Assembly Places and Elite Collective Identities in Medieval Ireland

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ID4717526
AuthorsElizabeth Fitzpatrick (0000-0002-1877-2389, Institute of Geography of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, corresponding author)
Year2015
Volume801
Issuesp8
Pages52-68
Publication date2015-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the North Atlantic (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1935-1933 • E-ISSN: 1935-1933
PublisherJournal of the North Atlantic (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3721/037.002.sp805
OpenAlexW2119144590
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

This paper investigates relationships between assembly places and expressions of collective identities among Gaelic elites during the period from the 9th to the 16th century in Ireland. I note patterns of continuity and change in users of assembly sites located in the “Midland Corridor” of Ireland, a historically important route between the early medieval provinces of Mide and Munster. Assembly sites, distinguished as exceptional places by their distinctive topographies and funerary aspects, were the focus of displays of ancestral attachment among Gaelic ruling dynasties. Who convened assemblies and where they were held were influenced by deference to mythological identities arising from the pseudo-historical binary cosmography of the island, changes in territorial boundaries, and the tendency for powerful families to dominate

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Art · Deference · Elite · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Mythology · Political science · Classics · Historical Studies of British Isles · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

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