Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies
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Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Patrick Sims-Williams
Publisher: Mitchell Beazley
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 642
ISBN-13: 9780952747857
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCongress lectures: JAVIER DE HOZ, The Mediterranean Frontier of the Celts and the Advent of Celtic Writing; MARK REDKNAP, Crossing Boundaries-Stylistic Diversity and External Contacts in Early Medieval Wales and the March: Reflections on Metalwork and Sculpture; MAIRE HERBERT, Crossing Historical and Literary Boundaries: Irish Written Culture Around the Year 1000; MAIRIN NI DHONNCHADHA, Seeing Things: Revelation in Gaelic Literature; JERRY HUNTER, Llywelyn's Breath, Arthur's Nightmare: The Medievalism within Welsh ModernismRONALD BLACK, How Wrong Can We Be? Peering into the Future of Scottish Gaelic Literature."
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Published: 2004
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 35
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Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2010-11-25
Total Pages: 448
ISBN-13: 0191591599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the Middle Ages Ireland's extensive and now famous literature was unknown outside the Gaelic-speaking world of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man - with Wales an important exception. Irish emigrants had settled in Wales from the fifth century onwards, Irish scholars worked in Wales in the ninth century, and throughout the Middle Ages there were ecclesiastical, mercantile, and military contacts across the Irish Sea. From this standpoint, it is not surprising that the names of Irish heroes such as Cú Roí, Cú Chulainn, Finn, and Deirdre became known to Welsh poets, and that Irish narratives influenced the authors of the Welsh Mabinogion. Yet the Welsh and Irish languages were not mutually comprehensible, the degree to which the two countries still shared a common Celtic inheritance is contested, and Latin provided a convenient lingua franca. Could some of the similarities between the Irish and Welsh literatures be due to independent influences or even to coincidence? Patrick Sims-Williams provides a new approach to these controversial questions, situating them in the context of the rest of medieval literature and international folklore. The result is the first comprehensive estimation of the extent to which Irish literature influenced medieval Welsh literature. This book will be of interest not only to medievalists but to all those concerned with the problem of how to recognize and evaluate literary influence.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Professor Jonathan Wooding
Publisher: Sydney University Press
Published: 2020-03-02
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 1743326955
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProphecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World brings together a collection of studies that closely explore aspects of culture and history of Celtic-speaking nations. Non-narrative sources and cross-disciplinary approaches shed new light on traditional questions concerning commemoration,sources of political authority, and the nature of religious identity. Leading scholars and early-career researchers bring to bear hermeneutics from studies of religion and literary criticism alongside more traditional philological and historical methodologies. All the studies in this book bring to their particular tasks an acknowledgement of the importance of religion in the worldview of antiquity and the Middle Ages. Their approaches reflect a critical turn in Celtic studies that has proved immensely productive across the last two decades.
Author: Rachel Bromwich
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1974-12-15
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 1442650923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe focus of this bibliography is the native literary tradition expressed in Irish and Welsh verse and prose from the earliest time to circa 1450. Priority is given to the most recent critical works and editions, provided that they supersede previous ones; however, earlier scholarly work and critical editions of texts that are now regarded as classics are also included. Because of the highly selective nature of this bibliography, Rachel Bromwich includes only a few studies on early legal texts, historical background, ecclesiastical learning, hagiography, archaeology and art, and folklore. The bibliography is divided into five chapters, of which two are intended for newcomers to the field and list the more available works of reference and aids to language study. The remaining three are devoted to literary history and criticism, texts and translations, and background material. The more than 500 entries have been arranged to show the ways in which the medieval literature of Ireland and Wales pursue parallel courses. In each chapter a general and comparative section is followed by sub-sections dealing with Irish material (including Cornish and Breton). Within each of these sub-sections individual items dealing with similar or closely related topics have been grouped together. Since this work is intended primarily for students working in English, the majority of the listings are in English, but important works in Irish, Welsh, French, and German are also cited.
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Published: 2005
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David R. Howlett
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom original manuscripts David Howlett edits, translates, and analyses twenty-four Latin charters - English, Welsh, Cornish, Irish, Scottish, and Hebridean - from the 7th century to the 15th, as monuments of thought and composition parallel to the literary and epigraphic traditions of these islands. This revolutionary analysis presents charters of local variety but underlying unity, in which complex self-authenticating mathematical structures produce works of art of astonishing and apprehensible beauty.