Latin Learning in Medieval Ireland

by Esposito,Mario

• ISBN13: 9780860782339
• ISBN10: 0860782336
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-01-28
• Publisher: Variorum

Summary

The field of Hiberno-Latin literature, a term coined to describe the Latin literature written in Ireland, or by Irishmen abroad, between 400 and 1500, was first defined by the late Mario Esposito. His work, too, revealed its vast extent and range, so enabling a significantly better understanding of the importance of Irish scholarship in the cultural history of the Western Middle Ages. This volume concentrates on Hiberno-Latin authors, and on texts composed in Ireland; a second collection of Esposito's articles contains studies on Irish learning and texts written on the Continent. The great strength of his research is that it is founded on unparalleled knowledge of the manuscripts - many of which, indeed, no longer survive. The articles, now provided with extensive indexes to facilitate their consultation, therefore form the essential basis and guide for any further enquiry into the authors dealt with or their works.

Table of Contents

Foreword

The Latin writers of mediaeval Ireland, with supplement and bibliography

Notes on Latin learning and literature in mediaeval Ireland

The knowledge of Greek in Ireland during the Middle Ages

On the earliest Latin Life of St Brigid

On the ps.-Augustinian treatise "De mirabilibus Sacrae Scripturae"

A 7th-century commentary on the Catholic Epistles

An apocryphal "Book of Enoch and Elias" as a possible source of the Nauigatio S. Brendani

Indexes

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