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British books in biblical style

British books in biblical style

Early Alfredian and after the conquest

David Howlett

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, …
Cambro-Latin compositions

Cambro-Latin compositions

Their competence and craftmanship

David Howlett

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…
Sealed from within

Sealed from within

Self-authenticating insular charters

David Howlett

From original manuscripts David Howlett edits, translates, and analyses twenty-four Latin charters – English, Welsh, Cornish, Irish, Scottish, and Hebridean – f…
The English origins of Old French literature

The English origins of Old French literature

David Howlett

Dramatic differences between Latin texts written before and after the settlement of the Normans in England imply that the conquerors inherited from the conquere…
Irish villages

Irish villages

Studies in local history

Karina Holton, Brian Ó Daláigh & Liam Clare, editors

This significant book is the first attempt to understand the problems of evolution in Irish villages from the local perspective. These essays contrast and compa…
On literature and science

On literature and science

Essays, reflections, provocations

Philip Coleman, editor

On literature and science explores some of the ways that writers have engaged with science and technology from the early medieval period to the present.

Philip…
Trinity College Library Dublin

Trinity College Library Dublin

Descriptive catalogue of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin manuscripts

Marvin L. Colker

The first supplement to the 1991 catalogue of Latin manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin describes in detail Latin manuscripts acquired by Trinity College Dubl…
Nation, court and culture

Nation, court and culture

New essays on fifteenth-century English poetry

The fifteenth century in England saw a radical shift in the idea of England as a nation and the nature of ‘Englishness’ itself, a sometimes discomfiting re-defi…
A supplement to A Dictionary of Irish Saints

A supplement to A Dictionary of Irish Saints

Containing additions and corrections

Pádraig Ó Riain

To be bought in conjunction with A Dictionary of Irish Saints

In the ten years since its publication by Four Courts Press in 2011 A dictionary of Irish saints …
Time’s Subjects

Time’s Subjects

Horology and Literature in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance

John Scattergood

There is ample evidence, from the earliest periods onwards, that mankind has sought to measure and organize temporal movement by means of intellectual theories …