Gaelic Ulster in the Middle Ages: History, Culture and Society

In: Trinity Medieval Ireland Ser.

Abstract

Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Irish place and personal names -- Abbreviations -- I. Political history -- Introduction -- 1. Early background: Ulster's central role in -- 2. Eleventh to twelfth centuries: Ulster's growing isolation -- 3. The Ulster earldom to the late thirteenth century: co-existence and Anglicization -- 4. The fourteenth century: absenteeism and Gaelic recovery -- 5. The fifteenth century: 'a balance of power'? Gaelicand Anglo-Irish paramount lordships -- 6 The Ulster chiefs and the Geraldine chief governors -- Plates -- II. Culture and society -- 7. Kings and kingship -- 8. The church in medieval Ulster -- 9. Ulster poets -- 10. Other Ulster 'men of art/learning' (áes eladan) -- 11. Warriors and warfare -- 12. Court ladies and the place of women in Gaelic society -- 13. The life of the people: popular assemblies, farming, houses, clothing and food -- 14. Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index.