Title Prophecy, fate and memory in the early medieval Celtic world / edited by Jonathan M. Wooding and Lynette Olson

Published Sydney : Sydney University Press, [2020] ©2020

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 282 pages) Series Sydney Series in Celtic Studies Sydney series in Celtic studies. Contents Cover -- Half title -- Full title -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction: Crafted Memories and Binding Futures -- Landscapes, Monuments and Memory -- Insular Visions -- Gildas, Penance and Prophecy -- Fate, Salvation and Crafted Memories -- Poeninus and the Romanisation of the Celtic Alps -- The Dedications to Poeninus -- Epigraphic Romanisation -- Conclusion -- Landscapes, Myth-Making and Memory: Ecclesiastical Landholding in Early Medieval Ireland -- Pastoral Care and Farming -- Monuments and Memory Work -- Re-envisioning the Past on the Lands of Inis Labrainne -- Conclusion Acknowledgments -- Remembering and Forgetting Holy Men and their Places: An Inscription from Llanllŷr, Wales -- The Inscription -- The Site and Its Setting -- Modomnóc, Ditoc, and Llŷr: Forgetting Saints in the Landscape -- Tesquitus: Tenuous Memories of a Word -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Early Irish Peregrinatio as Salvation History -- Insular Influences on Carolingian and Ottonian Literature and Art -- Introducing Hraban Maur -- Insular Motifs: Saints and Swine -- Insular Motifs Travel to the Continent with Eriugena and Others -- Insular Objects and Insular-Influenced Objects Carolingian Derivatives: Setting the Scene -- Carolingian Derivatives -- Carolingian Derivatives and Ottonian Re-Imaginings: Crucifixions -- Ottonian Re-Imaginings: Manuscripts -- Eriugena Returns -- Full Circle -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Hraban Maur has the Last Word, or Does He? -- The De xii abusivis saeculi and Prophetic Tradition in Seventh-Century Ireland -- Conclusion -- Memories of Gildas: Gildas and the Collectio canonum Hibernensis -- The Collectio canonum Hibernensis and the Fragmenta Gildae -- The De excidio and the Collectio canonum Hibernensis -- Conclusion Armes Prydein as a Legacy of Gildas -- A Woman's Fate: Deirdre and Gráinne throughout Literature -- Adaptations of the Deirdre Story -- Adaptations of the Gráinne Story -- 'No Remission without Satisfaction': Canonical Influences on Secular Lawmaking in High Medieval Scotland -- Esoteric Tourism in Scotland: Rosslyn Chapel, The Da Vinci Code, and the Appeal of the 'New Age' -- The History of Rosslyn Chapel and The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail -- The Da Vinci Code and Faivre's Typology of Western Esotericism -- Visiting Rosslyn Chapel: Mediatised and New Age Tourism -- Conclusion About the Authors -- Index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Civilization, Celtic. Celts -- Religion Fate and fatalism -- History -- To 1500 Fate and fatalism Celts -- Religion Civilization, Celtic Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Wooding, Jonathan M., editor. Olson, Lynette, editor. ISBN 9781743326954 1743326955 9781743326879 1743326874 9781743326954

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