Pagan Past And Christian Present In Early Irish Literature
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Pagan Past And Christian Present In Early Irish Literature
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Author : Kim McCone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990-01
Pagan Past And Christian Present In Early Irish Literature written by Kim McCone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-01 with Christian literature, Irish categories.
Pagan Past And Christian Present In Early Irish Literature
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Author : Kim McCone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Pagan Past And Christian Present In Early Irish Literature written by Kim McCone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Christianity in literature categories.
Understanding Celtic Religion
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language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2015-11-20
Understanding Celtic Religion written by and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-20 with Religion categories.
Although it has long been acknowledged that the early Irish literary corpus preserves both pre-Christian and Christian elements, the challenges involved in the understanding of these different strata have not been subjected to critical examination. This volume draws attention to the importance of reconsidering the relationship between religion and mythology, as well as the concept of ‘Celtic religion’ itself. When scholars are attempting to construct the so-called ‘Celtic’ belief system, what counts as ‘religion’? Or, when labelling something as ‘religion’ as opposed to ‘mythology’, what do these entities entail? This volume is the first interdisciplinary collection of articles which critically reevaluates the methodological challenges of the study of ‘Celtic religion’; the authors are eminent scholars in the field of Celtic Studies representing the disciplines of theology, literary studies, history, law and archaeology, and the book represents a significant contribution to the present scholarly debate concerning the pre-Christian elements in early medieval source materials. Contents 1 Introduction: ‘Celtic Religion’: Is this a Valid Concept?, Alexandra Bergholm and Katja Ritari 2 Celtic Spells and Counterspells, Jacqueline Borsje (available Open Access at the University of Amsterdam Digital Academic Repository) 3 The Gods of Ireland in the Later Middle Ages, John Carey 4 Staging the Otherworld in Medieval Irish Literature, Joseph Falaky Nagy 5 The Biblical Dimension of Early Medieval Latin Texts, Thomas O’Loughlin 6 Ancient Irish Law Revisited: Rereading the Laws of Status and Franchise, Robin Chapman Stacey 7 A Dirty Window on the Iron Age? Recent Developments in the Archaeology of Pre-Roman Celtic Religion, Jane Webster
Signs Of Weakness
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Author : Varese Layzer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2001-03-01
Signs Of Weakness written by Varese Layzer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-01 with Religion categories.
Are early Irish stories influenced by the Bible or transcriptions of pre-Christian Celtic lore? Layzer explores the practical and theoretical difficulties of determining 'influence' in ancient writing, and the relationship between the oral and the written, literacy and literature and the disciplines of Irish Studies and Biblical Studies.
Irish Writers And Religion
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Author : Robert Welch
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1992
Irish Writers And Religion written by Robert Welch and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
Irish writing has been influenced by religion from the beginning; indeed it was the arrival of Christianity which brought Latin orthography, which men of learning adopted. Pagan beliefs were assimilated into Christianity, but not entirely so: a theme which is dealt with in the essay on writing in early Ireland. The relationship between the various Irish Churches and writers in the 18th and 19th centuries is examined as is the influence of folk religion in modern Irish literature. There follow essays on: ghosts, Yeats, Synge, Joyce and Beckett; and on the poets Macneice, Kavanagh and Desmond Egan. Contributors: Lance St. John Butler; Peter Denman; Desmond Egan; Ruth Fleischmann; A. M. Gibbs; Barbara Hayley; Eamonn Hughes; Anne McCartney; Seamus MacMathuna; Joseph McMinn; Nuala ni Dhomhnaill; Mitsuko Ohno; Daithi O Hogain; Alan Peacock; Patricia Rafroidi and Robert Welch. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 37.
Land Of Women
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Author : Lisa M. Bitel
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1998
Land Of Women written by Lisa M. Bitel and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
"This book disperses the shadows in an obscure but important landscape. Lisa Bitel addresses both the history of women in early Ireland and the history of myth, legend, and superstition which surrounded them. It is a powerful and exact book and an invaluable addition to our expanding sense of Ireland through the eyes of Irish women."--Eavan Boland, author of In a Time of Violence: Poems"It is refreshing to read in a book by a woman on medieval women that not all clerics hated women and that not all men were oversexed villains consciously bent on exploiting women. [Bitel] challenges not only the medieval Irish male construct of female behavior, but she is also courageous enough to question constructs of medieval women invented by modern Irish medieval historians."--Times Higher Education Supplement
A Literary History Of Ireland From Earliest Times To The Present Day
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Author : Douglas Hyde
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2019-12-02
A Literary History Of Ireland From Earliest Times To The Present Day written by Douglas Hyde and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-12-02 with History categories.
This book is one of the most prominent Irish history books. Douglas Hyde, the author, was the first President of Ireland and took great care in relating the history of his own country. It spans a huge period, starting from druidism and the first settlements in Ireland. This book had a huge amount of information, yet it is free from personal or political ideas and opinions. Everyone who loves ancient Irish history and Druidry will find this book interesting.
Conversing With Angels And Ancients
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Author : Joseph Falaky Nagy
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-05
Conversing With Angels And Ancients written by Joseph Falaky Nagy and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
An Introduction To Early Irish Literature
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Author : Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
An Introduction To Early Irish Literature written by Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Irish literature categories.
This book discusses the rich written heritage of the Old and Middle Irish period, 600-1200, and is suitable for students of medieval Ireland as well as the general reader who wants to learn about the stories, poetry and themes of early Irish literature. Early chapters deal with the poets, druids, monks, the beginnings of writing, manuscripts as well as an introduction to each of the saga cycles. These sagas contain the stories of heroes such as Cu Chulainn and Finn mac Cumaill as well as kings, such as Cormac mac Airt. Further chapters focus on the poets and their poetry, the heroes visiting the Otherworld, the births and deaths of famous heroes as well as stories about kings, kingship and sovereignty goddesses. Included also is a bibliography and a comprehensive index including personal and place names.
Memory And Remembering In Early Irish Literature
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Author : Sarah Künzler
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-12-04
Memory And Remembering In Early Irish Literature written by Sarah Künzler and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Ireland possesses an early and exceptionally rich medieval vernacular tradition in which memory plays a key role. What attitudes to remembering and forgetting are expressed in secular early Irish texts? How do the texts conceptualise the past and what does this conceptualisation tell us about the present and future? Who mediates and validates different versions of the past and how is future remembrance guaranteed? This study approaches such questions through close readings of individual texts. It centres on three major aspects of medieval Irish memory culture: places and landscapes, the provision of information about the past by miraculously old eye-witnesses, and the personal, social and cultural impact of forgetting. The discussions shed light on the relationship between memory and forgetting and explore the connections between the past, present and future. This shows the fascinating spatio-temporal identity constructions in medieval Ireland and links the Irish texts to the broader European world. The monograph makes this rich literary sources available to an interdisciplinary audience and is of interest to both a general medievalist audience and those working in Cultural Memory Studies.