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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| 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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Table of Contents:
- 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