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Hardcover The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry Before Bede Book

ISBN: 1501520288

ISBN13: 9781501520280

The Gaelic Background of Old English Poetry Before Bede

(Part of the Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center Series)

Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social status through formal training. These poets cooperated with the Church to create an innovative bilingual intellectual culture in Old Gaelic and Latin. Bede described Anglo-Saxon students who availed themselves of free education in Ireland at this culturally dynamic time. Gaelic scholars called sapientes ("wise ones") produced texts in Old Gaelic and Latin...

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