The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry before Bede / / Colin A. Ireland.
Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social status through formal training. These poets cooperated with the Church to create an innovative bilingual intellectual culture in Old Gaelic and Latin. Bede described Anglo-Saxon students who availed themsel...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (X, 450 p.) |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter One Early Vernacular Poetic Practice -- Chapter Two Early Historical Poets before Bede -- Chapter Three Professional Poets and Vernacular Narratives -- Chapter Four The Church and the Spread of Bilingual Learning -- Chapter Five The Ethnic Mix of Anglo-Saxon Empire -- Chapter Six The Long Century of Anglo-Saxon Conversion -- Chapter Seven Cædmon’s World at Whitby -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Summary: | Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social status through formal training. These poets cooperated with the Church to create an innovative bilingual intellectual culture in Old Gaelic and Latin. Bede described Anglo-Saxon students who availed themselves of free education in Ireland at this culturally dynamic time. Gaelic scholars called sapientes (“wise ones”) produced texts in Old Gaelic and Latin that demonstrate how Anglo-Saxon students were influenced by contact with Gaelic ecclesiastical and secular scholarship. Seventh-century Northumbria was ruled for over 50 years by Gaelic-speaking kings who could access Gaelic traditions. Gaelic literary traditions provide the closest analogues for Bede’s description of Cædmon’s production of Old English poetry. This ground-breaking study displays the transformations created by the growth of vernacular literatures and bilingual intellectual cultures. Gaelic missionaries and educational opportunities helped shape the Northumbrian “Golden Age”, its manuscripts, hagiography, and writings of Aldhelm and Bede. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781501513879 9783110766820 9783110993899 9783110994810 9783110993752 9783110993738 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9781501513879 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Colin A. Ireland. |