Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early Medieval Celtic World

Jonathan Wooding is Sir Warwick Fairfax Chair of Celtic Studies at the University of Sydney.

• IllustrationsIntroduction: prophecy, fate and memory in the early and Medieval Celtic World by Jonathan M. Wooding1. Poeninus and the Romanisation of the Celtic Alps by Bernard Mees2. Landscapes, myth-making and memory: ecclesiastical landholding in Early Medieval Ireland by Tomás Ó Carragáin3. Remembering and forgetting holy men and their places: an inscription from Llanllŷr, Wales by Jonathan M. Wooding4. Early Irish Peregrinatio as salvation history by Meredith D. Cutrer5. Insular influences on Carolingian and Ottonian literature and Art by Penny Nash6. The De xii abusivis saeculi and prophetic tradition in seventh-century Ireland by Constant J. Mews7. Memories of Gildas: Gildas and the Collectio canonum Hibernensis by Stephen Joyce8. Armes Prydein as a legacy of Gildas by Lynette Olson9. A woman’s fate: Deirdre and Gráinne throughout literature by Roxanne T. Bodsworth10. ‘No remission without satisfaction’: canonical influences on secular lawmaking in High Medieval Scotland by Cynthia J. Neville11. Esoteric tourism in Scotland: Rosslyn Chapel, The Da Vinci Code, and the appeal of the ‘New Age’ by Carole M. CusackIndex