John Carey, Magic, Metallurgy and Imagination in Medieval Ireland: Three Studies. (Celtic Studies Publications 21.) Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2019. Paper. Pp. xi, 107; 2 color plates. $19.95. ISBN: 978-1-8912-7128-1.

Speculum ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 96 (4) ◽  
pp. 1161-1163
Author(s):  
Cathinka Dahl Hambro
Keyword(s):  
Celtic Studies ◽  
Medieval Ireland

Language and Identity in Early Medieval Ireland

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-131
Author(s):  
Caitriona Ô Dochartaigh
Keyword(s):  
Language And Identity ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Ireland

Keith Busby, French in Medieval Ireland, Ireland in Medieval French: The Paradox of Two Worlds. Turnhout: Brepols, 2017, x, 516 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 245-245
Author(s):  
Andrew Breeze
Keyword(s):  
French Literature ◽  
Early Literature ◽  
Enormous Amount ◽  
Medieval Ireland

“I have surveyed an enormous amount of material in the preceding pages” is Keith Busby’s comment on his book (p. 419). True enough. Seldom has an author treated Ireland’s early literature as ambitiously as he does, and Busby’s achievement is the more remarkable given the scantiness of the material. French literature surviving from medieval Ireland is (like literature in English) interesting but meagre. These texts of the twelfth to fourteenth centuries being few, the author fleshes out his material with writing on Ireland from Britain and the Continent, including legends of Arthur and of the Irish princess Iseult or Isolde. That at once makes French in Medieval Ireland essential for Romance scholars, as well as for medievalists concerned with the Irish.

Fosterage in Medieval Ireland

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom C. O’Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Ireland

Movers and Shakers?

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander O'Hara
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Background ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval Ireland

This chapter considers Columbanus’s cultural background and how this influenced his dealings with women, both in early medieval Ireland and on the Continent. In particular, women as inspiration, patrons, and antagonists are portrayed as having had a formative influence on Columbanus, primarily in the Vita Columbani, written by Jonas of Bobbio. To what extent are these relationships true of Columbanus’s own experience? In order to tease this out more fully special attention will be given to women such as Columbanus’s unnamed mother as well as to the powerful queens, Brunhild and Theodelinda.

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