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LAUNCH OF NEW BOOK OF ESSAYS BY MEDIEVALISTS
OF TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN  Dr
Seán Duffy, chairman of the Friends of Medieval Dublin will speak at a
reception on Tuesday 25 November 2008 at 6.00p.m. in the New Common Room (above
the Dining Hall) in Trinity College Dublin to to mark the publication of Peter
Crooks (ed.), Government,
War and Society in Medieval Ireland: Essays by Edmund Curtis, A.J. Otway-Ruthven
and James Lydon (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008) and the launch of the
Otway-Ruthven Centre for Medieval History, Trinity College, Dublin.
In
the late twelfth century, Ireland was absorbed into the dominions of the kings
of England. This seminal development transformed the social and political life
of the island, with implications that resonate to the present day. How are we
to interpret this formative period of Irish history? In the course of the twentieth
century, three successive occupants of the Lecky chair of history in Trinity College,
Dublin, sought to provide answers. Modern scholarship remains deeply indebted
to the pioneering work of Edmund Curtis, A.J. Otway-Ruthven and James Lydon. This
volume brings together twenty-one of their most influential essays on the social,
institutional and political character of the English colony in medieval Ireland.
The editor's introduction explores the careers of ‘The Lecky Professors’
and assesses their intellectual legacy. This is an indispensable collection of
essays for all those interested in the history of Ireland and Britain in the Middle
Ages. Peter Crooks holds a gold medal in history and
a doctorate from Trinity College, Dublin, where he currently teaches in the Department
of History and is deputy director of the Irish Chancery Project. He is a former
research fellow of the Past and Present Society at the Institute of Historical
Research, London. |
