Submissions

Articles for publication should be submitted (in hard copy and digital form) to:

Professor Donnchadh Ó Corráin
Department of History
University College, Cork
Ireland.
Email: ocorrain@ucc.ie
Fax: +353 21 270191

Reviews

Books for review should be sent to:

Dr Dáibhí Ó Cróinín
School of History
University College, Galway
Ireland.
Email: daibhi.ocroinin@nuigalway.ie
Fax: +353 91 525700

Format and Media

In the case of digital text (which must always be accompanied by hardcopy) state clearly the wordprocessor used, version, and platform

In the case of hardcopy, all special sorts and words in Greek, Hebrew and Cyrillic should be clearly rendered and if the wordprocessing software is unable to handle such sorts, they should be clearly handwritten on the hardcopy

Peritia House Style

All Peritia papers are preceded by the following: title, author's name, abstract (100-200 words), keywords (10-15), author's full name, full postal address, author's e-mail address.

Example:

FIVE EXPERIMENTS IN TEXTUAL RECONSTRUCTION AND ANALYSIS DAVID HOWLETT

ABSTRACT. This is an edition and detailed analysis of six complex early Celtic-Latin texts - a note on the Irish reception of the computus, a part of Cummian's Paschal letter, the incipit of the Egloga and the whole text of the Lorica of Laidcenn mac Baíth, Cú Chuimne's hymn Cantemus in omni die, and the learned poem Adelphus adelpha mater. The analysis draws attention to their elaborate and intricate structure and the metrical and linguistic skills of their authors. It further demonstrates that their Latin represents correct Classical and Late Latin usage.

KEYWORDS: Medieval Latin, Irish Latin, early medieval poetry, hymnology, metrics, rhythmic prose, stylistics, Greek, Hebrew, Mo Chuoróc, Cummian, Laidcenn (mac Baíth), Cú Chuimne, Israel Grammaticus.

David Howlett, Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, Bodleian Library, Oxford OX1 3BG howlett@vax.ox.ac.uk

NB This format is required.

Humanities Style

In the case of all references, abbreviations, etc. the criterion is that the non-specialist librarian or student should be able to find the work in question without difficulty or waste of time. All abbreviations of journal titles should be transparent and should conform to international standards (`International list of periodical title word abbreviations', International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 833 (cf. British Standards Institution, BS 4148 and American National Standards Institute, ASA Z.39-5.1963) and updates). If in doubt, please consult these works. A period is not used after these abbreviations (see examples below). In the case of monographs, full citation of bibliographical details is required in the first reference, as in the examples below. Thereafter, a short title is used. The usual latinate humanities abbreviations may be used (but sparingly)

art. cit.
op. cit.
loc. cit.
ibid.

One should be extremely careful with these in order to avoid ambiguity, especially when on is referring to two or more works by the same author. If it doubt, do not use them.

Note:

1. these abbreviations are always in roman
2. they are always in lower case, even when beginning a footnote
3. avoid double punctuation

Example:

op. cit. 78-79 not Op. cit., 78-79

Citation of books and articles

The following examples illustrate most of the practices in regard to punctuation, capitalisation, and abbreviation. In principle, be very sparing in the use of capitals: this will help to avoid the irrational and antiquated spatter of capitals in many scholarly works. Please examine the following examples carefully.

J.H. Bernard & Robert Atkinson (ed), The Irish Liber Hymnorum, HBS 13 (London 1898) 33-34.

