Medieval History
Dr Denis Casey writes:
- Report: Communication And Cultural Contacts In The North Atlantic Community
Sarah Waidler, a doctoral student in ASNC, writes: On 2ndMarch, the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic hosted a seminar entitled ?Communication and Cultural Contacts in the North Atlantic Community?. Held in St John?s College, this lively and...
- Round-up Of Recent Awards In Asnc
The Leverhulme Trust has made a grant to the Department for an international network entitled ?Converting the Isles: Conversion to Christianity in the Insular World?. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh will serve as Principal Investigator for the grant, working in...
- Insular Economics: Programme And Abstracts
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 10th September 2011 The programme and abstracts for the workshop Insular Economics: Ireland in the Eleventh and Twelfth Century (10th September, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University...
- Congratulations
Congratulations to Dr Denis Casey who has won the 2010 Irish Chiefs' Prize in History, which is awarded by the Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains in association with the History Department of Trinity College, Dublin and History Ireland magazine....
- Ireland In Cambridge
ELB writes: This week Cambridge has been a hive of Irish-related activity. Events began on Monday with a seminar given to the Medieval Archaeology group at the McDonald Institute by Dr Kieran O'Connor, of the National University of Ireland Galway,...
Medieval History
Insular Economics - Workshop Report
Dr Denis Casey writes:
The interdisciplinary Insular Economics workshop, run jointly by Andy Woods and Russell Ó Ríagáin (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research) and Denis Casey (Department of ASNC) was held in the McDonald Institute on Saturday 10th of September.
The workshop was opened by Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Reader in Celtic at ASNC, and Fellow of St John?s College, Cambridge) and there followed a series of papers that offered major challenges to current scholarly assumptions about economic activity in medieval Ireland and how it is studied. For example, volumes of coin use in medieval Dublin were shown to be considerably higher than one might have imagined, methods of defining economic hinterlands were challenged and texts such as Lebor na Cert (?The Book of Rights?) were the subject of fresh scrutiny.
The workshop finished with an open discussion led by Dr James Barrett (Deputy Director of the McDonald Institute) in which a number of the points raised were further examined and the thorny question of synthesis in archaeological, historical and textual studies explored ? to limited agreement! Nonetheless, it is hoped that many of the contributors will go on to publish their findings and contribute substantially to the study of the economy/economies and economics of medieval Ireland.
- Report: Communication And Cultural Contacts In The North Atlantic Community
Sarah Waidler, a doctoral student in ASNC, writes: On 2ndMarch, the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic hosted a seminar entitled ?Communication and Cultural Contacts in the North Atlantic Community?. Held in St John?s College, this lively and...
- Round-up Of Recent Awards In Asnc
The Leverhulme Trust has made a grant to the Department for an international network entitled ?Converting the Isles: Conversion to Christianity in the Insular World?. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh will serve as Principal Investigator for the grant, working in...
- Insular Economics: Programme And Abstracts
McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 10th September 2011 The programme and abstracts for the workshop Insular Economics: Ireland in the Eleventh and Twelfth Century (10th September, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University...
- Congratulations
Congratulations to Dr Denis Casey who has won the 2010 Irish Chiefs' Prize in History, which is awarded by the Council of Irish Chiefs and Chieftains in association with the History Department of Trinity College, Dublin and History Ireland magazine....
- Ireland In Cambridge
ELB writes: This week Cambridge has been a hive of Irish-related activity. Events began on Monday with a seminar given to the Medieval Archaeology group at the McDonald Institute by Dr Kieran O'Connor, of the National University of Ireland Galway,...