Medieval Ireland (New Gill History of Ireland 1)

Medieval Ireland – The Enduring Tradition, the first instalment in the New Gill History of Ireland series, offers an overview of Irish history from the coming of Christianity in the fifth century to the Reformation in the sixteenth, concentrating on Ireland's cultural and social life and highlighting Irish society's inherent stability in an very unstable period.Such a broad survey reveals features otherwise not easily detected. For all the complexity of political developments, Irish society rema