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Archives and Archivists

Archives and Archivists

Ailsa C. Holland & Kate Manning, editors

University College Dublin has provided education on archives for 35 years mainly in the Archives Department. This book of essays celebrates its role in a timely…
Insular inscriptions

Insular inscriptions

David Howlett

The author presents from stones, mosaics, walls, brasses, inscribed artefacts, colophons etc. scores of compositions from twenty centuries, illustrating the tho…
Making and meaning in insular art

Making and meaning in insular art

Rachel Moss, editor

Comprising papers from the 5th international conference on insular art held at Trinity College in August 2005, this volume deals with the technological and inte…
British books in biblical style

British books in biblical style

Early Alfredian and after the conquest

David Howlett

The author defines rules for composing literary texts exhibited in the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament, reproduced in the Vulgate Latin Bible, …
Cambro-Latin compositions

Cambro-Latin compositions

Their competence and craftmanship

David Howlett

Howlett charts a tradition of thought and composition from the fifth century to the thirteenth, from the Romano-British writers Pelagius, St Patrick, and Faustu…
Sealed from within

Sealed from within

Self-authenticating insular charters

David Howlett

From original manuscripts David Howlett edits, translates, and analyses twenty-four Latin charters – English, Welsh, Cornish, Irish, Scottish, and Hebridean – f…
The English origins of Old French literature

The English origins of Old French literature

David Howlett

Dramatic differences between Latin texts written before and after the settlement of the Normans in England imply that the conquerors inherited from the conquere…
Irish villages

Irish villages

Studies in local history

Karina Holton, Brian Ó Daláigh & Liam Clare, editors

This significant book is the first attempt to understand the problems of evolution in Irish villages from the local perspective. These essays contrast and compa…
On literature and science

On literature and science

Essays, reflections, provocations

Philip Coleman, editor

On literature and science explores some of the ways that writers have engaged with science and technology from the early medieval period to the present.

Philip…
Trinity College Library Dublin

Trinity College Library Dublin

Descriptive catalogue of the Mediaeval and Renaissance Latin manuscripts

Marvin L. Colker

The first supplement to the 1991 catalogue of Latin manuscripts at Trinity College Dublin describes in detail Latin manuscripts acquired by Trinity College Dubl…