Research Catalog

Title

Medieval Dublin : the living city / Howard Clarke, editor.

Publication

Blackrock : Irish Academic, c1990.

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Additional Authors

Clarke, Howard B.

Description

241 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

A selection of 14 key articles from scholarly journals dealing with the medieval history of the city of Dublin. This is a companion volume to Medieval Dublin : the making of a metropolis.

Subject

• To 1603
• Dublin (Ireland) > History
• Dublin, history

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Medieval Dublin in a European context / Anngret Simms -- Topographical development of Dublin / H.B. Clarke -- The origins of Dublin / P.F. Wallace -- Norse Dublin / Edmund Curtis -- Pre-Norman Dublin / John Ryan -- The inception of the Dodder water supply / Valentine Jackson -- Dublin's north-eastern city wall / Nuala Burke -- The High Street excavations / Breandán Ó. Ríordáin -- The ancient chapter-house of Holy Trinity / Thomas Drew -- The town walls of Dublin / Patrick Healy -- Seventeenth-century plans of Dublin Castle / J.B. Maquire -- Medieval sculpture of Christ Church Cathedral / Roger Stalley -- Monuments of the pre-Reformation archbishops / H.J. Lawlor -- The market cross of Dublin / H.S. Crawford.
• The first bishops of Dublin / Aubrey Gwynn -- The abbey of St. Thomas the Martyr, near Dublin / A.L. Elliott -- Hospital of St. Joohn without the Newgate, Dublin / Charles McNeill -- The Dominicans in medieval Dublin / Benedict O'Sullivan -- The rivalry of the cathedral chapters in medieval Dublin / G.J. Hand -- Fourteenth-century life in a Dublin monastery / Brian Mac Giolla Phádraig -- St. Patrick's Staff and Christ Church / M.V. Ronan -- The Dublin pennies in the name of Sitric Silkbeard in the Hermitage Museum at Leningrad / R.H.M. Dolley -- The beginnings of municipal government in Dublin / R. Dudley Edwards -- Catalogue of the mayors, provosts and bailiffs of Dublin City, A.D. 1229 to 1447 / H.F. Berry.
• The ancient official seals of the City of Dublin / W.G. Strickland -- The chief governors of medieval Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- Fisheries of the River Liffey / A.E.J. Went -- Vagabonds and sturdy beggars : poverty, pigs and pestilence in medieval Dublin / T.K. Moylan.

ISBN

• 0716524384
• 0716524600
• 0716524594 : (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

gb^89023981^

OCLC

21961748

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library