Armagh and the Royal Centres in Early Medieval Ireland: Monuments, Cosmology, and the Past

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: July 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Armagh and the Royal Centres in Early Medieval Ireland:Monuments, Cosmology, and the Past. By N. B. Aitchison. (Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer for Cruithne Press. 1994. Pp. x, 356. $71.00.)

In Armagh and the Royal Centres, N. B. Aitchison manages to blend an archaeologist's understanding of material remains with a historian's critical use of the textual evidence for early medieval Ireland, and to come up with a synthesis that is both plausible and impressive. Aitchison's method is to explore the inconsistencies between readings of the material and textual evidence for the royal ...

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