Author Biography
Howard B. Clarke is Professor Emeritus of Medieval Social and Economic History at University College Dublin J. R. S. Phillips is Professor Emeritus of Medieval History at University College Dublin
Description
This is a collection of original essays on topics from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. The subjects include the history of medieval Dublin, the medieval Irish Church, Ireland in French Arthurian romances, English law in Ireland, urban institutions in medieval Europe, medieval Irish and Continental scholarship, a previously unknown royal portrait, an Irish archbishop's controversy with the friars, humanism in fourteenth-century Florence, the Reformation in England and Hungary, the Counter-Reformation in France, Spain and Ireland, piety in nineteenth-century England and Ireland, and the historiography of the 1916 Easter Rising. The authors are a distinguished group of scholars based in Ireland, England, Austria, Germany and the United States, who were pupils, colleagues and friends of F. X. Martin, who was Professor of Chair of Medieval History from 1962 until his retirement in 1988. The range of the resulting volume does justice to that of F. X. Martin's own interests and to the importance of his contributions to historical scholarship.
Introduction
Michael Richter, Aes Dana
Patrick F. Wallace, The Bigger Picture
- Reconstructing Hiberno-Norse Dublin
Adrian Empey, The Origins of the Medieval Parish Revisited
John Bradley, A Tale of Three Cities
- Bristol, Chester, Dublin and 'the Coming of the Normans'
Marie Therese Flanagan, Devotional Images and their Uses in the Twelfth-century Irish Church
- The Crucifix of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Dublin, and Archbishop John Cumin
Evelyn Mullally, The Irish Topography of Two Arthurian Romances
- Durmart le Galois and Les Merveilles de Rigomer
Jeremiah Hackett, Mirrors of Princes, Errors of Philosophers
- Roger Bacon and Giles of Rome (Aegidius Romanus) on the Education of the Government (the Prince)
Paul Brand, English Royal Justices in the Lordship of Ireland c. 1300 paul brand Street Life in Medieval Dublin
Michael Haren, Diocesan Dimensions of a Die-hard Dispute
- Richard FitzRalph and the Friars in Evolving Perspective, T.P. Dolan, Richard FitzRalph's Defensio Curatorum in Transmission
J. R. S. Phillips, The Face of Monarchy
- An Unknown Portrait of Charles V, King of France (1364-80)
Peter Gallagher, Luigi Marsili, the Florentine Humanist, and the Influence of Francesco Petrarca
Anngret Simms, Interlocking Spaces
- The Relative Location of Medieval Parish Churches, Churchyards, Marketplaces and Town Halls
Kevin Down, The Parish Clergy in the Archdeaconry of Worcester on the Eve of the Reformation
- An Introduction
. Joseph Bergin, Regulars as Bishops
- The French Church from the Concordat of Bologna (1516) to the Revolution
Katherine Walsh, A Habsburg who received a Dedication from Martin Luther
- The Reformation Sympathies of Maria, Queen of Hungary and Archduchess of Austria
Declan M. Downey, A Castilian-Regalist Cradling
- Spanish-Habsburg Formation of the Early Irish Counter-Reformation
Dermot Fenlon Newman, Ireland and the Oxford Movement
- Edward Caswall's Diary Michael Laffan, The Decade of the Rising
- F. X. Martin on 1916
Clare O'Reilly, Appendix The Writings of F. X. Martin, O.S.A., 1947-2001 Index.
"[F. X. Martin] would have loved the rich variety and ever-strengthened scholarship that this book exemplifies."
Books Ireland Sept 2006
"Ostensibly this is a festschrift for F. X. Martin, but it is as much a collection of essays in memory of the department of medieval history at UCD ... This beautiful book is a fitting testament to his memory and the environment he created."
Irish Times August 2006
"The editors, [F. X. Martin's] closest colleagues, have given us a fine tribute to an unforgettable and very unusual Augustinian."
Studies Vol 95 No 380 2006