: Essays Presented to J.F.Lydon T. B. Barry , Frame , Katharine Simms A&C Black , 1 Jan 1995 - History - 262 pages 0 Reviews These essays explore aspects of the English colony in medieval Ireland and its relations with the Gaelic host society. They deal both with the foundation and expansion of the English lordship in the twelfth and early thirteenth centuries, and with the problems sand adjustments that accompaneid its contraction in the later middle ages. Attention is paid both to the government and society of the colony itself, and to the interactions between settler and native.

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