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Literacy in medieval Celtic societies
- Title
- Literacy in medieval Celtic societies / edited by Huw Pryce.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Pryce, Huw.
- Description
- xiii, 297 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 33
- Subject
- Celtic literature > History and criticism
- Written communication > Great Britain > History
- Civilization, Medieval, in literature
- Manuscripts, Medieval > Great Britain
- Civilization, Celtic, in literature
- Social history > Medieval, 500-1500
- Literacy > Scotland > History
- Literacy > Ireland > History
- Literacy > Wales > History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-288) and index.
- Contents
- Uses of writing in early medieval Wales / Patrick Sims-Williams -- Literacy in Pictland / Katherine Forsyth -- Context and uses of literacy in early Christian Ireland / T.M. Charles-Edwards -- Orality, literacy and genealogy in early medieval Ireland and Wales / David E. Thornton -- Charter-writing and its uses in early medieval Celtic societies / Wendy Davies -- Context and uses of the Latin charter in twelfth-century Ireland / Marie Therese Flanagan -- Written text as performance : the implications for Middle Welsh prose narratives / Sioned Davies -- More written about than writing? Welsh women and the written word / Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan -- Celtic literary tradition and the development of a feudal principality in Brittany / Noël-Yves Tonnerre -- Gaelic literacy in eastern Scotland between 1124 and 1249 / Dauvit Browun -- Inkhorn and spectacles : the impact of literacy in late medieval Wales / Llinos Beverley Smith -- This my act and deed : the writing of private deeds in late medieval north Wales / A.D. Carr -- Literacy and the Irish bards / Katharine Simms.
- Call Number
- JFE 98-7977
- ISBN
- 0521570395 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 97009721
- OCLC
- 36501363
- Title
- Literacy in medieval Celtic societies / edited by Huw Pryce.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Series
- Cambridge studies in medieval literature ; 33
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-288) and index.
- Added Author
- Pryce, Huw.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 98-7977