Medieval History
Congratulations to Dr Deborah Hayden, who has just been elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford, beginning in October 2011, to work on the medieval Irish poetico-grammatical treatise Auraicept na nÉces.
Deborah outlines her proposed research project here:
- Letter To Demetrias (british Academy Post-docs Part Ii)
Following on from our news of Dr Paul Gazzoli's British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship to work on the Life of Anskar, we also wish to congratulate another ASNC, Dr Alison Bonner, who has also been awarded a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship....
- Congratulations!
Congratulations to a number of ASNCs who have receieved various awards and prizes in recent weeks: At the end of May, Dr Rory Naismith became the youngest recipient (at the age of 27) of the Blunt Prize, awarded by the British Numismatic Society, for...
- Old Irish Words Deciphered From Stowe Missal
Research into the Stowe Missal, an Irish manuscript written around 800 A.D., has led to the exciting discoveries of two new Old Irish verbs and several nouns from the text, which will help unlock mysteries in other Old Irish scripts. Professor David Stifter...
- Making Ireland Roman: Irish Neo-latin Writers And The Republic Of Letters
A ground-breaking new study of Irish Renaissance Latin was launched by members of the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies, University College Cork, last week. Foregrounding the research of scholars attached to the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies in UCC, the collection...
- Tionól 2009
Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh / Tionól / 2009 Tionól 2009 Clár Note: Not final; subject to change Dé hAoine, an 20 Samhain 2009 Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, 10 Bóthar Burlington * 9.15 ? 9.50 Sìm Innes Local piety in medieval Highland Perthshire * 9.50...
Medieval History
Another ASNC awarded Junior Research Fellowship!
Congratulations to Dr Deborah Hayden, who has just been elected to a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford, beginning in October 2011, to work on the medieval Irish poetico-grammatical treatise Auraicept na nÉces.
Deborah outlines her proposed research project here:
I will spend the next three years working on a manuscript study of the Irish treatise on linguistic and poetic theory entitled Auraicept na nÉces, ?The Scholars? Primer?, which has long been recognised as a valuable source for the study of literary and intellectual life in medieval Ireland. The Auraicept consists of a concise core of text, possibly datable to as early as the eighth century, to which a copious amount of commentary was subsequently added; the abundance of this commentary testifies to the considerable popularity of the work amongst medieval Irish scholars over an extended period. The Auraicept represents one of the earliest sustained attempts in Western grammatical tradition to contrast a classical language with a vernacular one, as it weaves native terminology, ideas and allusions into a structural framework heavily influenced by classical doctrine on grammar and rhetoric. The work?s commentators drew upon a range of different sources, revealing not only what they perceived to be of importance in the study of their language, but also how they articulated the relationships between linguistic theory, rhetorical practice and literary authority. Recent scholarship has begun to re-evaluate the Auraicept?s seminal role in Latin and vernacular learning in medieval Ireland, its contribution to our understanding of medieval literary genre, and the light it sheds on Ireland?s engagements with continental Europe in the medieval period. However, several manuscript copies of the treatise have still not been comprehensively examined, and it is the aim of my project to fulfil the need for an in-depth and up-to-date study of the Auraicept?s manuscript transmission, including further research into the nature and sources of its accreted scholia.
- Letter To Demetrias (british Academy Post-docs Part Ii)
Following on from our news of Dr Paul Gazzoli's British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship to work on the Life of Anskar, we also wish to congratulate another ASNC, Dr Alison Bonner, who has also been awarded a British Academy Post-doctoral Fellowship....
- Congratulations!
Congratulations to a number of ASNCs who have receieved various awards and prizes in recent weeks: At the end of May, Dr Rory Naismith became the youngest recipient (at the age of 27) of the Blunt Prize, awarded by the British Numismatic Society, for...
- Old Irish Words Deciphered From Stowe Missal
Research into the Stowe Missal, an Irish manuscript written around 800 A.D., has led to the exciting discoveries of two new Old Irish verbs and several nouns from the text, which will help unlock mysteries in other Old Irish scripts. Professor David Stifter...
- Making Ireland Roman: Irish Neo-latin Writers And The Republic Of Letters
A ground-breaking new study of Irish Renaissance Latin was launched by members of the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies, University College Cork, last week. Foregrounding the research of scholars attached to the Centre for Neo-Latin Studies in UCC, the collection...
- Tionól 2009
Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh / Tionól / 2009 Tionól 2009 Clár Note: Not final; subject to change Dé hAoine, an 20 Samhain 2009 Scoil an Léinn Cheiltigh, 10 Bóthar Burlington * 9.15 ? 9.50 Sìm Innes Local piety in medieval Highland Perthshire * 9.50...