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Royal Inauguration in Gaelic Ireland C.1100-1600

By Elizabeth Fitzpatrick

Royal Inauguration in Gaelic Ireland C.1100-1600 Law

Royal Inauguration in Gaelic Ireland C.1100-1600

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This investigation considers the places on the Irish landscape where open-air Gaelic royal inauguration assemblies were held in the period c. 1100-1600. Specially designated inauguration sites played an important role in the political life of Gaelic lordships in later medieval Ireland. Gaelic ruling families often appropriated prehistoric ritual landscapes for their royal assemblies in order to attach the pedigree of a royal candidate to an illustrious past; such sites might be an alleged burial place of an eponymous ancestor or a legendary heroic figure, or an ancient landscape associated with renowned events. This study of their physical appearance, place-names, and geographical and historical contexts ranges over all the archaeological sites identified as inauguration places - enclosures, sepulchral mounds, natural places, ringforts and churches, and associated inauguration furniture in the form of 'leaca' and stone thrones, basin stones and sacred trees. Irish royal assembly places and practices are viewed in relation to sites elsewhere in Britain and greater Europe, and the circumstances that brought about the ending of the Gaelic practice of inauguration are also considered. ELIZABETH FitzPATRICK is Lecturer in Medieval Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
322
Release Date:
2005-01-01
Publication Date:
2004-11-30
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1843830906
ISBN13:
9781843830900
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
649 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
22 cm
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