Peter Crooks
Biographic Data
| ID | 5666453 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Crooks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Crooks |
| SIGNATURE | CROOKS P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trinity College Dublin |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6782-044X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Law and Constitutional Change
A collection of some of the best papers presented at the 25th British Legal History Conference at Queen's University Belfast in July 2022, Law and Constitutional Change examines the role that law plays when countries experience a major constitutional upheaval. It examines the interaction of law and politics in history across different legal jurisdictions with different legal traditions. The theme of the conference was 'Law and Constitutional Chan…
Courting the Past
This chapter provides an account of the Public Records Office of Ireland as a legal repository, before its destruction in 1922 as an early ‘casualty’ of the Irish Civil War. The chapter supplies a succinct account of Ireland’s historic courts and their record-keeping, providing an overview of the legal contents of the Public Record Office of Ireland at the moment of its destruction. Using several case studies, the chapter then illustrates the pro…
Advanced imaging to recover illegible text in historic documents. The challenge of past chemical treatments for ink enhancement
From fires to floods, from invisible inks to redactions, information has been accidentally or intentionally obscured on countless documents, maps and photographs, in collections from archives, libraries, and museums across the world. Removed from catalogues and reading rooms and therefore inaccessible to researchers and the general public, what new knowledge would these obscured documents reveal if we were able to read them? This paper demonstrat…
Empires and Bureaucracy in World History
How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval E…
State of the Union
‘Imperialism’, Sir Keith Hancock famously scolded, ‘is no word for scholars’.1 But is it a word for medievalists? Posed in mischief, this is a question with a grim subtext. It is increasingly acknowledged that some form of ‘imperial experience’ remains at hand, its capacity to inspire debate undiminished.2 The imperial turn in contemporary world affairs has provoked a storm of semantics, polemics and apologetics on the matter of empire.3Haute vul…
Representation and Dissent
In the process of state formation, representative institutions often serve as a primary arena in which authority is ‘negotiated’ between princes and subjects—or, in the case of colonial legislatures, between the agents of metropolitan governments and settler elites. The medieval Irish parliament falls into the latter category. It was an assembly of English colonists in Ireland presided over by a chief governor, who held the place of the king of E…
History and Art
Factions, feuds and noble power in the lordship of Ireland, c . 1356–1496
On 17 September 1496 Gerald, eighth earl of Kildare (the ‘Great Earl’), landed at Howth, County Dublin, after a lengthy and troubled voyage from England. One of the earl’s fellow travellers gave thanks to God for his safe arrival. If Kildare did likewise, his gratitude probably sprang less from his delivery from the natural elements than from his survival of a hostile political climate at court. Since the battle of Bosworth in 1485 not one but tw…
Representation and Dissent
In the process of state formation, representative institutions often serve as a primary arena in which authority is ‘negotiated’ between princes and subjects—or, in the case of colonial legislatures, between the agents of metropolitan governments and settler elites. The medieval Irish parliament falls into the latter category. It was an assembly of English colonists in Ireland presided over by a chief governor, who held the place of the king of E…
Factions, feuds and noble power in the lordship of Ireland, c . 1356–1496
On 17 September 1496 Gerald, eighth earl of Kildare (the ‘Great Earl’), landed at Howth, County Dublin, after a lengthy and troubled voyage from England. One of the earl’s fellow travellers gave thanks to God for his safe arrival. If Kildare did likewise, his gratitude probably sprang less from his delivery from the natural elements than from his survival of a hostile political climate at court. Since the battle of Bosworth in 1485 not one but tw…
Factions, feuds and noble power in the lordship of Ireland, c . 1356–1496
On 17 September 1496 Gerald, eighth earl of Kildare (the ‘Great Earl’), landed at Howth, County Dublin, after a lengthy and troubled voyage from England. One of the earl’s fellow travellers gave thanks to God for his safe arrival. If Kildare did likewise, his gratitude probably sprang less from his delivery from the natural elements than from his survival of a hostile political climate at court. Since the battle of Bosworth in 1485 not one but tw…
History and Art
Representation and Dissent
In the process of state formation, representative institutions often serve as a primary arena in which authority is ‘negotiated’ between princes and subjects—or, in the case of colonial legislatures, between the agents of metropolitan governments and settler elites. The medieval Irish parliament falls into the latter category. It was an assembly of English colonists in Ireland presided over by a chief governor, who held the place of the king of E…
State of the Union
‘Imperialism’, Sir Keith Hancock famously scolded, ‘is no word for scholars’.1 But is it a word for medievalists? Posed in mischief, this is a question with a grim subtext. It is increasingly acknowledged that some form of ‘imperial experience’ remains at hand, its capacity to inspire debate undiminished.2 The imperial turn in contemporary world affairs has provoked a storm of semantics, polemics and apologetics on the matter of empire.3Haute vul…
Empires and Bureaucracy in World History
How did empires rule different peoples across vast expanses of space and time? And how did small numbers of imperial bureaucrats govern large numbers of subordinated peoples? Empires and Bureaucracy in World History seeks answers to these fundamental problems in imperial studies by exploring the power and limits of bureaucracy. The book is pioneering in bringing together historians of antiquity and the Middle Ages with scholars of post-medieval E…
Advanced imaging to recover illegible text in historic documents. The challenge of past chemical treatments for ink enhancement
From fires to floods, from invisible inks to redactions, information has been accidentally or intentionally obscured on countless documents, maps and photographs, in collections from archives, libraries, and museums across the world. Removed from catalogues and reading rooms and therefore inaccessible to researchers and the general public, what new knowledge would these obscured documents reveal if we were able to read them? This paper demonstrat…
Law and Constitutional Change
A collection of some of the best papers presented at the 25th British Legal History Conference at Queen's University Belfast in July 2022, Law and Constitutional Change examines the role that law plays when countries experience a major constitutional upheaval. It examines the interaction of law and politics in history across different legal jurisdictions with different legal traditions. The theme of the conference was 'Law and Constitutional Chan…
Courting the Past
This chapter provides an account of the Public Records Office of Ireland as a legal repository, before its destruction in 1922 as an early ‘casualty’ of the Irish Civil War. The chapter supplies a succinct account of Ireland’s historic courts and their record-keeping, providing an overview of the legal contents of the Public Record Office of Ireland at the moment of its destruction. Using several case studies, the chapter then illustrates the pro…
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