Book of Uí Mhaine:

"The fourteenth-century Book of Uí Mhaine is miscellaneous in content, comprising a wide range of texts in Old, Middle and Early Modern Irish, in prose and poetry, and covering a diverse range of genres from history to poetry, grammar to dindshenchas, glossaries to genealogies. Miscellaneous, h...

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Körperschaft: The Book of Uí Mhaine Conference Dublin (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Boyle, Elizabeth (HerausgeberIn), Ó Huiginn, Ruairí (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Tagungsbericht Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Dublin Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann = Royal Irish Academy 2023
Schriftenreihe:Codices hibernenses eximii 3
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Zusammenfassung:"The fourteenth-century Book of Uí Mhaine is miscellaneous in content, comprising a wide range of texts in Old, Middle and Early Modern Irish, in prose and poetry, and covering a diverse range of genres from history to poetry, grammar to dindshenchas, glossaries to genealogies. Miscellaneous, however, does not necessarily mean random. Certain thematic clusters can be identified within the manuscript, and the layout and juxtaposition of texts appear to be both deliberate and meaningful. The manuscript contains much that represents senchas -- the learned historical discourse of medieval Ireland -- but there is also much about it that is more innovative, not least 'the free mixture and association of contemporary poetry and older poetry in a single book'. Many of the poems in Book of Uí Mhaine are of particular social or political importance, and a significant number of them are uniquely preserved there [...] "
Beschreibung:"The present volume grew out of the conference on the Book of Uí Mhaine held at the Royal Irish Academy in March 2017 and organised in collaboration with the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University ... Most of the chapters presented here are revised versions of the papers that were delivered at the 2017 conference, but in some cases contributors have opted to submit for publication a significantly different piece of research" -- Page ix
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Beschreibung:x, 371 Seiten Illustrationen, Faksimiles
ISBN:9781911479550

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