A New History of Ireland, Volume II Medieval Ireland 1169-1534 [Paperback]

A New History of Irelandis the largest scholarly project in modern Irish history. In 9 volumes, it provides a comprehensive new synthesis of modern scholarship on every aspect of Irish history and prehistory, from the earliest geological and archaeological evidence, through the Middle Ages, down to the present day.

Volume II opens with a character study of medieval Ireland and a panoramic view of the countryc.1169, followed by nineteen chapters of narrative history, with a survey of Land and People,c.1300. There are further chapters on Gaelic and colonial society, economy and trade, literature in Irish, French, and English, architecture and sculpture, manuscripts and illuminations, and coinage.

Introduction,F. X. Martin
1. The Trembling Sod: Ireland in 1169,F. J. Byrne
2. Diarmit Mac Murchada and the Coming of the Anglo-Normans,F. X. Martin
3. Allies and an Overlord, 1169-72,F. X. Martin
4. Overlord Becomes Feudal Lord,F. X. Martin
5. John, Lord of Ireland, 1185-1216,F. X. Martin
6. The Expansion and Consolidation of the Colony, 1265-54,James Lydon
7. The Years of Crisis, 1254-1315,James Lydon
8. Land and People, c.1300,R. E. Glasscock
9. A Land of War,James Lydon
10. The Impact of the Bruce Invasion, 1315-27,James Lydon
11. Approaches to the History of Fourteenth-Century Ireland,J. A. Watt
12. Gaelic Polity and Cultural Identity,J. A. Watt
13. The Anglo-Irish Colony Under Strain, 1327-99,J. A. Watt
14. Gaelic Society and Economy,K. W. Nicholls
15. Colonial Society and Economy,Kevin Down
16. Overseas Trade,Wendy Childs and Timothy O'Neill
17. England and Ireland, 1399-1447,Art Cosgrove
18. The Emergence of the Pale, 1399-1447,Art Cosgrove
19. Anglo-Ireland and the Yorkist Cause, 147-60,Art Cosgrolc