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Literacy in medieval Celtic societies
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- Creator
- edited by Huw Pryce
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521570398, 0521570395
- OCLC
- ocm36501363
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-288) and index.
- 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
Subjects
- 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.