Early Medieval Ireland and Europe: Chronology, Contacts, Scholarship: Festschrift for Dáibhí Ó Cróinín

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The pivotal role of Ireland in the development of a decidedly Christian culture in early medieval Europe has long been recognized. Still, Irish scholarship on early medieval Ireland has tended not to look beyond the Irish Sea, while continental scholars try to avoid Hibernica by reference to its special Celtic background. Following the lead of the honorand of this volume, Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, this collection of 27 essays aims at contributing to a reversal of this general trend. By way of introduction to the period, the first section deals with chronological problems faced by modern scholars as well as the controversial issues relating to the reckoning of time discussed by contemporary intellectuals. The following three sections then focus on Ireland’s interaction with its neighbours, namely Ireland in the insular world, continental influences in Ireland, and Irish influences on the Continent. The concluding section is devoted to modern scholarship and the perception of the Middle Ages in modern literature. Front Matter ("Contents", "Abbreviations", "Acknowledgements", "Introduction", "Biographical note"), p. i Free Access Early Irish History and Chronology The chronology of Saint Columba’s life, p. 3 Daniel P. Mc Carthy https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103115 Victorius vs Dionysius: the Irish Easter controversy of AD 689, p. 33 Immo Warntjes https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103116 A note on the divisions of time in the Catalogue of the Saints of Ireland, p. 99 Eric Graff https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103117 The ‘real’ addressee(s) of Bede’s Letter to Wicthed, p. 119 Masako Ohashi https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103118 Contacts I: Ireland in the insular world Some Irish characteristics of the Whitby Life of Gregory the Great, p. 139 Colin Ireland https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103119 Cambro-Romance? Celtic Britain’s counterpart to Hiberno-Latin, p. 179 Anthony Harvey https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103120 Beyond Juvencus: an Irish context for some Old Welsh glossing?, p. 203 Paul Russell https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103121 Pretium benedictionis, p. 215 Pierre-Yves Lambert https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103122 Two Irish jokes, p. 225 David Howlett https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103123 Anglo-Irish interactions in a liturgical calendar from Cambridge, Corpus Christi College Library, 405, p. 265 Pádraig P. Ó Néill https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103124 Contacts II: Continental influences in Ireland Áui, Úi, Uí: a palaeographical problem?, p. 301 Donnchadh Ó Corráin https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103125 Bathed in mystery: identifying the ‘Bathing of the Christ Child’ scene on an Irish high cross, p. 311 Hayley Humphrey https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103126 Tuotilo—St Gall’s uomo universale: reconsidering his artistic output, p. 329 Peter Harbison https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103127 Flutes, pipes, or bagpipes? Observations on the terminology of woodwind instruments in Old and Middle Irish, p. 343 Jacopo Bisagni https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103128 The harp that once through Aulus’ halls, p. 395 Leofranc Holford-Strevens https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103129 The so-called capitula for the Book of the Apocalypse in the Book of Armagh (Dublin, Trinity College, 52) and Latin exegesis, p. 405 Thomas O’loughlin https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103130 Vir apostolicus: St Peter and the claim of apostolicity in early medieval Ireland, p. 425 Jean-Michel Picard https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103131 The Leabhar Gabhála and Carolingian origin legends, p. 441 Michael Clarke https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103132 Greek dialectology and the Irish origin story, p. 481 Pádraic Moran https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103133 Contacts III: Irish influences on the continent Sedulius Scottus and the knowledge of Greek, p. 515 Michael W. Herren https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103134 Construe marks, a contraction mark, and an embedded Old Irish gloss in a Hiberno-Latin homily on the Octave of Easter, p. 537 Jean Rittmueller https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103135 With one foot in the font: the failed baptism of the Frisian king Radbod and the 8th-century discussion about the fate of unbaptized forefathers, p. 577 Rob Meens https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103136 The earliest manuscript of Lathcen’s Eclogae Moralium Gregorii and the dating of Irish cursive minuscule script, p. 597 David Ganz https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103137 The ‘private’ books of the Bobbio catalogue, p. 625 Mark Stansbury https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103138 Scholarship Seán Ó Cléirigh and his manuscripts, p. 645 Richard Sharpe https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103139 Old writings are no mystery to me… Skaldenstrophen der Orkneyinga Saga und George Mackay Brown, p. 671 Hans Ulrich Schmid https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103140 ‘Out of the smoke’: A. Martin Freeman’s west Cork song collection of 1913–14, p. 695 Nicholas Carolan https://doi.org/10.1484/M.STT-EB.5.103141 Back Matter ("Manuscript Index"), p. 717