Thomas Charles-Edwards, the distinguished scholar of medieval Britain and Ireland, has made important contributions to a number of fields, but is particularly renowned for his studies in Celtic history and law. In this volume, colleagues pay tribute to his work with essays that range across the medieval Celtic world, including medieval Wales, Ireland and Scotland. In the first part of the volume, they cover historical aspects (and, as is fitting, often reflect the honorand's interest in archaeology and epigraphy); in the second, they focus on medieval Irish and Welsh legal institutions and texts, which are used by some to inform new readings of literary texts.
Author(s): Fiona Edmonds, Paul Russell (eds.)
Series: Studies in Celtic History, 31
Publisher: The Boydell Press
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 256
City: Woodbridge
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Contents
Illustrations
Fiona Edmonds and Paul Russell. Preface
Contributors
Abbreviations
Susan Youngs. Cloud-Cuckoo Land? Some Christian Symbols from Post-Roman Britain
Clare Stancliffe. Columbanus’s Monasticism and the Sources of his Inspiration: From Basil to the Master?
Catherine Swift. Early Irish Priests within their Own Localities
David N. Dumville. Political Organisation in Dál Riata
Elizabeth O'Brien and Edel Bhreathnach. Irish Boundary "Ferta", their Physical Manifestation and Historical Context
O. J. Padel. Asser's Parochia of Exeter
Nancy Edwards. Viking-Age Sculpture in North-West Wales: Wealth, Power, Patronage and the Christian Landscape
Thomas Owen Clancy. Iona v. Kells: Succession, Jurisdiction and Politics in the Columban "Familia" in the Later Tenth Century
Marie Therese Flanagan. A Twelfth-Century Indulgence Granted by an Irish Bishop at Bath Priory
Huw Pryce. Gerald of Wales, Gildas, and the "Descriptio Kambriae"
Roy Flechner. Patrick's Reasons for Leaving Britain
Robin Chapman Stacey. Learning Law in Medieval Ireland
Wendy Davies. Holding Court: Judicial Presidency in Brittany, Wales and Northern Iberia in the Early Middle Ages
Sara Elin Roberts. The Iorwerth Triads
Fergus Kelly. The Recovery of Stolen Property: Notes on Legal Procedure in Gaelic Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man
Bronagh Ní Chonaill. Contentious Kinship: The Penumbra of Established Kinship in Medieval Irish Law
Charlene M. Eska. Marriage by Purchase in Early Irish Law
Elva Johnston. Kingship Made Real? Power and the Public World in "Longes Mac nUislenn"
Máire Ní Mhaonaigh. Mongán's Metamorphosis: "Compert Mongáin ocus Serc Duibe Lacha do Mongán", a Later Mongán Tale
Maredudd ap Huw. A Bibliography of the Writings of Thomas Charles-Edwards
Index
Tabula Gratulatoria
