Book Launch: "Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland" by Dr Stephen Hewer (ONLINE + IN PERSON)
6:00pm - 7:00pm /
Wednesday 16th March 2022
/ Venue: Eleanor Rathbone Building / Online event
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
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The Institute of Irish Studies is delighted to host the launch of "Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society under English Law" by Dr Stephen Hewer. The launch will take the form of a lecture by Dr Hewer and will be chaired by Professor Clare Downham, Professor of Medieval History at the Institute of Irish Studies.
"Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society under English Law" (Brepols) compares the treatment of Gaelic women and men to that of the English of Ireland and it also offers an in-depth examination of other ‘Irish Sea Region’ ethnicities to achieve a fuller understanding of the legal status of peoples within English Ireland, this book.
The notion that, upon the advent of the English in 1167, all Gaelic peoples in Ireland were immediately and ipso facto denied access to the English royal courts has become so widely accepted in popular culture that it is often treated as fact. In this ground-breaking monograph, however, the narrative of absolute ethnic discrimination in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century English Ireland is for the first time tackled head-on through a thorough re-examination of the Irish plea rolls. Through a forensic study of these records, the author demonstrates not only that there was a great deal of variation in how members of various ethnic groups and women who came before the English royal courts in Ireland were treated, but also that there was a large — and hitherto scarcely noticed — population of Gaels with regular and unimpeded access to English law, and that the intersections between gender/sex and ethnicity have too often been deeply misunderstood or disregarded. A close comparison between the treatment of Gaelic women and men and that of the English of Ireland, together with an in-depth examination of other ethnicities from around the Irish Sea, provide a new understanding of English Ireland in which it is clear that there was not a simple dichotomy between the English and the unfree, but rather that people lived an altogether more complex and nuanced existence.
Stephen Hewer is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies in the University of Liverpool. He specialises in deconstructing modern misconceptions and distortions of medieval peoples.
"Beyond Exclusion in Medieval Ireland: Intersections of Ethnicity, Sex, and Society under English Law" (Brepols) compares the treatment of Gaelic women and men to that of the English of Ireland and it also offers an in-depth examination of other ‘Irish Sea Region’ ethnicities to achieve a fuller understanding of the legal status of peoples within English Ireland, this book.
The notion that, upon the advent of the English in 1167, all Gaelic peoples in Ireland were immediately and ipso facto denied access to the English royal courts has become so widely accepted in popular culture that it is often treated as fact. In this ground-breaking monograph, however, the narrative of absolute ethnic discrimination in thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century English Ireland is for the first time tackled head-on through a thorough re-examination of the Irish plea rolls. Through a forensic study of these records, the author demonstrates not only that there was a great deal of variation in how members of various ethnic groups and women who came before the English royal courts in Ireland were treated, but also that there was a large — and hitherto scarcely noticed — population of Gaels with regular and unimpeded access to English law, and that the intersections between gender/sex and ethnicity have too often been deeply misunderstood or disregarded. A close comparison between the treatment of Gaelic women and men and that of the English of Ireland, together with an in-depth examination of other ethnicities from around the Irish Sea, provide a new understanding of English Ireland in which it is clear that there was not a simple dichotomy between the English and the unfree, but rather that people lived an altogether more complex and nuanced existence.
Stephen Hewer is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Institute of Irish Studies in the University of Liverpool. He specialises in deconstructing modern misconceptions and distortions of medieval peoples.