1st Edition
Irish Kingship in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Approaches to the Study of Power
By Ronan Mulhaire
Copyright 2025
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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Irish Kingship in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries examines the power of medieval Irish kings but treats ‘power’ as a complex concept worthy of study in its own right. It starts from the premise that historians of medieval Ireland have interpreted ‘power’ in a narrow way. This book engages with the rich corpus of literature on power produced by political scientists and sociologists, which... Read more
Introduction
1 ‘Power’ and the study of Irish kingship
2 Identifying the kings of medieval Ireland
3 Varieties of non-royal lordship
4 ‘There was a great murmuring against him…’: resistance in medieval Ireland
Conclusion
List of Kings
Bibliography
Biography
Ronan Mulhaire holds a PhD in medieval history from Trinity College Dublin and has taught in a number of third-level institutions in Ireland. He currently works at Hibernia College, Dublin, Ireland.
