Search for dissertations about: "medieval Irish"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words medieval Irish.

  2. 1. Aided Derbforgaill "The violent death of Derbforgaill" : A critical edition with introduction, translation and textual notes

    Author : Kicki Ingridsdotter; Gregory Toner; Tomás Ó Cathasaigh; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Early Irish; Old Irish; Middle Irish; medieval Irish; aideda; death-tales; Derbforgaill; critical edition; manuscript; Tochmarc Emire; Serglige Con Culainn; medieval Irish literature; Celtic languages; Keltiska språk; Celtic Languages; keltiska språk;

    Abstract : This dissertation contains a critical edition of the early Irish tale Aided Derbforgaill “the violent death of Derbforgaill”. It includes an introduction discussing the main thematic components of the tale as well as intertextuality, transmission and manuscript relationship. READ MORE

  4. 2. Broken Order : Shapeshifting as Social Metaphor in Early Medieval England and Ireland

    Author : Gwendolyne Knight; Roger Andersson; Cordelia Heß; Lena Rohrbach; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Anglo-Saxon England; Early Christian Ireland; Shapeshifting; Historical Anthropology; Early Medieval European History; History; historia;

    Abstract : Shapeshifting narratives appear in cultures all over the world, throughout human history. At each point, these narratives give expression to culturally contingent anxieties and preoccupations. READ MORE

  5. 3. Flannery O'Connor's View of the Modern Alienation from Sacramental Religion

    Author : Inger B Törnqvist; Centrum för teologi och religionsvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; secular humanism; Social Darwinism; Progressivism; Southern literature; natural theology; Southern Protestant fundamentalism; “Americanism Debate“; modern gnosticism; gnostic; Jansenism; Neoscholasticism; American Catholicism; Sacramental religion; O’Connor; Joyce; psychology; sociology; History of the Christian church; Kristna kyrkans historia;

    Abstract : Mary Flannery O’Connor (1925-64) was born in Savannah, Georgia as the only child of the American Irish Catholics Edward Francis O’Connor, Jr. and Regina Cline O’Connor. In 1952 her first novel Wise Blood, in 1955 the short story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and in 1960 her second novel, The Violent Bear It Away were published. READ MORE