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.
| ISBN: | 9781846821370 |
| Publication date: | 20th July 2009 |
| Author: | Katharine Simms |
| Publisher: | Four Courts Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 131 pages |
| Series: | Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History |
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Reference works |
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.
Medieval Gaelic Sources features in the following genres: Reference works
Medieval Gaelic Sources is available in Hardback
Medieval Gaelic Sources was written by Katharine Simms and published by Four Courts Press
Medieval Gaelic Sources has 131 pages
Yes it is part of Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History series