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Memory and the modern in Celtic literatures

Memory and the modern in Celtic literatures

CSANA yearbook 5

Joseph Falaky Nagy, editor

Each issue of the Yearbook has its own theme, includes an editor's introduction and index, and features cutting-edge, peer-reviewed articles, often based on pap…
The Dublin City Franchise Roll, 1468–1512

The Dublin City Franchise Roll, 1468–1512

Colm Lennon & James Murray, editors

The Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin was edited by Sir John Thomas Gilbert and by Lady Gilbert and was published by Dublin Corporation in 19 volumes betwee…
Bobbio in the early middle ages

Bobbio in the early middle ages

The abiding legacy of Columbanus

Michael Richter

Bobbio was the last monastery founded by St Columbanus, who died two years after its inception. It soon became the most important monastery in northern Italy.

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Lorg na Leabhar

Lorg na Leabhar

A Festschrift for Pádraig A. Breatnach

Caoimhín Breatnach, Meidhbhín Ní Úrdail & Gordon Ó Riain, editors

The present volume contains a collection of essays to honour the enormous contribution by Professor Pádraig A. Breatnach to learning in a diverse range of field…
Tigernán Ua Ruairc and a twelfth-century royal grant in the Book of Kells
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Tigernán Ua Ruairc and a twelfth-century royal grant in the Book of Kells

Denis Casey

King-maker, land-grabber, wronged husband and vengeful man of honour — just some of the popular views of Tigernán Ua Ruairc (died 1172), the long-lived king of …
Brigid’s Worlds

Brigid’s Worlds

Proceedings from the Brigid 1500 Maynooth University and Kildare County Council Conference

Niamh Wycherley, editor

Collecting essays from leading international academic experts on St Brigit of Kildare and early medieval Ireland, this book marks a unique historical and schola…
In dialogue with the Agallamh

In dialogue with the Agallamh

essays in honour of Seán Ó Coileáin

Aidan Doyle & Kevin Murray editors

This volume contains a collection of essays on the centrepiece of fíanaigecht scholarship, Agallamh na Seanórach ‘The Dialogue of the Ancients’. Initially deliv…
John Skelton

John Skelton

The career of an early Tudor poet

John Scattergood

John Skelton (c.1460–1529) wrote poetry and some prose, in Latin and English, for almost forty years, circulating his work through manuscript copies and the new…
Kings and warriors in early north-west Europe

Kings and warriors in early north-west Europe

Jan Erik Rekdal & Charles Doherty, editors

This book explores the representation of the warrior in relation to the king in early north-west Europe. These essays, by scholars from the areas of Norse, Celt…
Nature and art in Dante

Nature and art in Dante

Daragh O'Connell & Jennifer Petrie, editors

This volume opens with an essay in which Jennifer Petrie explores Dante’s own use of the term arte, before applying the findings of that exploration to the ques…