An Eoraip: Gaelic Ireland in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73527-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 683 g

Reihe: Later Medieval Europe

Medieval and early modern Irish scholars thought of themselves as Europeans. As an expression of territorial association, this belief reflects both their familiarity with the geographical traditions of Antiquity and the integration of their society into economic, cultural, and political networks that spanned the continent. But it was also an articulation of a perceived cultural affinity often denied in modern scholarship. The chapters in this volume examine the many and various ways that Gaelic Ireland was integrated into the broader, European world, focusing on literature and learning; real-world politics, economics, and travel; and questions of identity.

Contributors are: Rachel Brody, Michael Clarke, Simon Egan, Deborah Hayden, Brendan Kane, Victoria L. McAlister, Ken Ó Donnchu, Patricia Palmer, Brian Stone, and Patrick Wadden.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kane, Brendan

Wadden, Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction: Gaelic Ireland in Premodern Europe Brendan Kane and Patrick Wadden

part 1: Learning and Literature

2 Irish Antiquity in the Mesh of World History: the Battle of Moytura and the Fall of Troy Michael Clarke

3 Rhetoric, Prosopopeia, and History: the Book of Leinster Táin Bó Cúailnge Brian Stone

4 Textual Transfer, Irish Remedy Collections, and the Vernacularisation of Medical Learning in Late-medieval Europe Deborah Hayden

5 Maghnus Ó Domhnaill’s Translations from Spanish (c.1694–1706): Texts and Contexts Ken Ó Donnchú

part 2: Living in the World: Politics, Economics, and Travel

6 Taking Ireland Out of the Periphery of the Early Medieval Northern European Economy, c.600–800 A.D. Rachel I. Brody

7 “They Live on Beasts Only, and Live Like Beasts” Victoria L. McAlister

8 From the Shannon to the Danube: Gaelic Irish Lordship in Its European Context, c.1169–c.1650 Simon Egan

9 Beannaigh an long-sa / “Bless this ship”: the Sea and the Prolegomenon of Exile Patricia Palmer

part 3: European Identities in Pre-Modern Ireland

10 Europe in Early Medieval Ireland Patrick Wadden

11 Europe as Concept and Identifier in Early Modern Irish Texts Brendan Kane

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Brendan Kane is Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. In addition to publishing research on early modern Ireland and England, he is a founding co-director of the digital humanities project Léamh.org: Learn Early Modern Irish (c. 1200-1650).

Patrick Wadden is Professor of History at Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina. He works primarily on the history and learned culture of early medieval Ireland. He is co-editor of Origin Legends in Early Medieval Western Europe (Brill, 2022).