Peritia Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland

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1 Peritia Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland

2 Peritia is an international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published by the Medieval Academy of Ireland and Brepols. It champions medieval studies in the broadest sense, welcoming contributions from all disciplines. Potential contributors are encouraged to submit their manuscripts in electronic format to the editors via to the following address: Before submitting, authors should familiarise themselves with the journal s formatting instructions and Guidelines for Contributors, which can be accessed at Papers considered for publication are blind-refereed to ensure academic integrity. Editors Elva Johnston & Dáibhí Ó Cróinín Editorial Advisory Board Jacopo Bisagni (NUI Galway) Damian Bracken (University College Cork) Mary Clayton (University College Dublin) Nancy Edwards (Bangor University) Anthony Harvey (Royal Irish Academy) Colin Ireland (Arcadia University) Kimberley Lo Prete (NUI Galway) Bernard Meehan (Trinity College Dublin) Pádraic Moran (NUI Galway) Tomás Ó Carragáin (University College Cork) Ralph O Connor (University of Aberdeen) Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (University College Cork) Jean-Michel Picard (University College Dublin) Robin Chapman Stacey (University of Washington) Clare Stancliffe (Durham University) Joanna Story (University of Leicester) Immo Warntjes (Queens University Belfast) Books for review should be sent to Prof. Dáibhí Ó Cróinín, Department of History, National University of Ireland, Galway. Orders (current and for back-issues) and subscriptions should be directed to Brepols Publishers, Begijnhof 67, B-2300 Turnhout, Belgium. URL:

3 Peritia Journal of the Medieval Academy of Ireland Volume In Honour of Donnchadh Ó Corráin Editors Elva Johnston & Dáibhí Ó Cróinín Medieval Academy of Ireland F

4 Peritia strongly supports intellectual freedom and freedom of academic expression. However, the opinions expressed by authors and reviewers in any issue of the journal should not be understood to represent those of the Editors or the publisher Medieval Academy of Ireland and Brepols Publishers nv, Turnhout, Belgium All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, or recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. D/2015/0095/163 ISBN ISSN Printed on acid-free paper

5 Contents Abbreviations Dáibhí Ó Cróinín: Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Founder-Editor of Peritia Richard N. Bailey & Eric Cambridge: St Cuthbert s Posthumous Biography: A Revised Edition Bernhard Bischoff : En route for CLA: For E. A. Lowe and with E. A. Lowe E. T. Dailey: To Choose One Easter from Three: Oswiu s Decision and the Northumbrian Synod of ad Walter Dunphy: Pauline Fragmenta: An Unlisted Commentary on the Pauline Letters from the Hiberno- Latin Tradition (St Gall 877) Elke Krotz: Sedulius Scottus and the Recensio Scotica of Priscian s Ars Pádraic Moran: Language Interaction in the St Gall Priscian Glosses Alexander O Hara: Columbanus ad Locum: The Establishment of the Monastic Foundations I. N. Wood: The Irish in England and on the Continent in the Seventh Century: Part I Notes and Corrigenda Michael Brennan: Das Buch von Lindisfarne: A Facsimile with a Difference Dáibhí Ó Cróinín: Irish Prayers in a Zürich Codex of the Ars Prisciani Johan Corthals: Corrigenda to Decoding the Caldron of Poesy, Peritia ( )

