Just as Rossetti's Ferry Me across the River may be read as a deep philosophical poem on Death and the Final Passage over the river Lethe, her Goblin Market (often read as a children's rhyme) bespeaks of homosexuality and hides a feminist subtext.
Just as Aesop's Fables preach moral truths in the guise of fables, many nursery rhymes born of contemporary socio economic turbulence, bespeaks of trauma, murders, gore, sexuality or death through the apparent lucidity of nursery rhymes. " (Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments.)Children's literature is essentially a literature of deception. " This self-deceit, this fatal weakness of mankind, is the source of half the disorders of human life. Indeed, the post-Dissolution civic rental documents, detailing the secularisation of the Kilkenny Franciscan medieval precinct, has allowed that same precinct to be virtually reconstructed, further enhancing academic insight into Ireland's Conventual Franciscans and Kilkenny's medieval urban topography. The Archer chalice, thought lost but relocated in the course of this present research, attests to these nuances. Though the Dissolution portended the end of their worlds, the artefactual and documentary evidence suggests that the process was nuanced, and not at all sudden. The documentary evidence that they left behind reveals something of their diverse and interesting personalities. They were priests and confessors, intellectuals and chroniclers, civil engineers and medical practitioners, who were deeply interested in the world around them. The friars mined a rich vein of urban and rural benefaction throughout their 400 year history in Kilkenny and members of their community rose to the highest echelons of the medieval Irish hierarchy.
This paper seeks to exploit these sources by presenting a fresh synthesis of the materials, some of which have not been accessed for well in excess of a century, to illuminate the intersecting social, intellectual and physical worlds of Kilkenny's medieval Franciscans. However, the fortuitous survival of primary source materials within various repositories, historically situated at Kilkenny, offers a research path to explore the worlds inhabited by Kilkenny's Conventual Franciscans, present in the town between c. This paucity of written records, and of extant built-fabric, has contributed to the lack of scholarly attention given to the medieval Irish Conventual Franciscans, especially when compared with their Observant confrères.
Additionally, since the Conventuals were, for the most part, confined to the Anglo-Norman parts of Ireland, their friaries were among the first to be dissolved during the sixteenth-century Irish suppression campaign, leading to the dismantlement and reconfiguration of their ecclesiastical precincts. By the early seventeenth century, almost all of the archival and documentary records of the Irish Conventual Franciscans were lost.
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