Classical Literature and Learning in Medieval Irish Narrative

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 34
• From the tenth century onwards, Irish scholars adapted Latin epics and legendary histories into the Irish language, including the Imtheachta Aeniasa, ... Lees meer

The Legacy of Gildas

Stephen J Joyce

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 43
• Gildas is an essential witness to the Christian culture of the British Isles in the opaque period after the decline and fall of the western Roman empi... Lees meer

History and Identity in Early Medieval Wales

Rebecca Thomas

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 44
• Early medieval writers viewed the world as divided into gentes ("peoples"). These were groups that could be differentiated from each other according t... Lees meer

Cult of Saints and the Virgin Mary in Medieval Scotland

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 28
• Of all the Celtic countries, Scotland has lacked the kind of scholarly attention that has been lavished fruitfully on Wales, Ireland, Cornwall and Bri... Lees meer

Saint Germanus of Auxerre and the End of Roman Britain

E a Thompson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 6
• The 'Life of St Germanus', by Constantius of Lyon, is a contemporary account of a fifth-century bishop of Auxerre, who on two occasions came to Britai... Lees meer

Ireland, Wales, and England in the Eleventh Century

K L Maund

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 12
• The 11th century was a time of political change throughout the British Isles, and especially so in Wales. Dr Maund examines the relationship of Wales ... Lees meer

The Irish Identity of the Kingdom of the Scots in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

Dauvit Broun

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 18
• The close ties between Gaels of Ireland and Scotland are well known, but in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries the elite in the core areas of the ki... Lees meer

The Growth of Law in Medieval Wales, C.1100-C.1500

Sara Elin Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 45
• The Middle Ages in Wales were turbulent, with society and culture in constant flux. Edward I of England's 1282 conquest brought with it major changes ... Lees meer

The Present and the Past in Medieval Irish Chronicles

Nicholas Evans

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 27
• Ireland has the most substantial corpus of annalistic chronicles for the early period in western Europe. They are crucial sources for understanding th... Lees meer

Gildas

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 5
• Gildas's 'De Excidio Britanniae' is the prime source of our knowledge of post-Roman Britain, but because it is such an isolated text, for which we hav... Lees meer

Reading and Shaping Medieval Cartularies

Joanna Tucker

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 41
• Medieval cartularies are one of the most significant sources for a historian of the Middle Ages. Once viewed as simply repositories of charters, cartu... Lees meer

Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom

Fiona Edmonds

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 40
• WINNER OF THE FRANK WATSON BOOK PRIZE 2021. SHORTLISTED IN SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2021 The first full-scale, interdisciplinary treatment of t... Lees meer

Medieval Welsh Genealogy

Ben Guy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 42
• First in-depth investigation of the genealogies of medieval Wales, bringing out their full significance. Genealogy was a central element of life in me... Lees meer

Tome: Studies in Medieval Celtic History and Law in Honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 31
• Thomas Charles-Edwards, the distinguished scholar of medieval Britain and Ireland, has made important contributions to a number of fields, but is part... Lees meer

Saint Patrick

David N Dumville

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 13
• Extremely scholarly and contains many important studies... impossible to do justice to the depth of scholarship which is on display here. BRITANNIA An... Lees meer

Christ in Celtic Christianity

Michael W Herren, Shirley Ann Brown

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 20
• A new interpretation of Celtic Christianity, supported by images of Christ taken from manuscripts, metalwork and sculpture, and showing how it departe... Lees meer

Gruffudd AP Cynan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 16
• The life, career and medieval biography of Gruffudd ap Cynan, king of Gwynedd 1095-1137. The reign of the North Welsh king Gruffudd ap Cynan [1075-113... Lees meer

Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church

F E Warren, Jane Stevenson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 9
• Warren's book has been the single most useful compendium of information about the ritual aspects of the Celtic Church, which are of both historical an... Lees meer

Insular Latin Grammarians

Vivien Law

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 3
• The adaptation of Late Latin grammars from the schools of the Roman Empire for use in a foreign Christian society culminated in the British Isles in t... Lees meer

St Samson of Dol and the Earliest History of Brittany, Cornwall and Wales

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 37
• The First Life of St Samson of Dol (Vita Prima Samsonis) is a key text for the study of early Welsh, Cornish, Breton and indeed west Frankish history.... Lees meer

Perceptions of Femininity in Early Irish Society

Helen Oxenham

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 36
• Was femininity in early Irish society perceived as weak and sinful, innately inferior to masculinity? Was it seen as powerful and dangerous, a threat ... Lees meer

Early Monasteries in Cornwall

Lynette Olson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 11
• This is the first study for more than seventy years to consider the early monasteries of Cornwall through a combination of evidence -written sources (... Lees meer

Medieval Powys

David Stephenson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 35
• Powys, extending over north-east and central Wales, was one of three great medieval Welsh polities, along with Gwynedd to the north and Deheubarth (so... Lees meer

The Church and the Welsh Border in the Central Middle Ages

Christopher N L Brooke, David N Dumville

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Celtic History | nr. 8
• The four major studies in this book reflect this distinguished historian's continuing interest in relations between England and Wales in the tenth, el... Lees meer