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OʼReilly, Jennifer, Early medieval text and image II: the Codex Amiatinus, the Book of Kells and Anglo-Saxon art, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 1080, Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2019.
OʼReilly, Jennifer, Early medieval text and image I: the Insular gospels, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 1079, Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2019.
Luiselli, Bruno, Romanobarbarica: scritti scelti, ed. Antonella Bruzzone, and Maria Luisa Fele, MediEVI, 12, Firenze: SISMEL, 2017.
Bannerman, John, Kinship, church and culture: collected essays and studies, Edinburgh: John Donald, 2016.
McNamara, Martin, The Bible and the apocrypha in the early Irish church (A.D. 600–1200), Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia, 66, Turnhout: Brepols, 2015.
abstract:
The twenty-one essays in this volume, published from 1971 onwards, together with the introductions and conclusion, treat of the Bible and apocryphal works in Ireland during the pre-Norman period, from A.D. 600 to 1200. The essays cover developments during the period from Professor Bernhard Bischoff’s seminal 1954 essay ("Wendepunkte"), on new evidence for Irish contributions in the field, down to the present day. After an initial survey of research during this period, attention is paid to the texts of the Latin Bible, in particular the Psalms and the Four Gospels, and to the Antiochene influence on Psalm interpretation, as well as to the rich corpus of Irish apocryphal writings, some of them very early (Transitus Mariae, so-called Infancy Narrative of Thomas, texts on the Magi and a related Infancy Narrative). Special attention is paid to the creative biblical interpretation of the Psalms in the early Irish Church A.D. 600-800, and also to what appears to be an early Irish (early eighth-century) commentary on the Apocalypse. It is hoped that these essays will contribute to a renewed examination of early Irish exegesis in this the sixtieth year of the publication of Dr Bischoff’s 1954 essay.
Ó Cathasaigh, Tomás, Coire Sois: the cauldron of knowledge, ed. Matthieu Boyd, Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2014.
OʼLoughlin, Thomas (ed.), Early medieval exegesis in the Latin West: sources and forms, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 1035, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2013.
Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1. Processing the patristic inheritance: ‘Aquae super caelos (Gen 1:6-7): the first faith-science debate? -- The controversy over Methuselah’s death: proto-chronology and the origins of the western concept of inerrancy -- Adam’s burial at Hebron: some aspects of its significance in the Latin tradition -- A woman’s plight and the western fathers. -- Part 2. Developing New Exegetical Strategies: Julian of Toledo’s Antikeimenon and the development of Latin exegesis -- The exegetical purpose of Adomnán’s De locis sanctis -- The symbol gives life: Eucherius of Lyons’ formula for exegesis -- Biblical contradictions in the Periphyseon and the development of Eriugena’s method -- The plan of the New Jerusalem in the Book of Armagh. -- Part 3. Exegesis as a practice: Adam’s rib and the equality of the sexes: some medieval exegesis of Gen 2:21-22 -- The waters above the heavens, Isidore, and the Latin tradition -- Seeking the early medieval view on the Song of Songs -- The gates of Hell: from metaphor to fact -- The mysticism of number in the medieval period before Eriugena -- Individual anonymity and collective identity: the enigma of early medieval Latin theologians -- Indexes.
abstract:
One of the significant developments in scholarship in the latter half of the twentieth century was the awareness among historians of ideas, historians of theology, and medievalists of the importance of the Christian scriptures in the Latin Middle Ages. In contrast to an earlier generation of scholars who considered the medieval period as a ’Bible-free zone’, recent investigations have shown the central role of scripture in literature, art, law, liturgy, and formal religious education. Indeed, to understand the Latin Middle Ages one must understand the value they placed upon the Bible, how they related to it, and how they studied it. However, despite the new emphasis on the Bible’s role and the place of exegesis in medieval thought, our detailed understanding is all too meagre - and generalisations, often imagined as valid for a period of close to a millennium, abound. How the Scriptures were used in one pursuit (formal theology for example relied heavily on ’allegory’) was often very different to the way they were used in another (e.g. in history writing was interested in literal meanings), and exegesis differed over time and with cultures. Similarly, while most medieval writers were agreed that there were several ’senses’ within the text, the number and nature varied greatly as did the strategies for accessing those meanings. This collection of fifteen articles, concentrating on the early Latin middle ages, explores this variety and highlights just how patchy has been our understanding of medieval exegesis. We now may be aware of the importance of the Bible, but the task of studying that phenomenon is in its infancy.
Meid, Wolfgang, Ausgewählte Schriften zum Indogermanischen, Keltischen und Germanischen, Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 144, Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachen und Literaturen der Universität Innsbruck, 2012. 448 pp.
Hodkinson, Brian, Aspects of medieval North Munster: collected essays, Limerick: Thomond Archaeological and Historical Society, 2012.
Davies, Wendy, Brittany in the early middle ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 924, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.
