Browsing by Subject "Medieval Studies"
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Between Purification and Petrification: Dante’s Ovidian Allegories
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Histories & Humanities., 2021)This dissertation is an exploration of Ovid’s influence on Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Particular focus is paid to the issue of allegory and how this evolves from the early, amatory work, Vita Nova, through the rime ... -
Dante and the Arthurian Literature: Contexts, Reception and Critical Perspectives
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Italian, 2024)This doctoral dissertation offers the first comprehensive study of Dante¿s reception of Arthurian literature. In particular, it aims to identify the Arthurian romances that Dante knew, to define the ways in which he read ... -
Medieval Irish chronicles reveal persistent volcanic forcing of severe winter cold events, 431 - 1649 CE
(2013)Explosive volcanism resulting in stratospheric injection of sulfate aerosol is a major driver of regional to global climatic variability on interannual and longer timescales. However, much of our knowledge of the climatic ... -
The Rhetoric of Catastrophe in Eleventh Century Ireland: The Case of The Second Vision of Adomn?n
(Brepols, 2019)In this article I discuss the intersection between apocalyptic thought and rhetoric in literature, apocalyptic anxiety as an occurrence in society, and the link to catastrophe and catastrophic events. I seek to differentiate ... -
Synchronic Language Variation in the Old Irish Glosses
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Lang, Lit. & Cultural Studies. Discipline of Irish, 2022)This thesis collects, catalogues, and analyses synchronic language variation in Old Irish sources in order to investigate the possibility of Old Irish dialects. This thesis represents the first comprehensive attempt to ...