Comments on: Men of substance https://www.greatparchmentbook.org/2016/10/19/men-of-substance/ Conserving, digitally reconstructing, transcribing and publishing the manuscript known as the Great Parchment Book. Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:04:17 +0000 hourly 1 By: peter ostle https://www.greatparchmentbook.org/2016/10/19/men-of-substance/#comment-217 Fri, 01 Oct 2021 13:04:17 +0000 http://www.greatparchmentbook.org/?p=3831#comment-217 Interesting to notice the absence of religion in the above paragraphs. Further, the euphemisms of ‘Continental Europe’ [that seems to imply Europe from the Urals to Cabo da Roca, from Norway to Greece; and the term ‘local Irish’ leaves out the multiplicities of identities that historians would use for the peoples of Ireland in the period.

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