The Medieval Cultures of the Irish Sea and the North Sea

Manannán and his Neighbors

Charles MacQuarrie, Joseph Nagy (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

212 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-18848-3 (ISBN)

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The literary, historical, and linguistic confluence that characterized the Irish Sea region in the pre-modern period is reflected in the interdisciplinarity of these new research essays, centered on the literatures, languages, and histories of the Irish-Sea communities of the Middle Ages, much of which is still evoked in contemporary culture. The contributors to this collection dive deep into the rich historical record, heroic literature, and story lore of the medieval communities ringing the Irish Sea, with case studies that encompass Manx, Irish, Scandinavian, Welsh, and English traditions. Manannán, the famous travelling Celtic divinity who supposedly claimed the Isle of Man as his home, mingles here with his mythical, legendary, and historical neighbors, whose impact on our image and understanding of the pre-modern cultures of the Northern Atlantic has persisted down through the centuries.

Charles W. MacQuarrie is Professor of English at California State University (Bakersfield campus). He earned his PhD in English from the University of Washington. Joseph Falaky Nagy is the Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Irish Studies at Harvard University. He earned his PhD in Celtic from Harvard and is formerly Professor at UCLA of English and Folklore & Mythology.

Preface, Introduction: Manannán and his Neighbors, 1. Hiberno-Manx Coins in the Irish Sea, 2. Hunferth and Incitement in Beowulf, 3. Cú Chulainn Unbound, 4. Ragnhild Eiríksdóttir: Cross-Cultural Sovereignty Motifs and Antifeminist Rhetoric in Chapter 9 of Orkneyinga saga, 5. Statius' Dynamic Absence in the Narrative Frame of the Middle-Irish Togail na Tebe, 6. The Stanley Family and the Gawain Texts of the Percy Folio, 7. Ancient Myths for the Modern Nation: Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, 8. Kohlberg Explains Cú Chulainn: Developing Moral Judgment from Bully to Boy Wonder to Brave Warrior, 9. Language Revival and Preservation: Contrasting Manx and Texas German

Erscheinungsdatum	21.11.2025
Reihe/Serie	The Early Medieval North Atlantic
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	390 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
ISBN-10	1-041-18848-X / 104118848X
ISBN-13	978-1-041-18848-3 / 9781041188483
Zustand	Neuware