Some Reflections Of The Otherworld In Early Medieval Welsh And Irish Literature
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Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature
Author | : Patrick Sims-Williams |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199588651 |
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.
A Companion to John Scottus Eriugena
Author | : Adrian Guiu |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 2019-10-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9004399070 |
An overview of the context, thought, writings and legacy of John Scottus Eriugena, the most important philosopher and theologian in the Latin West from the death of Boethius until the thirteenth century.
The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales
Author | : Patrick K. Ford |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2008-02-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780520253964 |
The title Mabinogi refers to the first four stories in this collection of tales from Welsh tradition. They are best known as the "Four Branches of the Mabinogi," and comprise the tales of Pwyll, Branwen, Manawydan, and Math. The remaining stories also spring from the same tree, and together they form a collection that comprises the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. They are also among the best the medieval Celtic literature has to offer.
Seven Miles of Steel Thistles
Author | : Katherine Langrish |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781911122043 |
Conversing with Angels and Ancients
Author | : Joseph Falaky Nagy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
How does a written literature come into being within an oral culture, and how does such a literature achieve and maintain its authority? Joseph Falaky Nagy addresses those issues in his wide-ranging reading of the medieval literature of Ireland, from the writings of St. Patrick to the epic tales about the warrior Cú Chulainn. These texts, written in both Latin and Irish, constitute an adventurous and productive experiment in staging confrontations between the written and the spoken, the Christian and the pagan. The early Irish literati, primarily clerics living within a monastic milieu, produced literature that included saints' lives, heroic sagas, law tracts, and other genres. They sought to invest their literature with an authority different from that of the traditions from which they borrowed, native and foreign. To achieve this goal, they cast many of their texts as the outcome of momentous dialogues between saints and angelic messengers or remarkable interviews with the dead, who could reveal some insight from the past that needed to be rediscovered by forgetful contemporaries. Conversing with angels and ancients, medieval Irish writers boldly inscribed their visions of the past onto the new Christian order and its literature. Nagy includes portions of the original Latin and Irish texts that are not readily available to scholars, along with full translations.
Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld
Author | : Sharon Paice MacLeod |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2018-05-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1476669074 |
The early medieval manuscripts of Ireland and Britain contain tantalizing clues about the cosmology, religion and mythology of native Celtic cultures, despite censorship and revision by Christian redactors. Focusing on the latest research and translations, the author provides fresh insight into the beliefs and practices of the Iron Age inhabitants of Ireland, Britain and Gaul. Chapters cover creation and cosmogony, the deities of the Gaels, feminine power in narrative sources, druidic belief, priestesses and magical rites.
The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature
Author | : Kathy Cawsey |
Publisher | : Broadview Press |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2023-10-11 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1770489010 |
This teaching anthology collects texts from the vast archive of medieval Arthurian literature. It includes selections from mainstream canonical authors, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth and Malory, and more peripheral works, such as the Melech Artus (a 12th-century Hebrew text) and the Dutch Morien (featuring a black knight). Characters and authors showcase the diversity of race, religion, gender, and gender orientation of the Arthurian tradition. The anthology and its accompanying website offer a variety of genres, ranging from visual art to historical chronicles and from romance to drama. Arthurian works, while concentrated in England, France, and Wales, are found across medieval Europe, and thus this anthology includes texts from Iceland to Greece. The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature is ideally suited to teaching: it includes full texts, such as Chrétien de Troyes’ Knight of the Cart, Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s Tale, and the anonymous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, for classes that wish to study a whole work in depth; it also includes shorter excerpts of parallel incidents, such as the Uther and Igraine story, so that students can compare a story’s treatment by different authors. Marginal glosses assist students with the Middle English texts, while introductory notes and explanatory footnotes give students necessary background information.
The Keys of Middle-earth
Author | : Stuart Lee |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2016-04-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137454709 |
A comprehensive introduction to the medieval languages and texts that inspired Tolkien's Middle-earth. Using key episodes in The Silmarillion , The Hobbit , and The Lord of the Rings , medieval texts are presented in their original language with translations. Essential for those who wish to delve deeper into the background to Tolkien's mythology.
Medieval Arthurian Literature
Author | : Norris J. Lacy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2014-10-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317656954 |
The focus of this book is medieval vernacular literature in Western Europe. Chapters are written by experts in the area and present the current scholarship at the time this book was originally published in 1996. Each chapter has a bibliography of important works in that area as well. This is a thorough and reliable guide to trends in research on medieval Arthuriana.