In Dark Speech, Robin Chapman Stacey explores the fascinating interaction between performance and law in Ireland between the seventh and ninth centuries.

Examines the institution of personal suretyship through the remarkable rich sources extant from medieval Ireland and Wales.

This text, which is the first volume in the best-selling "History of England" series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions.