Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature - Couverture rigide

Sims-Williams, Patrick

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0199588651 ISBN 13 : 9780199588657

Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2010

Synopsis

In the Middle Ages Ireland's extensive and now famous literature was unknown outside the Gaelic-speaking world of Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man - with Wales an important exception. Irish emigrants had settled in Wales from the fifth century onwards, Irish scholars worked in Wales in the ninth century, and throughout the Middle Ages there were ecclesiastical, mercantile, and military contacts across the Irish Sea. From this standpoint, it is not surprising that the names of Irish heroes such as Cú Roí, Cú Chulainn, Finn, and Deirdre became known to Welsh poets, and that Irish narratives influenced the authors of the Welsh Mabinogion. Yet the Welsh and Irish languages were not mutually comprehensible, the degree to which the two countries still shared a common Celtic inheritance is contested, and Latin provided a convenient lingua franca. Could some of the similarities between the Irish and Welsh literatures be due to independent influences or even to coincidence? Patrick Sims-Williams provides a new approach to these controversial questions, situating them in the context of the rest of medieval literature and international folklore. The result is the first comprehensive estimation of the extent to which Irish literature influenced medieval Welsh literature. This book will be of interest not only to medievalists but to all those concerned with the problem of how to recognize and evaluate literary influence.

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À propos de l'auteur

Patrick Sims-Williams has been Professor of Celtic Studies at Aberystwyth University since 1994 and was previously Reader in Celtic and Anglo-Saxon an the University of Cambridge. He is the author of eight other books on Celtic and Anglo-Saxon topics and edits the journal Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1996 and is currently President of the International Congress of Celtic Studies.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oxford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0199588651
• ISBN 13: 9780199588657
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 440
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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