Medievalists.net » Gaelic http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 19:35:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Who Were The Celts? The British Museum Offers Answers with New Exhibition http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/28/who-were-the-celts-the-british-museum-offers-answers-with-new-exhibition/ http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/28/who-were-the-celts-the-british-museum-offers-answers-with-new-exhibition/#comments Mon, 28 Sep 2015 11:51:22 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=61384 The British Museum just opened its latest exhibit, Celts: Art and Identity this past Thursday, covering 2,500 years of Celtic history. The exhibit explores Celtic identity and how it eveolved from the time of the Ancient Greeks to the present through art, culture, daily life, religion and politics.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/28/who-were-the-celts-the-british-museum-offers-answers-with-new-exhibition/feed/ 0 “I, too, am a Christian”: early martyrs and their lives in the late medieval and early modern Irish manuscript tradition http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/i-too-am-a-christian-early-martyrs-and-their-lives-in-the-late-medieval-and-early-modern-irish-manuscript-tradition/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/i-too-am-a-christian-early-martyrs-and-their-lives-in-the-late-medieval-and-early-modern-irish-manuscript-tradition/#comments Sat, 11 Jan 2014 23:43:30 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46580 This paper examines part of that future: late medieval and early modern Gaelic Irish devotion to the early Christian martyrs as evidenced in the vernacular manuscript tradition.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/i-too-am-a-christian-early-martyrs-and-their-lives-in-the-late-medieval-and-early-modern-irish-manuscript-tradition/feed/ 0 The Earls of Desmond in the Fourteenth Century http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/the-earls-of-desmond-in-the-fourteenth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/the-earls-of-desmond-in-the-fourteenth-century/#comments Sun, 24 Nov 2013 12:57:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=45167 This thesis explores these ambitions and relationships. It looks at the complex, sometimes violent, relationships between the earls of Desmond and local gentry, neighbouring magnates, absentee landholders, the royal government and the English crown as well as with the Irish.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/11/24/the-earls-of-desmond-in-the-fourteenth-century/feed/ 0 Lexical imposition Old Norse vocabulary in Scottish Gaelic http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/lexical-imposition-old-norse-vocabulary-in-scottish-gaelic/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/lexical-imposition-old-norse-vocabulary-in-scottish-gaelic/#comments Fri, 19 Jul 2013 22:53:46 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42244 Although few specifics are known about the historical daily patterns of interaction between ON speakers and Gaelic speakers in the Highlands and Western/Hebrides Islands of what is present-day Scotland, it is clear neverthe- less that the groups lived more or less side by side in that region over a period of several centuries.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/19/lexical-imposition-old-norse-vocabulary-in-scottish-gaelic/feed/ 0 The Persuasive Power of a Mother’s Breast: The Most Desperate Act of the Virgin Mary’s Advocacy http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/the-persuasive-power-of-a-mothers-breast-the-most-desperate-act-of-the-virgin-marys-advocacy/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/the-persuasive-power-of-a-mothers-breast-the-most-desperate-act-of-the-virgin-marys-advocacy/#comments Sun, 17 Mar 2013 23:25:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=39933 The image of the Virgo Lactans orMaria Lactans (the image of the Virgin Mary suckling the Child Jesus), which occurs as early as the third century in the catacomb of Priscilla inRome, later spread ing across Europe, is found in a number of Irish sources.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/03/17/the-persuasive-power-of-a-mothers-breast-the-most-desperate-act-of-the-virgin-marys-advocacy/feed/ 0 Matrimonial politics and core-periphery interactions in twelfth- and early thirteenth-century Scotland http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/31/matrimonial-politics-and-core-periphery-interactions-in-twelfth-and-early-thirteenth-century-scotland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/31/matrimonial-politics-and-core-periphery-interactions-in-twelfth-and-early-thirteenth-century-scotland/#comments Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:04:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38450 The medieval kingdom of Scotland was a rich amalgam of diverse ethnic elements which reflected the turbulent history of the first millennium of its development.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/31/matrimonial-politics-and-core-periphery-interactions-in-twelfth-and-early-thirteenth-century-scotland/feed/ 0 The Archaeology of Colonialism in Medieval Ireland: Shifting Patterns of Domination and Acculturation http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/the-archaeology-of-colonialism-in-medieval-ireland-shifting-patterns-of-domination-and-acculturation/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/the-archaeology-of-colonialism-in-medieval-ireland-shifting-patterns-of-domination-and-acculturation/#comments Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:05:36 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=37302 This project seeks to identify the processes at work in Scandinavian and Anglo- Norman colonialism in Ireland, and their interaction with the landscape, by examining the impact of each phase of activity on the settlement pattern in two representative case-study regions. The successes, failures, similarities and differences of Scandinavian and Anglo-Norman settlement and society in Ireland are examined and compared in this project in terms of three sub-phases of the overall process, namely expansion, consolidation and domination, within an overall developmental diachronic framework.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/11/19/the-archaeology-of-colonialism-in-medieval-ireland-shifting-patterns-of-domination-and-acculturation/feed/ 0 Juxtaposing Cogadh Gáedel re Gallaib with Orkneyinga saga http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/18/juxtaposing-cogadh-gaedel-re-gallaib-with-orkneyinga-saga/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/18/juxtaposing-cogadh-gaedel-re-gallaib-with-orkneyinga-saga/#comments Tue, 18 Sep 2012 05:24:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35779 My intent in the following paper is to make a case for the usefulness of comparative analysis in a narrower and more specific context, that is, in examining two fascinating but often marginalized medieval works: the Irish Cogadh Gáedel re Gallaib (modern Irish Cogadh Gaedhel re Gallaibh [“The Battle of the Gaels and the Foreigners”]) and the Icelandic/Orcadian Orkneyinga saga (“The Saga of the Orcadians”).

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/18/juxtaposing-cogadh-gaedel-re-gallaib-with-orkneyinga-saga/feed/ 0 Imtheachta Aeniasa: Virgil’s “Aeneid” in Medieval Ireland http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/09/imtheachta-aeniasa-virgils-aeneid-in-medieval-ireland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/09/imtheachta-aeniasa-virgils-aeneid-in-medieval-ireland/#comments Mon, 10 Sep 2012 01:24:29 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35538 The project of the Irish translator of the Aeneid was strikingly different from that of a modern translator, of Virgil or of any other author: Whereas the modern translator will strive to convey in a different language both the substance and the form of his source (although there are always problems with metrical texts), the medieval translator, particularly of secular narratives, was primarily interested in ‘acceptability (to the recipients) rather than adequacy (to the original)’ .

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/09/imtheachta-aeniasa-virgils-aeneid-in-medieval-ireland/feed/ 0 VAGANTES: “I See Red: Language of Blood and Feminity in Táin Bó Cúailnge http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/06/vagantes-i-see-red-language-of-blood-and-feminity-in-tain-bo-cuailnge/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/06/vagantes-i-see-red-language-of-blood-and-feminity-in-tain-bo-cuailnge/#comments Fri, 06 Apr 2012 23:29:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30824 This paper examined the role of Medb and Fedelm, the seer in the Táin. It focuses on this conversation between the seer and Medb.

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