At the beginning of the 9th century the growing population of the three great branches of the Scandinavian race who people the countries abutting the Baltic – t…
Irish Kings and High-Kings is an analysis of the nature of early Irish kingship, using annalistic and genealogical material to interpret Irish saga and legend.P…
This volume acknowledges the personal scholarly contribution of Francis J. Byrne, one of Ireland's leading Celtic scholars. For a full list of contents, pleas…
Julius Pokorny (1887–1970) was the foremost Celtic scholar of his generation on the European mainland. Born in Prague, he studied at Vienna University, and lear…
Whitley Stokes was described as ‘the greatest of living Celtic philologists’. After legal studies he practised as an equity draughtsman and conveyancer and duri…
The author defines rules for composing literary texts exhibited in the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament, reproduced in the Vulgate Latin Bible, …
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…
New Paperback edition, with a new foreword by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh Irish poetry is unique in the Middle Ages in freshness of spirit and perfection of form.' So w…
This volume presents a new introduction to the early Irish king-tales together with ten original essays on selected topics and suggestions for future research. …
