Research Catalog

Title

Early medieval Munster : archaeology, history, and society / edited by Michael A. Monk and John Sheehan.

Publication

Cork : Cork University Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Monk, Michael A.
• Sheehan, John

Description

[ix], 220 p. : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Subject

• Geschichte 500-1200
• Archaeology, Medieval > Ireland > Munster
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Ireland > Munster
• Munster (Ireland) > History
• Munster (Ireland) > Antiquities

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- 1 Research and Early Medieval Munster: Agenda or Vacuum? (starting p. 1) / Michael A. Monk, John Sheehan -- 2 Early Medieval Munster: Thoughts upon its Primary Christian Phase (starting p. 9) / Charles Thomas -- 3 The Question of the 'Pre-Patrician' Saints of Munster (starting p. 17) / Dagmar O. Riain-Raedel -- 4 Munster Ogham Stones: Siting, Context and Function (starting p. 23) / Fionnbarr Moore -- 5 Early Medieval Secular and Ecclesiastical Settlement in Munster (starting p. 33) / Michael A. Monk -- 6 Wood and Woodlands in Early Medieval Munster (starting p. 53) / John Tierney -- 7 Archaeozoological Studies and Early Medieval Munster (starting p. 59) / Margaret McCarthy -- 8 Archaeobotanical Studies and Early Medieval Munster (starting p. 65) / Michael A. Monk, John Tierney, Martha Hannon -- 9 Porridges, Gruels and Breads: The Cereal Foodstuffs of Early Medieval Ireland (starting p. 76) / Regina Sexton -- 10 The Craft of the Millwright in Early Medieval Munster (starting p. 87) / Colin Rynne -- 11 Illaunloughan, Co. Kerry: An Island Hermitage (starting p. 102) / Jenny White Marshall, Claire Walsh -- 12 Architectural Traditions of the Early Medieval Church in Munster (starting p. 112) / Tadhg O'Keeffe -- 13 Ireland's Earliest 'Celtic' High Crosses: The Ossory and Related Crosses (starting p. 125) / Etienne Rynne -- 14 Late High Crosses in Munster: Tradition and Novelty in Twelfth-Century Irish Art (starting p. 138) / Rhoda Cronin -- 15 Viking Age Hoards from Munster: A Regional Tradition? (starting p. 147) / John Sheehan -- 16 Viking Age Towns: Archaeological Evidence from Waterford and Cork (starting p. 164) / Maurice F. Hurley -- 17 Nationalists, Archaeologists and the Myth of the Golden Age (starting p. 178) / Jerry O'Sullivan -- 18 Theory and Politics in Early Medieval Irish Archaeology (starting p. 190) / Michael Tierney -- 19 Early Medieval Munster: Summary and Prospect (starting p. 200) / Nancy Edwards -- List of Illustrations (starting p. 206) -- Contributors (starting p. 208) -- Index (starting p. 209)

ISBN

1859181074

LCCN

^^^99192209^

OCLC

• 40611146
• SCSB-12629170

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library