6 6 Contents Review Article Colin Ireland: Bishop Wilfrid: Assessing Accomplishments and Failures Reviews Sparky Booker & Cherie N. Peters (eds), Tales of medieval Dublin / Mags Mannion Jacqueline Borsje, The Celtic evil eye and related mythological motifs in medieval Ireland / Claire Collins Elizabeth Boyle & Deborah Hayden (eds), Authorities and adaptations: the reworking and transmission of textual sources in medieval Ireland / Eoin Ó Donnchadha Michael Brown, Disunited kingdoms: peoples and politics in the British Isles / Brendan Smith Warren C. Brown, Violence in medieval Europe / Patrick Gleeson John Carey, Emma Nic Cárthaigh & Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (eds), The end and beyond: medieval Irish eschatology / Nathan Millin José Chabás & Bernard R. Goldstein, A survey of European astronomical tables in the late middle ages and José Chabás & Bernard R. Goldstein, Essays on medieval computational astronomy / Philipp Nothaft Christiaan Corlett & Michael Potterton (eds), The Church in early medieval Ireland in the light of recent archaeological excavations / Elizabeth O Brien Aidan Doyle & Kevin Murray (eds) In dialogue with the Agallamh: essays in honour of Seán Ó Coileáin / William Sayers Seán Duffy (ed), Princes, prelates and poets in medieval Ireland: essays in honour of Katharine Simms / Neil McGuigan Matthrew Hammond (ed), New perspectives on medieval Scotland, / Patrick Gleeson Frank-Rutger Hausmann, Das Fach Mittellateinische Philologie an deutschen Universitäten von 1930 bis 1950 / Markus Wesche Richard Jones, The medieval natural world / Hannah Burrows

7 Contents 7 Justin Lake (ed), Prologues to ancient and medieval history: a reader / Edward Roberts Loredana Lazzari, Patrizia Lendinara & Claudia Di Sciacca, (eds), Hagiography in Anglo-Saxon England: adopting and adapting saints Lives into Old English prose (c ) / Rhonda L. McDaniel Crystal Lynn Lubinsky, Removing masculine layers to reveal a holy womanhood: the female transvestite monks of late antique Eastern Christianity / Elva Johnston Joseph H. Lynch & Phillip C. Adamo, The medieval Church: a brief history / Salvador Ryan Hiroshi Ogawa, Language and style in Old English composite homilies / Mary Clayton Thomas O Loughlin, Gildas and the scriptures: observing the world through a biblical lens / Paul Byrne Timothy O Neill, The Irish hand. Scribes and their manuscripts from the earliest times / Michelle P. Brown James Siemens, The Christology of Theodore of Tarsus: The Laterculus Malalianus and the person and work of Christ / Conor O Brien Alain J. Stoclet, Fils du Martel: la naissance, l éducation et la jeunesse de Pépin, dit le Bref (v. 714 v. 741) / Mary Alberi Emily V. Thornbury, Becoming a poet in Anglo-Saxon England / Colin Ireland Jonathan M. Wooding, with Rodney Aist, Thomas Owen Clancy & Thomas O Loughlin (eds), Adomnán of Iona: theologian, lawmaker, peacemaker / James W. Houlihan

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9 Abbreviations These abbreviations may be used in footnotes 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, Dublin ) AI Annals of Inisfallen (ed. Seán Mac Airt, Dublin 1951) ALC Annals of Loch Cé (ed. W. M. Hennessy, Dublin 1871) ALI Ancient Laws of Ireland (ed. W N. Hancock et al, Dublin & London ) ASC Anglo-Saxon Chronicle AT Annals of Tigernach (ed. Whitley Stokes, Revue Celtique 16 (1895) ; 17 (1896) 6 33; ; ; 18 (1897) 9 59, , ; repr. Felinfach 1993) AU Annals of Ulster (ed. Seán Mac Airt & Gearóid Mac Niocaill, Dublin 1983) CCCM Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaeualis (Turnhout 1971 ) CCH Collectio Canonum Hibernensis (ed. Herrmann Wasserschleben, 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, Dublin 1978) CMCS Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies (formerly Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies) CS Chronicon Scottorum (ed. W. M. Hennessy, London 1866) CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (Vienna 1866 ) DIL Dictionary of the Irish Language based mainly on Old and Middle Irish materials (Dublin , repr. in compact ed. with continuous pagination, Dublin 1983) DMLCS Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources (ed. Anthony Harvey, Dublin 2005 ) edil Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language based mainly on Old and Middle Irish materials (online at search.php) EHR The English Historical Review

