Whitley Stokes was described as ‘the greatest of living Celtic philologists’. After legal studies he practised as an equity draughtsman and conveyancer and duri…
Howlett charts a tradition of thought and composition from the fifth century to the thirteenth, from the Romano-British writers Pelagius, St Patrick, and Faustu…
The earliest writing in Ireland is in the form of ogham inscriptions, carved along the edges of numerous stones found throughout the country, with a strong conc…
This book presents a collection of texts, translated from both Latin and Irish, which provide a many-faceted view of the religious culture of Ireland in the ear…
The intimate relationship of the study of law and the study of literature has never been clearer in Celtic studies. They help to elucidate each other, as well a…
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 …
From original manuscripts David Howlett edits, translates, and analyses twenty-four Latin charters – English, Welsh, Cornish, Irish, Scottish, and Hebridean – f…
The subject of this book is biblical style and its influence on Celtic Latin authors from the time of Roman Britain to the Norman Conquest and beyond. The autho…
Dramatic differences between Latin texts written before and after the settlement of the Normans in England imply that the conquerors inherited from the conquere…
The Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, written in Latin around AD 800, describes how the 6th-century Irish saint Brendan set sail for an island paradise on the …
