Medieval Celtic Literature And Society

Author : Helen Fulton
Publisher : Four Courts Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015062593259

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Medieval Celtic Literature and Society by Helen Fulton Pdf

This collection brings together the latest research from international scholars working on medieval Irish, Welsh, Cornish and Breton literature, making it a reader for courses on medieval Celtic literatures. Featured texts include early Welsh poetry, the Ulster Cycle, the 'Mabinogi', and the work of Dafydd ap Gwilym. John Koch Why was Welsh literature first written down? - John Carey The legendary history of Ireland - David Dumville Writers, scribes and readers in Brittany~ - Robin Chapman Stacy Law and literature in medieval Ireland and Wales - Kaarina Hollo Laments and lamenting in early medieval Ireland - Oliver Padel Oral and literary culture in medieval Cornwall - Joseph Falaky Nagy The 'Acallam na Senórach' - Esther Freer & Nerys Ann Jones The early career of Llywarch Brydydd y Moch - Thomas Owen Clancy Court, king and justice in the Ulster Cycle - Kristen Lee Over Transcultural change: Welsh and French romance - Erich Poppe Narrative structure of medieval Irish adaptations - Helen Fulton The 'Mabinogi' and the education of princes - ~Morgan T. Davies Dafydd ap Gwilym and the shadow of colonialism

Author : Rachel Bromwich
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1974-12-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781442650923

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Medieval Celtic Literature by Rachel Bromwich Pdf

The focus of this bibliography is the native literary tradition expressed in Irish and Welsh verse and prose from the earliest time to circa 1450. Priority is given to the most recent critical works and editions, provided that they supersede previous ones; however, earlier scholarly work and critical editions of texts that are now regarded as classics are also included. Because of the highly selective nature of this bibliography, Rachel Bromwich includes only a few studies on early legal texts, historical background, ecclesiastical learning, hagiography, archaeology and art, and folklore. The bibliography is divided into five chapters, of which two are intended for newcomers to the field and list the more available works of reference and aids to language study. The remaining three are devoted to literary history and criticism, texts and translations, and background material. The more than 500 entries have been arranged to show the ways in which the medieval literature of Ireland and Wales pursue parallel courses. In each chapter a general and comparative section is followed by sub-sections dealing with Irish material (including Cornish and Breton). Within each of these sub-sections individual items dealing with similar or closely related topics have been grouped together. Since this work is intended primarily for students working in English, the majority of the listings are in English, but important works in Irish, Welsh, French, and German are also cited.

Author : Huw Pryce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,9 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 : Adam Haviaras
Publisher : Adam Alexander Haviaras
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781988309125

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Celtic Literary Archetypes in The Mabinogion by Adam Haviaras Pdf

HISTORIA: A Gateway to Ancient and Medieval History and Archaeology! This book introduces the reader to some of the literary traditions of the ancient Celts through the study of the first branch of The Mabinogion: Pwyll, Lord of Dyved. This ancient text is both a record of British mythology and a teaching text for ancient princes. It also illustrates the values of Celtic, Iron Age society that carried on into the Middle Ages to shape Arthurian Romance and ideals of chivalry and kingship. In this book, the reader will learn about the most prominent archetypes in ancient Celtic literature such as occurrences in threes, the importance of contact with the Otherworld, what it meant to be an effective ruler, and more. Pwyll, Lord of Dyved is a tale of magic and wonder, as well as human trial and experience, and the archetypes it employs are as relevant today as they were over fifteen-hundred years ago. If you are studying The Mabinogion, or have an interest in Celtic and Arthurian studies, the Arthurian legends and British mythology, then you will enjoy this short, engaging study of one of the great literary achievements of the ancient Celts.

Author : Joseph Falaky Nagy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015074062236

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Myth in Celtic Literatures by Joseph Falaky Nagy Pdf

The pursuit of 'myth' has long been an important part of Celtic studies. Are there, in fact, waifs and strays of ancient mythology preserved in medieval Celtic texts? Do myths reflect a prehistoric world-view, history, or literary innovation? And how are old myths refitted, and new myths invented, by writers in medieval and modern times? These are some of the questions compellingly addressed in the studies collected in this issue of the Yearbook, featuring groundbreaking work on: the mythological underpinnings of names in the Welsh Mabinogi; the story of Branwen and the clash between Britain and Ireland; the figure of the 'holy mermaid' in medieval Irish literature; horses, dogs, and King Arthur; and the ideological implications of 'insularity'. Contributors include Phillip Bernhardt-House, Ranke de Vries, Jessica Hemming, Catherine McKenna, and Thomas O'Loughlin.

Author : Patrick Sims-Williams
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199588657

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Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature by Patrick Sims-Williams Pdf

Patrick Sims-Williams provides an approach to some of the issues surrounding Irish literary influence on Wales, situating them in the context of the rest of medieval literature and international folklore.

Author : Georgia Henley,Paul Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Celtic literature
ISBN : 0912568267

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Rhetoric and Reality in Medieval Celtic Literature by Georgia Henley,Paul Russell Pdf

Author : Valerie B. Johnson,Kara L. McShane
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501514210

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Negotiating Boundaries in Medieval Literature and Culture by Valerie B. Johnson,Kara L. McShane Pdf

Thomas Hahn’s work laid the foundations for medieval romance studies to embrace the study of alterity and hybridity within Middle English literature. His contributions to scholarship brought Robin Hood studies into the critical mainstream, normalized the study of historically marginalized literature and peoples, and encouraged scholars to view medieval readers as actively encountering others and exploring themselves. This volume employs his methodologies – careful attention to texts and their contexts, cross-cultural readings, and theoretically-informed analysis – to highlight the literary culture of late medieval England afresh. Addressing long-established canonical works such as Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, and Malory alongside understudied traditions and manuscripts, this book will be of interest to literary scholars of the later Middle Ages who, like Hahn, work across boundaries of genre, tradition, and chronology.

