Bibliography
Maeve
Callan
Contributions to journals
Callan, Maeve, “Making monsters out of one another in the early fourteenth-Century British Isles: the Irish Remonstrance, the Declaration of Arbroath, and the Anglo-Irish Counter-Remonstrance”, Eolas: The Journal of the American Society of Irish Medieval Studies 12 (2019): 43–63.
abstract:
Ethnic groups in fourteenth-century Britain and Ireland wielded identity as a weapon in their ongoing warfare against each other while simultaneously using it to build bridges between groups and create alliances against others. Such alliances, animosity, and even the sense of self-identity shifted repeatedly, revealing the tenuous foundations of ethnic identities that continue to shape societies and attitudes today. Three letters to Pope John XXII from the first third of the fourteenth century show how identities were resurrected, reimagined, and abandoned in their efforts to persuade the papacy of particular perspectives; their attempts to justify brutality towards one another extended to the point of blaming the bloodshed on the papacy and asking the curia to call a crusade.
abstract:
Ethnic groups in fourteenth-century Britain and Ireland wielded identity as a weapon in their ongoing warfare against each other while simultaneously using it to build bridges between groups and create alliances against others. Such alliances, animosity, and even the sense of self-identity shifted repeatedly, revealing the tenuous foundations of ethnic identities that continue to shape societies and attitudes today. Three letters to Pope John XXII from the first third of the fourteenth century show how identities were resurrected, reimagined, and abandoned in their efforts to persuade the papacy of particular perspectives; their attempts to justify brutality towards one another extended to the point of blaming the bloodshed on the papacy and asking the curia to call a crusade.
