Author: Elaine Pereira Farrell
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Brathair Journal – Call for the next edition
BRATHAIR is a biannual peer-reviewed interdisciplinary open journal on Celtic and Germanic Studies. It accepts contributions in the fields of History, Philosophy, Philology, Anthropology, Archaeology, Literature and Linguistics in all the following languages: Portuguese, English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. Since BRATHAIR does not have commercial purposes or sponsors, and aims to make academic research…
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Penitential of Cummean
INCIPIT PROLOGUS DE MEDICINAE SALUTARIS ANIMORUM © Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Bav. Pav. Lat. 485 /0208 Seventh-century Irish text, written by Cummean of Clonfert, who died in 662 according to the Annals of Ulster. The text has a prologue, 202 canons and an epilogue. Manuscripts: Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodl. 311 (2122) [s.X] (fol. 001r @ LUNA). Vatican Library, Palat. Lat.…
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Penitential of Columbanus
PAENITENTIALE S. COLUMBANUS This text is attributed to Columbanus of Bangor and Bobbio (died in 615). It certainly emanates from his milieu and was written for his monastic foundations in Merovingian Gaul at the end of the sixth-century of beginning of the seventh. It has a short prologue and comprises of 42 canons divided into 5 sessions. …
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UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Seminars
TODAY! 10 March Sean Smith (UCD): ‘A Case of 20,000 Pagodas: the Jesuit Suppression in China & the Search for Replace- ments, 1773-1814’. All seminars, unless otherwise stated, take place at 4pm in room K114, UCD School of History, Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin 4. For further information: http://www.ucd.ie/mocleirigh/ mocleirigh@ucd.ie
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UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Seminars
Friday 17 February Paddy Fitzgerald (Mellon Centre for Migration Studies): ‘Redefining Migration in Irish history’. All seminars, unless otherwise stated, take place at 4pm in room K114, UCD School of History, Newman Building, Belfield, Dublin 4. For further information: http://www.ucd.ie/mocleirigh/ mocleirigh@ucd.ie
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UCD Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Seminars
Friday 27 January Mary Laven (Jesus College, Cambridge): ‘Miracles and Devotional Renewal in Renaissance Italy’. Mary Laven’s work is grounded in the social and cultural history of early modern Italy and Europe, and she has particular interests in religion, gender, sociability, and material culture. Her first book, Virgins of Venice, explored the experience of women living in convents…
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Preface of Gildas on Penance
© BHF, Latin 3182, p.280. INCIPT PRAEFATIO GILDAE DE POENITENTIA Insular text, probably from the 6th century (27 canons), attributed to Gildas. Manuscripts: Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale, MS 625 (576) [s. ix, northern France] ff. 52r-54v. Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Latin 3182, Codex Bigotianus, [s.X, Brittany]. p. 280-281. Catalogue Information. Editions: F.W.H. Wasserschleben (1851), Die Bussordnungen der adendländischen Kirche. Halle: Verlag, p.105-108. Schmitz, H.J. (ed.) (1858) Die Bussbücher und die Bussdisciplin…
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