Preliminaries; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Abbreviations; 1 The effect of Scandinavian raiders on the English and Irish churches: a preliminary reassessment; 2 The changing economy of the Irish Sea province: AD 900-1300; 3 Cults of Irish, Scottish and Welsh saints in twelfth-century England; 4 Sea-divided Gaels? Constructing relationships between Irish and Scots c. 800-1169; 5 The 1169 invasion as a turning-point in Irish-Welsh relations; 6 Killing and mutilating political enemies in the British Isles from the late twelfth to the early fourteenth century: a comp
7 Anglo-French acculturation and the Irish element in Scottish identity8 John de Courcy, the first Ulster plantation and Irish church men; 9 Coming in from the margins: the descendants of Somerled and cultural accommodation in the Hebrides, 1164-1317; 10 Nobility and identity in medieval Britain and Ireland: the de Vescy family, c. 1120-1314; Bibliography; Index
Summary
There is a growing interest in the history of relations between the English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish as the United Kingdom and Ireland begin to construct new political arrangements. This book brings together the latest work on how these relations developed in the middle ages
