Irish monks and missionaries played a crucial role in the
conversion of the pagan Anglo-Saxons and in the formation of
Christian culture in England, but the nature and extent of Irish
influence on Old English poetry has remained largely undefined.
Charles Wright identifies the characteristic features of Irish
Christian literature which influenced Anglo-Saxon vernacular
authors. Professor Wright traces the Irish background of the
distinctive contents of Vercelli Homily IX and its remarkable
exemplum, 'The Devil's Account of the Next World', and traces the
dissemination of related stylistic and thematic material elsewhere
in Old English literature, including other anonymous homilies such
as Beowulf and the Solomon and Saturn texts. As a full-length study
of Irish influence on Old English religious literature, the book
will appeal to scholars in Old English literature, Anglo-Saxon
studies, and Old and Middle Irish literature.
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