Book Review: The English Isles: Cultural transmission and political conflict in Britain and Ireland, 1100–1500. Edited by Seán Duffy and Susan Foran. Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2013. Pp. 186. £50.00.

The English Isles presents proceedings of a conference held at Trinity College, Dublin, in 2007, ‘to debate and offer a new perspective on the origins of England’s empire’. The nine articles, by leading academics and emerging scholars, cover themes in the history of Britain and Ireland from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries