Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish World, 690-900
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Studies in the Early Middle Ages, vol. 36
Northumbria and the Gaelic World, 635-735
A Century of Literary Contacts and Interactions (AD 635–735)
Patrick Paul O’Neill
- Pages: approx. 375 p.
- Size:156 x 234 mm
- Illustrations:6 b/w, 18 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2027
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-62232-3
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Explores the political, ecclesiastical, and cultural interactions between the Gaelic world and Northumbria between 635 and 735, drawing on both English and Gaelic sources.
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BIO
Patrick P. ONeill (alias Pádraig P. Ó Néill) is emeritus professor of English/Comparative Literature, who taught for forty years at the University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, NC. His main academic interest are the literatures and languages of Britain and Ireland in the early Medieval period.
Summary
The century in question (AD 635–735) marks a period of unusually close interactions between Northumbria and the Gaelic world, conducted on several fronts, notably political, ecclesiastical, and cultural. While scholars tacitly acknowledge the Gaelic role in Northumbria’s emergence during this period as the dominant Christian kingdom of early medieval England, they have not directly, much less systematically, studied the written sources relevant to that process. The absence of a study of this kind may reflect a certain reluctance to engage with unfamiliar (and often linguistically inaccessible) Gaelic sources and perhaps also an innate caution about the limitations of the surviving evidence. The present study attempts to fill this gap by exploring identifiable areas of literary interaction between the two cultures.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Iona Mission to Northumbria and its Legacy
Chapter 2. The Gaelic Foundations of Northumbrian Literacy
Chapter 3. Language Contact between Old Irish and Northumbrian
Chapter 4. Hiberno-Northumbrian Collaboration in Ireland and on the Continent
Chapter 5. Irish and Northumbrian Scholarly Exchanges with Theodore at Canterbury
Chapter 6. King Aldfrith as Mediator between Northumbria and the Gaelic World
Chapter 7. Hiberno-Northumbrian Interactions on the Manuscript Page: Three Case Studies
Chapter 8. Bede’s Engagement with Gaelic Scholarship (Non-Biblical)
Chapter 9. Bede’s Engagement with Gaelic Scholarship (Biblical)
Conclusions
Bibliography
Index
