Cultural History

Here you can access articles I have published on various aspects of medieval cultural history. The image you can see on this page is the opening of the Irish Sex Aetates Mundi (Six Ages of the World) text – a medieval Irish account of ‘world history’ based on the Old Testament and early Christian writers such as Orosius – as preserved in the Book of Ballymote. This image is reproduced by kind permission of the Royal Irish Academy and the Irish Script on Screen project hosted by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

Cultural History Articles

  • History and Salvation in Medieval Ireland

    8 April 2021 | 10:42 am

  • ‘The Twelfth-Century English Transmission of a Poem on the Threefold Division of the Mind, Attributed to Patrick of Dublin (d. 1084)’

    25 February 2020 | 4:51 pm

  • Aspects of Philosophical Discourse in Eleventh- and Twelfth-Century Ireland: Metaphor, Morality and the Mind

    25 February 2020 | 4:22 pm

  • Eschatology and Reform in Early Irish Law: the Evidence of Sunday Legislation

    25 February 2020 | 2:57 pm

  • Allegory, the áes dána and the Liberal Arts in Medieval Irish Literature

    5 July 2016 | 12:51 pm

  • Senchas Gall Átha Clíath: Aspects of the Cult of St Patrick in the Twelfth Century

    5 July 2016 | 12:44 pm

  • The Rhetoric and Reality of Reform in Irish Eschatological Thought, c. 1000 – 1150

    5 July 2016 | 12:39 pm