Literacy In Medieval Celtic Societies

Author : Huw Pryce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998-02-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521570395

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Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies by Huw Pryce Pdf

This 1998 collection of studies examines the use of the written word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c. 1500. Building on previous work as well as presenting the fruits of much new research, the book seeks to highlight the interest and importance of Celtic uses of literacy for the study of both medieval literacy generally and of the history and cultures of the Celtic countries in the Middle Ages. Among the topics discussed are the uses and significance of charter-writing, the interplay of oral and literate modes in the composition and transmission of medieval Irish and Welsh genealogies, prose narratives and poetry, the survival of Celtic culture in Brittany and of Gaelic literacy in eastern Scotland in the twelfth century, and pragmatic uses of literacy in later medieval Wales.

Author : Elva Johnston
Publisher : Boydell Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843838555

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Literacy and Identity in Early Medieval Ireland by Elva Johnston Pdf

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.

Author : Marian Redmond
Publisher : R.I.C. Publications
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Celts
ISBN : 9781741265071

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Literacy and History by Marian Redmond Pdf

Author : Phillipp R. Schofield,John McEwan,Elizabeth New,Sue Johns
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783168729

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Seals and Society by Phillipp R. Schofield,John McEwan,Elizabeth New,Sue Johns Pdf

Seals and Society arises from a major project investigating seals and their use in medieval Wales, the Welsh March and neighbouring counties in England. The first major study of seals in the context of one part of medieval Western European society, the volume also offers a new perspective on the history of medieval Wales and its periphery by addressing a variety of themes in terms of the insight that seals can offer the historian. Though the present study suggests important regional distinctions in the take-up of seals in medieval Wales, it is also clear that seal usage increased from the later twelfth century and spread widely in Welsh society, especially in those parts of Wales neighbouring England or where there had been an early English incursion. Through a series of chapters, the authors examine the ways in which seals can shed light on the legal, administrative, social and economic history of the period in Wales and its border region. Seals provide unique insights into the choices individuals, men and women, made in representing themselves to the wider world, and this issue is examined closely. Supported by almost 100 images gathered by the project team, the volume is of great interest to those working on seals, their motifs, their use and developments in their usage over the high and later Middle Ages.

Author : Rosamond McKitterick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1992-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521428963

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The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe by Rosamond McKitterick Pdf

This book investigates the importance of literacy in early medieval Europe in a number of different societies between c. 400 and c. 1000.

Author : Barbara Yorke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317868309

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The Conversion of Britain by Barbara Yorke Pdf

The Britain of 600-800 AD was populated by four distinct peoples; the British, Picts, Irish and Anglo-Saxons. They spoke 3 different languages, Gaelic, Brittonic and Old English, and lived in a diverse cultural environment. In 600 the British and the Irish were already Christians. In contrast the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons and Picts occurred somewhat later, at the end of the 6th and during the 7th century. Religion was one of the ways through which cultural difference was expressed, and the rulers of different areas of Britain dictated the nature of the dominant religion in areas under their control. This book uses the Conversion and the Christianisation of the different peoples of Britainas a framework through which to explore the workings of their political systems and the structures of their society. Because Christianity adapted to and affected the existing religious beliefs and social norms wherever it was introduced, it’s the perfect medium through which to study various aspects of society that are difficult to study by any other means.

Author : Helen Oxenham
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783271160

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Perceptions of Femininity in Early Irish Society by Helen Oxenham Pdf

An examination of how the feminine was viewed in early medieval Ireland, through a careful study of a range of texts.

Author : Roy Flechner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351267229

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Making Laws for a Christian Society by Roy Flechner Pdf

This is the first comprehensive study of the contribution that texts from Britain and Ireland made to the development of canon law in early medieval Europe. The book concentrates on a group of insular texts of church law—chief among them the Irish Hibernensis—tracing their evolution through mutual influence, their debt to late antique traditions from around the Mediterranean, their reception (and occasional rejection) by clerics in continental Europe, their fusion with continental texts, and their eventual impact on the formation of a European canonical tradition. Canonical collections, penitentials, and miscellanies of church law, and royal legislation, are all shown to have been 'living texts', which were continually reshaped through a process of trial and error that eventually gave rise to a more stable and more coherent body of church laws. Through a meticulous text-critical study Roy Flechner argues that the growth of church law in Europe owes as much to a serendipitous 'conversation' between texts as it does to any deliberate plan overseen by bishops and popes.

Author : Neville Cynthia J. Neville
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748664634

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Land Law and People in Medieval Scotland by Neville Cynthia J. Neville Pdf

This ambitious book, newly available in paperback, examines the encounter between Gaels and Europeans in Scotland in the central Middle Ages, offering new insights into an important period in the formation of the Scots' national identity. It is based on a close reading of the texts of several thousand charters, indentures, brieves and other written sources that record the business conducted in royal and baronial courts across the length and breadth of the medieval kingdom between 1150 and 1400.Under the broad themes of land, law and people, this book explores how the customs, laws and traditions of the native inhabitants and those of incoming settlers interacted and influenced each other. Drawing on a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, the author places her subject matter firmly within the recent historiography of the British Isles and demonstrates how the experience of Scotland was both similar to, and a distinct manifestation of, a wider process of Europeanisation.

Author : Margaret Clunies Ross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521631129

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Old Icelandic Literature and Society by Margaret Clunies Ross Pdf

The first comprehensive account of Old Icelandic literature set within its social and cultural context.

Author : Mary C. Erler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521024579

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Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England by Mary C. Erler Pdf

Narratives of medieval women offer new insights into networks of female book ownership and exchange.

Author : S. H. Rigby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470998779

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A Companion to Britain in the Later Middle Ages by S. H. Rigby Pdf

This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, political, religious, and cultural history in England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales Provides a guide to the historical debates over the later Middle Ages Addresses questions at the leading edge of historical scholarship Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047444619

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Interfaces between Language and Culture in Medieval England by Anonim Pdf

The twelve articles in this volume promote the growing contacts between medieval linguistics and medieval cultural studies generally. Articles address medieval English linguistics, and the interrelation in Anglo-Saxon England between Latin and vernacular language and culture.

Author : Michael Newton
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857907677

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Warriors of the Word by Michael Newton Pdf

An enlightening illustrated overview of Gaelic culture and history in Scotland. Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: Bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles for power; incantations invoked blessings and curses. Even in the present, Gaels strive to counteract centuries of misrepresentation of the Highlands as a backwater of barbarism without a valid story of its own to tell. Warriors of the Word offers a broad overview of Scottish Highland culture and history, bringing together rare and previously untranslated primary texts from scattered and obscure sources. Poetry, songs, tales, and proverbs, supplemented by the accounts of insiders and travelers, illuminate traditional ways of life, exploring such topics as folklore, music, dance, literature, social organization, supernatural beliefs, human ecology, ethnic identity, and the role of language. This range of materials allows Scottish Gaeldom to be described on its own terms and to demonstrate its vitality and wealth of renewable cultural resources—making this an essential compendium for scholars, students, and all enthusiasts of Scottish culture.

Author : Ann Dooley,Teaches at Celtic Studies Programme Ann Dooley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802038326

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Playing the Hero by Ann Dooley,Teaches at Celtic Studies Programme Ann Dooley Pdf

Playing the Hero is a unique example of more contemporary literary methodologies – post-structuralist, feminist, historicist and beyond – being used to illuminate the Irish saga world.