This thesis seeics to present a study of the activity of the Society of Jesus and its engagement with Ireland. The study will look at the period from 1542 when Jesuits first came to Ireland, until 1633, when Wentworth ...

This dissertation focuses primarily upon the practice of pilgrimage ex patria (‘[away] from one’s country’), the act of abandoning one’s homeland, usually permanently, for the sake of God, a practice that was uniquely ...

Tower houses are a familiar feature of the Irish countryside, and this investigation considers not only the circumstances in which they came to be built, but also the development of our appreciation of their place in the ...

This thesis was an attempt to underline the positive aspects of the contribution of Philip I of France (1060-1108) to the development of the Capetian monarchy of France. His reign has been little studied in any language. ...

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 ...

This thesis explores the complexity of the design and development of the bow and the crossbow in the Later Middle Ages. The data used in this study were primarily archaeological, supplemented by some textual and artistic ...