Medieval Gaelic Sources (maynooth Research Guides For Irish Local History)
by Katharine Simms /
2009 / English / PDF
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This short book is intended to serve as a practical guide to Gaelic
language sources (as opposed to administrative or ecclesiastical
records in Latin, French or English) for the history of various
Irish communities in the high Middle Ages, laying emphasis on
published texts for which English translations are available. Under
six headings (annals, genealogies, poems, prose tracts and sagas,
legal material, colophons and marginalia), it discusses not only
the nature of the sources themselves, the purposes for which they
were originally created, and their survival and availability to
researchers, but also how to glean usable historical information
from them.
This short book is intended to serve as a practical guide to Gaelic
language sources (as opposed to administrative or ecclesiastical
records in Latin, French or English) for the history of various
Irish communities in the high Middle Ages, laying emphasis on
published texts for which English translations are available. Under
six headings (annals, genealogies, poems, prose tracts and sagas,
legal material, colophons and marginalia), it discusses not only
the nature of the sources themselves, the purposes for which they
were originally created, and their survival and availability to
researchers, but also how to glean usable historical information
from them.
