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A dhuine nach creit íar cóir

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Late Middle Irish metrical treatise (86 qq) on the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist, attributed to Echtgus Ua Cúanáin of Roscrea.

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Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique, MS 5100-5104

rubric: Echtgus .h. Cuanain do muintir Ruis Cre .cc. hoc regulum incipit: A dhuine nach creit íar coir 86 qq.

ff. 13v–14v.m

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Cambridge, University Library, MS Additional 708

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Dublin, National Library of Irland, MS G 315

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 24

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 G 25

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Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS F vi 1

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Dublin, University College, MS Franciscan A 33/pp. 87-98

incipit: A dhuini nách cret (?) íar ccóir 86 qq.

pp. 87–91

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Maynooth, Russell Library, MS 3 F 19

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Maynooth, Russell Library, MS 3 F 20

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Maynooth, Russell Library, MS M 96

Olim MS 4 B 2.

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[ed.] Edition wanted

A new edition by Elizabeth Boyle is in preparation.

[ed.] Hamel, A. G. van [ed.], “Poems from Brussels MS. 5100-04”, Revue Celtique 37 (1917–1919): 345–352.

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345–349 Republished.

[ed.] Hamel, A. G. van, “Poems from Brussels MS 5100-4”, Revue Celtique 36 (1915–1916): 274–290.

Republished in Revue Celtique 37.

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274–284

[tr.] Murphy, Gerard, “Eleventh or twelfth century Irish doctrine concerning the Real Presence”, in: J. A. Watt, J. B. Morrall, and F. X. Martin (eds), Medieval studies presented to Aubrey Gwynn, S. J., Dublin: The Three Candles, 1961. 19–28.

Secondary sources (select)

Boyle, Elizabeth, “Sacrifice and salvation in Echtgus Úa Cúanáin’s poetic treatise on the Eucharist”, in: Juliet Mullins, Jenifer Ní Ghrádaigh, and Richard Hawtree (eds), Envisioning Christ on the cross: Ireland and the early medieval west, Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2013. 181–194.

Flanagan, Marie Therese, The transformation of the Irish church in the twelfth century, Studies in Celtic History, 29, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2010.

abstract:

The twelfth century saw a wide-ranging transformation of the Irish church, a regional manifestation of a wider pan-European reform movement. This book, the first to offer a full account of this change, moves away from the previous concentration on the restructuring of Irish dioceses and episcopal authority, and the introduction of Continental monastic observances, to widen the discussion. It charts changes in the religious culture experienced by the laity as well as the clergy and takes account of the particular Irish experience within the wider European context. The universal ideals that were defined with increasing clarity by Continental advocates of reform generated a series of initiatives from Irish churchmen aimed at disseminating reform ideology within clerical circles and transmitting it also to lay society, even if, as elsewhere, it often proved difficult to implement in practice. Whatever the obstacles faced by reformist clergy, their genuine concern to transform the Irish church and society cannot be doubted, and is attested in a range of hitherto unexploited sources this volume draws upon.

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83–84