Conversing with angels and ancients : literary myths of medieval Ireland /

How does a written literature come into being within an oral culture, and how does such a literature achieve and maintain its authority? Joseph Falaky Nagy addresses those issues in his wide-ranging reading of the medieval literature of Ireland, from the writings of St. Patrick to the epic tales abo...

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Author / Creator: Nagy, Joseph Falaky.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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