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"This book celebrates the career of Professor Emerita Ann Dooley, one of Canada's most eminent Ce... more "This book celebrates the career of Professor Emerita Ann Dooley, one of Canada's most eminent Celtic medievalists. Dooley's colleagues at the University of Toronto, her former doctoral students, and some of the most prominent scholars in medieval Celtic studies honour her work with sixteen original essays reflecting her teaching and interests: early Irish and Welsh literature and history, literary theory, and feminist approaches to medieval Celtic literature.
Contents:
1. Michael W. Herren, "Patrick, Gaul, and Gildas: A New Lens on the Apostle of Ireland’s Career"
2. John Carey, "The Sea and the Spirit: Two Notes"
3. Pádraig Ó Riain, "The O’Donohue Lives of the Salamancan Codex: The Earliest Collection of Irish Saints’ Lives?"
4. Westley Follett, "Women, Blood, and Soul-Friendship: A Contextual Study of Two Anecdotes from the Tallaght Memoir
5. Anne Connon, "Plotting Acallam na Senórach: The Physical Context of the 'Mayo' Sequence"
6. Harry Roe, "The Acallam: The Church’s Eventual Acceptance of the Cultural Inheritance of Pagan Ireland"
7. James Acken, "Lexical Specificity in the Auraicept na nÉces"
8. Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, "The Body in Táin Bó Cúailnge"
9. Joanne Findon, "Nes, Deirdriu, Luaine: Fated Women in Conchobor’s Life"
10. Sarah Sheehan, "Loving Medb"
11. Connell Monette, "The Monstrous Hero (or Monster-as-Hero): A Celtic Motif in Contemporary Literature"
12. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, "‘Eól dam seiser cloinne Cuinn’: The Fortunes of a Twelfth-Century Irish Syncretistic Poem"
13. Brent Miles, "The Irish History of the ‘Third Troy’ and Medieval Writing of History"
14. Patrick K. Ford, "Gwydion in the Court of Pryderi"
15. Karen Jankulak, "How Irish was Medieval Ceredigion? Pseudo-History, History, and Historiography"
16. David N. Klausner, "The ‘Statute of Gruffudd ap Cynan’: A Window on Late-Medieval Welsh Bardic Practice""
Papers by Westley Follett
Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies 13 (2024): 27-49, 2024
The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism, edited by Bernice M. Kaczynski, 2020
Peritia 24-25 (2013-2014): 213-229, 2014
CMCS 66 (Winter 2013): 37-56.
Gablánach in Scélaigecht: Celtic studies in honour of Ann Dooley, edited by Sarah Sheehan, Joanne Findon, and Westley Follett, 2013
The céli Dé or culdees of early medieval Ireland are a poorly understood bunch. Their community a... more The céli Dé or culdees of early medieval Ireland are a poorly understood bunch. Their community at Tallaght (Co. Dublin), founded in by St Máel Ruain, has been long been regarded the heart of an anchoritic reform intent upon countering a general decline in Irish monastic discipline. A number of recent studies now dispute this, but the céli Dé continue to be perceived as strict ascetics. Much like some of the Desert Fathers of Egypt who are known to have assiduously avoided contact with women, Máel Ruain and his associates -'Ireland's Desert Fathers' -have been depicted by some scholars as deeply distrustful of women and to have believed that the mere sight, touch or sound of one was 'potent enough to provoke concupiscent thoughts or, worse, instant fornication'. Still others have maintained that the céli Dé 'did not in practice actually avoid contact with women', and 'were trying hard to include women in their revision of the Christian Life', though ultimately they were unable to devise 'the proper mode of relations with them'. While uncertainties remain regarding the extent of their writings, the céli Dé were important contributors to eighth-and ninth-century religious literature and should not be overlooked in any effort to ascertain how Irish eccle- For a representative view of the reformist argument, see William Reeves, The Culdees of the British islands as they appear in history with an appendix of evidences (Dublin, , repr. Felinfach, ); Kathleen Hughes, The church in early Irish society (London, ), pp -; and Peter O'Dwyer, Céli Dé: spiritual reform in Ireland - (nd ed. Dublin, ). For challenges to the reformist argument, see Colmán Etchingham, Church organization in Ireland, AD to (Maynooth, ), pp -; Westley Follett, Céli Dé in Ireland: monastic writing and identity in the early Middle Ages, Studies in Celtic history (Woodbridge, ); and Patricia M. Rumsey, Sacred time in early Christian Ireland: the monks of the Nauigatio and the Céli Dé in dialogue to explore the theologies of time and the liturgy of the Hours in pre-Viking Ireland (London, ). David N. Dumville, Ireland's Desert Fathers, the Culdees: an introduction to their consuetudinal literature (forthcoming). On the Desert Fathers of Egypt, see Peter Brown, The body and society: men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity (New York, ), pp -. Jane Tibbets Schulenburg, Forgetful of their sex: female sanctity and society, ca.
