"The conference was ... the 16th in a sequence of annual symposia organized by the Friends of Medieval Dublin, the proceedings of which appear annually ... published by Four Courts Press"--Page 14.

In these proceedings of the May 2003 symposium, contributors present several detailed reports on recent local excavations, a description of the architectural features of St. Patrick's cathedral which came to be found in the churches supporting it, a new translation and interpretation of the Mass of the Drinkers, a determination of whether a list of

Among the subjects covered in this celebration of medieval Dublin are: cross-cultural processes between Scandinavian settlers and the native Irish; spiritual and secular aspects of the city; and representations of Viking and medieval Dublin in texts and maps.

illustrations of St Doulagh's medieval church at Balgriffin in north County Dublin, done over a period of two centuries. Dr Bernadette Williams reveals her extraordinary discovery in a manuscript in the library of Trinity College Dublin of the lost coronation oath of King Edward I. Dr Peter Crooks casts new light on the place of Dublin in the political crisis that paralyzed English government in Ireland in 1369-79, towards the end of the reign of Edward's grandson, King Edward III. And Grace O'Keeffe assesses the role played in the life of the medieval city by its largest hospital, that of St John the Baptist just outside the Newgate in Thomas Street." "The volume concludes with Triona Nicholl's chronicle of her journey from Roskilde to Dublin as one of the crew of the Sea-Stallion of Glendalough, a reconstruction of a Viking-Age longship that has been excavated in Denmark but which may have been built in Dublin almost exactly a thousand years ago." --Book Jacket.

These essays, the proceedings of the fourth public symposium held by the Friends of Medieval Dublin in 2002, range from Eileen Reilly's account of what insect remains can tell us about life in and around the houses of Viking Dublin, to Lynda Conlon's study of the legal rights and economic power of women in Anglo-Norman Dublin, to Danielle O'Donovan's revelation that parts of the medieval archbishop's palace stand encased within the core of what is now Kevin Street Garda Station.

An introduction to Medieval Dublin published to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the Dublinia exhibition in 2003.