Ireland encastellated, AD 950-1550 : insular castle-building in Its european context /

O'Keeffe, Tadhg

Ireland encastellated, AD 950-1550 : insular castle-building in Its european context / [electronic book] / Tadhg O'Keeffe - 1 online resource (241 pages) : illustrations ;

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Despite an ever-expanding literature on Irish castles, the relationships between the castle building tradition in Ireland and those of contemporary Europe have attracted very little attention among Irish scholars. This book seeks to remedy this by approaching the corpus of Irish castles as a non-Irish scholar might do. Is there a case for dating the first castles in Ireland to the tenth century in line with the revised chronology of castle-building on the Continent? Are castles in Ireland typical of their periods by contemporary standards in England and France in particular?


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Castles--Ireland
International relations
Antiquities