Dr Patrick Gleeson (QUB), 'Landscapes of kingship: governance, rule and territory in early medieval Ireland'

Patrick Gleeson is Deputy Head of the School of Natural and Built Environment at QUB, where he lectures in Archaeology and researches the later prehistoric, medieval and historical archaeology of Europe. He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2022 for this work, recognising the international impact of his research. He is a member of the Young Academy of Ireland (RIA), the Historic Monuments Council of Northern Ireland, and the Standing Committee for Archaeology of the Royal Irish Academy. His current research focus is the archaeology of cult, rulership, kingdoms and governance in the first millennium AD of northern Europe; and novel approaches to landscape and social-ecological change, including developing chronologies for change for the recent past (1700–). His many publications include Landscapes of kingship in early medieval Ireland, AD 400–1150 (Four Courts, 2025)

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