Medieval History
- Seachtain Na Gaeilge In Cambridge
Seachtain na Gaeilge, 20115 - 17 MARCHAs part of the celebration of 'Seachtain na Gaeilge', a two-week festival which promotes Irish language and culture in Ireland and abroad, the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic will host the following...
- ?a Land Without Shortcuts? ? 2011 Parnell Lecture In Irish Studies
Dr Denis Casey writes: ?What makes a place out of a locality?? was one of the many thought-provoking questions posed by Dr Tim Robinson, 2010?11 Parnell Fellow in Irish Studies, in his masterful 2011 Parnell Lecture, delivered at Magdalene College, Cambridge,...
- Staffordshire Hoard Update
ELB writes: The ASNC department's very own Prof. Simon Keynes was among the experts invited to view and discuss the Staffordshire Hoard as part of the fundraising campaign, led by the The Art Fund, to raise the money necessary to keep the...
- Briefly Noted -- Accessus: A Journal Of Premodern Literature And New Media
Readers of Modern Medieval will want to go take a look at the inaugural issue of Accessus, a publication of the Gower Project. This excellent-looking first issue includes the following essays that bring together disability studies, medieval studies, manuscript...
- Author Interviews Coming To Ancient & Medieval Mayhem Blog In June
ROBYN YOUNGInterview with Author, Robyn Young. In early June to kick off the Ancient & Medieval Historical Fiction Group's Medieval Group Read of Insurrection. ...
Medieval History
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Dr Denis Casey writes:
In Acallam na Senórach, the dialogue between St Patrick and Caílte (an aged survivor of Finn Mac Cumail?s war band) on the places and lore of Ireland
Like Caílte?s reminisces, Pat Collins?s film Tim Robinson: Connemara, based on the work of the current Parnell Fellow in Irish Studies, was dominated by sound and music, as much by the physical landscapes and seascapes that have been the subject of Robinson?s work. The landscape filled the ears, while the camera panned slowly in soft focus over Robinson?s extraordinarily detailed maps of Connemara . Funneled wind howling through the bearnaí and mámanna faded into a soft breeze over bogs where the naosc binn ?s an crotach glórach could be heard, before morphing into the cry of a gull by the shoreline?s contours, only to be drowned in rhythms drummed against wave-lashed cliffs. Similarly, Susan Stenger?s soundtrack, inspired by Marconi?s wireless experiments in Connemara, strikingly encapsulated the natural themes, as the Irish word cuach (?cuckoo?) was played in Morse Code while Robinson searched amid the denuded foliage of Derryclare wood for Cuach na Coille (?The Cuckoo of the Wood?).
Tim Robinson: Connemara brilliantly brings to another medium the work of a latter day embodiment of both Caílte and Patrick, and is a film deserving of repeated viewing ? and listening. Finn?s conclusion is admirably justified: the best music is ?the music of what happens?.
- Seachtain Na Gaeilge In Cambridge
Seachtain na Gaeilge, 20115 - 17 MARCHAs part of the celebration of 'Seachtain na Gaeilge', a two-week festival which promotes Irish language and culture in Ireland and abroad, the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic will host the following...
- ?a Land Without Shortcuts? ? 2011 Parnell Lecture In Irish Studies
Dr Denis Casey writes: ?What makes a place out of a locality?? was one of the many thought-provoking questions posed by Dr Tim Robinson, 2010?11 Parnell Fellow in Irish Studies, in his masterful 2011 Parnell Lecture, delivered at Magdalene College, Cambridge,...
- Staffordshire Hoard Update
ELB writes: The ASNC department's very own Prof. Simon Keynes was among the experts invited to view and discuss the Staffordshire Hoard as part of the fundraising campaign, led by the The Art Fund, to raise the money necessary to keep the...
- Briefly Noted -- Accessus: A Journal Of Premodern Literature And New Media
Readers of Modern Medieval will want to go take a look at the inaugural issue of Accessus, a publication of the Gower Project. This excellent-looking first issue includes the following essays that bring together disability studies, medieval studies, manuscript...
- Author Interviews Coming To Ancient & Medieval Mayhem Blog In June
ROBYN YOUNGInterview with Author, Robyn Young. In early June to kick off the Ancient & Medieval Historical Fiction Group's Medieval Group Read of Insurrection. ...