...Hannah Weaver Telling the story of the exceptional penance of an Irish knight, the twelfthcentury Tractatus de Purgatorio Sancti Patricii contends that it was possible to go on a bodily pilgrimage to purgatory. The Cistercian monk H. of Saltrey wrote his Tractatus at a historical moment when...

... a more residual, backward-glancing form, its allegories of Spanish greed and Irish theft likewise attempt to morally differentiate emergent English methods of expropriation from competing methods of conquest and customary economies. a Utopia...

...John McCafferty St. Brigid is one of three patron saints of Ireland. Venerated for over a millennium as an abbess and ruler, provider of miraculous ale and dairy products, protector of cattle and of people, she has been a constant of Irish folk and religious life. Still referenced by groups...

... in Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale. This tale exemplifies a doubled his- tory of sanguinity and sexuality then and now. My reading begins with a colonial moment. On 18 February 1366, Lionel Duke of Clarence, third son of Edward III, presided over an Irish parliament that passed...

... “of the Severall kings that have aunciently raigned within his nowe [new] Dominions.”27 Speed distinguishes between the past (“auncient”) reign of the Irish and James’s newly constituted and recently consolidated dominion over his ter- ritories. Hondius’s engraving...

... the Chronicle: one thread creates Irish culture as a foil for British/English culture, and the other describes the resurgence of British power in Britain. We should look closely at both of these narrative threads because each provided Mannyng’s Anglo- phone readers with a sense of their “past...

... Irish Literature. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2009. x, 210 pp.; 16 illus. Paper $35.00. Podewell, Buzz. Shakespeare’s Watch: A Guide to Time and Location in the Plays. 2 vols. Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press, 2009. xx, 665 pp.; illus. throughout. $250.00. [Identifies the locale and time of each play...

...- vantes’s Don Quijote, an Irishman of strong Catholic sympathies, educated at the Irish College in Salamanca, originally located in Valladolid. In late 1598 Thomas’s elder brother, John, was involved in an abortive plot to seize Dublin Castle for Hugh O’Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who had mounted a seri...

... encounter, 46  Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies / 39.1 / 2009 first by reputation and then by admittance to her court, the queen Mercilla, who stands for Elizabeth (cantos 8 and 9), and pursue and defeat the vil- lain Malengin or Guyle, a figure for the rebel Irish of Spenser’s time, who...

... of the status of the medieval Irish church in Europe. The conditions for ongoing relevance are rooted in, and in turn illuminate, the evolution of ideas about authorship and readership, as Joel Swann, Natasha Simonova, and Sarah Connell and Julia Flanders show us. The shifts enacted by mediator- receivers were...

... by different people. In the United States both popular and official usage tends to associ- ate race with the troubled history of white and black, while the term eth- nicity summons up Italians, Irish, or Greeks, for example. Hence the former term suggests...

... “Flight of the Earls Rome: Pontifical Irish College, 2007. 690 pp.; 10 color plates, 5 maps. $115.00. [The earliest example of a diary-type text in Irish. Irish text with facing-page English translation.] Paris, Matthew. The History of Saint Edward the King [Estoire de Seint Aed- ward le Rei...

... consider real debate when they take up Irish “folk-motes,” outdoor sites for “great assemblies” and deliberation. In Ireland, and perhaps even in England, this institution may once have served a good purpose, says Irenaeus, but “the good use that then was of them, is now turned to abuse.” Now...

... History of Britain, vol. 5. New York: Viking, 2000. xiii, 434 pp.; 8 illus. $25.95. Edel, Doris. The Celtic West and Europe: Studies in Celtic Literature and the Early Irish Church. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2001. 320 pp.; 12 illus. $65.00. Edwards, John. The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs, 1474...

... Žgs. $85.00. [On Chaucer’s experiences with the cultural other and his rela- tionship to Far Eastern, Islamic, and African sources.] Muldoon, James. Identity on the Medieval Irish Frontier: Degenerate English- men, Wild Irishmen, Middle Nations . Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2003...

...; Ethan Shagan, “Constructing Discord: Ideology, Propaganda, and English Responses to the Irish Rebellion of 1641,” Journal of British Studies 36, no. 1 (2014): 4–34. 22 See Tim Harris, Revolution: The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685–1720 (London: Allen Lane, 2006). 23 See...

... in the meth- ods of fraud leaves aside the project of ethical questioning and instead examines alone the naked rhetoric that seeks to justify ethical and political behavior. Malengin, a composite between an Irish rebel and a fugitive Jesuit missionary...

... Publishing, 2014. xii, 174 pp. $45.00, paper $14.95. Cathasaigh, Tomás Ó. Coire Sois: The Cauldron of Knowledge; A Compan- ion to Early Irish Saga. Edited by Matthieu Boyd. Notre Dame, Ind.: Uni- versity of Notre Dame Press, 2014. xxix, 618 pp. Paper $72.00. Dolan, Frances E. Twelfth Night: Language...

... the advantage of simplicity: the maker of an alphabetical list worked on a single sheet of paper rather than manipulate many little sheets. When, for instance, Edward Lhwyd was drafting an Irish dictionary at the end of the seventeenth century, rather than fragmenting his material on slips, he united...

...: Laurent de Premierfait and Boccac- cio’s “De Casibus.” Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008. xv, 280 pp.; 64 color and 105 black-and-white illus. $60.00. McCarthy, D. P. The Irish Annals: Their Genesis, Evolution, and History. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2008. xvi, 416 pp. $120.00. Morrissey, Lee...