Davies, Wendy, Welsh history in the early Middle Ages: texts and societies, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 915, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2009.
abstract:
This volume brings together Wendy Davies's pioneering early studies on the text of the Book of Llan Dâv alongside later pieces which explore the place of Wales in the wider world of the early middle ages. The Llandaff studies have provoked much subsequent comment: readers will find it helpful to reconsider what the author actually said about arguably the most significant surviving text for early medieval Welsh history - as opposed to the several published interpretations of what she is supposed to have said.
The later work includes much-cited papers on the Latin charter tradition of the Celtic world and on 'Celtic' women; as well as studies of the so-called Celtic church and of the distinctiveness of Celtic saints - in all of which Welsh evidence makes a particularly important contribution. It also includes recent pieces on the environment and economy of early medieval Wales, which highlight some of the crucial new evidence provided by archaeology as well as historiographical issues that attract much current interest. Overall, the author has sought to make Welsh evidence accessible to scholars with interests in other parts of the middle ages and to ensure that Wales plays a part in broader surveys of early medieval Europe.
(source: Ashgate)
Esposito, Mario, Studies in Hiberno-Latin literature, ed. Michael M. Gorman, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 810, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. xxx + 288 pp.
Cowgill, Warren, The collected writings of Warren Cowgill, ed. Iared S. Klein, Ann Arbor: Beech Stave Press, 2006.
Walsh, Paul, Irish leaders and learning through the ages, ed. Nollaig Ó Muraíle, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2003.
For a table of contents, see Ricorso. Early Leinster, and Meath, province and diocese -- Leinster states and kings in Christian times -- Short annals of Leinster -- Prehistoric Meath -- The ancient boundaries and tribes of Meath -- Ui Maccu Uais -- Meath in the Book of Rights -- Tethbae -- The Ua Maelechlainn kings of Meath -- How the diocese of Meath came to be -- Fragments of Meath history -- Connla and Conall Mageoghegan -- In Conall Mageoghegan’s neighbourhood -- Antony Mageoghegan, bishop of Clonmacnois -- Janet Marward, 1562-1629 -- The Civil Survey of Co. Meath -- The Plunket family -- The kin of Oliver Plunket -- Gaelic genealogies of the Plunkets -- Early and Early Modern Connacht -- Christian kings of Connacht -- Connacht in the Book of Rights -- James Blake of Galway -- Maolmordha Mac Suibhne -- Addresses to Tibbot na Long -- People and Places -- Woulfe's Irish Names and Surnames -- Some details of the Dillons -- Some Norman surnames -- The Westmeath Leavys -- History of the O Dalys -- The surname Golding -- The nickname Mant na Mulchan (O Ruairc) -- Some placenames of ancient Meath -- Note on Magheradernan -- The topography of Betha Colmain -- Placenames in Vita Finniani -- The placename Ocha, Ochainn--Faughanhill, Co. Meath -- A couple of placenames from the vicinity of Kells -- Gerdlige, Girley, Co. Meath -- Cnoc Aiste, Co. Westmeath -- Tippermessan, Co. Meath -- Higginstown, Co. Westmeath -- Some Westmeath placenames in a fifteenth-century poem -- Mela Mor in Co. Kilkenny -- Some placenames from the O Clery Book of Genealogies -- Bothar Cualann.
McNamara, Martin, The Psalms in the early Irish Church, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, 165, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000.
A collection of reprints of articles which were first published in the period 1973-1999.
McGurk, Patrick, Gospel books and early Latin manuscripts, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 606, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.
Herren, Michael W., Latin letters in early Christian Ireland, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 527, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1996.
abstract:
This book is concerned with the transmission and reception of Latin literary culture in the early Middle Ages, and with the production of Latin works in Ireland and in Irish centres on the Continent. In these articles, Professor Herren deals with several closely related themes: the introduction of Latin into Ireland and the study of Latin literary heritage; the language and metre of Hiberno-Latin writings; and questions of dating and authorship pertaining to a number of crucial texts, from Columbanus to John Scottus Eriugena.
(source: Ashgate)
Lapidge, Michael, Anglo-Latin literature, vol 1: 600–899, London, Rio Grande, Ohio: Hambledon Press, 1996.
abstract:
The essays in the first volume are concerned with the earliest period of literary activity in England. The arrival of Theodore and Hadrian in the late-7th century is examined along with the achievements of their student Aldhelm. The poetic achievements of Bede and Aediluulf are included.
Sims-Williams, Patrick (ed.), Britain and early Christian Europe: studies in early medieval history and culture, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 514, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1995.
Wright, Neil, History and literature in late antiquity and the early medieval West: studies in intertextuality, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 503, Aldershot, Brookfield: Variorum, 1995.
Watkins, Calvert, Selected writings, ed. Lisi Oliver, 3 vols, Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, Innsbruck: Institut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität, 1994–2008.
Brown, T. Julian, A palaeographer’s view: the selected writings of Julian Brown, ed. Janet M. Bately, Michelle P. Brown, and Jane Roberts, London: Harvey Miller, 1993.
Dumville, David N., Britons and Anglo-Saxons in the Early Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 379, Aldershot: Variorum, 1993.
Contreni, John J., Carolingian learning, masters and manuscripts, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 363, Hampshire: Variorum Reprints, 1992.
