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THE NEW MIDDLE AGES BONNIE WHEELER, Series Editor The New Middle Ages is a series dedicated to pluridisciplinary studies of medieval cultures, with particular emphasis on recuperating women’s history and on feminist and gender anal- yses. This peer-reviewed series includes both scholarly monographs and essay collections. PUBLISHED BY PALGRAVE: Women in the Medieval Islamic World: Power, Crossing the Bridge: Comparative Essays on Patronage, and Piety Medieval European and Heian Japanese edited by Gavin R. G. Hambly Women Writers edited by Barbara Stevenson and The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Cynthia Ho Boccaccio’s Poetaphysics by Gregory B. Stone Engaging Words: The Culture of Reading in the Later Middle Ages Presence and Presentation: Women in the by Laurel Amtower Chinese Literati Tradition edited by Sherry J. 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Brown and Marla by Catherine Keene Segol Constructing Gender in Medieval Ireland Music and Performance in the Later Middle Ages Edited by Sarah Sheehan and Ann by Elizabeth Randell Upton Dooley Witnesses, Neighbors, and Community in Late Heloise and the Paraclete: A Twelfth-Century Medieval Marseille Quest (forthcoming) by Susan Alice McDonough by Mary Martin McLaughlin CONSTRUCTING GENDER IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND Edited by Sarah Sheehan and Ann Dooley CONSTRUCTING GENDER IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND C opyright © Sarah Sheehan and Ann Dooley, 2013. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2013 978-0-230-11525-5 All rights reserved. First published in 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN® in the United States— a division of St. Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Where this book is distributed in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world, this is by Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-29661-3 ISBN 978-1-137-07638-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9781137076380 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Constructing gender in medieval Ireland / edited by Sarah Sheehan and Ann Dooley. pages cm.—(The New Middle Ages) Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Irish literature—Middle Irish, 1100–1550—History and criticism. 2. Gender identity in literature. I. Sheehan, Sarah, 1976– editor of compilation. II. Dooley, Ann, 1943– editor of compilation. PB1322.C66 2013 891.6(cid:2)209—dc23 2013024324 A catalogue record of the book is available from the British Library. Design by Newgen Knowledge Works (P) Ltd., Chennai, India. First edition: November 2013 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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