Bibliography

Elizabeth
FitzPatrick
s. xx–xxi

12 publications between 1998 and 2023 indexed
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FitzPatrick, Elizabeth, Landscapes of the learned: placing Gaelic literati in Irish lordships 1300-1600, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.  

Contents: 1. Introduction: place, roles, and lifeways -- 2. The domain of literati in the landscape of lordship -- 3. Estate landscapes of the learned -- 4. Dwellings of literati -- 5. Church space for learned occupations -- 6. Designated school-houses in the sixteenth century -- Conclusion: A place for the learned.

abstract:

Gaelic literati were an elite and influential group in the social hierarchy of Irish lordships between c. 1300 and 1600. From their estates, they served Gaelic and Old English ruling families in the arts of history, law, medicine, and poetry. They farmed, kept guest-houses, conducted schools, and maintained networks of learning. In other capacities, they were involved in political assemblies and memorializing dynastic histories in landscape. This book presents a framework for identifying and interpreting the settings and built heritages of their estates in lordship borderscapes. It shows that a more textured definition of what this learned class represented can be achieved through the material record of the buildings and monuments they used, and where their lands were positioned in the political map. Where literati lived and worked are conceived as expressions of their intellectual and political cultures. Mediated by case studies of the landscapes of their estates, dwellings, and schools, the methodology is predominantly field based, using archaeological investigation and topographic and spatial analyses, and drawing on historical and literary texts, place-names and lore in referencing named people to places. More widely, the study contributes a landscape perspective to the growing body of work on autochthonous intellectual culture and the exercise of power by ruling families in late medieval and early modern northern European societies.

Contents: 1. Introduction: place, roles, and lifeways -- 2. The domain of literati in the landscape of lordship -- 3. Estate landscapes of the learned -- 4. Dwellings of literati -- 5. Church space for learned occupations -- 6. Designated school-houses in the sixteenth century -- Conclusion: A place for the learned.

abstract:

Gaelic literati were an elite and influential group in the social hierarchy of Irish lordships between c. 1300 and 1600. From their estates, they served Gaelic and Old English ruling families in the arts of history, law, medicine, and poetry. They farmed, kept guest-houses, conducted schools, and maintained networks of learning. In other capacities, they were involved in political assemblies and memorializing dynastic histories in landscape. This book presents a framework for identifying and interpreting the settings and built heritages of their estates in lordship borderscapes. It shows that a more textured definition of what this learned class represented can be achieved through the material record of the buildings and monuments they used, and where their lands were positioned in the political map. Where literati lived and worked are conceived as expressions of their intellectual and political cultures. Mediated by case studies of the landscapes of their estates, dwellings, and schools, the methodology is predominantly field based, using archaeological investigation and topographic and spatial analyses, and drawing on historical and literary texts, place-names and lore in referencing named people to places. More widely, the study contributes a landscape perspective to the growing body of work on autochthonous intellectual culture and the exercise of power by ruling families in late medieval and early modern northern European societies.

FitzPatrick, Elizabeth, Royal inauguration in Gaelic Ireland c. 1100-1600: a cultural landscape study, Studies in Celtic History, 22, Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2004.

Works edited

FitzPatrick, Elizabeth, and Raymond Gillespie (eds), The parish in medieval and early modern Ireland: community, territory and building, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006.

Contributions to journals

FitzPatrick, Elizabeth, “Rethinking settlement values in Gaelic society: the case of the cathedral centres”, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 119 C (2019): 69–102.  
abstract:
The idea that settlements of Gaelic peoples were primarily dispersed and eschewed urban form has dominated interpretations of later medieval and early post-medieval Gaelic settlement arrangements in Ireland, but to what extent do the categories of urban and rural even apply to places where people were settled in late medieval Gaelic polities? Through an investigation of cathedral-centred communities inter Hibernicos, which were closely identified with the political territories in which they were situated, it is suggested that altogether different values from the urban–rural paradigm motivated the continuity and development of such social formations between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries.
abstract:
The idea that settlements of Gaelic peoples were primarily dispersed and eschewed urban form has dominated interpretations of later medieval and early post-medieval Gaelic settlement arrangements in Ireland, but to what extent do the categories of urban and rural even apply to places where people were settled in late medieval Gaelic polities? Through an investigation of cathedral-centred communities inter Hibernicos, which were closely identified with the political territories in which they were situated, it is suggested that altogether different values from the urban–rural paradigm motivated the continuity and development of such social formations between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries.
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth, “The inauguration of Tairdelbach Ó Conchobair at Áth an Termoinn”, Peritia 12 (1998): 351–358.

Contributions to edited collections or authored works

FitzPatrick, Elizabeth, “Finn’s wilderness place and boundary landforms in medieval Ireland”, in: Matthias Egeler (ed.), Landscape and myth in northwestern Europe, 2, Turnhout: Brepols, 2019. 113–146.
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth, “Ollamh, biatach, comharba: lifeways of Gaelic learned families in medieval and early modern Ireland”, in: Liam Breatnach, Ruairí Ó hUiginn, Damian McManus, and Katharine Simms (eds), Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Celtic Studies, held in Maynooth University, 1–5 August 2011, Dublin: School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 2015. 165–189.
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth, Eileen Murphy, Ronan McHugh, Colm Donnelly, and Claire Foley, “Evoking the white mare: the cult landscape of Sgiath Gabhra and its medieval perception in Gaelic Fir Mhanach”, in: Roseanne Schot, Conor Newman, and Edel Bhreathnach (eds), Landscapes of cult and kingship, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2011. 163–191.
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth, “The material world of the parish”, in: Elizabeth FitzPatrick, and Raymond Gillespie (eds), The parish in medieval and early modern Ireland: community, territory and building, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2006. 62–78.
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth, “Royal inauguration mounds in medieval Ireland: antique landscape and tradition”, in: Aliki Pantos, and Sarah Semple (eds), Assembly places and practices in medieval Europe, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004. 44–72.
FitzPatrick, Elizabeth, “The early church in Offaly”, in: Timothy P. OʼNeill, and William Nolan (eds), Offaly, history & society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county, 11, Dublin: Geography Publications, 1998. 93–130.

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