Description: Further DetailsTitle: Heroic Saga and Classical Epic in Medieval IrelandCondition: NewISBN-10: 1843842645EAN: 9781843842644ISBN: 9781843842644Publisher: D.S. BrewerFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 04/21/2011Description: An examination of the ways in which works of Classical literature influenced and were received by the native Irish tradition.Original, innovative work which elucidates a number of individual narratives; but more significantly, by placing these texts in their proper intellectual context, the author demonstrates how the world of learning in eleventh- andtwelfth-century Ireland really worked. He illuminates a world of medieval education and scholarship; he tells us (as no-one has done previously) what medieval Irish classicism was all about. Dr Máire ni Mhaonaigh, St John's College, University of Cambridge. The puzzle of Ireland's role in the preservation of classical learning into the middle ages has always excited scholars, but the evidence from the island's vernacular literature - as opposed to that in Latin - for the study of pagan epic has largely escaped notice. In this book the author breaks new ground by examining the Irish texts alongside the Latin evidence for the study of classical epic in medieval Ireland, surveying the corpus of Irish texts based on histories and poetry from antiquity, in particular Togail Troi, the Irish history of the Fall of Troy. He argues that Irish scholars' study of Virgil and Statius in particularleft a profound imprint on the native heroic literature, especially the Irish prose epic Táin Bó Cúailnge ("The Cattle-Raid of Cooley"). BRENT MILES is a Fellow in Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBItem Height: 234mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: Brent MilesGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Studies in Celtic HistoryItem Weight: 1gRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Heroic Saga and Classical Epic in Medieval Ireland
Title: Heroic Saga and Classical Epic in Medieval Ireland
ISBN-10: 1843842645
EAN: 9781843842644
ISBN: 9781843842644
Release Date: 04/21/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 284 Pages
Publication Name: Heroic Saga and Classical Epic in Medieval Ireland
Language: English
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, The Limited
Subject: Medieval, General, Europe / Ireland, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Europe / Medieval
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2011
Item Weight: 20.7 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, History
Author: Brent Miles
Item Length: 9.4 in
Series: Studies in Celtic History Ser.
Item Width: 6.5 in
Format: Hardcover