Reading List: CC2001

Note: In some years, this course concentrates on the effects of Irish ecclesiastical culture outside Ireland; in others, on the Celtic background of the Arthurian legend. The suggested reading accordingly falls into two sections.

SECTION 1

Adomnán of Iona, Life of St. Columba (Penguin)

Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People (Penguin)

Ludwig Bieler, Ireland, Harbinger of the Middle Ages (Oxford, 1963)

Robert McNally, ed., Old Ireland (Dublin, 1965)

J. J. O'Meara, The Voyage of St. Brendan (Penguin)

J.-M. Picard and Y. de Pontfarcy, Saint Patrick's Purgatory (Dublin, 1985)

J.-M. Picard and Y. de Pontfarcy, The Vision of Tnugdal (Dublin, 1989)

G. S. M. Walker, Sancti Columbani Opera (Dublin, 1970)

Jonathan Wooding, ed., The Otherworld Voyage in Early Irish Literature (Dublin, 2000)

SECTION 2

Rachel Bromwich et al., eds. The Arthur of the Welsh (Cardiff, 1991)

Chrétien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances, trans. D. D. R. Owen (London, 1987)

Jon Coe and Simon Young, The Celtic Sources of the Arthurian Legend (Llanerch Press, 1995)

Jeffrey Gantz, The Mabinogion (Penguin)

John T. Koch and John Carey, The Celtic Heroic Age (4th ed.: Aberystwyth, 2003)

Proinsias Mac Cana, The Mabinogi (Cardiff, 1977, 1992)

O. J. Padel, Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature (Cardiff, 2000)

Students may also consult the bound collection of articles relating to this course at the reserve Desk, Boole Library.