Author : Ralph O'Connor
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843849

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Classical Literature and Learning in Medieval Irish Narrative by Ralph O'Connor Pdf

"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, structure and 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 Tro , a grand epic reworking of the decidedly prosaic history of 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 T in B C ailnge (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, M ire N Mhaonaigh, Ralph O'Connor, Erich Poppe.

Author : Karl Reichl
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110241129

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Medieval Oral Literature by Karl Reichl Pdf

Medieval literature is to a large degree shaped by orality, not only with regard to performance, but also to transmission and composition. Although problems of orality have been much discussed by medievalists, there is to date no comprehensive handbook on this topic. ‘Medieval Oral Literature’, a volume in the ‘De Gruyter Lexikon’ series, was written by an international team of twenty-five scholars and offers a thorough discussion of theoretical approaches as well as detailed presentations of individual traditions and genres. In addition to chapters on the oral-formulaic theory, on the interplay of orality and writing in the Early Middle Ages, on performance and performers, on oral poetics and on ritual aspects of orality, there are chapters on the Older Germanic, Romance, Middle High German, Middle English, Celtic, Greek-Byzantine, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and Turkish traditions of oral literature. There is a special focus on epic and lyric, genres that are also discussed in separate chapters, with additional chapters on the ballad and on drama.

Author : Victoria Flood
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843847212

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Medieval Welsh Literature and Its European Contexts by Victoria Flood Pdf

Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research. Professor Helen Fulton's influential scholarship has pioneered our understanding of the links between Welsh and European medieval literature. The essays collected here pay tribute to and reflect that scholarship, by positioning Celtic languages and literatures in relation to broader European movements and conventions. They include studies of texts from medieval Wales, Ireland, and the Welsh March, alongside discussions of continental multicultural literary engagements, understood as a closely related and analogous field of enquiry. Contributors present new investigations of Welsh poetry, from the pre-Conquest poetry of the princes to late-medieval and early Tudor urban subject matters; Welsh Arthuriana and Irish epic; the literature of the Welsh March - including the writings of the Gawain-poet; and the multilingual contexts of medieval and post-medieval Europe, from the Dutch speakers of polyglot medieval Calais to the Romantic poet Shelley's probable ownership of a Welsh Bible.

Author : Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan,Erich Poppe
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786833440

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Arthur in the Celtic Languages by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan,Erich Poppe Pdf

This is the first comprehensive authoritative survey of Arthurian literature and traditions in the Celtic languages of Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. With contributions by leading and emerging specialists in the field, the volume traces the development of the legends that grew up around Arthur and have been constantly reworked and adapted from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. It shows how the figure of Arthur evolved from the leader of a warband in early medieval north Britain to a king whose court becomes the starting-point for knightly adventures, and how characters and tales are reimagined, reshaped and reinterpreted according to local circumstances, traditions and preoccupations at different periods. From the celebrated early Welsh poetry and prose tales to less familiar modern Breton and Cornish fiction, from medieval Irish adaptations of the legend to the Gaelic ballads of Scotland, Arthur in the Celtic Languages provides an indispensable, up-to-date guide of a vast and complex body of Arthurian material, and to recent research and criticism.

Author : Margaret Kelleher,James O'Sullivan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009192453

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Technology in Irish Literature and Culture by Margaret Kelleher,James O'Sullivan Pdf

Technology in Irish Literature and Culture shows how such significant technologies—typewriters, gramophones, print, radio, television, computers—have influenced Irish literary practices and cultural production, while also examining how technology has been embraced as a theme in Irish writing. Once a largely rural and agrarian society, contemporary Ireland has embraced the communicative, performative and consumptive habits of a culture utterly reliant on the digital. This text plumbs the origins of the present moment, examining the longer history of literature's interactions with the technological and exploring how the transformative capacity of modern technology has been mediated throughout a diverse national canon. Comprising essays from some of the major figures of Irish literary and cultural studies, this volume offers a wide-ranging, comprehensive account of how Irish literature and culture have interacted with technology.

Author : Sarah Künzler
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110799132

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Memory and Remembering in Early Irish Literature by Sarah Künzler Pdf

Ireland possesses an early and exceptionally rich medieval vernacular tradition in which memory plays a key role. What attitudes to remembering and forgetting are expressed in secular early Irish texts? How do the texts conceptualise the past and what does this conceptualisation tell us about the present and future? Who mediates and validates different versions of the past and how is future remembrance guaranteed? This study approaches such questions through close readings of individual texts. It centres on three major aspects of medieval Irish memory culture: places and landscapes, the provision of information about the past by miraculously old eye-witnesses, and the personal, social and cultural impact of forgetting. The discussions shed light on the relationship between memory and forgetting and explore the connections between the past, present and future. This shows the fascinating spatio-temporal identity constructions in medieval Ireland and links the Irish texts to the broader European world. The monograph makes this rich literary sources available to an interdisciplinary audience and is of interest to both a general medievalist audience and those working in Cultural Memory Studies.

Author : Gro Steinsland
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004205062

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Ideology and Power in the Viking and Middle Ages by Gro Steinsland Pdf

This book analyses the Nordic pre-Christian ideology of rulership, and its confrontation with, survival into and adaptation to the European Christian ideals during the transition from the Viking to the Middle Ages from the ninth to the thirteenth century.