Early Medieval Ireland and Europe: Chronology, Contacts, Scholarship: Festschrift for Daibhi O Croinin

by Padraic Moran (Editor), Immo Warntjes (Editor)

Overview

The pivotal role of Ireland in the development of a decidedly Christian culture in early medieval Europe has long been recognized. Still, Irish scholarship on early medieval Ireland has tended not to look beyond the Irish Sea, while continental scholars try to avoid Hibernica by reference to its special Celtic background. Following the lead of the honorand of this volume, Prof. Daibhi O Croinin, this collection of 27 essays aims at contributing to a reversal of this general trend. By way of introduction to the period, the first section deals with chronological problems faced by modern scholars as well as the controversial issues relating to the reckoning of time discussed by contemporary intellectuals. The following three sections then focus on Ireland's interaction with its neighbours, namely a) Ireland in the Insular world, b) continental influences in Ireland, and c) Irish influences on the Continent. The concluding section is devoted to modern scholarship and the perception of the Middle Ages in modern literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9782503553139
Publisher:	Brepols Publishers
Publication date:	09/02/2015
Series:	Studia Traditionis Theologiae , #14
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	724
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.50(d)
Language:	German

Table of Contents

1. Early Irish history and chronology Daniel P. Mc Carthy, The chronology of Saint Columba's life Immo Warntjes, Victorius vs Dionysius: the Irish Easter controversy of AD 689 Eric Graff, A note on the divisions of time in the Catalogue of the Saints of Ireland Masako Ohashi, The 'real' addressee(s) of Bede's Letter to Wicthed 2. Contacts I: Ireland in the Insular world Colin Ireland, Some Irish characteristics of the Whitby Life of Gregory the Great Anthony Harvey, Cambro-Romance? Celtic Britain's counterpart to Hiberno-Latin Paul Russell, Beyond Juvencus: an Irish context for some Old Welsh glossing? Pierre-Yves Lambert, Pretium benedictionis David Howlett, Two Irish jokes Padraig O Neill, Anglo-Irish interactions in a liturgical calendar from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College Library, 405 3. Contacts II: Continental influences in Ireland Donnchadh O Corrain, Aui, Ui, Ui: a palaeographical problem? Hayley Humphrey, Bathed in mystery: identifying the 'bathing of the Christ child' scene on an Irish high cross Peter Harbison, Tuotilo-St Gall's uomo universale: re-dating his ivories to c.AD 880 Jacopo Bisagni, Flutes, pipes, or bagpipes? Observations on the terminology of woodwinds in Old and Middle Irish Leofranc Holford-Strevens, The harp that once through Aulus' hall Thomas O'Loughlin, The so-called capitula for the Book of the Apocalypse in the Book of Armagh (Dublin, Trinity College, 52) and Latin exegesis Jean-Michel Picard, Vir apostolicus: St Peter and the claim of apostolicity in early medieval Ireland Michael Clarke, The Leabhar Gabhala and Carolingian origin legends Padraic Moran, Greek dialects and Irish identity in the early middle ages 4. Contacts III: Irish influences on the Continent Michael W. Herren, Sedulius Scottus and the knowledge of Greek Jean Rittmueller, Construe marks, a contraction mark, and an embedded Old Irish gloss in a Hiberno-Latin homily on the Octave of Easter Rob Meens, With one foot in the font: the failed baptism of the Frisian King Radbod and the 8th-century discussion about the fate of unbaptized forefathers David Ganz, The earliest manuscript of Lathcen's Eclogae Moralium Gregorii and the dating of Irish cursive minuscule script Mark Stansbury, The 'private' books of the Bobbio catalogue 5. Scholarship Richard Sharpe, Sean O Cleirigh and his manuscripts Hans-Ulrich Schmid, Old writings are no mystery to me Skaldenstrophen der Orkneyinga Saga und George Mackay Brown Nicholas Carolan, 'Out of the smoke': A. Martin Freeman's West Cork song collection of 1913-14