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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"Medieval Irish"”.
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Textual criticism and medieval Irish studies
… are those written by scholars of Old and Middle Irish in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Where Machan aims to articulate the textual and cultural factors that characterise Middle English works as Middle English, the purposes of this thesis are (a) to identify the underlying …
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Heroes and heroism in medieval Irish literature
The heroes of medieval Irish literature have been, and continue to be, a topic of enduring interest, both within and beyond the academy. These heroes, of whom Cú Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill are certainly the best known, are frequently the topics of discussion in many different sub-branches of the …
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Studies in Medieval Irish Legal Ancillary Material
Preserved in medieval Irish manuscripts are a number of legal texts, which generated a broad range of glosses and commentary. Focus has hitherto generally been on the older strata of material and their immediate glossing. This dissertation begins with in-text glossing, and goes beyond the immediate …
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Interpretatio Hiberniana: Classical Influences in Medieval Irish Depictions of Otherworldly Characters
Interpretatio Hiberniana: Classical Influences in Medieval Irish Depictions of Otherworldly Characters Brigid Kathleen Ehrmantraut This thesis examines the reception of Classical mythology in Ireland, primarily between the tenth and thirteenth centuries, and analyzes the influence of Classical …
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Saint, martyr, killer of Christ? The legend of Longinus in medieval Irish tradition
… first comprehensive and synthetic study of the Irish presentation and legends of Longinus. Longinus was the soldier at the crucifixion who pierced Christ with a spear, who believed and, according to some texts, was healed of his blindness by the blood and water issuing from the wound, and who …
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The Medieval Irish Adaptation of Lucan’s Bellum Ciuile: Manuscript Tradition and Scholarly Context
… a late twelfth- or early thirteenth-century Irish prose adaptation of Lucan’s Bellum ciuile. It is divided into two parts: Part I (Chapters 1–2) examines the text of In Cath Catharda and its manuscript tradition, while Part II (Chapters 3–4) situates the adaptation within the European …
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Attitudes towards Paganism in Medieval Irish and Old Norse Texts of the Trojan War
… the depictions of paganism found in the Middle Irish Togail Troí (‘The Destruction of Troy’; first half of the twelfth century) and the Old Norse Trójumanna saga (‘The Story of the Trojans’; first half of the thirteenth century), which are both based on Dares Phrygius’s Late Antique De excidio …
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‘Transfiguration’s coming’: An investigation of the depiction of interspecies transformation in medieval Irish literature
… between species of animal including human, in medieval Irish literature. It spans texts written from the seventh to the fourteenth centuries, using the wide temporal range, along with an investigation of a number of genres, to consider the many ways in which transformation appears in these …
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Aspects of Verbal Noun Constructions in Medieval Irish and Welsh With Reference to Similar Constructions in Basque
… has been collected primarily from Old and Middle Irish texts, but some reference is made to Modern Irish where this seems helpful in order to illustrate developments. The observations made are compared to findings on the use of verbal nouns in a closely related language, Middle Welsh, and an …
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Pivotal moments in the formation of the medieval Irish hero: conception/birth and death, and the case of Conall Cernach
… are martial heroes whose lives are placed in the Irish pre-Christian era. A hero is often a semi-divine figure in human form, living a mortal life and destined to experience an uncommon and often painful death. In other words, a hero is commonly what regular human beings would like to be, …
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A Critical Edition of 'Tochmarc Ferbe' with Translation, Textual Notes and Literary Commentary
… edition of the longest extant version of the medieval Irish text Tochmarc Ferbe (‘The Wooing of Ferb’), accompanied by translation, textual notes and literary commentary. Tochmarc Ferbe is found in two manuscripts, the Book of Leinster (LL) and Egerton 1782. This comprises three versions of …
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Fingal Chlainne Tanntail: Text and Context
… ... (ii) The Classical Context ... (iii) The Medieval Irish Context ... (iv) A Parallel Text to FCT ... The thesis concludes by drawing together the findings of all four sections, with particular reference to the findings in (ii) concerning both the most likely types of source for the …
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Detecting graves in GPR data: assessing the viability of machine learning for the interpretation of graves in B-scan data using medieval Irish case studies.
… learning were used to analyse radargrams of medieval graves and timeslices of modern proxy clandestine graves. Models were c. 93% accurate at labelling images as containing a grave or no grave and c. 96% accurate in labelling and locating potential graves in radargram images. For timeslices, …
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Pre-Christian Characters in Medieval Irish Literature: An Examination of Fástini Airt meic Cuind, De Suidigud Tellaig Temra, Aided Chonchobair and Aided Echach maic Maireda
… of the pre-Christian protagonists of the four medieval Irish tales Fástini Airt meic Cuind, De Suidigud Tellaig Temra, Aided Chonchobair and Aided Echach maic Maireda. In examining the portrayal of pre-Christian characters, I have addressed a particularly characteristic feature of medieval …
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Compilation and Creativity in Medieval Fíanaigecht: a Case-Study of 'Three Men and the Dog of Irúath'
… dissertation is the first in-depth study of the medieval Irish corpus of ‘Three Men and the Dog of Irúath’. This story survives in different forms (poetry and prosimetrum) in manuscripts ranging in date from the twelfth to the nineteenth century. The present study focusses primarily on the poem …
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'Of the holy londe of Irlande': A reconsideration of some Middle English Texts in late medieval Ireland
… constructions and ‘reconstructions’ of Anglo-Irish reading communities in late medieval Ireland, and specifically, the audiences that existed for texts in English. The research undertaken focuses on issues surrounding the production and reception (contemporary and subsequent) of a corpus of …
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The Archaeology and History of Medieval Trim, County Meath
… a large corpus of primary documents relating to medieval Irish towns has been accompanied by a revolution in approaches to source material and research methodology. More recently, archaeology has come to play a central role as a means of understanding Ireland’s urban past. Large-scale excavations …
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The Life and Cult of St. Abbán: A Dossier Study
… study of the cult and textual profile of the Medieval Irish saint, Abbán. It presents a close analysis of the saint’s hagiographical dossier and comparatively examines his record in the medieval Irish genealogies, martyrologies and litanies. This research is conducted through five chapters, …
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