A New History of Ireland: Prehistoric and early Ireland
A New History of Ireland: Prehistoric and early Ireland

Author: Theodore William Moody

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 1398

ISBN-13: 0198217374

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In this first volume of the Royal Irish Academy's multi-volume A New History of Ireland a wide range of national and international scholars, in every field of study, have produced studies of the archaeology, art, culture, geography, geology, history, language, law, literature, music, and related topics that include surveys of all previous scholarship combined with the latest research findings, to offer readers the first truly comprehensive and authoritative account of Irish history from the dawn of time down to the coming of the Normans in 1169. Included in the volume is a comprehensive bibliography of all the themes discussed in the narrative, together with copious illustrations and maps, and a thorough index.

An Introduction to the Celtic Languages
An Introduction to the Celtic Languages

Author: Paul Russell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-15

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1317894561

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This text provides a single-volume, single-author general introduction to the Celtic languages. The first half of the book considers the historical background of the language group as a whole. There follows a discussion of the two main sub-groups of Celtic, Goidelic (comprising Irish, Scottish, Gaelic and Manx) and Brittonic (Welsh, Cornish and Breton) together with a detailed survey of one representative from each group, Irish and Welsh. The second half considers a range of linguistic features which are often regarded as characteristic of Celtic: spelling systems, mutations, verbal nouns and word order.

Early Christian Ireland
Early Christian Ireland

Author: T. M. Charles-Edwards

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-11-30

Total Pages: 729

ISBN-13: 0521363950

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A fully documented history of Ireland and the Irish from the fifth to the ninth centuries.

A Nation in Medieval Ireland?
A Nation in Medieval Ireland?

Author: Thomas Finan

Publisher: BAR British Series

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13:

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This study argues that concepts of nation, nationalism, national ideology and identity did exist in Ireland in the 13th and 14th centuries, and that the Irish people used the concept of nation especially in response to foreigness or foreigners.

A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission
A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission

Author: Gabriele Boccaccini

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2019-10-14

Total Pages: 640

ISBN-13: 0190863080

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The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts--a body of hypothetical originals--but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including Rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.