Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies

Name: Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies
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ISBN: 9780521025331

ISBN-10: 0521025338

ISBN-13: 9780521025331

Edition: 2006

Authors: Huw Pryce, Alastair Minnis, Patrick Boyde, John Burrow, Rita Copeland

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This collection of studies examines the use of the written word in Celtic-speaking regions of Europe between c. 400 and c. 1500. Building on previous work as well as presenting the fruits of much new research, the book seeks to highlight the interest and importance of Celtic uses of literacy for the study of both medieval literacy generally and of the history and cultures of the Celtic countries in the middle ages. Among the topics discussed are the uses and significance of charter-writing, the interplay of oral and literate modes in the composition and transmission of medieval Irish and Welsh genealogies, prose narratives and poetry, the survival of Celtic culture in Brittany and of Gaelic…

Book details

List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 3/30/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 316
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Acknowledgements


Introduction Huw Pryce



The uses of literacy in early medieval Wales Patrick




Literacy in Pictland




The context and uses of literacy in early Christian Ireland




Orality, literacy and genealogy in early medieval Ireland and Wales




Charter-writing and its uses in early medieval Celtic societies




The context and uses of the Latin charter in twelfth-century Ireland Marie




Written text as performance - the implications for Middle Welsh prose narratives




More written about than writing? Welsh women and the written word Ceridwen Lloyd




Celtic literary tradition and the development of a feudal principality in Brittany NoTl




Gaelic literacy in eastern Scotland between 1124 and 1249




Inkhorn and spectacles: the impact of literacy in late medieval Wales Llinos




'This my act and deed': the writing of private deeds in late medieval north




Literacy and the Irish bards Katherine Simms


List of works cited


Index