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- ISSN: 0332-1592
- E-ISSN: 2034-6506
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Irish Synchronistic Poem on Emperors & Kings
- Brepols
- Publication: Peritia, Volume 22-23, Issue 1, Jan 2011, p. 107 - 148
Abstract
Abstract
An edition and translation of a late Middle-Irish poem (c. ad 1200) synchronising the Eastern Roman emperors with Irish kings and with important dates in Irish church history, to about ad 750. The poem is almost complete in Dublin, RIA, 1225 olim D ii 1 al. Book of Uí Maine; s. xivex; and there is one other significant but fragmentary witness. It indicates how Irish literati saw their history, what kind of ‘world history’ they taught in medieval schools, and how they constructed that history.
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