Browsing Archaeology (Scholarly Articles) by Author "Dempsey, Karen"
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Beyond the martial façade: gender, heritage and medieval castles
Dempsey, Karen; Gilchrist, Roberta; Ashbee, Jeremy; Sagrott, Stefan; Stones, Samantha (Taylor & Francis, 2019-07-02)Gendered interpretations are rare both within castle-studies and heritage discourses on medieval castles. Yet, castles hold potential to inform multi-vocal accounts of the medieval past and to inspire meaningful heritage ... -
Book Review: Lived Experience in the later Middle Ages: studies of Bodiam and other elite landscapes in south-eastern England
Dempsey, Karen (Taylor & Francis, 2018-04-20)[No abstract available] -
Book Review: The invention of race in the European Middle Ages
Dempsey, Karen (Taylor & Francis, 2019-06-18)[No abstract available] -
Gender and medieval archaeology: storming the castle
Dempsey, Karen (Cambridge University Press, 2019-06-17)Despite more than three decades of feminist critique, archaeological scholarship remains predominantly focused on the exploration of patriarchal narratives and is, therefore, complicit in reinforcing structural inequalities. ... -
Home is Where the Heart(h) is': investigating medieval houses in Ireland 1100-1600 AD
Dempsey, Karen (Wordwell, 2020-03-07){No abstract available] -
Irish settlements and survival
Dempsey, Karen (Center for Irish Programs, Boston College,, 2021-03)[No abstract available] -
Lea Castle: looking outwards
Dempsey, Karen (Brepols Publishers, 2018)Lea Castle, Co. Laois, is located on the River Barrow where it occupied an important position at the borders of three medieval territories. The castle and landscape are currently neglected and in a poor state of repair. ... -
Lea Castle: the story so far
Dempsey, Karen (Castle Studies Group, 2016)You could almost be forgiven for not knowing about Lea Castle: it is not located off an ‘important’ modern road, it is not set in an urban environment and it is not open to the public. Lea is possibly one of Ireland’s ... -
Multisensorial musings on miniature matters
Dempsey, Karen; Jasperse, Jitske (Akademie Verlag, 2020-11-12)This issue of ‘Das Mittelalter’ explores the voice of small things.2 We approach artefacts that are no bigger than one’s hand not as silent witnesses to people’s lives, but as agents that actively engage with human beings ... -
Planting new ideas: A feminist gaze on medieval castles
Dempsey, Karen (Presses Universitaires de Caen, 2021-01)The theme of the Château Gaillard 29 Conference “Vivre au Château” is very timely: studies of medieval castles have great potential to generate meaningful archaeologies, including biographies and life cycles as well as ... -
Rectangular chamber-towers and their medieval halls: A recent look at the buildings formerly described as “Hall-Houses”
Dempsey, Karen (Presse Universitaires de Caen, 2016)The interpretation of the 13th-century castles formerly described as “hall-houses” has recently been a contentious topic in Irish (and Scottish) castle-studies2 . Little interpretive analysis of these buildings had been ... -
Tending the ‘Contested’ castle garden: Sowing seeds of feminist thought
Dempsey, Karen (Cambridge University Press, 2020-02-09)Medieval women are typically portrayed as secluded, passive agents within castle studies. Although the garden is regarded as associated with women there has been little exploration of this space within medieval archaeology. ... -
Understanding 'Hall-Houses': Debating Seigneurial buildings in Ireland in the 13th century
Dempsey, Karen (Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-24)THE SEIGNURIAL HALL and chamber have been assumed, in both Britain and Ireland, to be typically located in the only building to generally survive on medieval residential sites. In England this idea has seen some revision, ...