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Codices Hibernenses Eximii III: Book of Uí Mhaine
Elizabeth Boyle (Ed.)
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Description for Codices Hibernenses Eximii III: Book of Uí Mhaine
Hardback.
Third in the series Codices Hibernenses Eximmii, the Book of Uí Mhaine is miscellaneous in content, comprising a wide range of texts in Old, Middle and Early Modern Irish, in prose and poetry, and covering a diverse range of genres from history to poetry, grammar to dindshenchas, glossaries to genealogies. Miscellaneous, however, should not necessarily be understood to mean random. Certain thematic clusters can be identified, and the layout and juxtaposition of texts appear to be both deliberate and meaningful. While the manuscript contains much that represents senchas, that is, the learned historical discourse of medieval Ireland, there is also ... Read more
Third in the series Codices Hibernenses Eximmii, the Book of Uí Mhaine is miscellaneous in content, comprising a wide range of texts in Old, Middle and Early Modern Irish, in prose and poetry, and covering a diverse range of genres from history to poetry, grammar to dindshenchas, glossaries to genealogies. Miscellaneous, however, should not necessarily be understood to mean random. Certain thematic clusters can be identified, and the layout and juxtaposition of texts appear to be both deliberate and meaningful. While the manuscript contains much that represents senchas, that is, the learned historical discourse of medieval Ireland, there is also ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2023
Publisher
Royal Irish Academy
Condition
New
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781911479550
SKU
9781911479550
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Ref
99-4
About Elizabeth Boyle (Ed.)
Elizabeth Boyle is Lecturer in Early Irish at Maynooth University. Her primary research interest is the intellectual and religious culture of early medieval Ireland, and she has also published on the history of Celtic Studies in the nineteenth century. Ruairí Ó hUiginn MRIA is Senior Professor, School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies. Professor Ó ... Read more
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