The Irish Annals Their Genesis, Evolution and History

by McCarthy, Daniel P.

• ISBN13: 9781846820489
• ISBN10: 1846820480
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-07-01
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

"This is the first book to systematically survey the manuscripts of the Irish Annals, the unique mediaeval Christian chronicles which were maintained in Ireland from around the arrival of Christianity in the fifth century up to the late sixteenth century. It also provides a substantial review of the published scholarship concerning them and demonstrates that many of the hypotheses accepted as axiomatic in modern times are in conflict with the evidence of the Annalistic manuscripts and must therefore he rejected."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

D. P. McCarthy is Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Chronicles and Annals - origins, compilation, taxonomy and nomenclature	p. 1
Witnesses to the Annals - the primary manuscripts	p. 18
Annalistic literature	p. 61
World history in Insular chronicles	p. 118
The Iona chronicle	p. 153
The Moville and Clonmacnoise chronicles	p. 168
Liber Cuanach and its descendants	p. 198
The Armagh and Derry chronicles	p. 223
The Connacht and Fermanagh chronicles	p. 245
The Regnal-canon chronicles	p. 271
Final compilation stages	p. 304
Reliable Annalistic chronology	p. 342
Epilogue	p. 355
Twelve centuries of Irish chronicling - from Bethlehem to Bundrowes	p. 355
Necessity for a comprehensive analysis of chronicle features	p. 357
Outstanding chronicle compilations	p. 358
Manuscript witnesses to the Annals	p. 361
Survey of Annalistic verse up to A.D. 1000	p. 364
The regnal-canon	p. 368
Bibliography	p. 375
Index	p. 393
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