The Journal of Celtic Studies 5 (2005): 81-96, 2005
The Journal of Medieval Latin 19 (2009): 106-129, Jan 1, 2009
Eolas 2 (2007): 4-27, Jan 1, 2007
Insignis Sophiae Arcator: Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Michael Herren on his 65th Birthday, edited by Gernot Wieland, Carin Ruff and Ross Arthur, 2006
"This book celebrates the career of Professor Emerita Ann Dooley, one of Canada's most eminent Ce... more "This book celebrates the career of Professor Emerita Ann Dooley, one of Canada's most eminent Celtic medievalists. Dooley's colleagues at the University of Toronto, her former doctoral students, and some of the most prominent scholars in medieval Celtic studies honour her work with sixteen original essays reflecting her teaching and interests: early Irish and Welsh literature and history, literary theory, and feminist approaches to medieval Celtic literature.
Contents:
1. Michael W. Herren, "Patrick, Gaul, and Gildas: A New Lens on the Apostle of Ireland’s Career"
2. John Carey, "The Sea and the Spirit: Two Notes"
3. Pádraig Ó Riain, "The O’Donohue Lives of the Salamancan Codex: The Earliest Collection of Irish Saints’ Lives?"
4. Westley Follett, "Women, Blood, and Soul-Friendship: A Contextual Study of Two Anecdotes from the Tallaght Memoir
5. Anne Connon, "Plotting Acallam na Senórach: The Physical Context of the 'Mayo' Sequence"
6. Harry Roe, "The Acallam: The Church’s Eventual Acceptance of the Cultural Inheritance of Pagan Ireland"
7. James Acken, "Lexical Specificity in the Auraicept na nÉces"
8. Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, "The Body in Táin Bó Cúailnge"
9. Joanne Findon, "Nes, Deirdriu, Luaine: Fated Women in Conchobor’s Life"
10. Sarah Sheehan, "Loving Medb"
11. Connell Monette, "The Monstrous Hero (or Monster-as-Hero): A Celtic Motif in Contemporary Literature"
12. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, "‘Eól dam seiser cloinne Cuinn’: The Fortunes of a Twelfth-Century Irish Syncretistic Poem"
13. Brent Miles, "The Irish History of the ‘Third Troy’ and Medieval Writing of History"
14. Patrick K. Ford, "Gwydion in the Court of Pryderi"
15. Karen Jankulak, "How Irish was Medieval Ceredigion? Pseudo-History, History, and Historiography"
16. David N. Klausner, "The ‘Statute of Gruffudd ap Cynan’: A Window on Late-Medieval Welsh Bardic Practice""
Journal of Medieval Monastic Studies 13 (2024): 27-49, 2024
The Oxford Handbook of Christian Monasticism, edited by Bernice M. Kaczynski, 2020
Peritia 24-25 (2013-2014): 213-229, 2014
CMCS 66 (Winter 2013): 37-56.
Gablánach in Scélaigecht: Celtic studies in honour of Ann Dooley, edited by Sarah Sheehan, Joanne Findon, and Westley Follett, 2013
The céli Dé or culdees of early medieval Ireland are a poorly understood bunch. Their community a... more The céli Dé or culdees of early medieval Ireland are a poorly understood bunch. Their community at Tallaght (Co. Dublin), founded in by St Máel Ruain, has been long been regarded the heart of an anchoritic reform intent upon countering a general decline in Irish monastic discipline. A number of recent studies now dispute this, but the céli Dé continue to be perceived as strict ascetics. Much like some of the Desert Fathers of Egypt who are known to have assiduously avoided contact with women, Máel Ruain and his associates -'Ireland's Desert Fathers' -have been depicted by some scholars as deeply distrustful of women and to have believed that the mere sight, touch or sound of one was 'potent enough to provoke concupiscent thoughts or, worse, instant fornication'. Still others have maintained that the céli Dé 'did not in practice actually avoid contact with women', and 'were trying hard to include women in their revision of the Christian Life', though ultimately they were unable to devise 'the proper mode of relations with them'. While uncertainties remain regarding the extent of their writings, the céli Dé were important contributors to eighth-and ninth-century religious literature and should not be overlooked in any effort to ascertain how Irish eccle- For a representative view of the reformist argument, see William Reeves, The Culdees of the British islands as they appear in history with an appendix of evidences (Dublin, , repr. Felinfach, ); Kathleen Hughes, The church in early Irish society (London, ), pp -; and Peter O'Dwyer, Céli Dé: spiritual reform in Ireland - (nd ed. Dublin, ). For challenges to the reformist argument, see Colmán Etchingham, Church organization in Ireland, AD to (Maynooth, ), pp -; Westley Follett, Céli Dé in Ireland: monastic writing and identity in the early Middle Ages, Studies in Celtic history (Woodbridge, ); and Patricia M. Rumsey, Sacred time in early Christian Ireland: the monks of the Nauigatio and the Céli Dé in dialogue to explore the theologies of time and the liturgy of the Hours in pre-Viking Ireland (London, ). David N. Dumville, Ireland's Desert Fathers, the Culdees: an introduction to their consuetudinal literature (forthcoming). On the Desert Fathers of Egypt, see Peter Brown, The body and society: men, women, and sexual renunciation in early Christianity (New York, ), pp -. Jane Tibbets Schulenburg, Forgetful of their sex: female sanctity and society, ca.
The Journal of Celtic Studies 5 (2005): 81-96, 2005
The Journal of Medieval Latin 19 (2009): 106-129, Jan 1, 2009
Eolas 2 (2007): 4-27, Jan 1, 2007
Insignis Sophiae Arcator: Medieval Latin Studies in Honour of Michael Herren on his 65th Birthday, edited by Gernot Wieland, Carin Ruff and Ross Arthur, 2006