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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together scholarship from many disciplines, including history, heritage studies, archaeology, geography, and political science to provide a nuanced view of life in medieval Ireland and after. Primarily contributing to the fields of settlement and landscape studies, each essay considers the influence of Terence B. Barry of Trinity College Dublin within Ireland and internationally. Barry’s long career changed the direction of castle studies and brought the archaeology of medieval Ireland to wider knowledge. These essays, authored by an international team of fifteen scholars, develop many of his original research questions to provide timely and insightful reappraisals of material culture and the built and natural environments. Contributors (in order of appearance) are Robin Glasscock, Kieran O’Conor, Thomas Finan, James G. Schryver, Oliver Creighton, Robert Higham, Mary A. Valante, Margaret Murphy, John Soderberg, Conleth Manning, Victoria McAlister, Jennifer L. Immich, Calder Walton, Christiaan Corlett, Stephen H. Harrison, and Raghnall Ó Floinn.
Table of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Publications by T.B. Barry Notes on Contributors Introduction Victoria L. McAlister and Linda Shine PART 1: Reappraising Watery Settlement 1 Moated Sites in Ireland: The Current State of Knowledge Kieran O’Conor 2 Castle Strategy and the Rock of Lough Key Thomas Finan and James G. Schryver 3 Form, Function and Fluidity in Castles: Water and Fortification in Medieval Britain Oliver Creighton and Robert Higham PART 2: Rethinking Material Culture 4 Power and Literacy in Viking-Age Dublin Mary Valante 5 Possessions, Luxury Objects, and Identity in Late Medieval Ireland Margaret Murphy 6 Zooarchaeological Views into Late Medieval Ireland John Soderberg PART 3: Settlement and Landscape Afterlives 7 The Decline of the Settlement at Clonmacnoise Conleth Manning 8 What Is Lost Can Be Found: History and Geographical Information Systems as Tools for Identifying Deserted Medieval Rural Settlement Victoria L. McAlister and Jennifer Immich 9 Intelligence and Landscapes: Past, Present, and Future Calder Walton PART 4: Settlements in the Medieval and Modern Landscape 10 Stagonil, Powerscourt Demesne, County Wicklow: A Sub Manor of the Archbishop of Dublin Christiaan Corlett 11 Arklow and the Cistercians: A Medieval Borough and Manor Reconsidered Stephen H. Harrison 12 The End of Lagore: Later First Millennium CE, Medieval, Post-medieval and Modern Activity on an Early Medieval Royal Site Raghnall Ó Floinn Bibliography Index
