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Bookmark or Share- Déisi - Oxford ReferenceOld Irish for tenants or vassals, was the name of a number of communities in early Ireland. These included Déisi Temro (of Tara), otherwise Déisi Breg, who were located in ...
- Decies - Oxford ReferenceAnglicized name for a region in medieval Ireland, roughly coextensive with western Co. Waterford; named for the early Irish people, the Déisi. One early record proclaimed that Decies ran from the River Suir to the sea and from Lismore to Credan Head. The area has also been known as Power Country as it was settled by the Power or de Paor family ...
- The Expulsion of the Déisi - Google BooksThe Expulsion of the Deisi is a medieval Irish narrative of the Cycles of the Kings. It dates approximately to the 8th century, but survives only in manuscripts of a much later date. It describes...
- Deesis - WikipediaDeesis. In Byzantine art, and in later Eastern Orthodox art generally, the Deësis or Deisis ( / deɪˈiːsɪs /, day-EE-siss; Greek: δέησις, "prayer" or "supplication") is a traditional iconic representation of Christ in Majesty or Christ Pantocrator: enthroned, carrying a book, and flanked by the Virgin Mary and St. John the Baptist ...
- Déisi - WikipediaDéisi. The Déisi were a social class in Ireland between the ancient and early medieval period. The various peoples listed under the heading déis shared a similar status in Gaelic Ireland, and had little or no actual kinship, though they were often thought of as genetically related. [citation needed] During the era of Roman rule in Britain ...
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