After playing lots of Crusader Kings 3, I recently learned about the existence of the Laudabiliter papal writ, which in the game acts as a cause for the English monarch to invade and govern "the barbarous tribes of Ireland" in perpetuity.
As someone who grew up in Northern Ireland I'd never heard of this thing. Was it particularly important for the Anglo-Normans to have Papal backing when they invaded Ireland? Were they going to anyway? Was there any comment on how ... dehumanizing it depicts the Irish as?
I really enjoy history that gets muddied by myth. I think that the period of England before and during the time of Alfred the Great is really interesting and I'd like to read a good book about it.
Also any early Irish history is of great interest to me as well.
Was just wondering how consistent it was throughout the island since there were so many clans and many different kings. If I were to travel from say, Waterford to Donegal, would legal statutes be the same or similar in each place?
'More Irish than the Irish themselves.' How unique was the ability of the Irish to culturally assimilate foreigners? https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/dlyv9j/more_irish_than_the_irish_themselves_how_unique/
What were the demographics of population like 100 years after the Norman invasion of Ireland? I recently read that Humprey Gilbert's near genocidal actions in the later Tudor invasion were used as a proto-colonization technique by the English in the same capacity the Spanish polished their tetechniques in the Eastern Atlantic Islands, which tracks given how active both he and his son (Raleigh Gilbert) were in English colonization (as well as his half brother, Walter Raleigh). Humphrey said about the path to his tent being lined with skulls in Munster;
>[It brought] great terror to the people when they saw the heads of their dead fathers, brothers, children, kinsfolk, and friends.
Were these the skulls of indigenous people of Ireland? Had they retained an identity post Norman invasion, or were these folks the remnants of that?
I was recently listening to a podcast which briefly mentioned how before the Norman Invasion, Ireland didn't have the same kind of economy that you might expect from the period. Instead, there were a lot of "fortified homesteads", and that things were generally very isolated.
They didn't expand beyond that really, and so I was hoping that someone here could talk briefly on what Ireland might have been like before the Norman Invasion in the 12th Century.
How would a stronger, more centralized and unified Ireland fare going further?
I would also like any recommendations for books about Ireland in the years between the Norman invasion and the later plantations. Thanks!
I am looking for good books on Pre-Norman Ireland. Anything from pre-history to the Viking Age. I also have an interest in the mythology as well.
I’ll list books that I have, that way you have an idea of what I might be missing:
Early Medieval Ireland by O Cróinín.
The Celtic Heroic Age by Koch and Carey.
The Tain by Carson
Early Irish myths and sagas by Gantz
Ireland’s immortals by Williams
In search of the Irish Dreamtime by Mallory.
Introduction to the mythological cycle by Carey.
I have many articles by Carey and McCone.
I was eying Cattle Lords and Clansmen.
