Clerics, Kings and Vikings

Essays on Medieval Ireland in Honour of Donnchadh O Corrain

Emer Purcell, Paul MacCotter, Julianne Nyhan, John Sheehan

• Publisher: Four Courts Press
• Year: 2020
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781846828966
• Subtopic: Irish History
• Index: Literature

This volume contains contributions from leading scholars working at the forefront of Irish medieval studies. It includes essays on archaeology, ecclesiology, hagiography, medieval history, genealogy, language, literature and toponymy. Subjects explored include: Latin and learning in early medieval Ireland; the historical context of early medieval literature; Viking armies and the importance of the Hiberno-Norse naval fleets; Ireland and its connections with the Scandinavian world; recent studies of wooden and Romanesque churches in pre-Norman Ireland; the coming of the Anglo-Normans; hitherto unpublished Anglo Norman charters; the origin and function of medieval rural deaneries; secular and ecclesiastical histories of later medieval Kilkenny; and the 'named son' in 16th-century Ireland. [Subject: History, Medieval Studies, Irish Studies, Archaeology]

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title page
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of illustrations and plates
• List of abbreviations
• Preface
• Donnchadh Ó Corráin: writings 1968-2015
• Tribute - Adrian Hardiman
• Tribute - David Edwards
• 1. The ‘Papal letters to the Irish’ cited by Bede: how did he get them?
• 2. Observations on the context and landscape of the West Ossory crosses
• 3. A road well travelled: the terminology of roads in early Ireland
• 4. The status of Munster churches
• 5. Law and the learned in northern Iberia in the early Middle Ages: some comparisons with Ireland
• 6. Irish saints in a Regensburg litany
• 7. The naval power of Norse Dublin
• 8. Skuldelev 2 and Viking-age ships and fleets in Ireland
• 9. Follow the money: the financial resources of Diarmait Mac Murchada
• 10. The Welsh conquest of Ireland
• 11. Did Ireland exist in the twelfth century?
• 12. Conquests and adquisicio: some early Cork charters relating to St Thomas’ Abbey, Dublin
• 13. Léitheoir sa teach screaptra?
• 14. The medieval rural dean and rural deanery in Ireland
• 15. Pulp facts and core fictions: translating a cathedral from Aghaboe to Kilkenny
• 16. The ‘named’ son in late medieval Ireland
• 17. Genealogies of Uí Chearbhaill Éile: building on the work of Dinneen and others
• 18. Flaithrí, Firbisigh and Maoilechlainn: three Uí Mhaoil Chonaire brothers in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries
• 19. The history of an Irish book
• 20. From Kaupang and Avaldsnes to the Irish Sea
• 21. An early medieval horse-harness mount, of Irish manufacture, from Yorkshire
• 22. The Viking events of AD902-19 and the Lough Ennell hoards
• Plates
• 23. ‘Meagre lead’: the ubiquity of lead in Hiberno-Scandinavian Dublin
• 24. Vikings on Ireland’s Atlantic shore
• 25. The ‘Shannon’ shrine: a suggested provenance
• 26. Lía lógmar (‘precious stone’) in early Irish literature
• 27. Early medieval arigculture in Ireland: the case for tillage
• 28. A note on the dairthech
• 29. Relics and recluses revisited: some thoughts on Cormac’s Chapel, Cashel
• 30. Under the abbot’s cloak: the symbolism of Columba’s clothing in Adomnán’s Vita Columbae
• 31. Blood, dust and cucumbers: constructing the world of Hisperic Latinity
• 32. The ‘Altus Prosator’ of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
• 33. The oldest gloss tradition on Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii: its form, character and routes of transmission
• 34. The Irish hybrid lists of the Seven Heavens
• 35. Peregrini in the ocean: spirituality and reality
• 36. Immacallam Choluim Chille 7 ind Óclaig: language and authority in an early-medieval Irish tale
• 37. In search of Mael Muru Othna
• 38. The strange case of Ailill mac Mágach and Cet mac Mátach
• 39. The treatment of place-names in the early fíanaigecht corpus
• 40. An edition of Tigernmas mac Follaig aird
• 41. The saga map of Ireland and the British Isles
• 42. Mo cheithre rainn duit, a Dhonnchaidh: advice to a prince by Tadhg (mac Dáire) Mac Bruaideadha
• 43. The fortunes of CELT
• 44. Risky, experimental, emergent: the timeliness and genius of CURIA and CELT
• Notes on contributors
• Tabula gratulatoria