10 10 Abbreviations HBS Henry Bradshaw Society for editing rare liturgical texts (London 1891 ) HE Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica / Bede, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ITS Irish Texts Society (London 1899 ) JRSAI The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Lec Book of Lecan: Leabhar Mór Leacáin (facimile, ed. Kathleen Mulchrone, Dublin 1937) LL Book of Leinster (ed. R. I. Best et al, ) LU Lebor na huidre: Book of the Dun Cow (ed. R. I. Best & Osborn Bergin, Dublin 1929) MGH Monumenta Germaniae Historica PG Patrologia Graeca (ed. J. P. Migne, Paris ) PL Patrologia Latina (ed. J. P. Migne, Paris ) PRIA Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C RS Rolls Series: Chronicles and memorials of Great Britain and Ireland during the middle ages (London ) SC Sources Chrétiennes (Paris 1941 ) SLH Scriptores Latini Hiberniae (Dublin 1955 ) STT Studia Traditionis Theologiae / Explorations in Early and Medieval Theology TU Texte und Untersuchungen zur Geschichte der altchristlichen Literatur (Leipzig 1882 ) ZCP Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie

11 Donnchadh Ó Corráin, Founder-Editor of Peritia Dáibhí Ó Cróinín Dáibhí Ó Cróinín The publication of Peritia in December 2014 was a milestone in medieval studies, not just in Ireland but beyond. A project that took its first tentative steps as far back as 1980 not only flourished in the years that followed but saw the journal emerge as one of the leading ones in the field. This success was due, almost entirely, to the efforts of one individual: Professor Donnchadh Ó Corráin. I can still remember vividly the occasion, in late 1979, when Donnchadh asked to speak with me in the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, School of Celtic Studies, where I was then a Research Scholar, and invited me to join a new venture that he was planning. Standing on the bottom steps of the stairs outside the Scholars Room, he outlined to me the vision of a new journal in which archaeology and art, history and genealogy, language and literature, and all the ancillary disciplines that scholars elsewhere regarded as central to the study of Altertumswissenschaft, would be combined, but with its roots set firmly in an Irish context. Peritia was to be an Irish journal of medieval studies, not a journal of Irish medieval studies. At the same time, subjects intrinsic to the study of medieval Ireland, such as vernacular ( Brehon ) law and the hagiography of the early Irish Church, were to be set alongside those regularly encountered in European historical studies. Peritia was to be innovative too in that it provided a regular forum for studies devoted to computistics and Hiberno-Latin and a robust review section. This was not to be a popular magazine but a fully-fledged scholarly academic journal produced to the very highest international standards. Peritia 1, which appeared in 1982, demonstrated what those standards would be; every subsequent volume has maintained them to an exemplary degree. My connection with the journal continued after I took up a position in University College Galway (now NUI Galway) in The first five volumes of Peritia were typeset in Galway under the supervision of a colleague in History, Prof. Gearóid Mac Niocaill ( 2004). In fact, the very first demo pages set in various sample fonts was of an article of mine that appeared subsequently in the first volume ( Mo-Sinu maccu Min and the Computus at Bangor, Peritia 1 [1982] );

12 12 DáIBHí Ó Cróinín I still have those sample galley-proofs! In more recent years, however, Donnchadh added to his duties as editor the onerous task of typesetting the journal himself, with what success can be gauged from the remarkable series of volumes that have appeared since then. It is no exaggeration to say that Peritia has carved out a unique place for itself in the ranks of international scholarly publications; it set new standards for journals produced in Ireland, while it matched those produced everywhere else in the world of learning. On 1 January 2015 Donnchadh relinquished the position as chief editor of Peritia. The new editors of the journal are Dr Elva Johnston and myself. We wish Donnchadh well in his other endeavours (of which there are several!). With Peritia vols 1 25 he has left a monumentum aere perennius. It is a striking and lasting legacy. If we can continue to produce a journal to the same standards that he achieved during the years of his stewardship, we will be more than happy.