The Medieval Cultures of the Irish Sea and the North Sea : : Manannán and his Neighbors / / ed. by Joseph Nagy, Charles MacQuarrie.

The literary, historical, and linguistic confluence that characterized the Irish-Sea region in the pre-modern period is reflected in the interdisciplinarity of these new research essays, centered on the literatures, languages, and histories of the Irish-Sea communities of the Middle Ages, much of wh...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:The Early Medieval North Atlantic ; 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (212 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Introduction. Manannán and His Neighbors
  • 1. Hiberno-Manx Coins in the Irish Sea
  • 2. Hunferth and Incitement in Beowulf
  • 3. Cú Chulainn Unbound
  • 4. Ragnhild Eiríksdóttir. Cross-cultural Sovereignty Motifs and Anti-feminist Rhetoric in Chapter 9 of Orkneyinga saga
  • 5. Statius' Dynamic Absence in the Narrative Frame of the Middle Irish Togail na Tebe
  • 6. The Stanley Family and the Gawain Texts of the Percy Folio
  • 7. Ancient Myths for the Modern Nation. Seamus Heaney's Beowulf
  • 8. Kohlberg Explains Cú Chulainn. Developing Moral Judgment from Bully to Boy Wonder to Brave Warrior
  • 9. Language Death and Language Revival. Contrasting Manx and Texas German
  • Index