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Edited by Elizabeth Mullins and Diarmuid Scully www.corkuniversitypress.com Listen, O Isles, unto Me Studies in Medieval Word and Image in Honour of Jennifer O’Reilly DRJENNIFERO’REILLY,MRIA, FSA (Photo courtesy of theRoyal Irish Academy) Listen, O Isles, unto Me Studies in Medieval Word and Image in Honour of Jennifer O’Reilly Edited by ELIZABETH MULLINS and DIARMUID SCULLY First published in 2011 by Cork University Press Youngline Industrial Estate Pouladuff Road, Togher Cork, Ireland © The Contributors 2011 All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording or otherwise, without either the prior written permission of the publisher or a licence permitting restricted copying in Ireland issued by the Irish Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 25 Denzille Lane, Dublin 2. The right of the contributors to be identified as authors of this Work has been asserted by them in accordance with Copyright and Related Rights Acts 2000 to 2007. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN-13: 978-1859-18466-0 Printed by Gutenberg Press, Malta Type-set by Tower Books, Ballincollig, Co. Cork www.corkuniversitypress.com ‘Listen,O isles,unto me,and hearken ye people from afar’ ‘Audite insulae,et attendite populi de longe’ (Isaiah 49:1,quoted by Pope Vitalian in his letter to King Oswiu of Northumbria, in Bede, Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum3.29) Contents List of Illustrations x IntroductionbyElizabeth Mullins and Diarmuid Scully xv List of Abbreviations xxii List of Contributors xxiii INHERITANCE AND TRANSMISSION ‘Proud Ocean Has Become a Servant’: A Classical Topos in the Literature of Britain’s Conquest and Conversion 3 DIARMUIDSCULLY Proserpina and the Martyrs: Pagan and Christian in Claudian’s De Raptu Proserpinae 16 CATHERINEWARE Martianus Capella and the Carolingians: Some ObservationsBased on the Glosses on Books I–II from the Oldest Gloss Tradition on De nuptiis 28 SINÉADO’SULLIVAN ‘In the Nets or on the Line’: ADatable Merovingian Manuscript and Its Importance 39 DAVIDGANZ A Gemmariumfor the Recognition of Precious Stones in the Cracow Chapter Library,MS 140: AStudy on the Unity of Exegetical Themes 47 MAŁGORZATAKRASNODĘBSKA-D’AUGHTON vii viii Contents ‘Wide-Reaching Connections’: The List of Abbots from Iona in the Liber confraternitatum ecclesiae S. Petri in Salzburg 60 DAGMARÓ RIAIN-RAEDEL ‘Whence the Splendour of such Light Came to Us’: The Account of Ireland in Ermenrich’s Life of St Gall 73 DAMIANBRACKEN Thomas Becket and Ireland 87 COLMÁNÓ CLABAIGHOSB and MICHAELSTAUNTON MONASTICISM IN THE AGE OF BEDE Hunting Snakes in the Grass: Bede as Heresiologist 105 ARTHURHOLDER The Figure of Ezra in the Writings of Bede and the Codex Amiatinus 115 SCOTTDEGREGORIO Bede and His Martyrology 126 ALANTHACKER The Adornment of Virgins: Æthelthryth and Her Necklaces 142 MÁIRÍNMACCARRON From Conception to Birth in Anglo-Saxon England 156 ELISABETHOKASHA Doctor of Souls,Doctor of the Body: Whitby Vita Gregorii 23 and Its Exegetical Context 168 BRIANBUTLER The Representation of Gregory the Great in Irish Sources of the Pre-Viking Era 181 MÁIREHERBERT Seeking the Desert in Adomnán’s Vita Columbae 191 AIDANMACDONALD Singing in the Rain on Hinba? Archaeology and Liturgical Fictions,Ancient and Modern (Adomnán, Vita Columbae3.17) 204 ÉAMONNÓ CARRAGÁINand TOMÁSÓ CARRAGÁIN
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