Browsing History (Theses and Dissertations) by Title
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Anglo-Norman castles and religious foundations in Counties Louth and Down : a comparison with examples in England and Wales
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2009)This aim of this thesis is to prove that in the aftermath of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland in 1169, the buildings constructed by the first wave of settlers reflected the architectural influences of contemporary ... -
Archery and warfare in medieval Ireland: a historical and archaeological study
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Aristocratic society in Abruzzo, c.950-1140
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2014)This thesis is an examination of aristocratic society in the Italian province of Abruzzo from the mid-tenth century to the incorporation of the region into kingdom of Sicily in 1140. To rectify the historiographical deficit ... -
Aspects of early Irish ecclesiastical organisation
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1993) -
Battle at long range : correspondence chess in Britain and Ireland, 1824-1914, a social and cultural history
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Beyond Mission: Willibrord as a Political Actor between Early Medieval Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690-739)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)The thesis reassesses the activity of the Northumbrian cleric Willibrord (658 739) on the continent between 690 and 739. Traditionally, Willibrord has been perceived as the first representative of a new wave of Anglo-Saxon ... -
Bias-cut justice: the legal pursuits of Isolde Pantulf, Hawise, Countess of Aumale, and Nicholaa de la Haye c. 1180-1216
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)Isolde Pantulf, Hawise, countess of Aumale, and Nicholaa de la Haye were contemporaries navigating the justice system in thirteenth-century England primarily under the reign of King John. The following study traces key ... -
Biography, romance and chivalry : Barbour's The Bruce and Chandos Herald's La vie du Prince Noir
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2007)The aim of this thesis is to establish the form and function of two late fourteenth- century biographies of royal subjects in Britain: John Barbour’s The Bruce, which was written circa 1375, and Chandos Herald’s La vie du ... -
The British popular press and Ireland, 1922-32
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)Concentrating on the Daily Express, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror, this thesis examines the relationship between the British popular press and Ireland across the first decade of Irish independence. Undertaking cover-to-cover ... -
Calvin and humanism
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)Calvin and humanism is an extensive and controversial topic the treatment of which depends to a considerable extent on the type of approach and method adopted. The introduction provides an overview of the special difficulties ... -
Captain Barnaby Rich (1542-1617) : Protestant witness in Reformation Ireland
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Catholicism in the province of Armagh, 1603-1641
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2004)The thesis explores the evolution of Roman Catholicism in the province of Armagh from 1603 to 1641. The ecclesiastical province of Armagh embraces Ulster together with north Leinster, which in the catholic community of the ... -
Catholics and the Law in Restoration Ireland 1660 -1691
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2019)By 1660, the Common Law was widely, if not universally, applied in Ireland. For the English and Protestant interest, the law was the principal means of enforcing the mandate of the administration, short of military ... -
Censorship in the two Irelands 1922-1939
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2003)This thesis was based on archival research in the repositories named in the bibliography. This was supplemented by secondary sources where primary sources were inadequate or unavailable. Archival research has been supplemented ... -
The Channel Islands in the Plantagenet realm, 1204-1341
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2023)This thesis examines the place of the Channel Islands in the wider realm of the Plantagenet kings of England from 1204 to 1341. It seeks to demonstrate that the Islands, despite their small size, were viewed by the kings ... -
Charles Stewart Parnell in the context of his family and social background
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 1974) -
Charting the development of crusading ideolgy : an examination of proto-crusade primary sources
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2015)This thesis is a study of the development of crusading ideology. First Crusade source materials are examined initially in order to identify the ideological elements that underpinned the crusading movement. Four concepts ... -
Church and polity in pre-Norman Ireland : the case of Glendalough
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Classical erudition in the letters of Peter of Blois
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2010)Peter of Blois (c. 1135-1212) is best known for the collection of letters dedicated by him to King Henry II of England. Regarded as a model of the art of medieval letter-writing, his collection influenced subsequent ... -
Clerical opposition to the Franco regime in the dioceses of Barcelona, Vitoria and Bilbao after the civil war (1939-1975)
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2002)