Perception and reality: Ireland c.980-1229

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Perception and Reality: Ireland<i>c</i>.980–1229

This chapter looks at developments in medieval Ireland between c. 980 and 1229. The thousand years explored in the book as a whole witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day

The Peripheral Centre: Writing History on the Western 'Fringe'

History-writing has a central place in the rich, extensive literature of medieval Ireland and in depicting their past, learned authors employed their own vernacular creatively and confidently. The biblical and classical frameworks within which they constructed Ireland's story, as well as their modes of expression reflect those of their European contemporaries, yet this corpus of texts is rarely considered when the writing of history in the early and central Middle Ages is explored. Focussing on narratives in their manuscript context, this article will situate medieval Irish historical writing within the broader Latinate literary culture of which it formed an integral part. In so doing, the intellectual heritage of scholars such as Marianus Scotus whose formative education was in Ireland will be illuminated, and the debt to the Irish strand in their cultural makeup assessed. Moreover, the relative linguistic harmony in Irish learned circles in which Latin and vernacular written media were interwoven in a mutually beneficial embrace can help better inform our understanding of cross-cultural European elite interaction at the time

Medieval Wales as a Linguistic Crossroads in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 153

The manuscript known as Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 153 contains a copy of Martianus Capella’s Latin text De Nuptiis Mercurii et Philologiae. Written in Wales around 900 CE, it includes marginal annotations in Latin and Old Welsh that open a window on the spread of Carolingian educational culture to Celtic-speaking Britain. Evidence is examined here for close interaction between some of the indigenous languages of the island and the learned Latin of the schools, and even for surviving traces of the variety of spoken Latin that had been current in Britain under the Empire

Developing a Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World: Project Report

In 2020, the Research Network entitled ‘Developing a Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World’ was established.1 This project was funded by UKRI-AHRC and the Irish Research Council under the ‘UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Networking Call’ (grant numbers AH/V00235X/1 and IRC/V00235X/1). The network aimed to bring together scholars working across various aspects of medieval Celtic Studies in order to assess where we stand in terms of the digitisation of resources relating to medieval Ireland and Scotland, and to work towards a consensus on the way forward

'Interfaces' 4

Issue No. 4 is the first open issue of Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures. It contains contributions by Henry Bainton (12th-century historiography), Lucie Doležalová (parabiblical texts and the canon), Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (Irish literary culture in Latin and Irish), Isabel Varillas Sánchez (legends of composition of canonical texts, Septuaginta), Wim Verbaal (letter collections, Bernard of Clairvaux), and Jonas Wellendorf (canons of skaldic poets in the 12th/13th century), preceded by a brief Introduction by the editors

Developing a Digital Framework for the Medieval Gaelic World: Report (Draft)

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Glorious by Association: the Obituary of Brian Boru

This article analyses a twelfth-century obituary of the most powerful king of Ireland in his day, Brian Boru, who died at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, It explores its significance in the light of broader European literary trends and historical developments

Writing in Medieval Ireland in the First-Person Voice

This is the accepted manuscript. It is currently embargoed pending publication