred. The Appendix is devoted to additional detail about the methodology. Audience: This book should be read by PhD students and others who want to learn more about the actual application of ethnographic methods in information systems research. It should be read by students, researchers, teachers, and policy-makers working in several fields including global information systems, the information society, management in the knowledge economy, and economic development.