Browsing History (Scholarly Publications) by Title
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Inventing the Grand Banks: A Deep Chart. Humanities GIS, Cartesian, and Literary Perceptions of the North-West Atlantic Fishery ca 1500-1800
(2020)As a feature of the Fish Revolution (1400–1700), the early modern “invention” of the Grand Banks in literary and cartographical documents facilitated a massive and unprecedented extraction of cod from the waters of the ... -
Investigating Hydroclimatic Impacts of the 168-158 BCE Volcanic Quartet and their Relevance to the Nile River Basin and Egyptian History
(Routledge, 2023)The Ptolemaic era (305–30 BCE) is an important period of Ancient Egyptian history known for its material and scientific advances, but also intermittent political and social unrest in the form of (sometimes widespread) ... -
Ireland, 1686-1825
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The Irish schoolboy novel
(2009)Ireland has its own set of much neglected schoolboy novels. Aside from James Joyce's seminal work, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916), few have received any critical attention, due in many cases to small print ... -
'Isidore of Seville and the formation of medieval computus
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James the Usurper of Desmond and the origins of the Talbot-Ormond feud
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The Jesuits and the Irish Catholic Elite
(2019)Since their re-establishment in the early decades of the nineteenth century the Jesuits have successfully maintained a position at the pinnacle of Catholic elite education. In this article I propose to discuss Irish education ... -
John/Eleanor Rykener Revisited
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Kampen om det som ingen ejer: om rettighederne til den ?de jord indtil 1241 som baggrund for den tidlige middelalders bondeuro
(Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 1985)[ (In Danish) The Fight over That Which Noone Owns. On the Rights to Deserted Lands before 1241 as a Backdrop to Early Medieval Peasant Unrest. Discusses royal and monastic encroachment on communal woodlands in 11th-13th ... -
Killing and Bloody Sunday, November 1920
(Cambridge University Press, 2006)21 November 1920 began with the killing of fourteen men in their ?ats, boarding houses, and hotel rooms in Dublin. The Irish Republican Army (IRA) alleged that they were British spies. That afternoon British forces ... -
Kings and queens at home: a short history of the chess column in 19th century English periodicals
(2009)This article examines the origin and growth of chess columns in English periodicals. The space devoted by many magazines and newspapers to games and puzzles is a research topic that has mainly been ignored by scholars. ... -
Knowledge and Power in the Making of the Soviet Village
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Learning from Asian and Indo-Pacific fisheries history
(Springer Science+Business Media, 2014)Until recently very little had been published on the history of Asian fisheries. This sorry state of neglect changed at one stroke with the publication of Butcher's 2004 study of South East Asian fisheries. The present ... -
'The Lecky Professors'
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Like the end of a beautiful world: eco-critical perceptions of landscape in the works of Francis Ledwidge and Lord Dunsany
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The lost fragment of Claudius of Turin's Chronicle rediscovered, and the relation between Paris BnF Lat. 5001 and Lat. 7400B
(2020)In 1657, Pierre Labbe published two fragments of Claudius of Turin’s Chronicle. The first was subsequently identified with Paris BnF Lat. 5001, 1r-8v, while the second was believed to be lost. This article announces the ... -
Lunar Eclipses Illuminate Timing and Climate Impact of Medieval Volcanism
(Routledge, 2023)Explosive volcanism is a key contributor to climate variability on interannual to centennial timescales1. Understanding the far-field societal impacts of eruption-forced climatic changes requires firm event chronologies ...