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All aspects of the cult of St David, patron saint of Wales, are examined in this wide-ranging volume.
Edition and translation of this important genre of Old Welsh poetry.
Native Irish chieftains, not totally subdued after the Norman invasion of Ireland, recovered a measure of their power in the later middle ages; unfamiliar sources illuminate developments.
The saint's cult casts light on relations between Cornwall and Brittany - and Henry II's empire - in the 12th century.
Essays investigating the writings attributed to Columbanus, influential 0c founder of Luxeuil and Bobbio.
This study considers the Celtic, pre-Norman, Cornish monasteries through written sources, place-names and material remains. The emphasis is on identifying the sites and tracing their survival to later periods. The author also considers the progress of monasticism and its role in Church and society.
A comparison of the opposed military systems along the English/Welsh border - Anglo-Norman and Celtic - in the 12th century.
Surveys Anglo-Welsh ecclesiastical life in the tenth and eleventh centuries. This book examines the complicated links which bound together the churches of Gloucester and Llancarfan from about 1100 and of the sources which reveal these ties.
Offers a text-historical analysis of southern Irish annals for the years 431-1092, establishing their relationships to the other annal-collections, separating the several strata of which they are composed, and judging the relative historical value of these sources.
Crucial texts from ninth- and tenth-century Wales analysed to show their key role in identify formation.
Provocative new investigation into the shadowy figure of Gildas, his influence and representation.
A study of a contemporary witness to the transformation of post-Roman Britain into Anglo-Saxon England.
A new investigation of the saints' cults which flourished in medieval Scotland, fruitfully combining archaeological, historical, and literary perspectives.
The adaptation of Late Latin grammars from the schools of the Roman Empire for use in a foreign Christian society culminated in the British Isles in the 7th and 8th centuries in the development of two distinct types of grammar designed respectively for elementary and for more advanced students.
An investigation of the places in the Irish landscape where open-air Gaelic royal inauguration assemblies were held from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries.
Works of early Irish authors include a strong biblical component, but indicate that independent thought is accepted.
An examination of the Scottish kingdom's historic links with Ireland, and the beginnings of a Scottish national identity from c. 1290.
The life, career and medieval biography of Gruffudd ap Cynan, king of Gwynedd 1095-1137.
Offers an account of a fifth-century bishop of Auxerre, who on two occasions came to Britain.
Offers evidence from Continental sources on early fifth-century Britain, and from Irish sources on Gildas' own reputation and career. This book is suitable for students of post-Roman Britain.
The post-Norman ecclesiastical and political transformation of south-east Wales, recorded in early C12 manuscript.
An analysis of the politics of eleventh-century Wales.
A landmark of scholarship on medieval Scotland. Professor Dauvit Broun, University of Glasgow.
A new interpretation of Celtic Christianity, supported by images of Christ taken from manuscripts, metalwork and sculpture, and showing how it departed from continental practice largely due to a differing perception and application of Pelagianism.
Saints' cults flourished in the medieval world, and the phenomenon is examined here in a series of studies.
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