Bibliography
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Works authored
Bernhardt-House, Phillip A., Werewolves, magical hounds, and dog-headed men in Celtic literature: a typological study of shape-shifting, Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.
abstract:
This book is a typological study of canids and canid imagery in Medieval Celtic cultures. It explores texts ranging from early Irish legal tracts and heroic narrative to exempla from Welsh, Breton, and later Scottish sources.
(source: publisher)
abstract:
This book is a typological study of canids and canid imagery in Medieval Celtic cultures. It explores texts ranging from early Irish legal tracts and heroic narrative to exempla from Welsh, Breton, and later Scottish sources.
(source: publisher)
Contributions to journals
Bernhardt-House, Phillip A., “Binding the wolf, leashing the hound: canid eschatologies in Irish and Norse myth”, Studia Celtica Fennica 14 (2017): 7–17.
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Bernhardt-House, Phillip A., “Divine deformity: the Plinian races (via Isidore of Seville) in Irish mythology”, Studia Celtica Fennica 9 (2012): 5–11.
abstract:
This article examines the characteristics of the Fomoiri in Irish mythological literature--particularly their being one-eyed, one-legged, and one-handed or one-armed--and rather than positing a proto-Indo-European or native Irish origin for these physical motifs, instead suggests that these characteristics may be derived from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, which contains a catalogue of the "Plinian races" of classical mythology and pseudo-ethnography within it. All of the Fomoiri's characteristics can be compared to the physiological forms of the Giants, Sciopods, Cyclopes, and Blemmyae from the canonical list of Plinian races. Further comparison of Irish accounts of cynocephali (dog-headed humanoids) within texts like Lebor Gabála Érenn are also likely derived from Isidore.
Studia Celtica Fennica: <link>
abstract:
This article examines the characteristics of the Fomoiri in Irish mythological literature--particularly their being one-eyed, one-legged, and one-handed or one-armed--and rather than positing a proto-Indo-European or native Irish origin for these physical motifs, instead suggests that these characteristics may be derived from Isidore of Seville's Etymologiae, which contains a catalogue of the "Plinian races" of classical mythology and pseudo-ethnography within it. All of the Fomoiri's characteristics can be compared to the physiological forms of the Giants, Sciopods, Cyclopes, and Blemmyae from the canonical list of Plinian races. Further comparison of Irish accounts of cynocephali (dog-headed humanoids) within texts like Lebor Gabála Érenn are also likely derived from Isidore.
Bernhardt-House, Phillip A., “Warriors, words and wood: oral and literary wisdom in the exploits of Irish mythological warriors”, Studia Celtica Fennica 6 (2009): 5–19.
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Article based on a paper given at The Ritual Year: The Annual Conference of the Traditional Cosmology Society, University of Edinburgh, July 7-10, 2004.
Bernhardt-House, Phillip A., “Youth, warriors, and homoerotic reproduction: queer and Celtic in Irish studies as strange bedfellows”, Foilsiú 4:1 (2004): 85–93.
Article based on a paper given at the 5th Annual GRIAN Conference on Irish Studies, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, March 7-9, 2003.
Article based on a paper given at the 5th Annual GRIAN Conference on Irish Studies, Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, March 7-9, 2003.
Contributions to edited collections or authored works
Bernhardt-House, Phillip A., “‘It’s beginning to look a lot like solstice’: sneachta, solar deities, and Compert Con Culainn”, in: Ruairí Ó hUiginn, and Brian Ó Catháin (eds), Ulidia 2: proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Ulster Cycle of Tales, Maynooth 24-27 July 2005, Maynooth: An Sagart, 2009. 226–237.