Thurneysen, Rudolf, Gesammelte Schriften, ed. Patrizia de Bernardo Stempel, and Rolf Ködderitzsch, 3 vols, Buchreihe der Zeitschrift für celtische Philologie, 8, 9, 10, Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1991–1995.
Three volumes, published 1991-1995:
- I. Indogermanisches. Italisches. Romanisches
- II. Keltische Sprachen und Literaturen
- III. Keltisches Recht. Register zum Gesamtwerk
Parkes, Malcolm B., Scribes, scripts and readers: studies in the communication, presentation and dissemination of medieval texts, London: Hambledon Press, 1991.
Esposito, Mario, Irish books and learning in mediaeval Europe, ed. Michael Lapidge, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 313, Aldershot: Variorum Reprints, 1990.
Dumville, David N., Histories and pseudo-histories of the insular Middle Ages, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 316, Aldershot: Variorum, 1990.
abstract:
The centuries that followed the Roman withdrawal from the British Isles have not been called 'Dark' for nothing; in the sources that survive, fact and legend seem inextricably intertwined, and the work of later medieval writers has only deepened the confusion. Dr. Dumville has done much to help dissect and disentangle these sources, probing the cultural history of the Insular Middle Ages, tracing the channels through which historical knowledge was transmitted and the interaction of political thought and historical writing - ideologically based historiography looms large as evidence in any attempt to grasp how medieval people comprehended their past. In these essays, he concentrates on the historiographical practices of the Irish, Britons and English, which shared much in common. Specific themes are the Insular cultivation of genealogy, the classic British pseudo-history (as in the Historia Brittonum and Geoffrey of Monmouth), the important Cistercian school of historical studies at Sawley, and the traditions of annalistic chronicling. An important section of Addenda is also provided.
(source: the publisher’s promotional abstract)
Esposito, Mario, Latin learning in mediaeval Ireland, ed. Michael Lapidge, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 285, London: Variorum Reprints, 1988.
Hughes, Kathleen, Church and society in Ireland, A. D. 400–1200, ed. David N. Dumville, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 258, London: Variorum Reprints, 1987.
Jeauneau, Édouard, Études erigéniennes, Études augustiniennes, 18, Paris: Études augustiniennes, 1987.
Bieler, Ludwig, Ireland and the culture of early medieval Europe, ed. Richard Sharpe, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 263, London: Variorum Reprints, 1987.
Brooke, Christopher N. L., The church and the Welsh border in the central Middle Ages, ed. David N. Dumville, Studies in Celtic History, 8, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1986.
Bieler, Ludwig, Studies on the life and legend of St. Patrick, ed. Richard Sharpe, Variorum Collected Studies Series, 244, London: Variorum Reprints, 1986.
Bromwich, Rachel, Aspects of the poetry of Dafydd ap Gwilym: collected papers, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1986.
Bischoff, Bernhard, Mittelalterliche Studien: ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Schriftkunde und Literaturgeschichte, 3 vols, vol. 3, Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1981.
Bischoff, Bernhard, Mittelalterliche Studien: ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Schriftkunde und Literaturgeschichte, 3 vols, vol. 2, Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1967.
Bischoff, Bernhard, Mittelalterliche Studien: ausgewählte Aufsätze zur Schriftkunde und Literaturgeschichte, 3 vols, vol. 1, Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1966.
Doble, G. H., The saints of Cornwall, ed. Donald Attwater, 6 vols, Oxford: Holywell Press for the Dean and Chapter of Truro, 1960–1997.
A collection of Canon G. H. Doble’s articles and notes on saints of Cornwall.
Loomis, Roger Sherman, Wales and the Arthurian legend, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1956.
Segontium, Caer Seint, and Sinadon -- The Irish origin and the Welsh development of the Grail Legend -- ‘Chastiel Bran’, ‘Dinas Brân’, and the Grail Castle --Brân the blessed and Sone de Nausay [not previously published] -- King Arthur and the Antipodes -- Welsh elements in Gawain and the Green Knight -- The combat at the Ford in the Didot Perceval -- Morgain la Fée and the Celtic goddesses -- The spoils of Annwn: an early Welsh poem --The Arthurian Legend before 1139.
Traube, Ludwig, Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen, ed. Franz Boll, and Samuel Brandt, 3 vols, vol. 3: Kleine Schriften, Munich: C. H. Beck, 1920.
Internet Archive: <link>
A collection of shorter articles, divided into four sections: I. Zur alten Philologie (I–XXIII); II. Zur mittelalterlichen Philologie (XXIV–XLIX); III. Zur Palaeographie und Handschriftenkunde (I–LX); IV. Anhang (LXI–LXII); followed by back matter (Berichtigungen und Ergänzunngen; Register zur Band I–III).
Traube, Ludwig, Vorlesungen und Abhandlungen: I. Zur Paläographie und Handschriftenkunde; II. Einleitung in die lateinische Philologie des Mittelalters; III. Kleine Schriften, ed. Franz Boll, and Paul Lehmann, 3 vols, Munich: C. H. Beck, 1909–1920.
Internet Archive – vols 1–3: <link>
