School of Histories and Humanities: Recent submissions
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Vehicles of Meaning: Ships, Materiality, and the Boundaries of the Iliad
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of Classics, 2022)Ships are the most prominent material objects in the world of epic and the lemma ship (νηῦς) is the one of the most common substantives in the Iliad. Despite this, there has never been a sustained account of what ships do ... -
Roderic O'Conor 1860-1940
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History of Art and Architecture, 1992)This study documents the life and work of the Irish artist Roderic O'Conor, placing his drawings, prints, and paintings in their appropriate historical context. -
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(2021)This article provides the first discussion of the unpublished treatise De crepusculis (“On twilight”), written in the second half of the thirteenth century by the Dominican scholar Giles of Lessines.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 ... -
Beyond Mission: Willibrord as a Political Actor between Early Medieval Ireland, Britain and Merovingian Francia (690-739)
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2022)The thesis reassesses the activity of the Northumbrian cleric Willibrord (658 739) on the continent between 690 and 739. Traditionally, Willibrord has been perceived as the first representative of a new wave of Anglo-Saxon ... -
Representations of music in nineteenth-century French art
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History Of Art, 2021)In the abundant production shown in Salons - official and non-official - during the Second Empire and the Third Republic until 1900, a number of paintings have music as their theme. They form occasional clusters, corresponding ... -
European Marine Fish Market Dynamics, 1500 to 1800 CE
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)European population more than doubled during the early modern period between 1500 and 1790. A priori, the demographic rise depended on increased food supplies, but to what extent was food security dependable, and what were ... -
Discipline(d) and Punish(ed): The Museum as a 'Prison' of Culture
(Trinity College Dublin, 2021)This thesis examines museum possession of objects against a framework of Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish, specifically his application of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon model. It applies the theory ... -
The Architecture of the Church of St Patrick and St Brigid
(2021)The post-famine period saw a boom in Catholic church building across Ireland. County Kildare, as home to Maynooth College (1795; 1845) and Clongowes Wood College (1814), was at the forefront of Catholic religious revival ... -
The Georgian Castle at Clongowes
(2020)The history of the castle at Clongowes is long and complicated, with several phases of reconstruction and expansion. The imposing facades overlook the long avenue to the front, the pleasure grounds to the north and the ... -
The place of Ireland in the development of American global thought in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities. Discipline of History, 2021)This thesis is a study of a particular dimension of American political and historical thought in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During this period American writers and intellectuals acknowledged, ... -
Unfinished business: Thomas Duff of Newry
(2020)The Festschrift is the friend of unfinished research relegated to shelf or drawer, too hard-won and engaging to be forgotten. The date ‘24th April 1985’ is inscribed on a manuscript transcription made at ... -
The Museum Building's radical polychromy
(Four Courts Press, 2019)The radical polychromy of the Museum Building at Trinity College Dublin did not emerge Minerva-like from the brow of Benajmin Woodward, but rather from an imbrication of architecture, geology and engineering ... -
Introduction
(Four Courts Press, 2019)The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin is an acknowledged masterpiece of Gothic revival architecture and the single-most influential building of the Victorian period in Ireland. Its genesis and erection ... -
The architectural sources for the Museum Building
(Four Courts Press, 2019)If the purpose of this research project, as stated by Christine Casey at the start of this book, is to highlight the process of making (rather than meaning), then we must query the ‘making’ that went into the design itself. ... -
Reviving the Artisan Sculptor: The Role of Ruskin, Science and Art Education
(Four Courts Press, 2019)On meeting the O’Sheas in Oxford Ruskin saw them as the ideal of the savage northern workmen, obstinate and generous who by natural instinct brought a fluidity, freshness and life to their work. Dr Henry Acland, ... -
Was the carver happy while he was about it? Trinity's Museum Building and the Ruskinian principle of happiness
(Liverpool University Press, 2021-02)The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin (1853-7), by Deane, Son & Woodward, is a seminal work of Ruskinian Gothic architecture, influencing a generation of British and Irish architects, and revolutionising Victorian ...