Colum Kenny, `Paradox or pragmatist? "Honest" Tristram Kennedy (1805-85): lawyer, educationalist, land agent and member of parliament', Proc Roy Ir Acad (C) 92 (1992) 1-35

M. Lapidge, `The authorship of the Adonic verses "Ad Fidolium" attributed to Columbanus', Studi Medievali ser3 18 (1977) 249-314

M. Lapidge & R. Sharpe, A bibliography of Celtic-Latin literature 400-1200, Royal Irish Academy Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources Ancillary Publications 1 (Dublin 1985) no 639-42 (p 165-68), no 650-56 (p 171-72), no 810 (p 220)

K. Hughes, `Evidence for contacts between the churches of the Irish and the English from the synod of Whitby to the Viking age', P. Clemoes & K. Hughes (ed), England before the Conquest: studies in primary sources presented to Dorothy Whitelock (Cambridge 1971) 49-56: 52

Whitley Stokes (ed. & tr.), `The Irish ordeals, Cormac's adventure in the land of promise, and the decision as to Cormac's sword', Whitley Stokes and E. Windisch (ed), Irische Texte iii, 1. Heft (Leipzig 1891) 186-87

Bart Jaski, `Marriage laws in Ireland and on the continent in the early middle ages', C. E. Meek & K. Simms (ed), `The fragility of her sex'? Medieval Irish women in their European context (Dublin 1996) 16-42

Citation of manuscripts

Manuscripts are cited in the following form and only in the following form:

Location, repository, title (if any) followed by siglum, call-number (and older call-number if relevant in parentheses), foliation/pagination.

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, Book of Uí Maine (M), 1225 (olim D ii 1), f 138

Dublin, Trinity College Library, Yellow Book of Lecan (Y), 1318 (olim H 2. 16), col 324 lines 17-45

After the first full citation, references to a manuscript may be abbreviated.

Harvard System

What has been said above about journal abbreviations applies here.

In text use the following forms:

Cramp (1959-60, 12) shows that . . . (Cross & Livingstone, 1978, 321-22)

In end references use the following forms:

Ure, James M., 1957. The Benedictine office: an Old English text. Edinburgh.

Van Dijk, Stephen J. P., 1961. `The urban and papal rites in seventh and eighth-century Rome', Sacris Erudiri 12, 411-87.

Vogel, Cyrille, 1986. Medieval liturgy: an introduction to the sources, rev. & tr. William G. Storey and Niels Krogh Rasmussen. Washington DC.

Walpole, A. S. (ed), 1922. Early Latin hymns. Cambridge.

Warren, F. E. (ed), 1893. The Antiphonary of Bangor (Henry Bradshaw Society 4 and 10). London.

Willett, Frank, 1956-57. `The Ruthwell and Bewcastle crosses - a review', Mem Proc Manchester Lit Philos Soc 98, 95-136.

Willis, G. G., 1968. Further essays in early Roman liturgy (Alcuin Club Collections 50). London.

De Puniet, Pierre, 1904-05. `Les trois homélies catéchétiques du sacramentaire gélasien pour la tradition des évangiles, du symbole, et de l'oraison dominicale', Revue d'histoire ecclésiastique 5 (1904) 505-21, 755-86; 6 (1905) 15-32, 304-18.

Kluge, Theodor, 1915. `Quadragesima und Karwoche Jerusalems im siebten Jahrhundert', Oriens Christianus ns 5, 201-33.

Krapp, George Philip (ed), 1932. The Vercelli Book (Anglo-Saxon Poetic Records 2). New York and London.

Krautheimer, Richard, and others, 1937--77. Corpus basilicarum --> --christianarum Romae: the early christian basilicas of Rome (IV--IX --> --cent.). (5 vols). Vatican City and New York.

Abbreviations

(These abbreviations may be used without any further explanation)

