Literacy and Identity in Early Medieval Ireland

The first comprehensive survey of the Irish literary elite in the early middle ages.

List of contents

Irish Literacy in a Late Antique Context
The Island and the World: Irish Responses to Literacy c. 600-850
The Island as the World: Community and Identity c. 750-950
Changing Patterns of Monastic Literacy c. 800-1000
Circuits of Learning and Literature c. 700-1000
Literacy, Orality and Identity: The Secondary-Oral Context
Appendix: The Chronicles as a Record of Literacy, 797-1002
Bibliography

About the author

Elva Johnston

Product details

• Authors: Elva Johnston
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.08.2013
• EAN: 9781843838555
• ISBN: 978-1-84383-855-5
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 558 g
• Series: Studies in Celtic History; Studies in Celtic History
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies