History (Scholarly Publications): Recent submissions
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Guillaume des Moustiers treatise on the armillary instrument (1264) and the practice of astronomical observation in medieval Europe
(2021)This article is devoted to a thirteenth-century Latin text on how to construct, set up, and use a version of the so-called armillary instrument (instrumentum armillarum), which was first described in Ptolemy’s Almagest as ... -
A Fourteenth-Century Scholastic Dispute on Astrological Interrogations
(2021)This article examines and edits an anonymous text from the late 1330s (Quesitum fuit utrum per interrogationes …), which was written to refute the arguments presented in a lost quaestio disputata by an unknown Parisian ... -
Giles of Lessines on Starlight and the Colour of the Sky
(2021)This article provides the first discussion of the unpublished treatise De crepusculis (“On twilight”), written in the second half of the thirteenth century by the Dominican scholar Giles of Lessines. It is shown that De ... -
Ephemerides in high medieval Europe: The textual evidence
(2021)A common aspect of the practice-oriented side of pre- and early modern mathematical astronomy was the computation of ephemerides, that is, tables that displayed the daily positions of the planets in a synoptic and calendrical ... -
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Historic Diet and Foodways: The FoodCult Project
(2021)This research note introduces the methodology of the FoodCult Project, with the aim of stimulating discussion regarding the interdisciplinary potential for historical food studies. The project represents the first major ... -
European Weather Extremes in the Lifetime of Charlemagne (c.742 - 814 CE)
(2013)Charlemagne (c.742 – 814 CE) had such a successful political and military career that for the entire subsequent medieval period his reign was portrayed as a model one for all European rulers to aspire to. But for all his ... -
Demystifying Collapse: Climate, Environment, and Social Agency in Pre-Modern Societies
(2020)Collapse is a term that has attracted much attention in social science literature in recent years, but there remain substantial areas of disagreement about how it should be understood in historical contexts. More specifically, ... -
How should historians approach elites?
(Springer, 2020)This paper probes the various methodologies that an historian of elite groups and elite culture can approach their work. Written from the perspective of an historian of nineteenth century elite education the paper segments ... -
Climate, disease and society in late-medieval Ireland
(2020)Palaeoclimatic data are used to track the significant changes in atmospheric circulation patterns and weather conditions that affected Ireland between 1000 and 1500CE. How these climatic developments and associated shifts ... -
FISHING FOR SURVIVAL IN THE ?BLUE ECONOMY?? FOUND POEMS FROM THE IRISH ISLANDS
(ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies., 2022)Almost three thousand islanders live on eighteen islands off the west coast of Ireland. These islands are not connected to the mainland by a land causeway. While many of these islands are dependent on a small-scale fishing ... -
Reflections on methodological tensions in doing qualitative research at the science-policy-community interface
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)Carrying out qualitative, participatory research at the science-policy-community interface can yield methodological tensions for the engaged researcher. Increasing calls for early career researchers to do policy-engaged ... -
From protest to participation: Learning from experience in Irish inshore fisheries management
(Springer, 2020)Approximately 86% of Irish fishing vessels, as of 2018, are classified as small-scale or inshore (under 12 m in length). These vessels are predominantly active within Ireland’s territorial waters (up to 12 nautical miles) ... -
Edward Hart: Bricklayer, Theologian and Nonjuring Martyr
(2021)This paper explores the neglected manuscripts and publications of Edward Hart, an early eighteenth-century Nonjuring bricklayer, whose determination to promote his cause ultimately led to his death. By discussing Hart’s ... -
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 ...
