The Church and the Two Nations in Medieval Ireland

280 Pages·1970·10.073 MB·English

by  J. A. Watt

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Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought
Edited by Walter ullmann, litt.d., p.b.a.
Professor of Medieval Ecclesiastical History
in the University of Cambridge
Third series vol. 3
THE CHURCH AND THE TWO NATIONS
IN MEDIEVAL IRELAND
CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LIFE AND
THOUGHT
THIRD SERIES
1 The King’s Hall within the University of Cambridge in the
Later Middle Ages, alanb. cobban
2 Monarchy and Community: Political Ideas in the Later Con¬
ciliar Controversy, 1430-1450. a. j. black
3 The Church and the Two Nations in Medieval Ireland.
j. A. WATT
THE CHURCH AND THE
TWO NATIONS IN
MEDIEVAL IRELAND
J. A. WATT
Senior Lecturer in History
University of Hull
CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1970
Published by the Syndics of the Cambridge University Press
Bentley House, 200 Euston Road, London n.w.i
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© Cambridge University Press 1970
Library of Congress Catalogue Card Number: 72-120196
Standard Book Number: 521 07738 9
Printed in Great Britain
by Alden & Mowbray Ltd at the Alden Press, Oxford
CONTENTS
LIST OF MAPS page vii
FOREWORD
IX
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Xlll
ABBREVIATIONS
XV
I THE CHURCH IN IRELAND ON THE EVE OF THE
INVASION j
2 THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NEW ORDER
35
The period of the Invasion
35
Henry II and the Irish Church
41
3 THE NEW ORDER CONSOLIDATED
52
The reign of John
52
The early years of Henry III
69
4 THE CRISIS OF THE CISTERCIAN ORDER IN IRELAND 85
5 ECCLESIA HIBERNICANA 108
6 THE CLERGY AND THE COMMON LAW, 1255-91 120
7 THE CLERGY AND THE COMMON LAW, 1295—1314 136
8 THE EPISCOPATE IN THE REIGN OF EDWARD I 149
V
Contents
9 FOURTEENTH CENTURY DEVELOPMENTS 173
Acceptio personamm 173
Remonstrance and Counter-Remonstrance 183
IO THE STATUTE OF KILKENNY 198
appendix i Canterbury s claim to primacy over Ireland 217
appendix 2 The Armagh election dispute, 1202-7 226
BIBLIOGRAPHY 231
INDEX 24I
VI