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Nora G. (Nora Gabriel)Costigan
d. 10 April 2022
Costigan
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Costigan, Nora G., Defining the Divinity: medieval perceptions in Welsh court poetry, Aberystwyth: University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, 2002. xix + 219 pp.
abstract:
The Poets of the Princes Series of Welsh court poetry was completed in 1996, providing for the first time a full edition of the entire canon in Welsh. For this reason Defining the Divinity is presented in English. Here a variety of religious perspectives, garnered from the work of the Gogynfeirdd, or Welsh court poets, of the 12th and 13th centuries, are revealed and explored. An introduction presents the poetry in context. Part I includes translations of all twenty-four of the dedications to God, along with three deathbed or repentance poems, followed by incipits (introductory addresses) to God taken from three secular compositions. Part II provides a commentary on each of these translations. Finally, Part III considers the theological significance of every reference to the Godhead that occurs throughout the seven volumes in the series: a vast collection presented lexically. Thus the names God, Trinity; God the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Christ and Jesus are dealt with in separate sections while relevant facets of each aspect of the Godhead are clarified in subsections. All references are listed in the Appendix in Modern Welsh spelling with English translations, retaining similar sectional titles. An Epilogue gives the author’s own views and a comprehensive Bibliography and a detailed Index complete this complex but most interesting study.
(source: publisher)
abstract:
The Poets of the Princes Series of Welsh court poetry was completed in 1996, providing for the first time a full edition of the entire canon in Welsh. For this reason Defining the Divinity is presented in English. Here a variety of religious perspectives, garnered from the work of the Gogynfeirdd, or Welsh court poets, of the 12th and 13th centuries, are revealed and explored. An introduction presents the poetry in context. Part I includes translations of all twenty-four of the dedications to God, along with three deathbed or repentance poems, followed by incipits (introductory addresses) to God taken from three secular compositions. Part II provides a commentary on each of these translations. Finally, Part III considers the theological significance of every reference to the Godhead that occurs throughout the seven volumes in the series: a vast collection presented lexically. Thus the names God, Trinity; God the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Christ and Jesus are dealt with in separate sections while relevant facets of each aspect of the Godhead are clarified in subsections. All references are listed in the Appendix in Modern Welsh spelling with English translations, retaining similar sectional titles. An Epilogue gives the author’s own views and a comprehensive Bibliography and a detailed Index complete this complex but most interesting study.
(source: publisher)
Costigan, Nora G., R. Iestyn Daniel, and Dafydd R. Johnston, Gwaith Gruffudd ap Dafydd ap Tudur, Gwilym Ddu o Arfon, Trahaearn Brydydd Mawr ac Iorwerth Beli, Cyfres beirdd yr uchelwyr, 4, Aberystwyth: Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies, University of Wales, 1995.
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