Browsing College of Arts, Social Sciences and Celtic Studies by Subject "History"
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1916 and Irish literature, culture and society: an introduction
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Biafra's legacy: NGO humanitarianism and the Nigerian civil war
(Overseas Development Institute, 2016-10)[No abstract available] -
Blanchot and ambiguity
(Purdue University Press, 2010-09)In his article "Blanchot and Ambiguity" Paolo Bartoloni investigates the enigmatic and ambiguous turn of the famous Blanchotian statement "existence without Being." The intention of the article is to locate Blanchot's ... -
Catholic missionaries in a territory of Reunion: The French Crown and the Congregation of the Mission in Sedan, 1642-57
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A Catholic model of martyrdom in the Post-Reformation era: the Bishop in Seventeenth-Century France
(Taylor & Francis, 2005)By the seventeenth century, episcopal martyrdom was an established reality and ideal throughout the Catholic church. Bishops could pay homage to the celebrated prelates of the early church who had gone bravely to their ... -
'Fathers, Leaders, Kings': episcopacy and episcopal reform in the seventeenth-century French School
(Taylor & Francis, 2002)In their drive to ‘sanctify’ the clergy, seventeenth-century French clerical reformers developed highly sophisticated and influential theologies of both priesthood and episcopacy. This article traces the development of the ... -
Introduction to 'Politics and Religion in Early Bourbon France'
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'Ionadaiocht i bparlaimint na hEireann ag deireadh na mean-aoise' [Representation in the Irish Parliament in the late middle ages]
(RIA, 1991)Firm evidence about the level of attendance in the late medieval Irish parliament is particularly scarce. Yet it is generally assumed that parliaments were sparsely attended because the control of ... -
Irish entrants to the Congregation of the Mission, 1625-60
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James F. Kenney on early Irish history as a field of research by American students
(2015)On the last day of 1930, James F. Kenney (author of the famous Sources for the Early History of Ireland) issued a clarion call to scholars in America to take up the study of early Irish history, and presented an agenda of ... -
Making Bishops in Tridentine France: The Episcopal Ideal of Jean-Pierre Camus
(Cambridge University Press, 2003-05-13)The experience of Jean-Pierre Camus, a reforming bishop in seventeenth-century France, highlights the problematic ambivalences present within French Catholic reform after the Council of Trent: the persistent tensions between ... -
A new manuscript fragment of the Old French Romance Meliacin
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Old languages in a new country: publishing and reading in the Celtic languages in nineteenth-century Australia
(2011)The history of the Irish language in nineteenth-century Australia, and of its use among Irish immigrants, is not very clear. On the one hand, Patrick O’Farrell has maintained that the Irish were overwhelmingly anglophone ... -
The print cultures of the Celtic languages, 1700–1900
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2015-05-01)While the cultural trajectories of the Celtic language communities have some broad similarities in the long term, their histories in the medium term were quite different. The article approaches this issue through a comparative ... -
‘Public’ aspects of lordly women’s domestic activities in France, c.1050–1200*
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Re-thinking Missionary Catholicism for the Early Modern Era
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Revisiting sacred propaganda: the Holy Bishop in the seventeenth-century Jansenist quarrel
(Taylor & Francis, 2004)In the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, prelates such as Borromeo of Milan and de Sales of Geneva, began to reinvigorate this hierarchical office, offering models of episcopal government, discipline and pastorate ... -
Slavery on the frontier: the report of a French missionary on mid-seventeenth-century Tunis
(Taylor & Francis, 2012)This document is a report sent in 1654 by Jean Le Vacher, member of the Congregation of the Mission, vicar apostolic of the Holy See and acting French consul in Tunis, to the cardinals of the Congregation for the Propagation ... -
The struggle for control of the Irish mint, 1460-c. 1506
(RIA, 1978)Correlation of archaeological evidence with that from administrative records provides a comparatively large body of information about the operation of the Irish mint under the Yorkists and Henry VII. This ...