Full Description
Grammatica, Gramadach, and Gramadeg : Vernacular grammar and grammarians in medieval Ireland and Wales is concerned with the history of linguistic ideas and literary theory in the vernacular languages of medieval Ireland and Wales. While much good work, especially by Vivian Law, has been done on the Latin materials, this volume is the first to engage with the vernacular texts. It consists of ten essays that explore a range of interconnected topics relating to these themes. Yet while the contributors offer a close analysis of the development of linguistic thought in these literary traditions, they likewise seek to situate their discussions within the wider context of European grammatical learning during this period, considering both the widespread influence of texts from classical linguistic tradition and also the significance of sources from other contemporary learned disciplines for our understanding of the history of linguistics in the medieval world.
Contents
1. Foreword & acknowledgements; 2. Abbreviations; 3. List of plates; 4. Notes on contributors; 5. Editors' introduction; 6. Allegory, the aes dana and the liberal arts in Medieval Irish literature (by Boyle, Elizabeth); 7. Cryptography and the alphabet in the "Book of Adhamh O Cianain" (by Hayden, Deborah); 8. Caide Mathair Breithre "What is the Mother of a Word": Thinking about words in Medieval Ireland (by Poppe, Erich); 9. The expression of "sense, meaning, signification" in the Old Irish glosses, and particularly in the Milan and Saint Gall glosses (by Lambert, Pierre-Yves); 10. The verbal paradigms in Auraicept na nEces (by Ahlqvist, Anders); 11. The glossing of the Early Irish law tracts (by Breatnach, Liam); 12. Teaching between the lines: Grammar and Grammatica in the classroom in Early Medieval Wales (by Russell, Paul); 13. The Welsh bardic grammars on Litterae (by Charles-Edwards, T.M.); 14. Poetry by numbers: the poetic triads in Gramadegau Penceirddiaid (by Russell, Paul); 15. Gramadeg Gwysanau: A fragment of 14th-Century Welsh bardic grammar (by Parry Owen, Ann); 16. Master list of references; 17. Index of manuscripts; 18. Index of subjects; 19. Index of terms by language
