Government, war and society in Medieval Ireland.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Lecky professors / Peter Crooks -- Prologue: Irish history and its popular versions / Edmund Curtis -- Part 1, Government : Ireland and the English crown, 1171-1541 / James Lydon -- The chief governors of medieval Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- William of Windsor and the Irish parliament / James Lydon -- the medieval Irish chancery / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- Anglo-Irish shire government in the thirteenth century / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- The native Irish and English law in medieval Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- Part 2, War : Knight service in Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- Royal service in Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- The hobelar : an Irish contribution to medieval warfare / James Lydon -- An Irish army in Scotland, 1296 / James Lydon -- Irish levies in the Scottish wars, 1296-1302 / James Lydon -- Edward I, Ireland and the war in Scotland, 1303-1304 / James Lydon -- Richard II's expeditions to Ireland / James Lydon -- Richard, duke of York, as viceroy of Ireland, 1447-1460 : with unpublished materials for his relations with native chiefs / Edmund Curtis -- Part 3, Society : The character of Norman settlement in Ireland / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- The organization of Anglo-Irish agriculture in the middle ages / A.J. Otway-Ruthven -- The English and Ostmen in Ireland / Edmund Curtis -- The clan system among the English settlers in Ireland / Edmund Curtis -- The spoken languages of medieval Ireland / Edmund Curtis -- The problem of the frontier in medieval Ireland / James Lydon -- The middle nation / James Lydon -- Further reading -- Government, war and society in English Ireland, 1171-1541 : a guide to recent work / Peter Crooks.