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- Title
Reviews.
- Authors
Woolf, Alex; Henson, Don; Taylor, Simon; Brown, Michael
- Abstract
The last few years have seen an explosion of scholarly interest in, and publication on, the Irish Sea World in the central middle ages. The godfather of this trend is undoubtedly Seán Duffy of Trinity College Dublin who opened up the field in a number of important articles in the early 1990s,1 but in the new century we have suddenly been exposed to a series of monographs and essay collections which puts publication in some adjacent areas, including perhaps mainstream Scottish history, to shame. Benjamin Hudson has produced both a monograph, Viking Pirates and Christian Princes: Dynasty, Religion and Empire in the North Atlantic (Oxford, 2005), and a collection of his own essays, Irish Sea Studies, 900–1200 (Dublin, 2006); Clare Downham has published the book based upon her doctoral thesis, Viking Kings of Britain and Ireland: the Dynasty of Ívarr to A.D. 1014 (Edinburgh, 2007); and Duffy has returned to the fray with an edited conference proceedings, The World of the Galloglass: Kings, warlords and warriors in Ireland and Scotland, 1200–1600 (Dublin, 2007), which contains a number of papers dealing with the twelfth and thirteenth centuries in the Irish Sea World. Finally we have the book under review here written by an Assistant Professor at Brock University (not far from Niagara Falls) in Canada.
- Subjects
MANX Kingship in Its Irish Sea Setting 1187-1229: King Rognvaldr &; the Crovan Dynasty (Book); MCDONALD, R. Andrew; KINGS &; rulers; NONFICTION
- Publication
Innes Review, 2008, Vol 59, Issue 1, p113
- ISSN
0020-157X
- Publication type
Book Review
- DOI
10.3366/E0020157X08000176