Imagination and Innovation in Medieval Celtic Literatures

Helen Fulton is Chair and Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol. She has published widely on medieval Welsh and English literatures, and is the co-editor of The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature (2019).Georgia Henley is an Associate Professor of English at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA. Her work focuses on the literature and history of medieval Wales and the March of Wales, and she is the author of Reimagining the Past in the Borderlands of Medieval England and Wales (2024).

• List of ContributorsList of ImagesList of AbbreviationsForewordCatherine McKenna, Scholar, Mentor and Friend: An Informal BiographyAnnalee C. RejhonSection 1: Welsh Literature1. Undated Medieval Welsh Texts and the Literary CriticPatrick Sims-Williams2. ‘Ys celuit ae dehoglho’: Interpreting Breuddwyd RhonabwySioned Davies3. Prophesying with Peredur: Fate, Cyfarwyddyd and the Nine Witches of CaerloywJoseph Shack and A. Joseph McMullen4. Llygad i Weld a Chlust i Wrando?: Saernïaeth Anghyffredin Awdlau Llygad GŵrAled Llion Jones5. Animate Landscape and Noise in Etmic DinbychJessica Hemming6. The Story of Ysgan ap AsgoElissa R. Henken7. The Cwrrach and its Use(fulness/lessness): Poetics, Prophecy and (De)valuing the Book in Late Medieval WalesJerry Hunter8. The Bells of Osney, the Mariner’s Compass and Monogrammed Swans: Novelty and Poetic Imagination in Fifteenth-Century WalesMarged Haycock9. Henry Tudor and Welsh Poetry of the Wars of the RosesHelen Fulton10. ‘Gammawash, comrade, Gammawash!’: Some Welsh Words and Phrases in Elizabethan and Jacobean DramaGeraint EvansSection 2: Irish Literature11. Seeing and Being Seen in Aithbe Damsa Bés MaraTomás Ó Cathasaigh12. History Lessons in Neverland: A Preliminary EnquiryJohn Carey13. Close Encounters of the Traditional Kind in Aislinge Meic ConglinneJoseph Falaky Nagy14. Two ‘Hags’ Slinging ‘Crooked Quatrains’: Evidentiary Verse and Women’s Folklore in Aislinge Meic ConglinneMatthieu Boyd15. Fionn among the Women: A Re-evaluation of Irish Women’s Fenian TalesNatasha SumnerSection 3: Celtic and Latin16. 432 and All ThatDaniel F. Melia17. Practices of Translation and Adaptation in the Welsh Chronicle Brut y TywysogionGeorgia Henley18. Performing the Word: A Note on Two Welsh Healing Charms in LatinMichaela Jacques and Katherine Leach19. Keli Culwyt: Pronouncing Latin in Medieval Welsh VersePaul Russell20. A Note on the Dating of the Latin Poem ‘Trucidare Saxones’Sarah ZeiserSection 4: Religious Imagination21. ‘Sicut Vis’: Faith, Miracles and Abortion in the Irish Hagiographer’s CraftDorothy C. Africa22. The Daughters of the DagdaDorothy Ann Bray23. Bríg/Brigit and Eochaid Ollathair: Like Father Like Daughter?AfterwordCatherines: A Personal TributePatrick K. FordBibliography of Catherine A. McKennaGeorgia HenleyIndex

Written by distinguished scholars in the field of Celtic Studies, this volume's insightful and original chapters celebrate the import of Catherine McKenna's wide-ranging scholarly interests on the subject and open new perspectives on medieval Welsh and Irish literatures, on Latin in Celtic contexts, and on traditions associated with saints and goddesses.