School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Keeping Up with the Julii: Roman lmpact on Social Stratification and Mobility in the Rhône Basin c.125-10BCE
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)This thesis investigates the character and fate(s) of the local ruling classes of Gallic communities around the Greater Rhône Basin (such as the Aedui, Arverni, Allobroges, and Volcae Arecomici) in relation to the advent ... -
Rethinking the Borders of Islamic art: Paterna ceramics from the fourteenth century to today
(Equinox Publishing Limited, 2022)Recent scholarship in Islamic art and architecture has seen a growing interest in art from the borderlands – the borders of empires, peoples, religions and practices. In this context, the art of Muslim majority populations ... -
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 "Walking Nuns" are still walking: a study of Mercy sisters in Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Centre for Gender and Women's Studies, 1998)This dissertation looks at the life and work of a remarkable woman called Catherine McAuley in the early part of the 19th century. She emerged out of a distinct social economic background, where women's voices were barely ... -
'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 ... -
The Decline of the aristocracy and second Duke of Westminster 1900-40.
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)The title of my thesis is 'The Decline of the aristocracy and second Duke of Westminster 1900-40'. As my subject I have used the second Duke of Westminster to examine how the aristocracy reacted to the social, economic and ... -
Letter writing in seventh-century Europe: the case of Columbanus's Epistulae
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)The goal of this project is to present a comprehensive commentary to the collection of five Latin letters attributed to the Irish abbot and monastic founder Columbanus (c. 550-615). He was the first Irish man of letters ... -
History and Identity in Restoration Ireland, 1660-91
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)This thesis demonstrates how history mattered in the politics and society of seventeenth-century Ireland, how authors used the distant past in their arguments about the post-Restoration political and religious settlement ... -
The Uses of Cultural Heritage of Port Cities in Post-Industrial Societies, c.1980-2020
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)Cultural Heritage of Port Cities (CHPC) is a symbol and reflection of how people interact with the sea. It comprises both material (e.g. docklands, landscapes) and immaterial aspects (e.g. lifestyle and activities of local ... -
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 ... -
Women and reading in fin-de-siècle Ireland
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History, 2017)There is a general understanding that women at the turn of the twentieth century operated under the strict guidance of male authority, and women's reading activities are no exception. Existing studies, which are strongly ... -
St Patrick's Well
(TRIARC and Associated Editions, 2008)Just off the tree-lined pathway to the Provost’s House Stables is a narrow vault that extends under Nassau Street, close to its junction with Dawson Street. Housed within this vault is a well, reputed to be St Patrick’s ... -
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. ...
