Paul Russell & Fiona Edmonds 
Tome: Studies in Medieval Celtic History and Law in Honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards 

Significant contributions on Celtic history, law, archaeology and literature.


Thomas Charles-Edwards, the distinguished scholar of medieval Britain and Ireland, has made important contributions to a number of fields, but is particularly renowned for his studies in Celtic history and law. In this volume, colleagues pay tribute to his work with essays that range across the medieval Celtic world, including medieval Wales, Ireland and Scotland. In the first part of the volume, they cover historical aspects (and, as is fitting, often reflect the honorand’s interest in archaeology and epigraphy); in the second, they focus on medieval Irish and Welsh legal institutions and texts, which are used by some to inform new readings of literary texts.


Contributors: Susan Youngs, Clare Stancliffe, Catherine Swift, David N. Dumville, Elizabeth O’Brien, Edel Bhreathnach, Oliver Padel, Nancy Edwards, Thomas Owen Clancy, Marie Therese Flanagan, Huw Pryce, Roy Flechner, Robin Chapman Stacey, Wendy Davies, Sara Elin Roberts, Fergus Kelly, Bronagh Ní Chonaill, Charlene Eska, Elva Johnston, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Maredudd ap Huw.

Table des matières

Preface – Fiona Edmonds and Paul Russell

Cloud-Cuckoo Land? Some Christian Symbols from Post-Roman Britain – Susan Youngs

Columbanus’s Monasticism and the Sources of his Inspiration: from Basil to the Master? – Clare Stancliffe

Early Irish Priests within their Own Localities – Catherine Swift

Political Organisation in Dál Riata – David N. Dumville

Irish Boundary
Ferta, their Physical Manifestation and Historical Context – Elizabeth O’Brien and Edel Bhreathnach

Asser’s
Parochia of Exeter – Oliver Padel

Viking-Age Sculpture in North-West Wales: Wealth, Power, Patronage and the Christian Landscape – Nancy Edwards

Iona v. Kells: Succession, Jurisdiction and Politics in the Columban
Familia in the Later Tenth Century – Thomas O Clancy

A Twelfth-Century Indulgence Granted by an Irish Bishop at Bath Priory – Marie Therese Flanagan

Gerald of Wales, Gildas, and the
Descriptio Kambriae – Huw Pryce

Patrick’s Reasons for Leaving Britain – Roy Flechner

Learning Law in Medieval Ireland – Robin C. Stacey

Holding Court: Judicial Presidency in Brittany, Wales and Northern Iberia in the Early Middle Ages – Wendy Davies

The Iorwerth Triads – Sara Elin Roberts

The Recovery of Stolen Property: Notes on Legal Procedure in Gaelic Ireland, Scotland and the Isle of Man – Fergus Kelly

Contentious Kinship: the Penumbra of Established Kinship in Medieval Irish Law – Bronagh Ní Chonaill

Marriage by Purchase in Early Irish Law – Charlene Eska

Kingship Made Real? Power and the Public World in
Longes Mac n Uislenn – Elva Johnston

Mongán’s Metamorphosis:
Compert Mongáin ocus Serce Duibe Lacha do Mongán, a Later Mongán Tale – Maire Ni Mhaonaigh

Bibliography of the Writings of Thomas Charles-Edwards – Maredudd Ap Huw

A propos de l’auteur

Sara Elin Roberts is a historian specialising in the law, literature and culture of Wales and the March from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries. She has been working on medieval Welsh lawbooks for more than two decades.