• AASS Acta Sanctorum . . . a Sociis Bollandianis
• AClon Annals of Clonmacnoise (ed. Denis Murphy, Dublin 1896)
• AConn Annals of Connacht (ed. A. Martin Freeman, Dublin 1944)
• AFM Annals of the kingdom of Ireland by the Four Masters (ed. John O'Donovan, 7 vols, Dublin 1848-51)
• AH Analecta Hymnica Medii Aeui (ed. G. M. Dreves, C. Blume and H. M. Bannister, 55 vols, Leipzig 1886-1922>
• AI Annals of Inisfallen (ed. Seán Mac Airt, Dublin 1951)
• AI (facs) Annals of Inisfallen, reproduced in facsimile (ed. R. I. Best and Eoin Mac Neill, Dublin 1933)
• ALC Annals of Loch Cé (ed. W. M. Hennessy, 2 vols, RS 54, London 1871)
• ALI Ancient Laws of Ireland (ed. W N. Hancock, Thaddeus O'Mahony, Alexander Richey and Robert Atkinson, 6 vols, Dublin and London 1865-1901)
• ALW Ancient laws and institutes of Wales (ed. Aneurin Owen, London 1841) [ref. to book and chapter]
• ASC Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
• ATig `Annals of Tigernach' (ed. Whitley Stokes in Revue Celtique 16 (1895) 374-419; 17 (1896) 6-33, 119-263, 337-420; 18 (1897) 9-59, 150-97, 267-303, repr. Felinfach 1993, 2 vols)
• AU1 Annals of Ulster (ed. W. M. Hennessy and B. Mac Carthy, 4 vols, Dublin 1887-1901)
• AU2 Annals of Ulster i (ed. Seán Mac Airt and Gearóid Mac Niocaill, Dublin 1983)
• BB Book of Ballymote (facsimile, ed. Robert Atkinson, Dublin 1887)
• BHL Bibliotheca hagiographica latina (ed. Socii Bollandiani, 3rd ed. Brussels 1959)
• BCLL Michael Lapidge & Richard Sharpe, Bibliography of Celtic-Latin literature (Dublin 1985)
• BL Book of Leinster (ed. R. I. Best, Osborn Bergin, M. A O'Brien and Anne O'Sullivan, 6 vols, Dublin 1954-83)
• CCCM Corpus Christianorum continuatio medieualis (Turnhout 1971 - )
• CCH Collectio canonum hibernensis (Herrmann Wasserschleben (ed), Die irische Kanonensammlung, 2nd ed., Leipzig 1885)
• CCSG Corpus Christianorum series graeca (Turnhout 1977 - )
• CCSL Corpus Christianorum series latina (Turnhout 1953 - )
• CGH Corpus genealogiarum Hiberniae i (ed. M. A. O'Brien, Dublin 1962)
• CIH Corpus iuris hibernici (ed. D. A. Binchy, 6 vols, Dublin 1978)
• CottA The annals in Cotton MS Titus A. XXV (ed. A. Martin Freeman, Paris 1929)
• CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (Vienna 1866 - )
• CS Chronicon Scottorum (ed. W. M. Hennessy, RS 46, London 1866)
• DACL Dictionnaire d'archéologie chrétienne et de liturgie (ed. F. Cabrol and H. Leclerq, Paris 1907-53)
• DB Dictionnaire de la bible (ed. F. Vigouroux, Paris 1912-22)
• DBS Supplement (ed. L. Pirot et al., Paris 1928 - ) to Dictionnaire de la bible
• DDC Dictionnaire de droit canonique (ed. A. Villien, E. Magnin, A. Amanieu and R. Naz, Paris 1924-65)
• DHGE Dictionnaire d'histoire et de géographie ecclésiastique (ed. A. Baudrillart, A. de Meyer, E. van Cauwenbergh and R. Aubert, Paris 1912 - )
• DIL Royal Irish Academy, Dictionary of the Irish language based mainly on Old and Middle Irish materials (Dublin 1913-75, repr. [in compact ed. with continuous pagination] Dublin 1983)
• DS Dictionnaire de spiritualité (ed. M. Viller and C. Baumgartner, Paris 1932 - )
• DTC Dictionnaire de théologie catholique (ed. E. Vacant, E. Mangenot and E. Amann, Paris 1903-50)<>/li>
• EEMF Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile (Copenhagen 1951 - )
• EETS Early English Texts Society
• Eubel C. Eubel et al., Hierarchia catholica medii aeui (4 vols, Münster 1913-35)
• FrA1 Annals of Ireland: three fragments (ed. John O'Donovan, Dublin 1860)
