Early Medieval Ireland: 400-1200 (Longman History of Ireland)

Daibhi O Croinin

ISBN 10: 0582015669 / ISBN 13: 9780582015661

Published by Longman Group United Kingdom, 1995

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Fine Clean Hardcover And Near Fine Collectible Dust Jacket Not Price Clipped. NOT a library copy. First Edition.London: Longman, 1995. Book. Fine. 379 pp. Comprehensive use of source material and early Irish law. Sees Irish Ogam as mostly Pagan without Christian influence. Hard to find in hardcover. Fine black Cloth. Silver spine titles. Dust jacket has an inch repaired tear on the lower back of the jacket but NO chips. Otherwise it would be "Fine" Three Geese in Flight since 1977 offering passionate Celtic Studies from the Land to the West. Seller Inventory # 016429

Bibliographic Details

Title: Early Medieval Ireland: 400-1200 (Longman ...

Publisher: Longman Group United Kingdom

Publication Date: 1995

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First English Edition.

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Synopsis:

This impressive survey is the first volume in a major new six-volume series, the Longman History of Ireland, under the General Editorship of Steven G. Ellis. It offers the most up-to-date account of the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the first stages of the Norman settlement.
In it, Daibhi O Croinin describes Ireland's emergence from the darkness of prehistory into the brilliant light of her 'Golden Age', as the 'Island of Saints and Scholars', and the subsequent evolution of a society comparable in achievement and sophistication with any in early medieval Europe. He examines the myths, and the reality behind them, that have gathered around Ireland's role in the formation of the 'First Europe', and he reassesses the contribution of Irish monks and scholars to that achievement.
Discussions provide the social, political, religious, legal and institutional background - in many respects unique to Ireland, and very different in kind from what was going on elsewhere in Europe at the time - against which Dr O Croinin describes (for the first time in one comprehensive and authoritative volume) Ireland's transformation from a tribal society to a feudal state.

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This impressive survey is the first volume in a major new six-volume series. It offers the most up to date account of the early history of Ireland from the coming of Christianity to the first stages of the Norman settlement.