This volume explores the ways in which the English settlers in Louth maintained their English identity in the face of plague and warfare, through the turbulent

Examines the complex interactions between English and Irish neighbours in the 'four obedient shires' and how this shaped English identity.

Medieval Ireland is associated in the public imagination with the ruined castles and monasteries that remain prominent in the Irish landscape. Crisis and Surviv

Law mattered in later medieval England and Ireland. A quick glance at the sources suggests as much. From the charter to the will to the court roll, the majority

The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analy