History (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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The 852/3 CE Mount Churchill Eruption: Examining the Potential Climatic and Societal Impacts and the Timing of the Medieval Climate Anomaly in the North Atlantic Region
(European Geosciences Union, 2022)The 852/3 CE eruption of Mount Churchill, Alaska, was one of the largest first-millennium volcanic events, with a magnitude of 6.7 (VEI 6) and a tephra volume of 39.4–61.9 km3 (95 % confidence). The spatial extent of the ... -
Investigating Hydroclimatic Impacts of the 168�158�BCE Volcanic Quartet and their Relevance to the Nile River Basin and Egyptian History
(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) ... -
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 ... -
Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Approach
(2023)Beer was a staple of early modern diets across northern Europe and the Atlantic World. While its profound social, economic, and cultural significance is well established, little is known about the nature and quality of the ... -
Food and Power in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: Studying Household Accounts from Dublin Castle
(2022)Studying the food practices of one vast and prominent Irish household reveals a com plex history of consumption, status, and power in sixteenth-century Europe. This article is a close analysis of the little studied but ... -
Categorizing Dicuil's 'De cursu solis lunaeque'
(Brepols, 2022)Dicuil’s so-called Liber de astronomia has confused many modern scholars. Based on an analysis of its structure, this paper argues that the very nature of the work has often been misunderstood. It was never meant to be a ... -
Introduction to the Memorials and Transcription Books in the Registry of Deeds
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Graeco-Arabic Astronomy for Twelfth-Century Latin Readers
(2022)This volume makes available two little-known twelfth-century Latin sources on mathematical astronomy: the anonymous Ptolomeus et multi sapientum… (c.1145), which is attributable to the famous Jewish astrologer Abraham Ibn ... -
Sexual assault and fatal violence against women during the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921: Kate Maher’s murder in context
(2021)At the height of the Irish War of Independence, 1919–1921, 45-year-old Kate Maher was brutally raped. She subsequently died of terrible wounds, almost certainly inflicted by drunken British soldiers. This article discusses ... -
Best of times, worst of time
(Martello Publishing, 2021)James Malton’s twenty-five engravings of Dublin were first published in London between 1792 and 1797, appearing at intervals in batches. The young Malton had been trained as an architectural draughtsman, coming to Dublin ... -
Astronomical Shop Talk in Paris, ca 1246: An Edition and Translation of John of London's Letter to R. de Guedingue
(2021)A unique source on the practical aspects of the scientia astrorum (astronomy and astrology) in medieval Europe has come down to us in the shape of a letter written shortly after 1246 by John of London, an astronomer ... -
'The Scum of Controversy': Recantation Sermons in the Churches of England and Ireland, 1673-1779
(2022)Recent studies of Anglicanism during the “long” eighteenth century have illuminated the fundamental role played by sermons, both as evangelistic and political tools. Virtually no scholarly attention, however, has been ... -
The Reception of Thomas Delaune's Plea for the Non-Conformists in England and America, 1684-1870
(2022)In a 1683 sermon, Benjamin Calamy, an Anglican priest, claimed that the separation of Dissenters from the Church of England was unjustifiable. Thomas Delaune, a London Baptist schoolmaster, responded in A Plea for the ... -
The Impact of History Textbooks on Young Chinese People's Understanding of the Past: A Social Media Analysis
(2022)History textbooks are the only history books that the majority of people read in their lives. This article investigates the impact of history textbooks on young Chinese people's understanding of their nation's modern ... -
Food and Social Politics in Early Modern Ireland: Representing the Peasant in The Parliament of Clan Tomas
(2022)Recent historiography has demonstrated the immense material and metaphorical importance of food to representing social distinction in medieval and early modern Europe. To date there has been no effort to explore the Irish ... -
Sidereal Astrology in Medieval Europe (Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries): Traces of a Forgotten Tradition
(2021)Sets of astronomical tables available in Latin Europe during the Middle Ages can be classified based on whether they imitated Ptolemy in using a tropical zodiac for displaying planetary mean motions or followed an Indian ... -
A Thirteenth-Century Latin List of Ptolemaic Coordinates
(2022)This article makes the argument that a Latin table of geographic coordinates, copied in Italy in the second half of the thirteenth century (MS Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Ashburnham 211, fol. 260r), is derived ... -
SDG 14 Exploiting and Managing the Alien and Unseen World below Water
(Oxford University Press, 2022)The problem with the ocean is that we do not see what is below the surface. When we clear land for urban development, when we change agricultural practices, when we cut the trees or kill off the wolves, we see the changes. ...
