Latin Letters in Early Christian Ireland

Michael W. Herren, York University, Canada

• Contents: Classical and secular learning among the Irish before the Carolingian Renaissance; Die Anfänge der Grammatikstudien auf den Britischen Inseln: von Patrick bis zur Schule von Canterbury; On the earliest Irish acquaintance with Isidore of Seville; The commentary on Martianus attributed to John Scottus: its Hiberno-Latin background; The pseudonymous tradition in Hiberno-Latin: an introduction; An early Irish precursor of the ’Offiziendichtung’ of the Carolignian and Ottonian periods; Some new light on the life of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus; A 9th-century poem for St Gall's feast day and the ’Ad Sethum’ of Columbanus; Eriugena's ’Aulæ Sidereæ’, the ’Codex Aureus’, and the Palatine Church of St Mary at Compiègne; St Gall 48: a copy of Eriugena’s glossed Greek Gospels; Sprachliche Eigentümlichkeiten in den hibernolateinischen Texten des 7. und 8. Jahrhunderts; Old Irish lexical and semantic influence on Hiberno-Latin; Insular Latin c(h)araxare (craxare) and its derivatives; Hiberno-Latin lexical sources of Harley 3376, a Latin-Old English glossary; The stress systems in Insular Latin octosyllabic verse; Hibernolateinische und irische Verkunst mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Siebensilbers; The stress system of the Hiberno-Latin hendecasyllable; The Hiberno-Latin poems in Virgil the Grammarian; Addenda and Corrigenda; Indexes.

'Professor Michael Herren has been in the vanguard of Hiberno-Latin studies for twenty-five years...This exceptionally useful collection brings together eighteen of [his] papers, many of them not readily available in most libraries, and provides an impressive overview of Herren’s range and scope of interests....[it] is one of the finest to appear in the Collected Studies series, and is a real service to the field.' Peritia, No. 14