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Making And Meaning in Insular Art (Triarc Research Studies in Irish Art)

Comprising papers from the 5th international conference on insular art held at Trinity College in August 2005, this volume deals with the technological and intellectual contexts of insular sculpture, metalwork, manuscript illumination and architecture, and the use of new methodologies in the scholarship of early medieval art.

Rachel Moss is a lecturer at the Irish Art Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin.

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Anglo-Irish And Gaelic Women in Ireland, C.1177-1540

Gillian Kenny provides a coherent picture of the lives of women in medieval Ireland through an examination of their marital circumstances. By comparing and contrasting the differing lives of Anglo-Irish and Gaelic singlewomen, wives, widows and nuns of late medieval Ireland, the author tries to identify how their functions and roles in society were affected by the differing rights enjoyed and by the restrictions imposed by their different societies.

The book is constructed to reflect thematically the standard marital progression of women in medieval Ireland (both Gaelic and Anglo-Irish) from singlewomen to wives to widows. The machinery of church and state dominated and controlled how women conducted their lives. Within these structures, however, women were able, to differing extents, to transmit and receive land and movables, to work for a living as tradeswomen, craftswomen or merchants, or to devote themselves to the spiritual life as singlewomen, wives or widows.

Gillian Kenny is a graduate of both University College Dublin, where she received her BA and MA, and of Trinity College Dublin where she was conferred with a PhD in 2005. She is currently engaged in research relating to Irishwomen's lives before the twelfth century.

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