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Article: Armagh and the Royal Centres in Early Medieval Ireland: Monuments, Cosmology, and the Past

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Armagh and the Royal Centres in Early Medieval Ireland:Monuments, Cosmology, and the Past. By N. B. Aitchison. (Rochester, New York: Boydell & Brewer for Cruithne Press. 1994. Pp. x, 356. $71.00.)

In Armagh and the Royal Centres, N. B. Aitchison manages to blend an archaeologist's understanding of material remains with a historian's critical use of the textual evidence for early medieval Ireland, and to come up with a synthesis that is both plausible and impressive. Aitchison's method is to explore the inconsistencies between readings of the material and textual evidence for the royal sites, and just generally to read the texts more critically. His argument is so complex and discursive ...

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