This collection examines the significance of the ways in which writing was used in the Celtic countries between c.400 and c.1500. It is concerned with the amount and types of material committed to writing as well as with the social groups that promoted the use of literacy and had access to its products. Presenting the fruits of much new research, the book is intended as a contribution to the study both of medieval literacy generally and of the history and cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany in the Middle Ages.
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"This is an exceptionally strong collection of essays." Robin Stacey, The Medieval Review
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This collection examines the significance of the ways in which writing was used in the Celtic countries between c.400 and c.1500. It is concerned with the amount and types of material committed to writing as well as with the social groups which promoted the use of literacy and had access to its products. Presenting the fruits of much new research, the book is intended as a contribution to the study both of medieval literacy generally and of the history and cultures of Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany in the middle ages.
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tir prid, prosodic tracts, oral genealogies, ogam alphabet, charter tradition, vernacular laws, ogam inscriptions, bardic poetry, written genealogies, ecclesiastical scholars, literate mentality, church reform movement, epigraphic habit, literate skills, literate modes, confirmation charter, genealogical sources, private deeds, lay literacy, royal genealogy, symbol stones Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Diarmait Mac Murchada, Lichfield Gospels, Baron Hill, Gospel Book, Middle Irish, Book of Kells, Old Irish, White Book, Book of Magauran, European Latin, Irish Bardic Poetry, Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn, Historia Brittonum, King's Poet, Mac Cana, Middle Welsh, Old Welsh, Anglo-Saxon England, Book of Leinster, Four Branches, Gerald of Wales, Mute Stones, Upper Brittany, Christian Ireland New!
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tir prid, prosodic tracts, oral genealogies, ogam alphabet, charter tradition, vernacular laws, ogam inscriptions, bardic poetry, written genealogies, ecclesiastical scholars, literate mentality, church reform movement, epigraphic habit, literate skills, literate modes, confirmation charter, genealogical sources, private deeds, lay literacy, royal genealogy, symbol stones Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle Ages, Diarmait Mac Murchada, Lichfield Gospels, Baron Hill, Gospel Book, Middle Irish, Book of Kells, Old Irish, White Book, Book of Magauran, European Latin, Irish Bardic Poetry, Muirchertach Mac Lochlainn, Historia Brittonum, King's Poet, Mac Cana, Middle Welsh, Old Welsh, Anglo-Saxon England, Book of Leinster, Four Branches, Gerald of Wales, Mute Stones, Upper Brittany, Christian Ireland New!
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- Making of Britain: Middle Ages (The making of Britain) by Lesley M. Smith on 5 pages
- Irish Bardic Poetry: Texts and Translations, Together with an Introductory Lecture (Irish Literature - Verse) by David Greene on 5 pages
- Studies on Middle Welsh Literature (Welsh Studies) by Brynley F. Roberts on page 146, page 148, and Back Matter
- The Metrical Dindshenchas: Part V (Irish Literature - Verse) (Pt. 5) by E.J. Gwynn on page 255, page 256, and Back Matter
- Lewys Glyn Cothi (Clasuron Yr Academi) by Evan David Jones on page 219, page 220, and Back Matter
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- Irish Royal Charters: Texts and Contexts by Marie Therese Flanagan on 5 pages
- Divided Gaels: Gaelic Cultural Identities in Scotland and Ireland c.1200-c.1650 by Wilson McLeod on 5 pages
- Old Icelandic Literature and Society (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Margaret Clunies Ross in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain: Phonology and Chronology, c. 400-1200 (Publications of the Philological Society) by Patrick Sims-Williams in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Fictions of Identity in Medieval France (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Donald Maddox in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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