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Royal Inauguration in Gaelic Ireland c.1100-1600: A Cultural Landscape Study (Hardcover, New)
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Royal Inauguration in Gaelic Ireland c.1100-1600: A Cultural Landscape Study (Hardcover, New)
Series: Studies in Celtic History
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An investigation of the places in the Irish landscape where
open-air Gaelic royal inauguration assemblies were held from the
twelfth to the sixteenth centuries. This investigation considers
the places on the Irish landscape where open-air Gaelic royal
inauguration assemblies were held in the period c. 1100-1600.
Specially designated inauguration sites played an important role in
the political life of Gaelic lordships in later medieval Ireland.
Gaelic ruling families often appropriated prehistoric ritual
landscapes for their royal assemblies in order to attach the
pedigree of a royal candidate to an illustrious past; such sites
might be an alleged burial place of an eponymous ancestor or a
legendary heroic figure, or an ancient landscape associated with
renowned events. This study of their physical appearance,
place-names, and geographicaland historical contexts ranges over
all the archaeological sites identified as inauguration places -
enclosures, sepulchral mounds, natural places, ringforts and
churches, and associated inauguration furniture in the form of
leaca and stone thrones, basin stones and sacred trees. Irish royal
assembly places and practices are viewed in relation to sites
elsewhere in Britain and greater Europe, and the circumstances that
brought about the ending of the Gaelic practice of inauguration are
also considered. ELIZABETH FitzPATRICK is Lecturer in Medieval
Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway.
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