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Edited by Elizabeth Mullins and Diarmuid Scully
www.corkuniversitypress.com
Listen, O Isles, unto Me
Studies in Medieval Word and Image
in Honour of Jennifer O’Reilly
DRJENNIFERO’REILLY,MRIA, FSA
(Photo courtesy of theRoyal Irish Academy)
Listen, O Isles, unto Me
Studies in Medieval Word and Image
in Honour
of Jennifer O’Reilly
Edited by
ELIZABETH MULLINS
and
DIARMUID SCULLY
First published in 2011 by
Cork University Press
Youngline Industrial Estate
Pouladuff Road, Togher
Cork, Ireland
© The Contributors 2011
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted
or reproduced or utilised in any electronic, mechanical or other
means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and
recording or otherwise, without either the prior written permission
of the publisher or a licence permitting restricted copying in
Ireland issued by the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd,
25 Denzille Lane, Dublin 2.
The right of the contributors to be identified as authors of this Work
has been asserted by them in accordance with Copyright and Related
Rights Acts 2000 to 2007.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN-13: 978-1859-18466-0
Printed by Gutenberg Press, Malta
Type-set by Tower Books, Ballincollig, Co. Cork
www.corkuniversitypress.com
‘Listen,O isles,unto me,and hearken ye people from afar’
‘Audite insulae,et attendite populi de longe’
(Isaiah 49:1,quoted by Pope Vitalian in his letter
to King Oswiu of Northumbria, in Bede,
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum3.29)
Contents
List of Illustrations x
IntroductionbyElizabeth Mullins and Diarmuid Scully xv
List of Abbreviations xxii
List of Contributors xxiii
INHERITANCE AND TRANSMISSION
‘Proud Ocean Has Become a Servant’: A Classical Topos in the
Literature of Britain’s Conquest and Conversion 3
DIARMUIDSCULLY
Proserpina and the Martyrs: Pagan and Christian in Claudian’s
De Raptu Proserpinae 16
CATHERINEWARE
Martianus Capella and the Carolingians: Some ObservationsBased
on the Glosses on Books I–II from the Oldest Gloss Tradition on
De nuptiis 28
SINÉADO’SULLIVAN
‘In the Nets or on the Line’: ADatable Merovingian Manuscript
and Its Importance 39
DAVIDGANZ
A Gemmariumfor the Recognition of Precious Stones in the
Cracow Chapter Library,MS 140: AStudy on the Unity
of Exegetical Themes 47
MAŁGORZATAKRASNODĘBSKA-D’AUGHTON
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‘Wide-Reaching Connections’: The List of Abbots from Iona
in the Liber confraternitatum ecclesiae S. Petri in Salzburg 60
DAGMARÓ RIAIN-RAEDEL
‘Whence the Splendour of such Light Came to Us’: The Account
of Ireland in Ermenrich’s Life of St Gall 73
DAMIANBRACKEN
Thomas Becket and Ireland 87
COLMÁNÓ CLABAIGHOSB and MICHAELSTAUNTON
MONASTICISM IN THE AGE OF BEDE
Hunting Snakes in the Grass: Bede as Heresiologist 105
ARTHURHOLDER
The Figure of Ezra in the Writings of Bede and the Codex
Amiatinus 115
SCOTTDEGREGORIO
Bede and His Martyrology 126
ALANTHACKER
The Adornment of Virgins: Æthelthryth and Her Necklaces 142
MÁIRÍNMACCARRON
From Conception to Birth in Anglo-Saxon England 156
ELISABETHOKASHA
Doctor of Souls,Doctor of the Body: Whitby Vita Gregorii
23 and Its Exegetical Context 168
BRIANBUTLER
The Representation of Gregory the Great in Irish Sources of
the Pre-Viking Era 181
MÁIREHERBERT
Seeking the Desert in Adomnán’s Vita Columbae 191
AIDANMACDONALD
Singing in the Rain on Hinba? Archaeology and Liturgical
Fictions,Ancient and Modern (Adomnán, Vita Columbae3.17) 204
ÉAMONNÓ CARRAGÁINand TOMÁSÓ CARRAGÁIN
