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Significant contributions on Celtic history, law, archaeology and
literature. Thomas Charles-Edwards, the distinguished scholar of
medieval Britain and Ireland, has made important contributions to a
number of fields, but is particularly renowned for his studies in
Celtic history and law. In this volume, colleagues pay tribute to
his work with essays that range across the medieval Celtic world,
including medieval Wales, Ireland and Scotland. In the first part
of the volume, they cover historical aspects (and, as is fitting,
often reflect the honorand's interest in archaeology and
epigraphy); in the second, they focus on medieval Irish and Welsh
legal institutions and texts, which are used by some to inform new
readings of literary texts. Contributors: Susan Youngs, Clare
Stancliffe, Catherine Swift, David N. Dumville, Elizabeth O'Brien,
Edel Bhreathnach, Oliver Padel, Nancy Edwards, Thomas Owen Clancy,
Marie Therese Flanagan, Huw Pryce, Roy Flechner, Robin Chapman
Stacey,Wendy Davies, Sara Elin Roberts, Fergus Kelly, Bronagh Ni
Chonaill, Charlene Eska, Elva Johnston, Maire Ni Mhaonaigh,
Maredudd ap Huw.
The first comprehensive survey of the Irish literary elite in the
early middle ages. Winner of the 2015 Irish Historical Research
Prize. Much of our knowledge of early medieval Ireland comes from a
rich literature written in a variety of genres and in two
languages, Irish and Latin. Who wrote this literature and what role
did they play within society? What did the introduction and
expansion of literacy mean in a culture where the vast majority of
the population continued to be non-literate? How did literacy
operate in and intersect with the oral world? Was literacy a key
element in the formation and articulation of communal and elite
senses of identity? This book addresses these issues in the first
full, inter-disciplinary examination of the Irish literate elite
and their social contexts between ca. 400-1000 AD. It considers the
role played by Hiberno-Latin authors, the expansion of vernacular
literacy and the key place of monasteries within the literate
landscape. Also examined are the crucial intersections between
literacy and orality, which underpin the importance played by the
literate elite in giving voice to aristocratic and communal
identities. This study places these developments within a broader
European context, underlining the significance of the Irish
experience of learning and literacy. Elva Johnston is lecturer in
the School of History and Archives, University College Dublin.
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