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Manuscripts provide rich documentary evidence for understanding the
history of cultural life across the breadth of Europe and Asia down
through the Middle Ages. Many illustrate engagement between and
across languages, in both similar and contrasting ways from east to
west. The demarcation of manuscript studies into single-language
academic disciplines has often obscured this reality, privileging
one constituent part or contributing language from each manuscript
rather than exploring the combination as a nuanced and complex
whole. This volume seeks to examine manuscripts as integrally
united artefacts, respecting the diversity of their constituent
elements. Case studies are presented of twelve manuscripts with
evidence for various levels of inter-language exchange and
collision, from horizons as diverse as the Atlantic West,
Carolingian Europe, the Byzantine world, the Silk Road cultures,
and east Asia. The essays function individually as discrete
contributions, but together they highlight a range of overlapping
themes, illustrating language interaction in global religions,
pedagogical exchange, and secular society-building.The analogies as
well as the concrete points of connection between them underline
the value of a cross-disciplinary approach.
Examinations of the use of classical Latin texts, themes and
techniques in medieval Irish narrative. This edited volume will
make a major contribution to our appreciation of the importance of
classical literature and learning in medieval Ireland, and
particularly to our understanding of its role in shaping the
content, structureand transmission of medieval Irish narrative. Dr
Kevin Murray, Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University
College Cork. From the tenth century onwards, Irish scholars
adapted Latin epics and legendary histories into the Irish
language, including the Imtheachta Aeniasa, the earliest known
adaptation of Virgil's Aeneid into any European vernacular; Togail
Troi, a grand epic reworking of the decidedly prosaic historyof the
fall of Troy attributed to Dares Phrygius; and, at the other
extreme, the remarkable Merugud Uilixis meic Leirtis, a fable-like
retelling of Ulysses's homecoming boiled down to a few hundred
lines of lapidary prose.Both the Latin originals and their Irish
adaptations had a profound impact on the ways in which Irish
authors wrote narratives about their own legendary past, notably
the great saga Tain Bo Cuailnge (The Cattle-Raid of Cooley). The
essays in this book explore the ways in which these Latin texts and
techniques were used. They are unified by a conviction that
classical learning and literature were central to the culture of
medieval Irish storytelling,but precisely how this relationship
played out is a matter of ongoing debate. As a result, they engage
in dialogue with each other, using methods drawn from a wide range
of disciplines (philology, classical studies, comparative
literature, translation studies, and folkloristics). Ralph O'Connor
is Professor in the Literature and Culture of Britain, Ireland and
Iceland at the University of Aberdeen. Contributors: Abigail
Burnyeat, Michael Clarke, Robert Crampton, Helen Fulton, Barbara
Hillers, Maire Ni Mhaonaigh, Ralph O'Connor, Erich Poppe.
Battles have long featured prominently in historical consciousness,
as moments when the balance of power was seen to have tipped, or
when aspects of collective identity were shaped. But how have
perspectives on warfare changed? How similar are present day
ideologies of warfare to those of the medieval period? Looking back
over a thousand years of British, Irish and Scandinavian battles,
this significant collection of essays examines how different times
and cultures have reacted to war, considering the changing roles of
religion and technology in the experience and memorialisation of
conflict. While fighting and killing have been deplored, glorified
and everything in between across the ages, Writing Battles reminds
us of the visceral impact left on those who come after.
Battles have long featured prominently in historical consciousness,
as moments when the balance of power was seen to have tipped, or
when aspects of collective identity were shaped. But how have
perspectives on warfare changed? How similar are present day
ideologies of warfare to those of the medieval period? Looking back
over a thousand years of British, Irish and Scandinavian battles,
this significant collection of essays examines how different times
and cultures have reacted to war, considering the changing roles of
religion and technology in the experience and memorialisation of
conflict. While fighting and killing have been deplored, glorified
and everything in between across the ages, Writing Battles reminds
us of the visceral impact left on those who come after.
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