Tome: Studies in Medieval Celtic History and Law in Honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards

258 Pages·2011·7.413 MB·English

by  Fiona Edmonds, Paul Russell (eds.)

Studies in Celtic History XXXI
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STudIeS In medIeval CelTIC HISTory and law
In Honour of THomaS CHarleS-edwardS
STudIeS In CelTIC HISTory
ISSn 0261–9865
General editors
dauvit Broun
máire ní mhaonaigh
Huw Pryce
Studies in Celtic History aims to provide a forum for new research into all
aspects of the history of Celtic-speaking peoples throughout the whole of the
medieval period. The term ‘history’ is understood broadly: any study, regardless
of discipline, which advances our knowledge and understanding of the history
of Celtic-speaking peoples will be considered. Studies of primary sources, and
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Professor Huw Pryce, School of History, welsh History and archaeology, Bangor
university, Gwynedd ll57 2dG
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Thomas Charles-edwards addresses the masses at Clonenagh
(Cluain eidhneach), Co. laois.
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STudIeS In medIeval
CelTIC HISTory and law
In Honour of
THomaS CHarleS-edwardS
edited by
fIona edmondS and Paul ruSSell
THe Boydell PreSS
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List of Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Fiona Edmonds and Paul Russell
List of Contributors xiii
Abbreviations xiv
1 Cloud-Cuckoo land? Some Christian Symbols from Post-roman 1
Britain
Susan Youngs
2 Columbanus’s monasticism and the Sources of his Inspiration: 17
from Basil to the master?
Clare Stancliffe
3 early Irish Priests within their own localities 29
Catherine Swift
4 Political organisation in dál riata 41
David N. Dumville
5 Irish Boundary Ferta, their Physical manifestation and 53
Historical Context
Elizabeth O’Brien and Edel Bhreathnach
6 asser’s Parochia of exeter 65
O. J. Padel
7 viking-age Sculpture in north-west wales: wealth, Power, 73
Patronage and the Christian landscape
Nancy Edwards
8 Iona v. Kells: Succession, Jurisdiction and Politics in the Columban 89
Familia in the later Tenth Century
Thomas Owen Clancy
9 a Twelfth-Century Indulgence Granted by an Irish Bishop at Bath 103
Priory
Marie Therese Flanagan
10 Gerald of wales, Gildas, and the Descriptio Kambriae 115
Huw Pryce
11 Patrick’s reasons for leaving Britain 125
Roy Flechner
12 learning law in medieval Ireland 135
Robin Chapman Stacey
13 Holding Court: Judicial Presidency in Brittany, wales and northern 145
Iberia in the early middle ages
Wendy Davies
14 The Iorwerth Triads 155
Sara Elin Roberts
15 The recovery of Stolen Property: notes on legal Procedure in 165
Gaelic Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of man
Fergus Kelly
16 Contentious Kinship: The Penumbra of established Kinship in 173
medieval Irish law
Bronagh Ní Chonaill
17 marriage by Purchase in early Irish law 183
Charlene M. Eska
18 Kingship made real? Power and the Public world in Longes Mac 193
nUislenn
Elva Johnston
19 mongán’s metamorphosis: Compert Mongáin ocus Serc Duibe 207
Lacha do Mongán, a later mongán Tale
Máire Ní Mhaonaigh
Bibliography of the Writings of Thomas Charles-Edwards 217
Maredudd ap Huw
Index 225
Tabula Gratulatoria 237