• FrA2 Fragmentary Annals of Ireland (ed. J. N. Radner, Dublin 1978)
• Gams P.-B. Gams, Series episcoporum ecclesiae catholicae (Ratisbon 1873-86, repr. Leipzig 1931)
• GCS Griechische christliche Schriftsteller der ersten drei Jahrhunderte (Berlin-Leipzig 1897 - )
• GOI Rudolf Thurneysen, A grammar of Old Irish (Dublin 1946)
• HE Venerable Bede, Historia ecclesiastica
• HBS Henry Bradshaw Society for editing rare liturgical texts (London 1891 - )
• ITS Irish Texts Society (London 1899 - )
• Kenney, Sources James F. Kenney, Sources for the early history of Ireland: ecclesiastical (Columbia 1929)
• LCI Lexicon der christlichen Ikonographie (ed. E. Kirschbaum et al., 8 vols, Freiburg i.B. 1968-76)
• Lec Book of Lecan: Leabhar Mór Leacáin (facsimile, ed. Kathleen Mulchrone, Dublin 1937)
• LL Book of Leinster (facsimile, ed. Robert Atkinson, Dublin 1880)
• LTK Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche (2nd ed., ed. J. Höfer and K. Rahner, Freiburg i.B. 1957 - )
• LU Lebor na hUidre: Book of the Dun Cow (ed. R. I. Best and Osborn Bergin, Dublin 1929)
• Mansi J.-D. Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio (Paris 1899)
• MartD Martyrology of Donegal (trans. John O'Donovan; ed. James Henthorn Todd and William Reeves, Dublin 1864)
• MartG Martyrology of Gorman (ed. Whitley Stokes, HBS 9, London 1895)
• MartO Martyrology of Oengus the Culdee (ed. Whitley Stokes, HBS 29, London 1905; repr. Dublin 1984)
• MartT Martyrology of Tallaght (ed. R. I. Best and H. J. Lawlor, HBS 68, London 1931)
• MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica
• MGHAA MGH Auctores Antiquissimi
• MGH SRG ns MGH Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum nova series
• MGH SRG us MGH Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum in usum scholarum
• MGH SRM MGH Scriptores Rerum Merovingicarum
• MGH SS MGH Scriptores (in folio)
• MGH LL MGH Leges (in folio)
• MGH LNG MGH Leges Nationum Germanicarum
• MGH PL MGH Poetae Latini Medii Aevi
• MiscIrA Miscellaneous Irish annals (ed. S. Ó hÍnnse, Dublin 1947)
• OG Edmund Hogan, Onomasticon Goedelicum locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae (Dublin 1910; repr. Dublin 1994)
• PG Patrologia Graeca (ed. J. P. Migne, 161 vols, Paris 1857-86)
• PL Patrologia Latina (ed. J. P. Migne, 221 vols, Paris 1844-64)
• PLS Patrologiae Latinae supplementum (ed. A. Hamman and L. Guillaumin, 5 vols, Paris 1958-74)
• RE Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopädie der classichen Altertumswissenschaft (1894-1980)
• REPT Realencyclopädie für protestanische Theologie und Kirche (3rd ed., ed. J. J. Herzog and A. Hauck, Leipzig 1896-1913)
• RS Rolls Series (Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the Middle Ages, 1-99, London 1858-97)
• SC Sources chrétiennes (Paris 1941 - )
• SLH Scriptores Latini Hiberniae (Dublin 1955 - )
• TP John Strachan and Whitley Stokes (ed), Thesaurus palaeohibernicus (2 vols and supp., Cambridge and Halle a.S. 1901-10, repr. in 2 vols, Dublin 1975)
• TU Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur (Leipzig 1882 - )

Journal titles are abbreviated in accordance with the `International list of periodical title word abbreviations', International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 833 (cf. British Standards Institution, BS 4148 and American National Standards Institute, ASA Z.39-5.1963) and updates.

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