Peritia - Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland, Volume 22-23 (2011-2012)

Peritia is devoted to the advancement of medieval studies in the broadest sense and welcomes contributions from all disciplines. The journal has a strong publication record in archaeology, computistics, hagiography, history, law and literature. While Peritia enjoys a core strength in early medieval Ireland, this has never been the only focus. Other areas of research, in particular those related to the medieval west, are well-represented.

La revue Peritia est consacrée aux avancements dans les études médiévales, au sens le plus large du terme (vu d’une perspective insulaire toutefois), incluant l’histoire, les langues, le droit (canonique et séculier), l’archéologie et les disciplines auxiliaires. Elle est particulièrement axée sur le latin insulaire, la saisie de données et la paléographie, et a fourni d’importantes contributions en hagiographie, l’histoire de l’art, l’archéologie, la littérature, le droit irlandais vernaculaire, et l’histoire du Moyen Âge Tardif. La revue comprend une section de comptes rendus vivante et de grande envergure. 

THE ISLES AND THE CONTINENT

David A. E. Pelteret: Diplomatic elements in Willibrord’s autobiography

John J. Contreni: ‘Old orthodoxies die hard’: Herwagen’s Bridferti Ramesiensis Glossae

Carl I. Hammer: ‘Holy entrepreneur’: Agilbert, a Merovingian bishop between Ireland, England and Francia

MARIOLOGY

Peter Weeda: The Irish, the Virgin Mary, and Proclus of Constantinople

IRISH VERNACULAR LITERATURE

Peter J. Smith: Irish synchronistic poem on emperors and kings

Marion Deane: From knowledge to acknowledgement: Feis Tige Becfholtaig

David Howlett: Gematria in Irish verse

David Howlett: The Old-Irish hymn ‘Brigit bé bithmaith’

MANUSCRIPT HISTORY

Alexander O’Hara: Columbanus and Jonas: new textual witnesses

Donnchadh Ó Corráin: What happened Ireland’s medieval manuscripts?

KINGS AND KINGDOMS

Paul MacCotter: Túath, manor and parish: the kingdom of Fir Maige, the cantred of Fermoy

Paul MacCotter: Drong and dál as synonyms for óenach

PATTERNS OF THE PAST

Kaaren Moffat: The ‘grammar of legibility’: word separation in ogam

Niall Brady & al.: Unravelling medieval landscapes from the air

John Bradley: The precinct of St John’s Priory, Kilkenny, at the close of the middle ages

REVIEW ARTICLE

Katja Ritari: Liturgy, and asceticism: recent works on early Irish theology

REVIEWS

Leofranc Holford Stevens / Immo Warntjes, The Munich Computus: text and translation: Irish computistics between Isidore of Seville and the Venerable Bede and its reception in Carolingian times

Leofranc Holford Stevens / Michael W. Herren, The cosmography of Aethicus Ister: edition, translation, and commentary

A. O’Hara / James T. Palmer, Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish world, 690–900

William Sayers / Joseph Falaky Nagy (ed), Identifying the ‘Celtic’; Joseph Falaky Nagy (ed), Myth in Celtic literatures; Joseph F. Eska (ed), Law, literature and society: Christina Chance, Aled Llion Jones, Matthieu Boyd, Edyta Lehmann-Shriver & Sarah Zeiser (ed), Proceedings of the Harvard Celtic Colloquium 26–27

Paul Byrne / Fiona Edmonds & Paul Russell (ed), Tome: studies in medieval Celtic history and law in honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards

Michael Enright / Paul J. E. Kershaw, Peaceful kings: peace, power and the early medieval political imagination

Máirín Mac Carron / Peter Darby, Bede and the end of time

Thomas O’Loughlin / Pádraig Ó Riain (ed), A martyrology of four cities: Metz, Cologne, Dublin, Lund

Tomás Ó Carragáin / David H. Jenkins, Holy, holier, holiest; the sacred topography of the early medieval Irish church