A Scandal at Mass
NLI Manuscripts Collection; Call Number D 1268.
Join us for this online talk by Dr. Patrick McDonagh, our current Research Studentship holder.
This lecture will explore one of the major political scandals of the late fourteenth century English lordship in Ireland. At an anniversary mass held for the wife of the royal lieutenant in Ireland, Edmund Mortimer, earl of March and Ulster, the bishop of Cloyne launched a withering attack on the earls of Ormond and Desmond. The fallout from this event led to legal proceedings against the bishop for slander and heresy. The focus of this talk will be the eyewitnesses of this dramatic event and what they reveal about the inter-connected and transnational world of the late medieval period.
Patrick McDonagh carried out his doctoral thesis at Trinity College Dublin on the transnational lordship of the Mortimer earls of March and Ulster across Ireland, Wales, and England during 1368-1398. Since being awarded his doctorate, he has worked in University College Dublin, the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland, and is now the current holder of the research studentship at the National Library of Ireland.
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