A History Of Medieval Ireland Routledge Revivals

Download or read book A History of Medieval Ireland (Routledge Revivals) written by Edmund Curtis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1923, this formative history of Ireland is an extensive study of the period from 1086 – 1513. Beginning with the O’Brien High Kinship, Edmund Curtis takes us through the Anglo-Norman conquest and its sequel, ending with the death of Gerald ‘the Great Earl’ of Kildare in 1513, a date when the second English conquest of Ireland (the ‘Tudor Reconquest’) became imminent. This is a reissue of a definitive landmark study of Irish history by one of greatest Irish historians of the twentieth century.